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Happy birthday to us!

August 18, 2021August 21, 2021 ~ Arlington Baths Club History Group ~ 1 Comment

What a brilliant time we had at our 150th birthday party! Here's a reminder of what we got up to.

Bransby Williams, Actor Manager

April 25, 2021July 4, 2021 ~ eunice crook ~ 1 Comment

Actor Bransby Williams was a successful actor, who was often in Glasgow to perform in pantomime or his popular impersonations of Dickens' characters.

Captain Bernard Alexander Leslie

March 30, 2021 ~ eunice crook ~ 1 Comment

This Arlington member had a long career behind the scenes in the theatre world, including many years at the Empire Theatre in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.

Discovering our London twin

March 14, 2021August 20, 2023 ~ wcjess ~ 1 Comment

One of the tall tales told about the Arlington is that an exact copy of our Club was built in London and then destroyed in bombing during World War II. But could this be really be true?

On the trapeze with Alexander Trocchi

February 11, 2021June 13, 2025 ~ Arlington Baths Club History Group ~ 2 Comments

One of our members who swam against society's tide was avant-garde writer, provocateur and heroin addict Alexander Trocchi, a Scottish writer at the heart of the 1960s counter culture.

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