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The Domestic Landscape 1860-1960

Resources in Special Collections


the bathroom

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  H. J. Jennings  Our homes and how to beautify them London: 1902  RQ 785  figure 96

A tiled bathroom
simplicity should be the keynote. You can have the walls covered with washable paper, or with glazed tiles. You can have the floor covered with linoleum in a tile design or with cork carpet. Nothing more is wanted; anything more would be superfluous (p. 239)

 

  Sanitary Institute of Great Britain Catalogue of health exhibition of sanitary apparatus, appliances,
and articles of domestic use and economy, to be held at Glasgow ... 1904
London: [1904]  Mu61-b.10 pages 50-51

Stall No. 14: Doulton & Co., Ltd.

 

  Sanitary Institute of Great Britain Catalogue of health exhibition of sanitary apparatus, appliances,
and articles of domestic use and economy, to be held at Glasgow ... 1904
London: [1904] 
Mu61-b.10 page 131

Advertisement for Earth Closets
The British Sanitary Co.'s new and improved self-acting earth closet ... for simplicity and efficiency their closet stands alone (p.131)

 


this image has been reproduced with the permission of the Labour Party who own copyright on this pamphlet

  Labour Party, Great Britain Your home planned by Labour London: 1943 Broady C37 page 3

This is an ordinary bathroom with chromium fittings, green tiles and glossy paint. A bathroom should be compact, convenient and cheerful. 

 

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