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A wonderful evocative scene of people enjoying themselves on the pond; note in particular the boat with a canopy.

From the beginning of the 19th century most resorts had bathing machines in which bathers could change while being dragged into the sea, initially by horses and later by winches.

A large crowd gathers around Edward Perkins' bathing platform on the gently sloping Margate Sands.

Until the 1960s, Winchester's pupils led a Spartan existence, bathing every day in cold water in tin baths; perhaps this helped generations of schoolboys to face the rigours of life outside and

Swanage has an advantage as a resort in that there is little difference between high and low tides, allowing good bathing at most times of the day.

Now part of the City of Bath, this once provided access to the Bath stone quarries of the 18th-century magnate Ralph Allen.

Wroxeter, known in Roman times as Viroconium Cornovior, became a tribal capital and the fourth largest Roman town in Britain.

By the 1920s, bathing costumes had become more practical than those shown in the previous illustrations, and the bathing machines had become redundant in favour of smaller kiosks and tents.

Safe bathing brought thousands of early visitors to Shanklin, as we can see from the profusion of bathing huts and tents. Many of the boats in the foreground would have been for hire.

The early use of bathing machines made Weymouth a popular resort for sea bathing, and the town has never looked back.

As Clifton's reputation as a resort grew, the late Georgian terraces were built in a style that deliberately imitated Bath.

Bath is, architecturally speaking, one of England's greatest cities.

Wroxeter, known in Roman times as Viroconium Cornovior, became a tribal capital and the fourth largest Roman town in Britain.

Much grander is Bath Street. Its name is appropriate, as its architecture is perhaps reminiscent of some of the later 18th-century parts of Bath itself.

The bathing arrangements here are peculiar.

In 1897 the architect John Brydon added these dignified colonnades around the baths with their balustrades and statues.

Rows of bathing huts line the beach, with bathing costumes (which could be hired) drying in the wind on lines behind them beside the newly-built promenade.

Ventnor never compared to Sandown or Shanklin as a centre for sea bathing, though bathing machines for ladies and gentlemen flourished in King Edward VII's reign.

The extended garden of the house is now a forecourt for a modern hotel built on the site of the old rock garden, which used to be the kitchen garden with glasshouses.

The open air baths were well populated in summer. This area was where 'sun baths' were offered 'for bathers in costume only'; there is not a bikini in sight.

Bathing machines were designed to be pushed into the sea, allowing bathers to change and enter the water with maximum decorum.

On the west side of the city, towards Fountains Abbey, stands the Spa Baths and Pump Room, opened on 24 October 1905 by Prince Henry of Battenburg.

During the 19th century the borough council were desperately seeking new fresh water supplies for the town.

An elderly visitor contemplates a busy Sidmouth sea front on a summer's day in the 1950s.