THE SOUTH DEVON 

 MONTHLY MUSEUM. 



PLYMOUTH, NOVEMBER 1st, 1834. 

 No, 23.] Price Sixpence. [Vol. IV. 



THE SPECTATOR, No. VI. 

 ROYAL UNION BATHS, PLYMOUTH. 



In the year 1828 a charter of incorporation was 

 granted by the king to Edmund Lockyer, Esq., and 

 divers others, his majesty's most loving subjects, 

 empowering them to erect commodious baths for the 

 accommodation, comfort, and convenience of the in- 

 habitants and visitors of Plymouth : also to make 

 all reservoirs, pipes, tunnels, and sluices, for sup- 

 plying the same with water from the sea ; and to 

 provide for the discharge of the waste water thereof, 

 by pipes, tunnels, and all other fit and proper means. 



It was further granted that, for the establishing 

 and carrying on the said undertaking, it should be 

 lawful for the said company to raise and contribute 

 amongst themselves any sum or sums of money, 

 not exceeding in the whole the sum of ten thousand 

 pounds, which should be divided into shares of 

 twenty-five pounds each. 



In pursuance of this grant, nearly seven thousand 

 pounds were raised, partly by loan and partly by 

 the sale of shares. Roger Hopkins, Esq., civil en- 

 gineer, under the direction of the committee, prepared 

 the necessary elevations and plans, and the foundation 

 stone of the erection was laid on the 29th of July, 

 1828, by Sir Byam Martin, acting as proxy for his 

 present Majesty. The establishment was opened 

 May 1st., 1830. 



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