In response to Paul T Horgan: Three cheers for Victorian values, shred wrote:
The most congenial improvement in Victoria’s reign was the general adoption of the WC, known in parts of the UK as the netty, and mains sewerage and piped water supply. Imagine life without it. It would be as if socks had never been invented.
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