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of 1709 and two sedan chairs, cheaper to operate than the three-wheeled Bath chair, invented
locally by Arthur Dawson and able to take the user indoors and up stairs if disabled. A Fash-
ion Museum is located in the Assembly Rooms. The water flows at 13l/s with a high content
of calcium sulphate and sodium chloride but low in metals except iron. Many of those treated
with the waters were suffering from lead poisoning, especially from exposure to it in various
industries and from its use to sweeten and preserve alcohol. Thermae Bath Spa, opened in
2003, is in a glass and stone rooftop building with indoor and outdoor thermal pools, a whirl-
pool, neck massage jets, airbeds, steam rooms and massage rooms. It is the only UK bathing
site that uses natural thermal waters.
Dredge's suspension arrangement in the Victoria Bridge
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Despite having been heavily bombed in the Second World War, the city offers a wonderful
Georgian townscape, much of it designed by John Wood the Younger. The Guildhall of
1766-1775, by Thomas Baldwin, with its Reynolds portraits, is claimed to be the finest room
in Bath. In the autumn it is one of the hosts of the Mozartfest. The city also hosts a spring
Bath International Music Festival.
The market is on the site of a medieval slaughterhouse with a 12-sided domed interior. The
Museum of Bath at Work tells the story of Bath's industrial, commercial and social history
and much more besides. It features exact reconstructions of factories and workshops.
