Bath Collection (page 9)

Awaiting Individual Blessing of a Bishop at Lourdes, France
The White Train at Lourdes. The Sick gather on the forecourt of the Basilica await the Individual Blessing of a Bishop. Date: circa 1910

Birthday Greetings postcard - A family of Cats at bathtime. The kitten in the bath is not looking forward to having his/her hair combed... Date: circa 1922

Translucent x-ray skirt 1913
Women caused a sensation by wearing a translucent x-ray skirt, Paris-made striped skirt was displayed on Broadway at Luna, Coney Island by a Bath Beach Girl

Young model in a bath
A young model posing in a bathroom. Date: circa 1970s

Essex Industrial School, Chelmsford - Swimming Pool
Boys at the Essex Industrial School, Chelmsford, using the Schools swimming bath supervised by staff. Date: early 1900s

Fashionable bathing suits of the 1920s
The cover illustration of The Spheres womens section features an array of fashionable outfits. The woman on the right sports an American wasp-stripe bathing suit

Montage of hotels and resorts in Helwan (Helouan), Egypt
Montage showing the Grand Hotel (top), the Hotel des Bains (right) and the thermal spa and swimmer baths (left) in Helwan (Helouan) in the south of Greater Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1905

Advert for Carter wounded or invalid chairs 1896
For holding a book or writing at a desk in any position over an easy chair, bed or sofa obviating fatigue and stooping. In valuable to invalids and students. 1896

The Strand Roman Bath Reconstructed by Matania
The roman bath in the Strand, its probable appearance in antiquity envisaged by the Sphere artist and enthusiast in Roman antiquities, Fortunino Matania

Hands on the Beaton bath-room walls
The wall decoration in Cecil Beaton bath-room at his country home in Wiltshire. The decorations take the original form of the hands of his friends. Date: 1934

Soldiers bathing in a brewery during World War I
Soldiers bathing in a brewery in fermenting vats converted to hot baths during World War I within reach of shell fire Date: 1915

Thomas Ken / Humphreys
THOMAS KEN Bishop of Bath and Wells, and writer of hymns Date: 1637 - 1711

Information card, Hotel de Normandie
Information card for the Hotel de Normandie, which may or may not be in Normandy, northern France. Date: early 20th century

Inquisitive Pussy! by Muriel Dawson -- a baby in a bathtub and a cat watching water falling from a flannel. Date: 1942

Princess Margaret at the Bath Club
Princess Margaret (1930-2002), pictured in her swimsuit at the Bath Club at which she won a cup for little swimmers up to the age of nine. Date: 1939

Man in a bath chair
An elderly man in a bath chair at his front door, with a young man about to take him for an outing

Street scene near Hove Baths, Sussex
Street scene near the Hove Baths in Sussex. Three women sit on a bench, near an elderly woman in an elaborate four-wheeled bath chair, shaded from the sun by a black umbrella. Date: 1920s

Miner washing at a tin bath, South Wales
A South Wales miner washes at a tin bath in front of the fire, while his wife sits mending socks

Boys Club, mud bath, 1935
Two boys from a Boys Club, on the beach doing what boys do best; getting covered head to toe in mud

The Water-wave! by G. E. Studdy
Illustration by G. E. Studdy showing a small dog being forced to have a bath, watched smugly by Ooloo the cat. Ooloo later gets a shock when the bath water spills all over him

Save Water Poster Ww2
A poster urging the British population to save water This poster uses the example of a Sad Sack over-filling his bath

Royal Bath Hospital, Harrogate, Yorkshire
The Royal Bath Hospital, opened in 1824 at Harrogate, Yorkshire, to provide spa treatment for the poor. It was rebuilt in 1889 and closed in 1994. Date: 1940s

Paris 1889 / Tour Eiffel
Visitors stroll in the fresh air beneath the Eiffel Tower in front of the monumental fountain

Southgate Place, Bath, early 1900s

Southgate Place Bath Victorian period

Comic German postcard -- mud bath at a health spa
Comic German postcard -- an overweight man is hosed off after a mud bath at a health spa -- A glimmer of light in the dark! Date: circa 1900s

Photograph of Bath Tavern, Peckham, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub

Photograph of Bath Tavern, Mitcham, Greater London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub

Winners at the Bath Club including Lady Alington
Prize winners at the Bath Club in London in 1933. Miss Nona Davies, Miss Venetia Fripp, Lady Alington and Miss Mary Evans (no relation to our founder as far as we know!). Date: 1933

Durban, South Africa - a Paradise for Bathers
Durban (Port Natal), South Africa, packed with holiday-makers, enjoying both the beach itself and an open-air swimming pool. 1928

Page from catalogue of toilet requisites
Page of toilet requisites from Harrods catalogue (1911 - 1912), Brushes and Turnery Department. This page includes shaving brushes, nail brushes hand mirrors and bath mats. Date: 1911

Herculaneum. Roman baths. Caldarium
Roman baths. Caldarium with a hot plunge bath. Marble. Herculaneum. Italy

Roman ruins of Andelos. Mendigorria. Navarre. Spain
Roman ruins of Andelos I-II centuries. Overview of the baths. Mendigorria. Navarre. Spain

Cartoon, Disraeli and Queen Victoria
Cartoon, Opening Parliament. Benjamin Disraeli wheels Queen Victoria to Westminster in her bathchair. 1880

Smart Bathroom 1913
A state-of-the-art bathroom, fully tiled, with lavatory, bath, shower head, bidet and wash basin. Date: 1913

Old lady in a bath chair
Old lady in a rather large bath chair, talking to three women on a bench while shielding herself from the sun with an umbrella. Date: 1920s

Advert for Morrison, Ingram & Son bath and lavatories 1888
Advertisement in a trade book for 1888, specialities of the manufactures of patent steamless and noiseless baths and lavatories, patent spray, cascade, trinal and other closets

The Waste of it! by John Hassall
Maid feeling exhausted after running up and down with jugs of water instead of using the tap! Date: 1906

Three cats getting ready for Christmas by having an uncharacteristic bath, by Louis Wain. Date: circa 1900s

Little girl cools off in bath with ice lolly
A little girl cools off in a bath of water on her front doorstep with an ice lolly during the hot summer of 1976. Date: 1976

Standard Sanitary Appliances suite in Rose de Barry pink. Date: circa 1920s

I Could Have Sweared I Saw a Torpedo, WW1 postcard
Humorous First World War postcard showing a small boy in the bath wondering where that torpedo has gone. Date: 1916

Silver Street, Trowbridge, Wiltshire
Silver Street, Trowbridge, near Bath, Wiltshire, England. Showing the New Inn, J Boulter & Sons Florists & Hills Saddlers Date: 1927

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