European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Museums this British exhibit will bowl you Over stripes photos by Gus Schuettler this water closet was built in it was emptied twice a Day with a shape tool opening a plug a Floral 19thcentury by King Cruger Bureau chief in the Wane of the Middle the communal Bath died out in England and until the late 18th Century nobody cared very much about being of Queen Elizabeth i it was remarked As strange that the Queen hath a Bath once a whether she need it or such amusing nuggets of information As the above Are to be panned during a visit to a permanent museum exhibit titled clean and decent the history of the British bathroom and water the exhibit at the Gladstone pottery museum in is a weirdly fascinating one that offers sundry illustrations of the fashions and accessories of the British its fitting that clean and decent is mounted in Stoke Trent for the famed pottery City also is the Center of Britain sanitary ceramics Industry with factories there operated by such outfits As Armitage Twyford and Doulton according to the museums Francis the Ceramic water closet was Britain and later Europe answer to sanitation and sewage problems caused by the growth of big one of the first British examples of the was the one invented in 1594 by sir John who later installed a for Queen Elizabeth i at Richmond Palace outside a working copy of that Royal Loo is on exhibit in the Celoria said the British Isle pioneered the to such an extent that even today in the soviet Union the name for a is a Unitas which was the Trade name for a Ceramic introduced nearly a Century ago by Many of the water closest in the Gladstone collection Are elegant designs decorated in Floral motifs bearing such names As the the Oracle and closet of the according to the Basic design of the has evolved slowly and changed Little Over 100 that incurable feature of our a fondness for also affected the victorians for often invented seats that could Spring up and activate the in a gent named Williams patented a closet which alarmingly used a Gas Burner to incinerate solids and to Send off urine As inventiveness never deserted the closet in 1927 a British Patent had a no return Flap in the trap to prevent rats to of things the trap contained a bait we still variable water 3 stripes Magazine june