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Susi - with bathroom scales and Mum. 1950s
Advert by Scrubbs bath lotion 1934Scrubbs bath lotion, Keeps you young. Softens and perfumes the bath. Ammonia of pine, lavender eau-de-cologne, rose and jasmine. Date: 1934
Carpeted BathroomIncredibly, people really did used to carpet their bathrooms with shagpile steps leading up to the bath! Date: 1970s
Bathroom Water HeaterA new gas heater that provides instant hot water to bath and handbasin. A hot bath in approximately five minutes in summer or slightly longer during winter months - wow! Date: 1960s
Washing Hands with SoapA stylish woman washes her dainty hands with lovely soap in her bathroom sink. Date: 1940s
Fitted Bathroom 1903Example of a fitted bathroom, with tiled walls and porcelain plunge bath, perfecto lavatory etc. taken from Maple & Cos book: Healthy Homes Date: 1903
Girl Weighs HerselfA girl in a towel stands on tiptoe in an attempt to weigh as little as possible on her bathroom weighing scales. Date: 1960s
Night Refuge BathroomA London night refuge - the mens bathroom Date: 1870
Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Armitage Green BasinArmitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Armitage Green Wash Basin (sink). Date: circa 1920s
Vitromant Coloured Water Closet (toilet)Vitromant Coloured Water Closet Suite (toilet) - finished in fetching pink enamel with a polished mahogany seat. Date: circa 1920s
The Senlac Marble Lavatory (Wash Basin) Suite in Dove Tigrato, Veneto Crocicohio or Cippolino Versilla. Date: circa 1920s
Standard Sanitary Appliances suite in Claire de Lune Blue. Date: circa 1920s
Coloured Enamel Iron Bath with Chromium plated fittings from a catalogue for Nicholls and Clarke Ltd. London. Manufacturers and Merchants of Building Materials. Date: circa 1920s
Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Staffordshire Blue ClosetArmitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Staffordshire Blue Water Closet (toilet). Date: circa 1920s
Foyer Door Handles with Doverite grips in a variety of colours - particularly suitable for cinemas and theatres ! Date: circa 1920s
The Classic Marble Lavatory (Wash Basin) SuiteThe Classic Marble Lavatory (Wash Basin / sink) Suite in Breche Violetta Rose Aurore Date: circa 1920s
Vitromant Coloured Shelf Lavatory (Wash Basin / sink) - from the Vitromant Sanitaryware range - from a catalogue for Nicholls and Clarke Ltd. London
Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware -Dove Grey BasinArmitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Dove Grey Wash Basin (sink). Date: circa 1920s
Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Mottled Amber BasinArmitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Mottled Amber Wash Basin (sink). Date: circa 1920s
Tinting everything to match with Dy-o-la DyesTinting Everything to Match with Dy-o-la Dyes - a housewife dyeing clothes in her bathroom sink from a Brochure: Tinting, Dyeing and Practical Art Craft with Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1926
The Limit, WW1 cartoon by Heath RobinsonMrs Blennernuggit: " Well, now, I DO call that rude! And so many aeroplanes about, too!" A lady in her bath is surprised by a sudden air raid during the First World War. Date: 1918
Blitz in London -- AFS firefighters getting cleaned up, WW2Blitz in London -- AFS firefighters getting cleaned up in the station washroom after many hours tackling air raid fires, 19 September 1940. Date: 1940s
Communal bathroom at Baden Powell House, LondonWashbasins in a communal bathroom at Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s
Erasmic Soap advertisementAdvertisement for the dainty Erasmic Soap showing a lady wrapped in a towel and b eing handed a box of the soap before her bath. Date: 1917
Bedroom of the Cavendish HotelBedroom, Dressing-room and bathroom of the Cavendish Hotel, 81-83 Jermyn Street, London Date: C. 1910
Boy drying his face on a towelA boy looks up rather guiltily, having been caught drying his face and hands on a towel when they are not properly clean. The water in the sink is filthy. Date: 1953
Print Users Yearbook -- people in underwearPrint Users Yearbook -- people viewed in a cutaway of a house, all in underwear. A new standard of intimacy. Who would have guessed that undies were the correct garb to don when entertaining guests
Dolmabache Palace - ConstantinopleOne of the wings of the Dolmabache Palace, Constantinople. Commisioned by Abdul Mecit (1839-61) - architect Nikogos Balyn who in collaboration with his Father completed construction in 1853
Wyandotte Sanitary Cleaner and Cleanser - for sale by all Grocers Date: 1910
Hemingway House CubaERNEST MILLER HEMINGWAY Hemingways house in Cuba, now a museum: looking into the bathroom from outside. Date: 1899 - 1961
Belgian Bathing Equipment Shop, selling sponges, chamois leather cloths soaps, shampoo and sundry other bathing products for successful cleaning and grooming