In the 1930s, the Bristol Baths Committee announced its aspiration \u201cEvery Bristolian a swimmer\u201d, setting a target that every home should have a swimming facility within a mile.<\/p>\n
City of Swimmers<\/em> is a verrucas-and-all history of swimming in Bristol, from the eighteenth-century Rennison\u2019s Baths in Montpelier to the beautiful historic Jacob\u2019s Wells and Bristol South baths, and the mostly overlooked pools in more recent leisure centres. Readers may have memories of a world of award patches, metal baskets, disinfecting footbaths, poolside \u201cPlease refrain from\u2026\u201d posters, and even slipper baths.<\/p>\n Surveying 50 swimming pools and bathing places in Bristol and the surrounding towns of Portishead, Thornbury, Severn Beach, Clevedon and Keynsham, Steve Hunt argues that accessible swimming facilities should be cherished and defended, even developed, for the enjoyment of the next generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the 1930s, the Bristol Baths Committee announced its aspiration \u201cEvery Bristolian a swimmer\u201d, setting a target that every home should have a swimming facility within a mile. City of Swimmers is a verrucas-and-all history of swimming in Bristol, from the eighteenth-century Rennison\u2019s Baths in Montpelier to the beautiful historic Jacob\u2019s Wells and Bristol South […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1994,190,196],"tags":[1493],"class_list":["post-22388","pamphlets","type-pamphlets","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civic-environment-civic-amenities-housing","category-radical-bristol","category-sport","tag-swimming-pools","pub_range-bristol-radical-pamphleteer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n