This is Plumbing

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: 8

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: 47

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: 108

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: 140

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: 117

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