indypendenthistory:The bathing machine was a device popular in the Victorian Era to allow people to
indypendenthistory:The bathing machine was a device popular in the Victorian Era to allow people to change out of their usual clothes in to swimwear and then wade in the ocean at beaches. Bathing machines were roofed and walled wooden carts rolled into the sea. The bathing machine was part of sea-bathing etiquette more rigorously enforced upon women than men but to be observed by both sexes among those who wished to be “proper.” -- source link