Downstream

not the water run through it,
as is the case with each of the
floating baths on the Seine?’
Instead it ‘appears to be
nothing better than a covered
tank’. In 1875 it was moored
into position and opened in
July that year, around the
same time as the new sewer
system was completed. Built
by the Floating Swimming
Bath Company, the ‘super
structure of iron and glass’
was 153×25 feet. At one end