Bathing machines

The bathing machine was a device, popular in the
18th and 19th centuries, to allow people to change
out of their usual clothes, possibly change into swimwear
and then wade in the ocean at beaches. Bathing machines
were roofed and walled wooden carts rolled into the sea.
Some had solid wooden walls; others had canvas walls over
a wooden frame - read more here

Hungerburg Strand

Wilhelm Dreesen (1840–1926): Bathing Machine, 1893

'Don't Be Afraid'. Man and woman in bathing
suits with bathing machine, ca. 1910

Bather posing for photo, Ostend. Shows men and a woman with

bathing machines in shallow water at a beach, 1913

'Mermaids at Brighton' by William Heath (1795 - 1840), ca. 1829.

Depicts women sea-bathing with bathing machines at Brighton

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