Bathing Collection (page 17)

Southend-on-Sea Victorian period

Comic postcard, Large woman keeping cool at the seaside Date: 20th century

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

Boulogne-sur-Mer - Beach, Britannia Statue and Port entrance
Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, Beach, Britannia and Port entrance. The statue was erected to commemorate the arrival in 1914 of the British troops

Ernst Busch - Sea-Star - Lost in thought Date: circa 1920

Holidaymakers at Babbacombe Beach, Torquay, Devon
Aerial view of holidaymakers enjoying the sunshine on Babbacombe Beach, Torquay, Devon. Date: circa 1960s

Advert for Lillywhites summer sports clothing 1930
Fashions for all summer sports, available at Lillywhites, Piccadilly. 1930

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

Model sunbathing in a white bikini
Model sunbathing in a garden in a white bikini. circa 1957

Children playing at the beach
Young children playing on the beach with a shovel and bucket. Altl are wearing charming fashions from Gnooch s, Brompton Road, London

Two lady bathers in Marshall & Snelgrove swimsuits, one holding an parasol and pointing out to sea. The lady seated on the beach is wearing a wool-back satin bathing suit; the lady on the right has a

King Edward Hotel, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
King Edward Hotel, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, handy for the nearby Humewood seaside resort for sea bathing and other delights. Date: circa 1925

Bathing beauties
Edwardian bathing beauty in a yellow swimsuit reclining on a wave. Date: circa 1910

Family outing to the seaside, beach scene, early 1950s
A family pose for an informal photograph on the beach at an unidentified seaside resort. Assorted relatives in varying states of dress from a lady in a bikini at the front to a grandmother in dress

Arcadia Caf頡nd Bathing Place, Portrush
Arcadia Caf頡 nd Bathing Place, Portrush - an elevated view looking down on the Caf頡 nd beach, there are a lot of people sitting and walking and in the distance, off the Skerries

On a Strip of Shore by Fougasse
A couple, wrapped in gowns and beach towels, look around them aghast at the beach at the (presumably) scantily clad people. Eventually they themselves strip down to the bare minimum. Date: 1931

Mrs Richard Norton & Lady Brecknock at Monte Carlo beach
A snapshot from Monte Carlo beach showing two well-known beauties - one sunburned quite brown and the other still white-skinned. The Hon

Dewars whisky advertisement - swimming pool
Advertisement for Dewars whisky featuring a group enjoying the jubilee spirit in the swimming pool. We wouldn t recommend combining whisky with swimming but no doubt this chap is going to enjoy a wee

Mostyn House School - Parkgate, Cheshire - School Picnic
Mostyn House School - Parkgate, Cheshire. School Picnic. The current Head of this Preparatory School, Suzi Grenfell is the sixth generation of her family to lead Mostyn House. Date: circa 1910

1930s beach wear
1930s woman wearing one piece swimming costume, ribbon tied around the head and white shoes

On the Tirreno by Matania
A girl in a red swimming costume surveys the azure blue sea on the Tirreno on the Italian coast. Date: 1924

The Golden Temple, Amritsar
Religion of the Sikhs. View of the Golden Temple at Amritsar in 1836. People bathe in the Pool of the Nectar of Immortality, the holy waters. Date: 1836

Rhos-On-Sea
A scene at the Childrens Pool at Rhos-on-Sea, Denbighshire, Wales Date: 1960s

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

Bathing Beauty Vienne 3
She wears a blue costume as she lies on the grass by a river Date: circa 1910

Family on Beach / C. 1920
A family group on the beach: mother, wearing a beret, and father, in a boater, sit on deckchairs while their three small children lie on the sand in bathing costumes Date: circa 1920

The lifesaving Mermaid of Bognor Regis, Mary Wheatland
Mary Wheatland (1835-1924) - a well known Bognor Regis Character, a woman who hired bathing machines from the east of the pier

Stockton Mineral Baths, Stockton, California, USA
Stockton Mineral Baths, Stockton, San Joaquin County, California, USA. Date: circa 1920

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

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

What you can do with the old car by Heath Robinson
Don t scrap the old bus - but use it in the house. An ingenious homeowner adapts the body of a car into a bed and a capacious bath rather than send it for scrap. Date: 1919

Great Indian / One-horned RHINOCEROS / rhino - Close up of head in water, side on. (Rhinoceros unicornis). Chitwan National Park, Nepal

More Entanglements by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
Bathing at Casse Les Bains is going to be rotten again this year. Two stereotypically grouchy looking Germans in bathing costumes do their best to enjoy a seaside holiday despite the barbed wire

Children in swimwear 1909
Five children at various ages, posing for the camera in St Malo in France. 1909

Sunlight Soap advertisement
Advertisement for Sunlight Soap manufactured by Lever Brothers at their famous Port Sunlight factory, featuring a small boy in a wooden tub bath holding up his bar triumphantly

The Sea Hath Pearls by Claude Shepperson
Bathing scene showing women in brightly coloured swimming costumes getting ready for a dip in the sea. Date: 1918

Off the Coast of Scotland by William Heath Robinson
The German Periscoper: Ach, Himmel! Dot most be der peautiful Ben Nevis of vich ve ave eard so mooch. A German submarine mistakes the prominent nose of a bather for the tip of Ben Nevis while sailing

Lady Bridget Poulett by Madame Yevonde
Lady Bridget Elizabeth Felicia Henrietta Augusta Poulett (1912-1975), daughter of the 7th Earl Poulett, by Madame Yevonde. She was a popular model with all the leading photographers of the day

Bonzo and Chee-Kee keep smiling by George Studdy
Bonzo and Chee-Kee keep smiling -- the Pekingese watches Bonzo having his bath, after which he chases her, knocks into the coal scuttle and makes himself dirty all over again

Bathtime by Muriel Dawson -- a smiling baby sits in a bathtub while water is sponged over its head. Date: circa 1920s

Clara Bow in her swimming pool, 1928
Clara Bow (1905 - 1965), American actress film star and the girl, famously, with It. pictured in the bathing pool of her Hollywood home. Date: 1928

Deauville - an artists impression by Tony Wysard
Humorous illustration depicting society at the fashionable French seaside resort of Deauville, indulging in polo, cocktails, gambling, horse racing and golf

Bonzo the cartoon dog getting stuck in the bath. Cartoon strip from Bonzos Annual, 1935 Date: 1935

Ventnor, Isle of Wight - Seafront, featuring the Esplanade Hotel. The horse-drawn bathing Wagons are vey much in evidence on the beach. Date: circa 1890

Westgate-On-Sea
A happy family group captured in time on the beach at Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, England. Date: 1923

Surfing Girls
Lovely young women splashing around in the surf in their swimming costumes and bathing caps. Date: 1930s

Walton-On-The Naze
An interesting beach scene at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, England. People look rather over-dressed to the modern eye. Note also the bathing machines next to the sea. Date: circa 1900

Thomas Spencer
THOMAS SPENCER churchman described as that extraordinary genius who sadly drowned while bathing at Liverpool before realising his promise... Date: 1790 - 1811

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