196 UNION BATHS, PLYMOUTH. 



s. d. 



Large swimming bath, 6 



Once daily for a month, 4 



do. do. the season, 15 



Schools and families, not exceeding five, three pence each, all 



above that number two pence each. 



It must be mentioned as reflecting great credit on 

 the proprietors of this estabHshment, that they have 

 erected hot and cold baths expressly for the use of 

 the poor ; a kindness which has been acknowledged 

 by many with every feeling of gratitude. 



In addition to the supply of sea water already 

 mentioned, the Baths are abundantly supplied with 

 fresh water from the town main ; and for the purpose 

 of heating the water with which the hot baths are 

 supplied, a large steam boiler has been erected ; of 

 sufficient power to force the steam to any part of 

 the establishment, by means of pipes connected with 

 it: this boiler is fed with fresh water by a pipe ex- 

 tending from a cistern, which is always kept filled, 

 at the upper part of the building ; the water is forced 

 through this pipe into the boiler by its mere down- 

 ward pressure. 



The Establishment is open, in the summer months, 

 from six in the morning till ten at night ; and in win- 

 ter, from seven in the morning till ten at night. 



Connected with the baths are the elegantly fitted 

 saloons of the Royal Victoria Spa. The public are 

 indebted to the enterprise and liberality of Edmund 

 Lockyer, Esq. for this most valuable addition to the 

 advantages already possessed by the town. 



This medicinal spring was discovered by boring 

 the earth, on a portion of Mr. Lockyer 's property in 

 Bath Street. It is more than three hundred and 

 sixty feet from the surface, and is conveyed by pipes 

 to the saloons in the Union Baths. 



Mr. J.N. Hearder, having made many experiments 

 on the water first procured, and having treated it by 

 careful analyses, was the first who asserted and proved 

 it to be a tonic and aperient fluid ; it was subsequently 

 analysed in London by J. H. Faraday, Professor of 

 chemistry to the Royal Institution, Albemarle Street, 



