On 18th-century beaches decorum was key – hence the bathing machine, the forerunner to the beach hut. This blushing chap illustrated a comic poster warning bathers to ensure that they entered their ...

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August Bank Holiday weekend saw the sands at Sunderland’s twin-resorts of Roker and Seaburn packed with sun seekers. Not a bathing machine in sight, but hardly surprising as the last disappeared from ...

Skincare brand Haeckels has built a traditional wood-burning sauna on the sands of Margate beach, in a bid to "reacquaint the community" with the health-giving properties of their local waters.

In a nation so steeped in vulgarity it thinks nothing of striding straight from the beach into the sea, ankles on display for all to view, there is hope. It lies hidden, for now, behind the Turner ...

A unique bathing machine thought to be the first built in the country for a century is to star on national television tomorrow night. The shed on wheels, built by Whitstable-based woodwork firm ...

SEASIDE towns have always been in competition with each other. But back in 1923 Southend was desperately trying to outdo Bournemouth as a rival resort - and a move to improve the seafront’s bathing ...

On 18th-century beaches decorum was key – hence the bathing machine, the forerunner to the beach hut. This blushing chap illustrated a comic poster warning bathers to ensure that they entered their ...

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