DavidGrain
master brummie
I would not know if these were the first public conveniences in Birmingham but the idea was not new as this quote from Wikipedia
Whittington's Longhouse (or Whittington's Longhouse and Almshouse) was a public toilet in Cheapside,[SUP][1][/SUP] London, constructed with money given or bequeathed by Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London. The toilet had 128 seats: 64 for men and 64 for women. It operated from around 1 May 1421,[SUP][2][/SUP] until the seventeenth century.[SUP][3][/SUP]
The Longhouse, though it was not London's first public toilet, was the first public toilet in the capital divided by gender.[SUP][4]
Sir Richard Whittington of course we know as the famous Dick Whittington who was four times Lord Mayor of London ( not thrice as bells said)
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Whittington's Longhouse (or Whittington's Longhouse and Almshouse) was a public toilet in Cheapside,[SUP][1][/SUP] London, constructed with money given or bequeathed by Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London. The toilet had 128 seats: 64 for men and 64 for women. It operated from around 1 May 1421,[SUP][2][/SUP] until the seventeenth century.[SUP][3][/SUP]
The Longhouse, though it was not London's first public toilet, was the first public toilet in the capital divided by gender.[SUP][4]
Sir Richard Whittington of course we know as the famous Dick Whittington who was four times Lord Mayor of London ( not thrice as bells said)
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