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Worst.Holiday.Ever. (New Zealand, 1896) 27 Aug 2013 | 01:22 pm
NEW ZEALAND AS A TOURIST RESORT TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST SIR, - During the just-closed Antipodean summer many tourists, mostly Australian, have paid a holiday visit to New Zealand, and it i...
A Woman's Complaint 25 Aug 2013 | 03:44 pm
An 1890s woman speaks out against poor provision of public toilets on the railway, and elsewhere: A WOMAN'S COMPLAINT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—The writer of " A Woman's Complaint" deserves ...
George Jennings and the Public Toilet 22 Aug 2013 | 09:19 pm
Did the well-known Victorian sanitary engineer George Jennings invent the public toilet? It's a fact that's often repeated on various websites and books, but not really true. Admittedly, he installed...
1832 Toilet Plan 23 Jul 2013 | 09:54 pm
And here's J.C.Loudon's 1832 design for a public toilet: [with thanks to the Natural History Museum Library for the copy]
Urine Deflectors in Fleet Street 23 Jul 2013 | 09:09 pm
The average (male) Londoner of the early 1800s, out and about, was quite happy to relieve himself in the nearest alley. Urinals were becoming more common - usually outside pubs - but typically one fou...
Smallpox and Sending Out Laundry 19 Jul 2013 | 03:25 am
REPORT OF THE LANCET SPECIAL COMMISSION ON THE SPREAD OF DISEASE THROUGH LAUNDRIES. THOUGH cleanliness is the best safeguard against disease, it is nevertheless an undoubted fact that clean linen is ...
The Swimming Baths of London, 1870 17 Jul 2013 | 10:05 pm
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 SWIMMING BATHS OF LONDON by R.E. DUDGEON, M.D LONDON HENRY TURNER AND CO. 77 FLEET STREET, E.C. 1870 Price Sixpence Swimming is an exercise at once health...
How to be a Victorian? 16 Jul 2013 | 06:57 pm
Today, I shall start looking at Ruth Goodman's How to be a Victorian, which has just been published. I must hold my hands up and say that I met Ms. Goodman at a publisher's publicity event (she was d...
Washerwomen 14 Jul 2013 | 04:54 pm
Key (click on image for larger view) 1. Woman Washing 2. Woman hanging up her linen 3. Wash and boiling tub 4. Drying chamber heated by Hot Water 4a. Drying chamber heated by Gas 5. Slide Door to enc...
The Lady Mayoress and the Urinal 4 Jul 2013 | 05:18 pm
The Mansion House, Aug 2d 1883 To the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, Gentn., I have received with the greatest possible surprise and regret a letter from your Clerk dated yesterday ...
