Traces the development of indoor public baths and pools, from the earliest subscription baths of the Georgian period and the first municipal baths in Liverpool in 1829, to the current generation of leisure pools with their flumes and potted palm trees.

The eighth book in the "Played In Britain" series, tracing the development of indoor public baths and pools from the early Georgian period and the first municipal baths from 1829 through the art-deco period to the hi-tech, but not necessarily perfect, facilities of recent times.