{"id":6573,"date":"2021-05-26T06:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebaths.org\/?page_id=6573"},"modified":"2021-05-28T10:15:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T10:15:14","slug":"archives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thebaths.org\/index.php\/archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The best-known sea-bathing places of today were established by the railway companies to encourage coastal businesses. The construction of the Dublin to Kingstown (D\u00fan Laoghaire) line saw the closure of the baths at Booterstown and Blackrock, as the bathing huts there were now cut off from the sea by the railway, which ran along an embankment across the shallow bay. While the arrival of the railway did spell the end for some bathing spots, it opened up other parts of the coast for bathing. Man-made baths became increasingly popular during the nineteenth century with the earliest sea-bath or \u2018lido\u2019 (an Italian word for beach, bespeaking elegance and cosmopolitan excitement) erected in 1833 at Lymington in Hampshire, England. The bathing pools at Clontarf, Sandymount and D\u00fan Laoghaire all followed the style of the Lymington baths.<\/p>\n

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Excerpt from
\nThe Ruins of Summer<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Emma Gilleece<\/p>\n

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Humans dipped their toes in the water during the Renaissance and relearned to swim during the Enlightenment in schools, spas and barracks, but mass-participation swimming finally took off in the 19th century when the development of the railways gave millions of city dwellers access to seaside resorts and the enactment of the Baths and Washhouses Acts of 1846 and 1878 enabled English municipalities to build in-ground, heated pools in deprived urban areas. ( This trend extended to Ireland)<\/p>\n

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Excerpt from
\nHow Europe Learnt to Swim<\/a>
\nby Eric Chaline<\/p>\n

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“Swimming cultivates imagination; the (wo)man with the most is (s)he who can swim in a solitary course day or night and forget a black earth full of people that push.”<\/span><\/h3>
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A championship swimmer, cliff diver, vaudeville performer\u00a0and movie star, Australian Annette Kellerman was a superwoman of the Victorian era. But perhaps\u00a0her biggest legacy\u00a0is something that benefited us all\u00a0~ the one-piece swim suit. It wasn’t easy to do the crawl stroke in pantaloons and a dress, so Annette designed a form-fitting\u00a0alternative. Though considered risqu\u00e9, it popularized the sport + lured women to the water.<\/span><\/h3>
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Excerpt from
\nQuotabelle<\/a>
\nby Pauline Weger<\/p>\n

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