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Veni, vidi, WC…

For many years, I had the great good sense of plunging, with passionate interest, into the lavatory.

By that, I mean relishing its history since earliest times. It was invented in Great Britain. Many many HURRAYS!

On the cold, windswept wastes of Northumberland, you discover the very first of such arrangements for man’s relief (pictured).

Three miles north of Bardon Mill, there are the most remarkable ruins of a Roman fort, with a great assembly

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