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  • Thumbnail for Victorian Turkish baths
    changing cubicles, a shampooing room, plunge pool, and complementary Russian steam bath. All were within the local public baths near the swimming pools....
    118 KB (17,257 words) - 11:24, 25 April 2024
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    The Torquay Marine Spa was a swimming bath and entertainment complex situated on a promontory overlooking Beacon Cove in the town of Torquay, Devon, England...
    14 KB (1,418 words) - 14:32, 12 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for North Beach Precinct
    the dressing sheds and reduction in the number of benches, construction of solid masonry partitions between toilet cubicles in the male dressing area...
    62 KB (9,147 words) - 13:53, 29 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Stabian Baths
    Room, showing the Hypocaust underfloor heating system Women's Hot Room Cubicles for clothes in the men's apodyterium Women's apodyterium Frigidarium Frigidarium...
    14 KB (1,471 words) - 08:51, 24 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Swindon Victorian Turkish Baths
    wash basin, and drinking fountain. A cooling-room, toilet, and six dressing cubicles completed the suite. The hot rooms were directly above the men’s,...
    9 KB (1,244 words) - 13:46, 28 February 2024
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    prostitutes displaying themselves naked at the entrance to their brothel cubicles, or wearing see-through silk garments. The display of the female body made...
    112 KB (12,970 words) - 00:58, 17 April 2024
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    Cleveland Pools (category Grade II* listed buildings in Bath, Somerset)
    to be the oldest public outdoor swimming pool in the UK. It is a Grade II* listed building. In the Georgian period Bath had grown in popularity as a spa...
    20 KB (2,106 words) - 15:27, 14 January 2024
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    Pells Pool (category Swimming venues in England)
    shallower public bath alongside free, where people both swam and washed themselves. The new baths thus kept working men from swimming naked in the Pells...
    16 KB (2,402 words) - 22:12, 22 January 2024
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    Spring Hill Baths (category Swimming venues in Australia)
    substantially intact example of late 19th century public swimming baths, complete with early changing cubicles. The place is important in demonstrating the principal...
    10 KB (1,292 words) - 09:05, 24 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Guildford Lido
    000 imp gal) every six hours. On the south side of the pool, 132 dressing cubicles had been built and 600 clothes lockers provided for bathers. The main...
    15 KB (1,863 words) - 11:05, 16 December 2023
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    Kings Beach Bathing Pavilion (category Swimming venues in Australia)
    rooms and locker areas. The cubicles are roofed with thin gauge fibrous cement and corrugated iron sheeting. The toilet cubicles have been extended into the...
    13 KB (1,786 words) - 10:03, 25 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for First-class facilities of the Titanic
    framework for the dressing rooms survive in recognizable condition. Across the corridor from the Turkish Baths was a heated swimming pool measuring 30...
    70 KB (9,473 words) - 11:20, 13 April 2024
  • more common in UK than US)   bath (pl.) swimming pool (v.) to bathe, or give a bath to, example have a bath (US: take a bath meaning bathe) (n.) plumbing...
    124 KB (1,415 words) - 17:27, 20 March 2024
  • clothes accidentally fell off" or "I followed the gentlemen into the toilet cubicle to discuss foreign policy", and to cover up his apparent homosexual urges...
    130 KB (17,779 words) - 12:44, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Milton State School
    constructed in the ground floor verandah. Around this time the dressing sheds at either end of the swimming pool were removed, and a new amenities block was built...
    53 KB (7,635 words) - 02:53, 7 October 2023