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Thomas Crapper (1836–1910) is remembered as "the inventor of the flushing toilet". But how much of what we think we know about Crapper is true? Robert Hume examines five persistent myths about this 19th-century pioneer
Skip to main content East Bay's historic ghost signs: How some recent discoveries led to a new urban exploration project FacebookTwitterEmail At left, the remains of an ad for Belfast Old Fashioned Mug Root Beer near the Fruitvale BART station, after it was uncovered in 2019. At right is the sign after it was restored, from Kasey Smith's Instagram.Kasey Smith / Instagram After nine years of enthusiastically seeking out hundreds of San Francisco’s forgotten signs on busy streets and in narrow alleys, Kasey Smith was unsure about what to do next with her urban-exploration project. That’s wh...
rfox@tribtoday.com WARREN — Trumbull County commissioners said they will not entertain a request from county Engineer Randy Smith to be reinstated as sanitary engineer. As the elected Trumbull County engineer, Smith heads the highway department. For about five years, commissioners also placed Smith in the position of sanitary engineer, an appointed post heading up the county’s sanitary department. In November, however, commissioners moved to replace him with deputy sanitary engineer, Gary Newbrough. Smith wrote a letter to commissioners asking to be reinstated and appears to threaten lit...
Polly Hancock Hampstead High St, NW3 What are your favourite landmarks on a lockdown stroll through Hampstead Village? Email your pictures to editorial@hamhigh.co.uk The London and North Eastern Railway "ghost sign" in South End Green, with the Royal Free Hospital in the background - Credit: Polly Hancock The former Dudmans Hampstead Borough Stores, above The Hampstead Butcher - Credit: Polly Hancock Hampstead's distinctive tile street signs, pointing the way - Credit: Polly Hancock The former parish lockup in Cannon Lane - Credit: Polly Hancock The Heath and Hampstead Society's plaque on th...
During the recent “Suruswerte ha PIA” radio program hosted by Regional Director Olive Tiu of the Philippine Information Agency 8 (PIA-), it was learned from the DOH Regional Sanitary Engineer Percival de Paz that per 1976 Sanitation Code of the Philippines, all local government units must adhere and comply with the requirements provided in the said law, as to burial grounds, may it be public, private or memorial parks. De Paz emphasized that no dead person is allowed to be buried in any area as desired, except those specified as burial grounds. Among the requirements mentioned by...