Blackpool, bathing machines on the beach

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Blackpool, bathing machines on the beach

Description

Blackpool’s foreshore has always been its main attraction for its visitors. By the 1840s the local landed gentry and the new aspiring middle-classes from Lancashire’s mill-towns visited Blackpool as a means of promoting good health and also meeting one another. They would go to Blackpool in order to bathe in the sea and to even drink the sea water.
Sea bathing was carefully regulated, with the beach sectioned off into 50-yard subdivisions of alternate male and female bathing areas. It was decreed that ‘a person of the female sex shall not, while bathing approach within 50-yards of any place at which any person of the male sex, over the age of 10 years, may be bathing.’ [source needed]

Date

1890

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This image is reproduced by kind permission of the Francis Frith Collection. No further reproduction is permitted without prior written authorisation.

Coverage

Nineteenth century

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Citation

“Blackpool, bathing machines on the beach,” Local History Resources for Schools, accessed March 19, 2024, https://regionalheritage.omeka.net/items/show/64.