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Clacton-on-Sea was founded as a seaside resort in 1871 - the year that the Bank Holiday Act was passed.
The building of Lytham Baths and Assembly Rooms started in 1882 midway between the Clifton Arms and the Neptune Hotel.
Clacton was an early promoter of mixed bathing from 1900 onwards, and the town provided unimpeachable arrangements.
The vicar of Holy Trinity Church in the mid 19th century was the Rev Edward Lyon Berthon.
Despite its closeness to the sea, the open-air baths are a popular attraction, but the majority of patrons seem to prefer watching from the poolside or from deckchairs on the balcony above.
Children are having a jolly time in the old baths, which were situated on the sea front near the Staincliffe Hotel.
The development of many Victorian towns included the provision of a public baths and Lytham is no exception.
Aberystwyth became a popular resort for the well-off, who came here to bathe and socialise from the late 18th century.
The bathing machines are doing good business.
This elegant colonnaded street, with its upper storeys supported on slender Ionic columns, is now cleaned and restored, and the distracting fountain has been moved.
Church Town in the parish of North Meols had long had a tradition of sea-bathing, associated with a couple of local festivals known as Big and Little Bathing Sundays, when the natives took to the waters
Linnington's Hygienic Bathing Tents moved with the times and now offered 'Mixed Bathing'.
This view shows the Georgian façade of the New Bath Hotel, originally known as Mr Tyack's New Bath Hotel.
Aberystwyth became a popular resort for the well-to-do, who came here to bathe and socialise from the late 18th century.
Church Town in the parish of North Meols had long had a tradition of sea-bathing, associated with a couple of local festivals known as Big and Little Bathing Sundays, when the natives took to the waters
Named after the Steyne in Brighton, this delightful and relatively unchanged long narrow square was laid out in the 1820s and is lined by modest seaside houses, many with verandahs and balconies which
These baths are around the corner from where Throwley Road once turned to the north (it is now Throwley Way and acts as an inner relief road or High Street by-pass).
The Roman town of Aquae Sulis, now Bath, grew up at the point where the Fosse Way crossed the River Avon with hot spring-fed baths as its focus, where citizens of the Empire flocked for rheumatic cures
The smaller bathing machines seen here are bearing advertising posters for Pears Soap, one of the most popular and widely advertised Victorian retail products.
This view was taken shortly after the Royal Baths opened.
