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| Victoria Baths drew its water from its own well. This was costly to build but gave the Baths a cheap supply of good, clean water at a time when town water was expensive and sometimes cloudy. The water was stored in tanks situated on top of the boiler houses. | |||
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For many years
the water was not treated, but simply heated by coal fired boilers. It
was used in the pools for three days after which the pools were empties
and filled with fresh water. So in the 1920's and 1930's, Mondays and
Thursdays were "clean days" and it cost more to swim. Tuesdays
and Fridays were less clean. Wednesdays and Saturdays were "dirty
days".
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| As the years went by water treatment systems changed and eventually chlorination was introduced. The pool water was then circulated and continuously treated. The original coal fired boilers were replaced by oil boilers. | |||