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The only bath we used to get was a swim in the Regent's Canal. All the old chaps used to go down the canal and toss money up on a stick and gamble on whether it would come down heads or tails. A lot of that money used to end up in the canal, and when they were finished, we used to dive down for it. We also used to get on the barges as they came along and then dive off them. In Queen's Road, by the bridge, there was a big gas works, and in the winter we used to go in the water behind there and it was boiling hot. We never knew it was poisonous. To us it was marvellous. It was a hot bath.