This bizarre mantle can be found inside the ground floor gents’ at Mansion House (as an adornment, not as the urinal itself). Before its transformation into a rather decadent water closet, the room was part of the servants’ quarters. The mantlepiece bears a number of …
Congratulations also to Regents Park loos, thanks to Marco di Pisa The East London Advertiser brings us pun filled news that the Goodman’s Fields pub in Aldgate has received the highest rating in the Loo of the Year Awards’ good loo guide. Wetherspoon pubs aren’t …
Image / roll the dice The litany of euphemisms for the body’s excretory functions is immense, and we’re all familiar from childhood with Numbers One and Two, but what release of effluvial matter would a Number Three involve? Scotland Yard’s police control room in Lambeth …
It’s all very well being texted the nearest loo, but all too often the nearest loo is not actually that near, and you can only use it if you splash the cash. So you end up wearing your best nonchalant expression as you skip homewares …
Image by Chutney Bannister, from the Londonist Flickr group Four dogs huddle together on a small, windblown patch of grass in front of a row of scruffy shops. Mitzi: Christ Almighty, that’s quite an egg you laid there Christabellatina. How does a chihuahua like you …
Being attacked from the rear when one’s rear is most exposed, by something from the mysterious depths of the lavvy u-bend is a fear universally played on. Remember Arachnophobia? Heard of New York’s sewer alligators? Pity Deptford’s Maxine Killingback, then, who was distracted from the …
