Bathing Machines
Bather using a bathing machine on Gorleston beach, c. 1903/1904
Courtesy of Donald Shields
Early Bathing Machines
By Richard Dade
An Interview describing the old bathing machines
Transcript for 'Bathing Machines Interview':
"The daring people who did swim did actually use the old bathing machines and I can remember them quite clearly, yes... (This was Yarmouth?)Yes this was Yarmouth there was some just south of the Britannia Pier and I remember as a naughty little boy they had big cart wheels at the back and smaller ones for steering at the front and they were pulled in by horses and I remember climbing up on the big cart wheels at the back trying to peep through the little slotted windows when I was a little boy."