are told that the “ bathing rooms were seven in number,” and that the machines were the invention of one Benjamin Beale, a quaker, of Margate. People in those days, and long after, bathed with a “guide.” Margate in 1824 possessed an Assembly Room with “mirrors late imitated many of its neighbours… … Master of the Ceremonies who requested a “ strict compliance with the following regulations.” “That on ball-nights no ladies be admitted into the great room in habits, nor gentlemen with swords, boots, or pantaloons.” (Military gentlemen were exempt from this apparent want of necessary clothing.)…
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