Downstream

cold salt-water baths on
shore, as well as bathing
machines in the river. An
advert from around 1800
explains ‘the Warm Baths
may be had at a moment’s
notice in Summer or Winter’,
while the machines were used
‘at all times of the tide, and
may be subscribed for by the
Month, Quart or Season’.
Aside from river bathing
machines, Gravesend was
another ending point for