QUOTES WITH «SWIMMING BATHS»
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swimming baths.
So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWIMMING BATHS»
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swimming baths in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
swimming baths and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The
Swimming Baths of London
Some of the above tepid swimming baths are open all the year round. Some,
where there are first and second class baths, close one of these during the winter
and strike an average of the prices of admission. Some close at the end of ...
Robert Ellis DUDGEON, 1870
2
A Social History of
Swimming in England, 1800 ¿ 1918: ...
It lists a total of six open-air swimming locations and nine establishments in
London that had covered swimming baths by 1861. Of the outdoor swimming
locations, four could be considered to be municipal (although only in the
broadest sense) ...
The Baths and Wash-Houses Act, which received Royal Assent on August 26,
1846, enabled local authorities to provide swimming baths and wash houses.
The Whitechapel Baths, then under construction, were regarded as a model to be
...
The Act provided for indoor and outdoor swimming baths, warm or coldslipper
baths, vapor andshower baths, and wash houses for laundry. The
growingpopularity of swimming,duemainly to the energy ofswimming clubs, made
the actual ...
5
Great lengths: the historic indoor
swimming pools of Britain
Swimming is Britain's most popular participation sport.
Ian Gordon, Simon Inglis, 2009
6
Hung Out to Dry
Swimming and British Culture
Most swimming baths were filled with water which was neither heated nor
chlorinated. Bathing charges were highest at the start of the week and fell daily
as the water clouded. Baths were emptied, cleaned and refilled entirely at the
discretion ...
7
Pictorial History Eastern Suburbs
122 Coogee Centennial Aquarium and Swimming Baths Built in 1887, the
Aquarium dominates the landscape. Fashionable and new in the 1890s, it fell
into ruins by the 1980s and was restored for its centenary in 1987 (National
Library) ...
Alan Sharpe, Joan Lawrence, 1999
8
Modernity, Sanitation and the Public Bath: Berlin, ...
As these structures expanded, river baths developed an elaborate slate of prices,
which included first and second class bathing cells, swimming baths, and extra
charges for the use of private changing cells. The baths were open daily, from ...
Jennifer Reed Dillon, 2007
9
Fighting the Current: The Rise of American Women's
Swimming, ...
During a 1900 visit to a floating bath, a reporter watched as “an extremely stout
woman in the free swimming baths at the foot of Corlears St. threw her wet arms
around Miss Grace Blankley, one of the swimming teachers yesterday and ...
10
Leisure and the Changing City 1870 - 1914 (Routledge Revivals)
swimming baths as well as public parks, which had initially been a measure to
encourage the working classes to be clean. When the Baths and Washhouses
Act was passed in 1846, few major towns had an adequate and constant water ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SWIMMING BATHS»
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swimming baths is used in the context of the following news items.
Kindred Spirits: Did you learn to swim at Fore Street Baths in Ipswich?
Work started on March 1, 1894 and the following year, the Ipswich Journal reported: 'The long talked- of swimming baths for St Clement's Ipswich have at last ... «East Anglian Daily Times, Jun 15»
Haunting images of Edwardian swimming baths Moseley Road …
Swimming in decay: The Moseley Road Baths in Birmingham, whose Grade II*-listed Edwardian pool has lain empty for more than a decade, have been ... «Daily Mail, Feb 15»
Watch: Brazen thief rifles through wallet at Stechford swimming baths
A brazen bather rifles through a wallet which was been accidentally left in a changing room at Stechford swimming baths. The sneaky swimmer snatched £200 ... «Birmingham Mail, Sep 14»
Emergency demolition of Elland Baths as swimming pool building …
Severe structural deterioration at the historic former swimming baths means that Calderdale Council is taking immediate action to demolish the building due to ... «Huddersfield Examiner, Jul 14»
Wyndley Swimming Baths close after power cut in Sutton Coldfield
Wyndley Swimming Baths in Clifton Road was unable to open this morning after one of two generators powering the facility, while work is carried out on the high ... «Sutton Coldfield Observer, Jun 14»
Headteacher who banned skirts at school admitted spying on …
A controversial headteacher yesterday admitted he had spied on a woman getting changed at a public swimming baths. David Doubtfire, who had sparked ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jun 14»
Victorian swimming baths to undergo £3m restoration
A listed building that once housed Ashton's swimming baths is to undergo a multi-million pound makeover. An estimated £3m is to be poured into restoring the ... «Manchester Evening News, Jun 14»
Gloucester Road swimming baths conversion halted over quality …
AFTER a troubled beginning beset by one delay after another, the sight of building work progressing on the former swimming baths building in Gloucester Road ... «Bristol Post, Mar 14»
Moseley Road Baths in Birmingham 'could close in 18 months'
A historic swimming baths in Birmingham could close in 18 months unless the community can fund it. Moseley Road Baths opened in Balsall Heath in 1907 and ... «BBC News, Aug 13»
Is it acceptable to breastfeed in the swimming baths?
A story in yesterday's M.E.N about a young mum being ordered to stop breastfeeding her four-month-old baby in a swimming pool has sparked a huge debate. «Manchester Evening News, Aug 13»
