Flushed With Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper
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At eleven years old, Thomas Crapper walked to London to begin his apprenticeship with a master plumber. It was the start of a career that would end with a royal warrant, the sanitary fittings at Sandringham House and Westminster Abbey, and a name commemorated on lavatory cisterns across Britain. Delightfully entertaining and packed with historical insight, this biography of Victorian England's most celebrated water engineer is the surprisingly fascinating story of how modern plumbing came to be.
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