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Black and white photograph by Walden Hammond inside the Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa.
Photograph of a teaching session in a deep saline bath.
Saline water was used as a curative agent from the time the Royal Pump Rooms opened in 1814. Originally it was prescribed as a drink as well as being used for bathing. Saline baths were used in the 20th Century for general conditions, muscular rheumatism, gout, scrofula, kidney, liver and stomach complaints. Air was bubbled through the baths to enhance its therapeutic properties and increase the buoyancy of the water.
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Paul Sandby (1730-1809) The Entrance Of Warwick Castle From The Lower Court Ink ...
J. Walker Soho, Staffordshire, 1 September 1798 Ink on paper 190mm x 235mm A landscape ...
Leamington BathsInk on paper240mm x 335mmThis aquatint print of the Royal Pump Rooms ...
Leamington By John Fairfax (1804-1877) 376mm x 284mm This lithograph print depicts ...
Black and white photograph by Walden Hammond of The Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington ...
A portrait of Alice Willes c.1880-1910.
Portrait of S T Wackrill A photograph of S. T. Wackrill sitting at his writing desk ...
A photograph of Edith Gaskin, aged 13, in fancy dress as a night-light, c.1917. ...
A postcard by Valentine & Son of Victoria Bridge and the Royal Pump Rooms in Leamington ...
Black and white photograph. This photograph depicts Princess Margaret with Mayor ...
The mayor's attendant is helping Councillor Nichols into the Mayoral robes of Leamington ...
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Donor ref:LEAMG : M3535.1990.20 (69/18637)
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