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A "Bathing Machine" from the Victorian Era
The bathing machine was a device, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, to allow people to change out of their usual clothes, possibly change into swimwear and then wade in the ocean at beaches. Bathing machines were roofed and walled wooden carts rolled into the sea. Some had solid wooden walls; others had canvas walls over a wooden frame.
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Victorian woman stepping out of a bathing machine
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
Queen Victoria’s Bathing Machine
From another era, this was built specially for Queen Victoria in order “to preserve her modesty” when bathing in the sea from her small private beach in the grounds of Osborne House in the Isle of Wight, UK. It was beautifully restored in the 1950s and you can go right up to it even though unfortunately it is not possible to see inside.
These are original photographs taken last year. As always, please download and use them as you wish as long as you acknowledge source.
(01/02/2020)
"Don't Be Afraid" - a postcard c. 1910 (US postmark of 1912) featuring a man and woman in bathing suits of the period. The woman is being very modest while exiting a “bathing machine”. Once mixed-sex bathing became socially acceptable, the days of the bathing machine were numbered. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Female swimmers perched on the back of a bathing machine, c. 1920.
  Bathing machines were small carts made of wood or canvas that would be pulled into the water by horse or man. Modesty in the late 19th and early 20th centuries called for bathers to change into their swimming attire in the small box to prevent the bather from having to walk along the beach while exposing so much flesh. Once in the water, the bather would exit by steps from the machine right into the water. Some bathing machines were equipped with a canvas tent lowered from the door to ensure more privacy.  A flag on the roof could be raised to signal the driver that the swimmers were ready to return to shore where they would emerge from the box, fully clothed.
Belgium 1908
Echoes of the Past 2 (Scarborough Old Town)
Echoes of the Past 2 (Scarborough Old Town)
From The Regal Lady Wednesday afternoon, we noticed a sign for Quay Street at the junction with Sandside. Less truncated than we had thought, a strip of cobbles denoted the original narrow thoroughfare. Originally trod by fishing families, echoes of the past vibrated among blocks of modernism. Jostling with contemporary housing, upmarket sea captains’ residences lent an air of grandeur. We…
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