Beach huts

Beach huts, tents

and bathing machines

1880s bathing belle

Bathing huts line the slipway at West Park ...

... before being spread out along the high tide mark

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  Bathing machines in St Aubin's Bay
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  Bathing machines at West Park
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  First Tower
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  West Park marine lake
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  Bathing huts next to the pool
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  Beach tents at West Park
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  The pool and bathing huts
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  West Park

Not Jersey, but this picture taken in Deauville, Normandy, shows how the bathing machines were moved as the tide went in and out

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  West Park
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  Gorey
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  Bathing huts at West Park
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  Bathing machines
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  West Park, 1907
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  Greve d'Azette
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  Greve d'Azette
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  Greve d'Azette
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  Bathers in 1919
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  Bathing tents at Havre des Pas in 1909
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  Bathing huts in St Aubin's Bay
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  First Tower bathing huts
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  First Tower bathing huts
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  Bathing machines at St Clement
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  First Tower
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  First Tower
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  Bathing machines on the beach at First Tower in 1900
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  West Park
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  A beach tent at First Tower

This delightful picture of a young lady in front of a row of bathing machines was taken in 1922. There is nothing specific to identify the photograph as having been taken in Jersey, but we are confident that it was because it comes from a family album of photographs from that year, most with obvious Jersey backgrounds. We believe that this image was taken either at West Park, or Greve d'Azette, where the largest numbers of bathing machines were to be found a century ago.

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  First Tower 1899
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  Huts ready to be taken to the beach on the Esplanade at West Park
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  Beach tents on the shoreline in Grouville Bay
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  A more substantial beach chalet at Gorey
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  West Park
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  An advert from 1874
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  Advertisement for bathing machines in St Aubin's Bay - special facilities for ladies and children, and strict rules covering bathing times
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  1857 advert
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  1868 advert
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  Bathing machines were popular as early as 1837
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  Bathing machines at Greve d'Azette: An 1854 drawing
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  West Park
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  West Park
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  Greve D'Azette
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  Towing a line of huts
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  A strangely shaped beach hut
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  The cabins at Greve d'Azette were some of the more substantial structures used in Jersey
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  A solitary beach cabin which would have been towed into place by a horse
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  This advert for Victoria Baths appeared in Chronique de Jersey in 1860 and advised that 'bathing machines' were available from 6 in the morning to 6 in the evening

A photograph from 1922

A fine row of bathing huts at West Park

This photograph of a row of beach huts appeared in Facebook described as being taken in Jersey. We have doubts that this is correct, not having seen any other pictures of a similar 'terrace' of beach huts in Jersey. Seaside structures in the island tended to be portable bathing machines or coastal bungalows much further apart than those pictured here. There were suggestions that these huts may have been located on one of the north coast piers, but that does not seem likely given that they are clearly standing on uneven sand