Big bath

Some months ago, on an occasion which I cannot now trace, we noticed what appeared to be a black stone bath in the window of a shop near the Wigmore Hall. I even took a picture of it. Back yesterday and it is still there. Maybe the market in stone baths is not that brisk - not that there is any price tag to be seen. My guess would be thousands for a bath tub which looks rather dangerous to me. Polished stone, no handles and vicious looking edges and corners should you happen to fall. Perhaps the footballers who buy these things don't fall, unlike us older citizens. Plus it is rather dark. One would need to take care with the rest of the décor of the bathroom - assuming, that is, that one does not want to put it in one's living room, in the way of some hotels in Norfolk. Baths which I failed to trace, coming up with just reference 5. But then I thought to ask google and he pointed out that the correct search term was 'honeymoon bath' which gave me reference 6 in short order. The wonders of modern search technology.

But while I can trace neither occasion nor photograph of this bath, with the aid of Street View I can find the shop, Salvatori of reference 1. Where I am able to look through their pictures, coming up with that above. I am not completely sure that this bath, or that the bath seen yesterday was that seen some months ago. But it is the right sort of thing, the only one that I can find in the gallery (posh speak for catalogue) which comes near.

And I can find the post about the black stone bath in Portsmouth cathedral, used for full-on immersion baptisms - although I seem to have failed to take a photograph on that occasion - and I am not usually put off by being in a church. Must do better this year. See reference 2.

And the post about the giant bath installed in our road last year. But I don't think it was a stone bath. See references 3 and 4. Presumably up and running now so I could ask for a tour of inspection - although that sort of thing might come better from BH.

Reference 1: https://www.salvatori.it/.

Reference 2: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/we-were-little-early-for-our-ferry-so.html.

Reference 3: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/big-bath-1.html.

Reference 4: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/big-bath-2.html.

Reference 5: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/an-important-bath.html.

Reference 6: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/order-of-bath-east-anglian-chapter.html.