Our next FoWT monthly meeting will take place on Monday 1st December 2025 – 7.00 pm (19.00 hrs) via Zoom.
“Bogs, Baths and Basins – the Story of Domestic Sanitation” by David Everleigh.
Our guest speaker on the night will be David Everleigh, who will talk about “Bogs, Baths and Basins – the Story of Domestic Sanitation”.
“Did Thomas Crapper really invent the modern toilet? And why do we talk of lavatories? These and other questions are answered in this lecture which charts the development of domestic sanitary arrangements from the primitive privy to the introduction of the modern bathroom. Not for the faint hearted or squeamish.”
David J Eveleigh was born in Prenton, Wirral and grew up in Higher Bebington. He has worked in the field of heritage conservation and museums for over forty years, His interests range from open-air museums, social and industrial history, to architecture and the history of domestic interiors. He has published and lectured widely in these fields. His latest book, published by The History Press, is ‘Escaping Suburbia’, a personal account of growing up on Merseyside in the 1960s. He is a Fellow of the Museums Association, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and currently an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History & Cultures at the University of Birmingham.
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