This handsome building is on a site now occupied by the Clinton Building at the northern end of St Mary and St Thomas Street.
The baths were erected by the Johnstone Estate, a major landowner in 1842. Warm, cold, shower and vapour baths were available, with sea water piped from the sea. Charges depended on the season. Literary organisations held meetings in the rooms above.
They were demolished in 1927 and the Clinton building replaced them. It took until 1974 for Weymouth Swimming Pool to be opened, although one had been suggested in 1921 as one of a number of schemes to alleviate unemployment after the First World War.
Many will remember the Clinton, which was bisected by an arcade which had to be closed on one day per year to prevent it from becoming a legal right of way.
The arcade was fronted by a greengrocer, a fancy goods shop, a dry cleaner and the Clinton Restaurant in which many of the business community would lunch.
