Compared to our barely clad, spaghetti-strapped swimsuit styles, the bathing costumes of the 18th and 19th century seem laughably prudish. But those days, people worried that glimpsing more than a ...

Skincare brand Haeckels has built a traditional wood-burning sauna on the sands of Margate beach, in a bid to "reacquaint the community" with the health-giving properties of their local waters.

Is there anything better than self-care by the sea? UK-based skincare brand Haeckels is on a mission to reintroduce the local community of Margate Beach to the healing powers of the ocean. The region ...

In a nation so steeped in vulgarity it thinks nothing of striding straight from the beach into the sea, ankles on display for all to view, there is hope. It lies hidden, for now, behind the Turner ...

A replica of a royal bathing machine has been put back in place on Weymouth's seafront. The full-size model is of a bathing machine used by George III when he visited the Dorset town in the 18th ...

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