When the British fell in love with the seaside, they invented a mobile building to convey them to the water: the bathing machine. Kathryn Ferry tells their story.
From his tall plinth on Weymouth seafront, the towering figure of George III in his finery surveys the sandy bay he helped popularise. The Dorset resort is still defined by its Georgian buildings erected in the wake of the King’s first visit in 1789, but, like every good seaside town, Weymouth has been…
