Crapper was baptized on September 28, 1836, which means he was probably born a few days earlier. As a young man, he became an apprentice plumber under his brother, George Crapper (whose son would ...

It is commonly believed that Thomas Crapper invented the flushing toilet but this is not true - the first one came along nearly 100 years earlier. 2.

Most of the things people say about Thomas Crapper are, well, crap. Crapper, who was baptized on this day in 1836, wasn’t really anyone special.

Just over a hundred years ago, Victorian plumber Thomas Crapper (real name) invented the modern-day toilet. Known for the great quality of his products – the ro ...

Thomas Crapper (1836–1910), an English businessman and a plumber by trade, formed his company in London in 1861 when Bazalgette’s sewers were not finished and water supplies patchy and unreliable.

For over a century, the Victorian urinals underneath one of Cardiff's busiest shopping streets have been for male eyes only. ... Vintage fittings include Thomas Crapper cisterns.

A collection of bathroom items which includes several Thomas Crapper loos is up for sale, and among the items is a potty with Adolf Hitler's face on the bottom. Toilets, taps, basins and baths ...

YOU, like me, will be both celebrating and mourning today – praising the anniversary of that great plumber Thomas Crapper who effectively launched the longest list of schoolboy double entendres ...

A VILLAGE church has commemorated Thomas Crapper, the Victorian plumber synonymous with the flush lavatory, in a new £40,000 stained glass window. Commemorated: the Millennium window at St ...