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seven were ‘unfit for human
consumption’.
The designs for the bath
were prepared in 1870 and
the Thames Conservancy
Board approached for
mooring permission. London
wasn’t the only city to have
floating baths; others did, too,
such as Liverpool, where in
1816 a bath in the form of a
ship opened at George’s
Pierhead on the Mersey.
There were floating baths on