seafaring life’. The judge said
he could well understand the
desire to bathe during hot
weather, but there were baths
at Greenwich ‘where bathing
could be carried out without
any offence being
committed’. Greenwich baths
and washhouses had opened
in 1851, while the Greenwich
Hospital School had its own
‘spacious swimming-bath’, an
open pool built in 1833 and
later covered, where pupils
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