Mr. T. Woolliscroft

The Toilet. Was it so important? Blair argues that it was!, 21 Aug 2000

In it's Millennium Issue The Times described the humble toilet as one of the 10 greatest inventions of the last 1000 years. What an incredible statement! But after reading Munroe Blair's history of the Ceramic Water Closet I can see exactly why.

I have read one of the first copies available and how impressed I was. This forty-page Shire publication is packed with original illustrations, colour photographs and a lively text. Blair, a native of The Potteries and with life-long experience of the sanitaryware industry, traces the development of the water closet from Harington's invention of 1592 through to the 6 litre push button, dual flush affairs of the new millennium.

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