Public baths

I used to go with my mother to the baths in Portsmouth. Happy days

Grannynannywanny - hot seaweed bath, yes please. Gorgeous!

The only way I would want to use a communal bath tub is if it was both cleaned between customers and those wanting to use it had to take a shower and wash properly under it before getting into the bath.

Showering is feasible, as you have to wash before using the swimming baths, but honestly if the tub had to be cleaned between each user the cost would be prohibitive!

Yuck, no! I can't bear sitting in my own dirt and wouldn't want to take the chance that I was sitting in someone else's as well.

I remember these from my childhood. We actually had a nice bath at home but occasionally dad would take me with him for a luxurious deep soak whilst he had a Turkish bath and a massage.
I felt very grown up.

lyleLyle

Giant petri dishes? No thanks!

That's hot tubs. I have never used one and nether will

I would love that. My dear husband got the measurements of this bathroom wrong before we bought it. I had bee promised a bath a d a shower but unfortunately when I measured it realised it was either or and as some days I had been struggling to get out of the bath we went for a shower. On days like today when I am in a lot of pain I would yrade anything to luxuriant in a deep bath it is the stuff of my dreams.

Fleurpepper

lyleLyle

Giant petri dishes? No thanks!

The bath was always emptied and cleaned before next user! Why petri dishes?

Jakuzzi, yes.

Has anyone had a seaweed bath? I tried it years ago in a seaweed bathhouse on the west coast of Ireland. It was luxurious. The attendant filled a deep bath with warm sea water then added a large bucketful of seaweed which had been harvested from the local beach. I’ll be honest, it looked disgusting and I almost changed my mind. But it felt so lovely. My skin was soft and radiant for the rest of the day.
www.kilcullenseaweedbaths.net/

lyleLyle

Giant petri dishes? No thanks!

The bath was always emptied and cleaned before next user! Why petri dishes?

Giant petri dishes? No thanks!

That's a great idea, travelsafar. I would love that, and include hot tubs and saunas as well, Grammaretto.
I would definitely be a customer as I haven't been able to have a bath for about 15 years.
I remember the public baths in Torquay when I was young.
For one shilling you could have a lovely hot bath.

They were amazing. I agree
While our house was a building site we had no hot water for months and would beg neighbours to use their baths, my DM who was living with us, caught the bus into Edinburgh to use the public baths in Infirmary st. There was a swimming bath too. Fabulous luxury - even an attendant to bring you warm towels.
Now the building is the Dovecot weavers.
Perhaps now the jacuzzi or sauna at the public baths is where people can bask in warm bubbles or heat up.

As a child my dad worked at the city pool. They had public baths too. I didn't understand why as a child. But yes. LOVELY deep baths.

I went to the public baths in Inverness in the 70's while camping/raspberry picking and only having a very basic shower on the campsite. The baths were bliss - huge tubs, masses of hot water and enormous fluffy towels