{"id":52,"date":"2013-03-21T00:15:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T00:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watsonian.co.uk\/?p=52"},"modified":"2014-09-30T23:10:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T23:10:29","slug":"victoria-baths-lido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Baths (Lido)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oakfield Place, Clifton, BS8 2BJ<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-52 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?attachment_id=997'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/101_0205-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?attachment_id=998'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/victoria-baths-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>In a letter to Henry Graham Dakyns:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;I went on the afternoon of the 22nd to the Victoria Swimming Baths, as I occasionally do, to smoke my cigar and to learn the secrets of Form. It so happened that the sun was very fierce &amp; glorious that day and that there were many bathers there &#8211; some of distinguished quality. Two in particular I studied &amp; named them \u0392\u03ac\u03b8\u03c5\u03bb\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2 \u03ac\u03bd\u03b1\u03b4\u03c5\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 and \u03b5\u03c1\u03c9\u03c2 \u1f00\u03c3\u03b5\u03bb\u03b3\u03ae\u03c2. They were, I think, respectively a City Clerk &amp; a street Arab. Anyhow, the sight operated on my imagination, not suggesting any definite subject, but supplying fuel as it were for the fires. For four days I was restless with the impulse thus added &amp; the furnace glowed quite ineffectually. But on the evening of the fourth day, as I as listening to my sister&#8217;s music, I saw the shrine of Aristogeiton at Athens &amp; nine men there of whom 8 were lovers and one of the lovers was Theron &amp; the boy&#8217;s name was Myronides. These are the processes by wh I am driven, at times, in spite of all my \u03b3\u03c1\u03ac\u03c6\u03b1\u03b9 \u1f40\u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03b9\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u1fe6 to write. It is not necessary to do anything so elaborate as to visit the Victoria Baths in order to receive the necessary shock. A face passed in the street will do it.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"#footnote_0_52\" id=\"identifier_0_52\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"John Addington Symonds, Robert L. Peters (Editor), Herbert M. Schueller, The Letters of John Addington Symonds, Vol. 2 : 1869-1884, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1968, p675 \">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_0_52\" class=\"footnote\">John Addington Symonds, Robert L. Peters (Editor), Herbert M. 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