"Mermaids at Brighton" by William Heath, c. In Lancashire, working women and men bathed naked in the sea together in 1795: "Lower classes of people of both sexes made an annual pilgrimage to Liverpool where they dabbled in the salt water for hours at each tide in promiscuous numbers and not much embarrassing themselves about appearance." 19th century England In England, bathing in the sea by the lower classes was noted in Southampton by Thomas Gray in 1764, and in Exmouth in 1779. Some men extended this to swimming in the sea and by 1736 it was seen at Brighton and Margate, and later at Deal, Eastbourne and Portsmouth. Scarborough was the first resort to provide bathing machines for changing. Women and girls were encouraged to dip wearing loose clothing. While sea bathing or dipping, men and boys were naked. Sea bathing resorts modelled themselves on Bath, and provided promenades, circulating libraries, and assembly rooms. In the early 1730s, fashionable sea bathing initially followed the inland health seeking tradition. of current money of Great Britain to be paid to the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being within three days next after each offence shall be committed to and for the use of the Poor of the said City. And that no Man Guide shall at any time hereafter go into any Bath or Baths within this City by day or by night without a pair of drawers and a waistcoat on their bodies and that each Guide shall wear a Cap with a Tassel to it to distinguish them from the people upon pain that every one offending therein to forfeit and loose for each offence the sum of 3S. And that no Female person shall at any time hereafter go into a Bath or Baths within this City by day or by night without a decent Shift on their bodies. It is Ordered Established and Decreed by this Corporation that no Male person above the age of ten years shall at any time hereafter go into any Bath or Baths within this City by day or by night without a Pair of Drawers and a Waistcoat on their bodies. Bath's specific rules were prescribed as follows:
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The Bath Corporation official bathing dress code of 1737, prohibited men and women from swimming nude either in the day or in the night.
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In 1709, a man from Crosby had his daughters dipped in the sea to cure a skin complaint. 18th century England īy 1709, working people had been visiting the coast to be 'dipped' for health or to 'bathe' for leisure for 'some time'. Doctors and quacks set up spa towns such as Harrogate, Bath, Matlock and Buxton soon after taking advantage of mineral water from chalybeate springs. This brought the health-giving properties of the hot mineral waters to the attention of the aristocracy. Also, Some Enquiries into the Nature of the water. In 1676, he wrote A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there. He became interested in the curative properties of the waters.
Thomas Guidott set up a medical practice in the English town of Bath in 1668. The woodcut illustrations in Everard Digby's 1587 book The Art of Swimming (De Arte Natandi) and later, the 40 copperplate etchings in Melchisédech Thévenot's 1696 instruction book, also called The Art of Swimming, illustrate that swimming was normally costume free. On a report which has reached the ears of the bishop that the heavenly gift of warm and healing waters with which the city of Bath has been endowed from of old is turned into an abuse by the shamelessness and uncleanness of the people of that city, insomuch that, when any persons, whether male or female, go to the said waters to bathe and recover their health, and through modesty and shame try to cover their privy parts, the men with drawers (femoralibus) and the women with smocks (subunculis), they, the said people, by what they say is an established custom of the city, barbarously and shamelessly strip them of their said garments and reveal them to the gaze of the bystanders, and inflict on them not only the loss of their garments but a heavy monetary fine, - during mass on Sundays, solemn days and feast days, to admonish all the citizens of Bath, and all others staying there, that they abstain from such excesses under penalty of the greater excommunication, and to enjoin on them, under a like penalty, that henceforth no males or females who have reached puberty go to the baths without wearing such drawers and smocks or other linen garments. Illustration from Everard Digby's The Art of Swimming (De Arte Natandi) (1587).