Downstream

Council was standing in the
way of poor people obtaining
at a cheap rate the
opportunity to bathe in the
natural stream’, which was
met with cries of ‘No, no’.
In 1894 a proposal to ‘moor
or fix’ the bath on ‘the beach
at Southend’ was approved,
but four years later it was
sold to a ship breaker for
£300. The original cost of the
bath had been £23,000. But
again the dream of a floating