Downstream

was the filtering apparatus
while at the other was a
refreshment room. The
Birmingham Daily Post
assured its readers that it was
‘larger and in every respect
superior’ to baths on the
Seine. While the tidal stream
was ‘thick and yellow with
mud and refuse’ the water in
the bath would be clear.
Images in the press showed
men diving off one of two
arched girders, lounging by