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pontoon, with the bath in the
hollow centre. It would be 6
feet deep in the middle and at
night would be ‘emptied and
swabbed ready for the next
day’. The temperature would
be 72 degrees. There were
dressing boxes for 150
people, it would open for
fourteen hours at a time, and
its expected capacity was an
impressive 2,500 people a
day. In August 1874 the
London Standard explained

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