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… Public Library. As chairperson of the council’s library and baths committee, Mayo campaigned strongly for a new library …
Type: Biography
… fixtures, panels, doors, windows, and fittings such as baths. Build your house out of polystyrene In the 1990s …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Building materials
… were used in 1876: ‘The little pool is the most luxurious bath a human being could want and at that time was the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… pool. The attendant told her she had to wear a one-piece bathing suit, so she asked him which piece he wanted her to … These began in 1933 when journalists mocked the idea of sunbathing naked in the chilly Dunedin breezes. Club rules … In the mid-1950s the president of the New Zealand Sunbathing Association, Percy W. Cousins, sent out hundreds of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Naturism
… ventilation of homes and hospitals, the use of vapour baths, the wrapping of fever patients in layers of wet …
Type: Biography
… award of Knight Bachelor, appointments to the Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George, the Order of the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Royal honours system
… with the same plan and name as the family home in Bath, England. The house, built on a site overlooking Lake …
Type: Biography
… in the Bay of Plenty, he saw a beautiful woman, Waitaiki, bathing. Smitten, he grabbed her and headed for the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… John Gully was baptised in St Michael's Church, Bath, England, on 21 March 1819. He was the son of Philip … apprenticeship about this time and joined the staff of the Bath Savings Bank. In 1846 he left the bank to become an …
Type: Biography
… hydroelectric plant, which supplied power for the thermal baths, sanatorium and lighting displays. On 29 April 1909, …
Type: Biography
… many new amenities and public works, notably the salt-water baths, the children's paddling pool, the Municipal Theatre, …
Type: Biography
… coasts. Currents Warm, salty, sub-tropical currents bathe the north and west of the country, while cold, less …
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Part of story: Natural environment
… with wooden houses, looking rather like enlarged bathing machines.' If the town seemed untidy and makeshift, …
Type: Biography
… mixed-sex salons operated, sometimes in conjunction with baths, at a time when not every home had the convenience of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Personal grooming
… Stream, and as engineer for the Andersons Bay Ferry and Baths Company, in mid 1893 McGeorge was appointed engineer …
Type: Biography
… around Invercargill and was known for her love of sea bathing and gardening. During the Second World War Norman …
Type: Biography
… Cranbrook and West Ashford in Kent, and Yeovil, Bath and Langport in Somerset. To settle New Plymouth they …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: English
… ablaze with violets, primroses and bluebells, and sea-bathing, boating, tennis and entertaining at Brighton. She …
Type: Biography
… the 1839 Chartist demonstrations. On 18 September 1841 at Bath he married Harriet Pricture, a domestic servant; they …
Type: Biography
… also provided warmth in winter. Fires heated water for bathing and laundry, and candles and oil lamps gave light. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Fires and fire services