There are even microphones on the handrails leading up to the diving board and one at the bottom of the pool for the bubbles and a general dampened underwater ambience.
It was, he remembers, "state of the art": a grand public building with elegant, deco curves to the custom-made furniture, handsome timber bookshelves and bright brass handrails up the stairs.
"... sometimes for elderly people presenting after a stroke,... future prevention, may not be their priority... you only have 10 minutes for your patient... and they might be much more worried about a handrail to get up and down the stairs".
Whenever possible, use a handrail when going up and down stairs.
Support your weight on the handrail when walking up or down the stairs.
A delicate iron handrail swirls up the foyer's sweeping staircase.
A sinuous aluminum handrail winds up the length of a second steel post that supports the projecting treads of the circular stair.
The hallway has grimy, dusty walls, with what appear to be the original 1870 stairs going all the way up, and the handrail and balusters are burnished to a deep gloss.
Earlier that morning, Markus Rössel a veteran of the 2015 inaugural Breca had warned us: "You'll be crying as you handrail your way up that mountain".
And beyond the gates, out over the black Thames, between the swooping, lit-up handrails of Britain's most currently infamous architectural experiment, there may be silhouettes moving about - illicit visitors: curious people testing the decking, couples smoking cigarettes in midstream, people just marvelling at the views and taut steel.
