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When was the Brighton Baths built?

Rhianna Reynolds
Rhianna Reynolds
2025-05-04 21:10:28
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The baths were built in Pool Valley in 1769 by the architect and builder Robert Golden for the medical entrepreneur and seawater enthusiast, Dr John Awsiter. Dr Awsiter promoted indoor bathing in warmed seawater as being very beneficial to health. The baths were later taken over by Mr Woods and renamed the Royal Original Baths. They were then taken over by Mr Creak whose wife, Alice, continued the business after his death. In 1861 they were demolished to make way for the enlargement of Brill’s Baths, at 2 King’s Road.
Walter Mante
Walter Mante
2025-05-04 19:43:25
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The baths were built in Pool Valley in 1769 by the architect and builder Robert. Lamprell’s Royal Brighton Baths were the first swimming baths in Brighton, built in 1823 on the site of the old East Battery, at the bottom of East St. R Hobden’s Artillery Hot & Cold Sea Water Baths, situated on the King’s Road, is shown in a detail from The Battery, Brighton after Edward Fox c1825. Brill’s Baths, the circular swimming bath known as ‘The Bunion’, which was demolished in 1858.
Rosie Armstrong
Rosie Armstrong
2025-05-04 18:19:15
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Scott produced a design in 1866 for a light iron dome, sixty-five feet in diameter, over two levels of arcades, in Scott’s personal style with pointed arches with alternating voussoirs. It was then the largest swimming pool in Europe but the baths eventually lost their popularity, became run-down and in 1929 were demolished to make way for the Savoy cinema. A gentelmen’s swimming pool, this was in the centre of Brighton between the sea front and the Royal Pavilion, and was an extension to Charles Brill’s indoor sea-water swimming pool for ladies.