BPC00501 Wood engraving from the Illustrated London News, 1st Jan 1859. The scene shows Brill’s Baths, the circular swimming bath known as ‘The Bunion’, which was demolished in 1858. It wa...Read More
BPC00231 (this is a very small original image – see note on image sizes) Wood engraving, single image from the series of 9 on one plate, see BPC00230. Images of Brighton 112 See all images of ba...Read More
BPC00172 Detail of BPC00024 Steel engraving by T Jeavons after George Atwick. Published by W Grant, 5 Castle Square, Brighton. Images of Brighton puts a circa 1865 date to this print, but it was one o...Read More
BPC00018 Copperplate engraving by S Rawle from the original drawing by J Nixon, published in the European Magazine 1803. The baths were built in Pool Valley in 1769 by the architect and builder Rober...Read More
BPC00244 Aquatint engraving by George Hunt after S J E Jones, published by C & R Sickelmore, King’s Road, Brighton c1827. Included in Sickelmore’s publication Select Views of Brighton. The nar...Read More
BPC00019 Early bookplate taken from the aquatint engraving by R Sickelmore after J Cordwell. Published in the 1826 and 1839 editions of Sickelmore’s History of Brighton. The site of the baths is now...Read More
BPC00501 This image is a detail of BPC00227 Detail from The Battery, Brighton after Edward Fox c1825, showing R Hobden’s Artillery Hot & Cold Sea Water Baths, situated on the King’s Road, in t...Read More
BPC00318 Lithograph by Day & Sons after F Ford, published 19 Aug 1850 by W H Mason, 80 King’s Road. The text on the print reads ‘On Wednesday evening July 17th 1850 between 6 and 7 o’clock a...Read More
BPC00230 Wood engravings originally from Kidd’s Pocket Companion to Brighton 1832 then republished in Lacey’s Picturesque Views in Great Britain c1840: ‘Chain Pier-Toll’ See all images of the ...Read More
BPC00232 Aquatint engraving from Sicklemore’s History of Brighton, 1827. These were the first swimming baths in Brighton, built in 1823 on the site of the old East Battery, at the bottom of East St...Read More