30 May 1922: Hot weather has led to huge queues at the city’s swimming baths, but when the thermometer drops a few points these casual ‘tinkerers’ soon disappear
There is a remarkable rush to the Manchester swimming baths at the present time. At some of the more popular establishments there are about two thousand visitors daily, and bathers are having to wait in queues as if seeking admission to a picture-house. People went to Victoria Baths, in High Street for instance, on Sunday morning last, and finding dozens waiting before them went away disappointed.
On Sundays this bath is open from eight to eleven o’clock in the morning, and one learns on inquiry that the queue outside had begun to form at seven o’clock. It was not the only establishment in the city where the press was so heavy, nor, says Mr A. Teasdale (general superintendent of the Corporation Baths Department), is Sunday the only day of the week on which queues may be seen.
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