Bath Gallery

Crane Company. - The Bathroom, 1940

Crane Company. - The Bathroom, 1940. Newvogue Receptor Bath with glass spray shield, walls in yellow ground Salubra wallpaper with grey and silver pattern, wainscoting in grey tiles. Bath recess tiled in grey and blue. From Decorative Art 1940 - The Studio Year Book, edited by C. G. Holme. [The Studio Ltd., London, 1940]

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Bath time, c1881. Creator: Randolph Caldecott

Bath time, c1881. When I was a farmer, a Farmer's Boy, I used to keep my master's children'. The Farmer's Boy, wearing a bonnet and apron, baths his employer's children. A small girl squirts him with a sponge as he dries her sibling on his lap. A third child sits in a bath of water on the floor. Cured hams, onions and dried herbs hang from the ceiling, and a wooden press can be seen behind the settle. From "The Farmer's Boy" written and illustrated by Randolph Caldecott. [Originally published in 1881 as part of Caldecott's Picture Books series]

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Ward of the Receiving-House of the Royal Humane Society, 1844. Creator: Unknown

Ward of the Receiving-House of the Royal Humane Society, 1844. Facilities of the Royal Humane Society, for the recovery of persons apparently drowned or dead, at Hyde Park in London. Inside there was ...a room for medical attendants on the left, and waiting-room on the right; parallel with which are two separate wards for the reception of male and female patients. Each contains beds warmed with hot water, a bath, and a hot-water, metal-topped table for heating flannels, bricks, &c.; the supply of water being by pipes around the walls and beneath the floor of the rooms. Next are a kitchen and two sleeping-rooms, for the residence of the superintendent and his family; adjoining is the furnace for heating water, planned by Messrs. Simpson and Thompson, engineers of the Chelsea Water works. In the roof of the building are two cisterns for cold, and one for hot water'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V

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