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: Mari Macnamara; This is Plumbing; 19 May 2020; Hits: 587

Turn of century plumbing at the Linfifield Victorian House Museum Part: 2

By Eamonn Ryan | All photos by Eamonn Ryan

The Lindfield Victorian House Museum is a privately owned and managed museum, full of Victorian era items, including plumbing items and original product catalogues dating back to around 1900. It was originally an upper middle-class home in Auckland Park, which at that time was a country area well outside the wild mining town of Johannesburg. This is the second in a two-part series.

Katharine Love stands before the home she has lived in since 1967, containing many plumbing and other artefacts that were collected by her mother for decades before that.`

: Mari Macnamara; This is Plumbing; 17 March 2020; Hits: 567

Turn of century plumbing at the Linfield Victorian House Museum: Part 1

By Eamonn Ryan | All photos by Eamonn Ryan

The Lindfield Victorian House Museum is a privately-owned and managed museum, full of Victorian era items, including plumbing items and original product catalogues dating from around 1900.

: Mari Macnamara; This is Plumbing; 17 February 2020; Hits: 666

Loos from around the world

By Eamonn Ryan

Some time back, a city bank put up a highly politically incorrect sign in its staff lavatory, urging foreign staff to, among other things, refrain from balancing on the seat squat-style (and risking either falling off or destroying a perfectly good toilet; to operate the flush mechanism with their hand (“and not your foot”); and reassuring users that good old British plumbing was more than up to the challenge of a few scraps of toilet paper.

: Esmerelda Lombard; This is Plumbing; 21 January 2020; Hits: 778

This is plumbing: The Museum of Plumbing Part 2

By Eamonn Ryan

Andy Rivers, owner of Rivers Plumbing, has for years been acquiring the most comprehensive collection of plumbing tools, pipes, fittings and literature. This is the second of a two-part series on what is a veritable museum. “I’ve been collecting these nearly since history began!” says Rivers.

The wall of the museum is lined with a copper display.

: Esmerelda Lombard; This is Plumbing; 11 December 2019; Hits: 704

This is plumbing: The Museum of Plumbing Part 1

By Eamonn Ryan | All photos by Eamonn Ryan

Andy Rivers has been collecting, with unrivalled passion, antique plumbing tools and literature for the last 25 years. It started with a couple of blow lamps and quickly escalated to any antique tools.

Aqueducts of Rome. Image credit: Wikipedia Commons

: Esmerelda Lombard; This is Plumbing; 28 October 2019; Hits: 684

This is plumbing: Plumbing discovery reveals the rise and fall of the Roman Empire

The ancient Roman plumbing system was a legendary achievement in civil engineering, bringing fresh water to urbanites from hundreds of kilometres away.

By Eamonn Ryan

The changing face of plumbing over the millennia

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Turn of century plumbing at the Linfifield Victorian House Museum Part: 2

Turn of century plumbing at the Linfield Victorian House Museum: Part 1

Loos from around the world

This is plumbing: The Museum of Plumbing Part 2

This is plumbing: The Museum of Plumbing Part 1

This is plumbing: Plumbing discovery reveals the rise and fall of the Roman Empire

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