He mentioned the bathing machine thing on Twitter yesterday (someone asked about Aziraphale's swimear). Apprantly the incident is the reason Aziraphale doesn't go swimming anymore. Have you ever heard about this before?
👀👀👀 Ooooh, thank you didn’t know about this at all! Never seen him mentioned anything like that before :).
According to wiki: The bathing machine was a device, popular from the 18th century until the early 20th century, to allow people to change out of their usual clothes, change into swimwear, and wade in the ocean at beaches. Bathing machines were roofed and walled wooden carts rolled into the sea. Some had solid wooden walls, others canvas walls over a wooden frame, and commonly walls at the sides and curtained doors at each end.
I have no idea what could have happened and I really want to know! :D
Headcannon:Â According to wiki, Queen Victoria, who ruled in 1896 had also a bathing machine. Aziraphale's - because he has standards - was styled in similar fancy way, and at one point he mistaken his own bathing machine for the Queen's. It was a great scandal. :D