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Borough of
Blackpool.
BYE-LAWS
Made and adopted by the Mayor, Aldermen and
Burgesses, acting by a council as the Urban
Sanitary Authority, with respect to
Bathing Machines
BYE-LAWS.
INTERPRETATION OF
TERMS.
1. Throughout these bye-laws the
expression “the Sanitary Authority " means the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of
the Borough of Blackpool, acting by the Council as the Urban Sanitary Authority,
and the expression " the District " means the Borough of
Blackpool.
For fixing the stands of bathing
machines on the seashore or strand, and the limits within which persons of each
sex shall be set down for bathing; and which persons shall
bathe.
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Bathing Machines at Blackpool in the 1890s.
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2. The several places described or
defined in the list hereunto appended shall be the stands appointed for such
number of bathing machines of such class, description, or construction, and
appropriated for the use of persons of such sex as shall in respect of each of
such stands be specified in such list.
List of stands for bathing
machines.
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No.
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Description
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Sex
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1
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Imperial Hotel
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Male.
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2
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Imperial Terrace
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Female
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3
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Lansdowne Crescent
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Male
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4
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Carlton Terrace
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Female
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5
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Brighton Terrace
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Male
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6
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Albert Terrace
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Female
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7
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Clifton Arms Hotel
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Male
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8
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Lane Ends
Hotel
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Female
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9
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Aquarium
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Male
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10
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Hound's Hill.
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Male
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11
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Read's
Baths
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Female
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12
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Wellington Hotel
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Male
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13
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Britannia Place
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Female
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14
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Waterloo
Road
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Male
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15
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Dean Street
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Female
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16
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Beach Shore,
opposite
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Star Hills
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Male
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In addition to or in substitution for
any of the places so appointed as stands for bathing machines, such place or
places as may, from time to time here- after, be appointed by the Sanitary
Authority, and may be described or defined in a notice or notices painted,
printed, or marked in legible letters and figures of such a colour or in such a
manner as to be clearly distinguishable from the colour of the ground whereon
such letters and figures are painted, printed , or marked, and affixed or set up
and continued in some convenient and conspicuous position in or near to the
place or places so appointed, shall be the stand or stands for such number of
bathing machines of such class, description, or construction, and appropriated
for the use of persons of such sex as shall be specified in such notice or
notices.
3. A proprietor or attendant of a
bathing machine, stationed on any stand or part of a stand appointed for
machines for the use of persons of the female sex, shall not cause or allow any
such person, who may have hired, or may use such machine for the purpose of
bathing to be set down for such purpose at any place less distant than fifty
yards from any place at which any person of the male sex above the age of ten
years may be set down for such purpose.
4. A proprietor or attendant of a
bathing machine, stationed on any stand or part of a stand appointed for
machines for the use of persons of the male sex, shall not cause or allow any
such person above the age of ten years, who may have hired, or may use such
machine for the purpose of bathing, to be set down for such purpose at any place
less distant than fifty yards from any place at which any person of the female
sex may be set down for such purpose.
5. A person of the female sex shall
not, while bathing, approach within fifty yards of any place at which any person
of the male sex, above the age of ten years, may be set down for the purpose of
bathing, or at which any such person may bathe.
6. A person of the male sex above the
age of ten years shall not, while bathing, approach within fifty yards of any
place at which any person of the female sex may be set down for the purpose of
bathing, or at which any such person may bathe.
For preventing any indecent exposure of
the persons of the bathers.
7. Every proprietor or attendant of a
bathing machine so constructed as to be capable of being drawn or moved to or
from the station occupied by such machine on any stand, by means of a horse or
windlass, or other animal or mechanical power, shall at all times, when such
machine may be hired or used by any person for the purpose of bathing, cause
such machine to be drawn or moved into such a depth of water, or otherwise into
such a position as will prevent any indecent exposure of any such person, when
set down from such machine for the purpose of bathing, or when bathing from such
machine.
8. Every person of the male sex above
the age of ten years who may hire' or use any bathing machine for the purpose of
bathing, or may be set down from such machine for such purpose, shall at all
times, while bathing, wear suitable drawers or other sufficient dress or
covering to prevent indecent exposure of the person.
9. Every person of the female sex who
may hire or use any bathing machine for the purpose of bathing, or may be set
down from such machine for such purpose, shall, at all times, while bathing,
wear a suitable gown or other sufficient dress or covering to prevent indecent
exposure of the person.
For regulating the manner in which the
bathing machines shall be used, and the charges to be made for the
same.
10. Every proprietor or attendant of a
bathing machine stationed on any stand and so constructed as to be capable of
being drawn or moved to or from the station occupied by such machine on such
stand by means of a horse or windlass, or other animal or mechanical power
shall, at all times, when such machine shall require to be so drawn or moved,
cause the same to be drawn or moved with reasonable expedition and in such a
manner as to avoid any improper obstruction of the shore or strand, or any undue
interference with the proper use of any other machine stationed on any part of
such shore or strand.
11. A proprietor or attendant of a
bathing machine stationed on any stand shall not, without reasonable excuse, at
any reasonable time when such machine is not hired or in use for the purpose of
bathing, neglect or refuse, upon the application of any person hiring or seeking
to hire such machine for the purpose of bathing, to cause or allow such machine
to be so hired and to be drawn or moved from its station on such stand to any
suitable place whereat any such person may be set down for the purpose of
bathing.
12. Every proprietor or attendant of a
bathing machine so constructed as to be capable of being drawn or moved by hand
to or from the station occupied by such machine on any stand shall, whenever
such machine may be hired or used to set down any person for the purpose of
bathing from such machine, cause such machine, from time to time, as the state
of the tide or other occasion may require, to be drawn or moved to such a
position at such a distance from the water as to provide adequately for the
safety and convenience of the person hiring or using such
machine.
13. Every proprietor or attendant of a
bathing machine stationed on any stand shall be entitled to demand and receive
for the use of such machine when hired to set down any person for the purpose of
bathing a sum not exceeding in each case the charge herein-after prescribed
:—
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For
every machine used by any person of the male sex above the age of
ten years: |
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For a time not exceeding half an hour |
6d |
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For every additional half hour or portion
thereof |
6d |
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every machine used by any person of the female sex above the age of
ten years |
| For a time not exceeding half an hour |
6d |
| For every additional half hour or portion
thereof |
6d |
| For every machine used by any person of
the female sex above the age of ten years who shall, while bathing,
require the services of an attendant of such
machine |
| For a time not exceeding half an hour |
6d |
| For every additional half hour or portion
thereof |
6d |
| For every machine used by one child
under the age of ten years and accompanied by an adult person not
being an attendant of such machine |
| For a time not exceeding half an hour |
6d |
| For every additional half hour or portion
thereof |
6d |
| For every machine used by one child
under the age of ten years for whom, while bathing, the services of
an attendant of such machine shall be required |
| For a time not exceeding half an hour |
6d |
| For every additional half an hour or portion
thereof |
6d |
| For every machine used by two or more
children under the age of ten years and accompanied by an adult
person not being an attendant of such machine |
| For every such child for a time not exceeding
half an hour |
3d |
| For every additional half hour or portion
thereof |
3d |
| For every machine used by two or more
children for whom, while bathing, the services of an attendant of
such machine shall be required |
| For every such child, for a time not exceeding
half an hour |
3d |
| For every additional half hour or portion
thereof |
3d |
The several
amounts herein-before prescribed shall include charges for the provision by the
proprietor, and the reasonable use by the bather, of the several articles
specified in the following regulations :-
1. For every person of the male sex above the age of ten years
:—
( a. ) Two clean
towels ;
(b.) One clean pair of
suitable drawers or other clean and sufficient covering to prevent indecent
exposure of the person.
2. For every person of
the female sex above the age of ten years :-
(a.) Two clean towels
;
(b.) One clean gown or
other clean and sufficient dress or covering to prevent indecent exposure of the
person.
3. For every child
under the age of ten years :-- (a.) Two clean towels.
For regulating the
distance at which boats and vessels let to hire for the purpose of sailing or
rowing for pleasure shall be kept from persons bathing within the prescribed
limits.
13. Every
person in charge of any boat or vessel let to hire for the purpose of sailing or
rowing for pleasure, shall, at all times when so sailing or rowing, cause such
boat or vessel to be kept at a distance not less than fifty yards from every
person bathing
within the limits within which, in accordance with
the byelaw in that behalf, such person may be set
down for the purpose of bathing or may bathe :
Provided always that this byelaw shall not apply
in any case, in which, in consequence of actual or
threatened danger to life, or of any other sufficient
reason, the person in charge of such boat or vessel
shall not cause such boat or vessel to be kept at the distance herinbefore specified from any
person bathing within the aforesaid limits.
Penalties.
14.
Every person who shall offend against any of
the foregoing bye-laws, shall be liable for every such
offence to a penalty of forty shillings.
Provided nevertheless, that the justices or court
before whom any complaint may be made or any
proceedings may be taken in respect of any such
offence may, if they think fit, adjudge the payment,
as a penalty, of any sum less than the full amount of
the penalty imposed by this bye law.
Saving for rights of
Crown.
15.
Nothing in or done under any of the provisions
of the foregoing bye-laws shall, in any respect, prejudice, or injuriously affect
the rights and interests of
the Crown in the foreshore below high-water
mark.
HENRY PARROTT MAY,
TOWN CLERK.
BYE-LAWS
Made by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the
Borough of Blackpool, acting by the Council, with
respect to
BATHING MACHINES
1.—A
person letting or attending a Bathing Machine shall
not cause or allow such Machine to be let for hire on any
Sunday after nine o'clock in the forenoon.
2.—Every person offending against the foregoing bye-law,
shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty of forty
shillings. Provided, nevertheless, that the Justices or Court
before whom any complaint may be made or any proceedings
may be taken in respect of any such offence, may, if they
think fit, adjudge the payment as a penalty of any sum less
than the full amount of the penalty imposed by this bye-law.
Given under the Common Seal of the said
seal of the
Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough said Mayor
of Blackpool, this second day of May, one thou
sand eight hundred and eighty-two
HENRY HALL, Mayor.
HENRY PARROTT MAY, Town Clerk.
Allowed by the Local Government Board this
twenty-third day of June, 1882.
J. G. DODSON, President.
JOHN LAMBERT, Secretary.
Seal of the
Local
Government
Board.
MAXWELL & Co., Printers, Church Street, Blackpool
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