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It owes its modern
popularity to George III who, in 1789, created
a sensational craze by becoming the first
reigning monarch to bathe in a new-fangled
bathing machine. The rest of Britain quickly
followed his example.
Curiously it may have been from Weymouth that
the Black Death spread, though the West
Country author Thomas Hardy saw it in more
innocent terms, calling it ‘Budmouth’ in his
novel ‘The Trumpet Major’. |
Weymouth Town Bridge - Photo:
John Goodall
CCL |
