The first smoking ban?

[Diane Grant-Salmon]

I'm taking some time out at the moment, to look at some of the CD's I recently purchased from Archive CD Books. However, I just had to pop in to tell you about this, which I've just found in White's 1853 Directory & Gazatteer of Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield & Wakefield, which set me off in a fit of the giggles! :D

Apparently, the New Public Baths, Princess Street, West Street, Leeds, can accommodate 600 bathers daily, so if you fancy a dip, the opening times are:

Mon-Fri .... 6.00a.m. to 9.00p.m.
Sunday ..... 6.00a.m. to Noon
First Class = 6d.
Second Class = 3d.
Ladies = 6d.
N.B. It's good to know that we ladies are treated as First Class! ;)

And the last bit ....... Smoking strictly prohibited on the premises.

[Rod Neep]

Naaah. :)

Its just that ladies were expected to spend a longer time in the bath.
(And by the way, the prices were the same in the 1950s!)

Rod

[Peter Goodey]

"N.B. It's good to know that we ladies are treated as First Class!"


Ah. But second class men could afford to be twice as clean ;)

[AnnB]

The mind boggles at the thought of what they meant by second class :confused:
Was it second hand (or should that be body) bathing water :eek:
Yours cleanly
Ann

[Ken Boyce]

The first smoking bans that affected my generation that I remember were -

London Buses - smoking allowed on upper decks only (can't remember the rules for single deckers) also no spitting of swearing allowed

London Tube Trains - smoking allowed in designated carriages only

Steam Trains - smoking allowed in designated carriages only

London Area Cinemas - smoking alloowed only upstairs or back rows downstairs (I remember the projector beam cutting through the thick swirling blue smoke)

Petrol Stations

For some reason pipe (me) and cigar smokers were often treated differently

and one just did not smoke in church!