This BBC report is from the day the spa closed in 1978, and shows people bathing in the Hot Bath, and treatments in the Physical Treatment Centre in Bath Street.
Film Archive
These extracts from a 1930s travelogue show a reconstruction of the Bladud myth, footage of the King's Bath, the Grand Pump Room, the Physical Treatment Centre in Bath Street, the Hot Bath, the New Royal Bath and a previous water-drinking fountain in the Grand Pump Room.
Footage from ITV West showing a treatment in the Hot Bath in about 1965.
Footage from ITV West showing treatment in the Hot Bath in about 1965 - note the 'egg-timers' which were used to limit the time people spent in the hot, mineral-rich waters.
|
