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it was intended for access to swimming baths, which it was suggested might be floated down the river from Ch ...
of London had received a letter from ‘Admiral Sir George Elliott, KCB’ asking for ‘the formation of an ...
that the request be turned down, with the plan finally being abandoned in 1885. A decade later and the Cit ...
bath was ‘scrapped’. But on 2 September 1891 the Morning Post declared, ‘London is once more in possession ...
transformation’. The bath was moored ‘within 50 yards’ of Cleopatra’s Needle and named the Cleopatra Swimming Poo ...
longer hold good’. This suggests the problem with the original bath wasn’t just cost and weather, but co ...
‘graduated by means of a false bottom’. Pumps heated the water, the bath was illuminated at night with electr ...
application, deciding that ‘the retention of the bath in its present position, or the placing of it in any ...
Council was standing in the way of poor people obtaining at a cheap rate the opportunity to bathe in the na ...
bath wasn’t quite over and in 1899 the Leeds Mercury referred to ‘a new club’ for Londoners, anchored ‘som ...
smell’ coming from penny steamers whose smoke was said to be ‘harmless’. For years, said the paper, London ...
Thames swimming at the City of Westminster Archives Centre. Archivist Alison Kenney has searched numerous prints an ...
surrounding water clear and calm. But if architect Chris Romer-Lee has his way, there could be floating bath ...
Sewer,’ he explains. Work is scheduled to begin on the Thames Tideway Tunnel – otherwise known as the Super S ...
plan was to design ‘some slightly bonkers swimming enclosures that sit or float in the river at Blackfriars Br ...
solution to overflowing sewers.’ However, until recently Chris wasn’t aware of London’s heritage of float ...
where they have swimming areas and lovely sophisticated changing rooms. I thought, why can’t we swim in ...
devoted to lane swimming and one for wild swimming, which Chris believed could be popular with City workers ...
Response to an article on the plans was mixed. One reader commented, ‘Two words: Weil’s disease’, but another sa ...
Thames water. ‘The response from the public and swimming community has been phenomenal,’ says Chris, ‘and ...
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