Winston Churchill's Chamber Pot
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This is Winston Churchill's private room
within the
Cabinet War Rooms
in
London.
You can see where the British leadership monitored and
controlled military action during World War II,
including Churchill's apartment and chamber pot!
When the Nazi air attacks forced Churchill and the
rest of the Cabinet to stay within the bomb shelter
of the Cabinet War Room complex, the facilities
were very limited.
Also see the Loos with Views page
for the toilet in
the secret bunkers the UK government tunneled
into the cliffs above Dover during the war.
Also see my
INFOSEC and Military History Tourism
page for more on the Cabinet War Rooms.
Rose George's
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World
of Human Waste and Why It Matters
is a fascinating description of sanitation conditions
around the world.
"2.6 billion people don't have sanitation. [....]
Four in ten people have no access to any latrine, toilet, bucket, or box."
In September 2009, Morna Gregory and Sian James published a book titled
Toilets of the World.
It's pretty much the same theme that you find here — photographs
and commentary on other people's plumbing.
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A Sani-Flush blue border indicates a toilet that I've used.
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How long have my Toilets of the World pages been around?
I'm not exactly sure, although they started in the mid 1990s
as a single page on a Purdue University server.
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine lets you see
what that looked like as far back as January 17, 1999.
My cromwell-intl.com domain appeared in September, 2001,
although the Wayback Machine didn't notice its one enormous
Toilet of the World page until
January 17, 2002.
Some time soon after that I split it into categories,
and the collection has grown ever since.
If you're not bored yet, you might be interested in
(or at least tolerate):
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