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Brenda and I would like to thank all of you for your very kind greetings and congratulations on the occasion of our 44th wedding anniversary. Other than rather horrendous weather which has kept us mostly housebound, we have had a great day. Capt'n John

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Transcribed by Ann Selchick. Geo. <Note, I've gleaned the more unusual or interesting items from a series of six emails posted by Ann under the 'General News Items' heading for that date and put them into a single message.> THE NORTHERN NEWS, OCTOBER 9, 1897. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS # ____ The body of an aged woman named RICHARDSON has been found cut to pieces on the railway near Belfast. ** There will be a run on corsets in New Jersey. A corset steel has saved the life of a woman who was accosted and stabbed by a beggar. ** According to reports from the Italian provinces a serious agitation is being raised against the severity of the taxation. In Sicily especially a number of merchants are said to be preparing to emigrate, being unable to support the heavy imposts by which their business is handicapped. It is stated that the Government is attempting to find some means of affording relief to the taxpayers. ** Mrs. ATHERTON declares in the “Woman at Home” that the immemorial freedom of the American girl is lost. This is what happens now: - After a large wedding morning a man, by mistake, was put into a carriage alone with a girl. The girl went off into a state bordering on hysterics, and the man had to get out and walk. Yet they were old friends, and the girl was one of the greatest flirts in California. ** George Thomas WILSON better known as Buffalo Bill, was charged at Glossop with the willful murder of George COWLEY, butcher’s manager. Prisoner shot deceased in the head, and exclaimed, “Good God; have I shot him?” He rendered every assistance and made no attempt to get away. Prisoner, when arrested, said it was an accident. He was committed to take his trial at the Derby Assizes for manslaughter. ** The Lancaster magistrates have fined John SINGLETON, Lancaster and Maracaibo £5 and costs for selling fireworks to childen. Two boys aged ten and one aged seven spoke to the offence. The defence was that there were none of the fireworks in question (Chinese crackers) in stock for several days before and after the date in question. An order was made prohibiting defendant from supplying children upon pain of imprisonment. ** At a meeting held at the Liverpool Town Hall it was reported that the Diamond Jubilee Commemoration Fund raised in the city amounted to £23,472. The fund is now closed, and a scheme has been adopted by which the present system of relieving the sick poor in their own homes will be extended and rendered more efficient, the institution having charge of the work to be called the Queen Victoria District Nursing Institution. ** An inquest was held at High Wycombe on the body of an elderly man named James COLLINS, who died suddenly at a religious service the previous night when in the act of prayer. It was stated in evidence that during the earlier part of the service he had discussed for a quarter of an hour in a heated manner a certain portion of the Scriptures that had been read, and the medical evidence was that death was due to syncope caused by excitement. A verdict in accordance with the medical evidence was returned. ** A verdict of manslaughter was returned by a Birminham coroner’s jury on Monday evening against Emily COLE, the wife of an artisan, in respect of the death of her infant child. The woman was addicted to drink, and so neglected the infant, that although it was born healthy, it wasted away literally from starvation. Instead of weighing 10 lb or 11 lb., as it should have done at the age of four months, it weighed only 3 ½ lbs. The mother had been cautioned by the officer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. She was committed to the Assizes. ** A meeting of medical men was held at Birmingham in support of Sir Walter FOSTER’s candidature for the General Medical Council. Sir Walter referred to the hard conditions under which the medical pro labour through the abuse of hospitals and the extension of medical aid associations, and said he would endeavour to remove this grievance. He strongly opposed the registration of midwives to practice midwifery as being a contravention of the Medical Act, and repudiated the suggestion of a recent circular that he was responsible for the adoption of Lord BELPER’s Bill by the General Medical Council. A unanimous vote of confidence was carried. ** An accident, happily unattended by serious consequences, occurred on Monday to Mr. BARRIE, the author.. Mr. BARRIE was directing as usual the rehearsal of a play founded on his book “The Little Minister” at the Haymarket Theatre, and was sitting on a platform which is built out over the orchestra at the rehearsals, when the handrail round the platform, against which Mr. BARRIE’s chair was leaning, gave way, and he fell backwards into the orchestra stalls. Medical aid was summoned immediately, and although Mr. BARRIE was unconscious for some time, nothing more serious is likely to ensue than shock to the system consequent upon such a fall. ** Annie BERLINET, the Jewish plaintiff in a New York breach of promise action for £10,000, is a deaf mute. The defendant, Jacob SCHARLIN, the son of a millionaire, is a deaf mute and the schatchen who arranged the marriage is also a deaf mute. The evidence had all to be interpreted. _____________

Transcribed by Ann Selchick. Geo. THE NORTHERN NEWS, OCTOBER 9, 1897. A WOMAN IN MALE ATTIRE ____ FORTY-TWO YEARS WITHOUT DISCOVERY. The London “Star” states that in the office of the woman’s ward of the West Ham Workhouse, in the presence of the master (Mr. D. W. MORGANS) and a nurse, Catherine COOMBES related the circumstances under which for forty-two years she lived, dressed and worked as a man. Catherine COOMBES - or Charles WILSON as she would rather be called - went to the West Ham Union on Saturday night with an order from the relieving officer at Canning Town (Mr. LEWIS) dressed in men’s clothes, neat, clean and respectable. She looked like a clerk or artisan, and went, of course, to the men’s ward. There she was received and ordered by the attendant to take a bath in the ordinary way together with two other applicants for relief. At first she began to undress, but then hesitated, and finally asked to see the matron and doctor. The master was sent for and the little out of work painter asked respectfully to be allowed to make a statement to him privately. He took her on one side, and then she made the simple but startling remark, “I am a woman.” The master thought at first he had to deal with a lunatic, but the painter went on quietly to state that her proper name was Catherine COOMBES, her age sixty-three years, and that she had worn men’s clothes for forty-two years without revealing her sex. The master at once sent for a matron and a nurse, who verified the strange story. They also discovered the remarkable fact that in July last Mrs. “Charley WILSON” fractured her ribs in falling from a scaffold at Surbiton, and was then attended by a Kingston doctor who failed to discover her sex. The matron’s report to the master led to the removal of Mrs. COOMBES to the women’s department, where she was given an outfit proper to her sex, an arrangement of blue print skirts, red shawl, and other things, which caused the owner no little trouble before she discovered the right way to don them. Subsequently she gave the following particulars of her career: - “I was born in Axbridge, in Somerset, in 1834, and received a very good education at the Cheltenham Ladies College. Unfortunately, I left school at sixteen, and MARRIED MY FIRST COUSIN, A man twenty-three years older than myself, to whose ill-treatment was later due my adoption of men’s clothes. I was then a school mistress, and had charge of the Cleve National School, but owing to my husband’s bad conduct towards the pupils I was compelled to leave. He ran away to London, and wrote to me to say he had a situation is Chelsea. When I reached London he pawned my clothes, and finally said we must walk to Cheltenham. We did it, and I remember those roads to this day. At home again he wished to live on my mother and myself, so I ran away to my brother at Hill Top, West Bromwich. He was a painter and a decorator, and helping him I learned the trade. But my husband followed me, and persuaded me to open a school at Hazenville. Again he ill-treated me, and I returned to Hill Top, but attending the funeral of a cousin I met him again, and he said he would never leave me. That decided the matter. I went to Birmingham again, took lodgings, bought a suit of boy’s clothes, and by taking lodgings at a coffee house on Snow Hill for my brother managed to make the change of clothes. I did my own up in a bundle and addressed them to my brother. Then I came to London, where I have worked ever since. I am a member of the painter’s union, and well-known as a good clean painter. Everyone knows Charley WILSON. I worked thirteen years for the Peninsular and Oriental Company, living for seven years with my niece at 7, Camden-terrace, Custom House. For twenty-two years she kept house for me. We lived as man and wife. Then two years ago she ran away suddenly. I believe she has a situation in St. Denis, France. I have been attended by half a dozen doctors, and they never discovered my secret. If I had money I would get out of here in my men’s clothes, and no one would detect me. At present I cannot work on account of my fractured ribs." ______

I am not a fan of abstract art, although I find more and more people are finding beauty and purpose in the work done by various abstract artists. Jackson Pollok was a true pioneer in the field of abstract art, and while I do not like his paintings I am willing to accept that I do not understand what the artist is trying to accomplish. I do see much of where the artist is going in the surrealist movement, such as The Persistence of Memory or Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate by Salvadore Dali, (may be seen at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD). I even enjoy much of Pablo Picasso’s work, but so far the only reaction I get from Pollock’s paintings is one of bafflement. I would be delighted if someone on the list could enlighten me. The biography below, and the accompanying URLs will give a fair selection of the paintings done by Pollock. http://www.beatmuseum.org/pollock/jacksonpollock.html http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/ http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/pollock_jackson.html Capt’n John Paul Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming on 28 January 1912. He was the fifth and youngest son of LeRoy McCoy Pollock and Stella McClure Pollock. The family left Cody when Pollock was less than a year old, and he was raised in Arizona and California. After a series of unsuccessful farming ventures, his father became a surveyor and worked on road crews at the Grand Canyon and elsewhere in the Southwest. Pollock, who sometimes joined his father on these jobs, later remarked that memories of the panoramic landscape influenced his artistic vision. While attending Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, Pollock was encouraged to pursue his early interest in art. Two of his brothers, Charles and Sanford (known as Sande), were also developing as artists. Charles, the eldest, went to New York to study with the Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League, and he suggested that Jackson should join him. In 1930 Pollock went east and enrolled in Benton's class at the League. It was at about this time that he dropped his first name, Paul, and began using his middle name. Under Benton's guidance, Pollock analyzed Old Master paintings and learned the rudiments of drawing and composition. He also studied mural painting with Benton and posed for his teacher's 1930-31 murals at the New School for Social Research, where the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco was at work on frescoes. Pollock's first-hand experience of contemporary mural painting is thought to have sparked his ambition to paint large scale works of his own, although he would not realize that aim until 12 years later. During the 1930s, Pollock's work reflected Benton's "American Scene" aesthetic, although enriched by a brooding, almost mystical quality reminiscent of the work of the visionary painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, whom Pollock admired. Orozco's influence also made itself felt, especially after Pollock saw him at work on his dynamic frescoes for Dartmouth College (1932-34). Other early influences include Picasso, Miró, and the Surrealists, as well as another Mexican muralist, David Alfaro Siqueiros, who in 1936 established a short-lived experimental workshop in New York. It was there that Pollock first encountered the use of enamel paint and was encouraged to try unorthodox techniques such as pouring and flinging the liquid material to achieve spontaneous effects. With the advent of the New Deal's work-relief projects, Pollock and many of his contemporaries were able to work as artists on the federal payroll. Under government aegis, Pollock enrolled in the easel division of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, which provided him with a source of income for nearly eight years and enabled him to devote himself to artistic development. Some of Pollock's WPA paintings are now lost, but those that survive--together with other canvases, drawings and prints made during this period--illustrate his complex synthesis of source material and the gradual emergence of a deeply personal pictorial language. By the early 1940s, Native American motifs and other pictographic imagery played a central role in his compositions, marking the beginnings of a mature style. Even as his art was gaining in assurance and originality, Pollock was experiencing personal turmoil and recurring bouts of depression. He was also struggling to control his alcoholism, which would continue to plague him throughout his life. His brothers Charles and Sande, with whom he shared living quarters at 46 East 8th Street in Manhattan, encouraged him to seek treatment, including psychoanalysis. Although therapy was not successful in curbing Pollock's drinking or relieving his depression, it introduced him to Jungian concepts that validated the subjective, symbolic direction his art was taking. In late 1941, Sande wrote to Charles, who had left New York, that if Jackson could "hold himself together his work will become of real significance. His painting is abstract, intense, evocative in quality." At about this time Pollock was invited to participate in a group exhibition of work by French and American painters, including Picasso, Braque, Matisse and other established masters. Among the virtually unknown Americans in the group was Lenore Krassner--later known as Lee Krasner--who became Pollock's lover and later his wife. The work she saw in Pollock's studio convinced her of his extraordinary talent, and it was not long before influential members of New York's avant-garde intellegensia began to share her opinion. His work came to the attention of Peggy Guggenheim, whose gallery, Art of This Century, showed the most challenging new work by American and European abstractionists and Surrealists. Guggenheim became Pollock's dealer and patron, introducing his work to the small but avid audience for vanguard painting. In 1945 Guggenheim lent Pollock the down payment on a small homestead in The Springs, a rural hamlet near East Hampton, Long Island. This property, now the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, would be Pollock's home for the rest of his life and the site of his most innovative and influential work. Before moving to The Springs, his imagery had been congested, his colors somber, and the general mood of his paintings anxious and conflicted. Soon after establishing his studio in the country, however, his colors brightened, his compositions opened up, and his imagery reflected a new responsiveness to nature. Soon he would pioneer the spontaneous pouring technique for which he became world-renowned. Although Pollock had first experimented with liquid paint at the Siqueiros workshop in 1936, it would not become his primary medium until more than ten years later. By 1947 he was creating densely layered all-over compositions that earned both praise and scorn from the critics. Some dismissed them as meaningless and chaotic, while others saw them as superbly organized, visually fascinating and psychologically compelling. Clement Greenberg, one of Pollock's most ardent supporters, maintained that he was "the most powerful painter in contemporary America and the only one who promises to be a major one." With several one-person exhibitions to his credit and work included in important group shows, Pollock was receiving significant attention. A profile in the 8 August 1949 issue of Life magazine introduced his challenging art to a nationwide audience and cemented his growing reputation as the foremost modern painter of his generation. Pollock's radical breakthrough was accompanied by a period of sobriety lasting two years, during which he created some of his most beautiful masterpieces. In his barn studio, he spread his canvas on the floor and developed his compositions by working from all four sides, allowing the imagery to evolve spontaneously, without preconceptions. Pollock described this technique as "direct" painting and likened it to American Indian sand painting. He maintained, however, that the method was "a natural growth out of a need," and that its only importance was as "a means of arriving at a statement." The character and content of that statement were then and remain controversial, subject to widely varying interpretations--which is why Pollock's art has retained its vitality in spite of changing tastes. In 1951 Pollock's aesthetic underwent a shift in emphasis as he abandoned non-objective imagery in favor of abstracted references to human and animal forms. "When you're working out of your unconscious," he explained, "figures are bound to emerge." He also gave up color to create a series of stark black paintings on unprimed canvas. Many of his admirers were ambivalent about his new direction, which may account at least in part for Pollock's inability to remain sober. For the next five years he would struggle unsuccessfully to solve his drinking problem, while his art underwent a series of revisions, some more successful than others. Color returned, gesture became richer and more various, and Pollock once again veiled his imagery in layers that obscured as much as they revealed. By 1955, however, Pollock's personal demons had triumphed over his artistic drive, and he stopped painting altogether. Ironically, his work had begun to earn a respectable income for him and Krasner, who was becoming increasingly estranged from her troubled, alcoholic husband. In the summer of 1956 she took the opportunity of a trip to Europe to re-evaluate their relationship, while Pollock remained at home with a young mistress to distract him from the agonies of self-doubt and inaction that plagued him. In Paris, on the morning of 12 August, Krasner received a telephone call informing her that Pollock had died the night before in an automobile accident. Driving drunk, he had overturned his convertible, killing himself and an acquaintance and seriously injuring his other passenger. Bio written by Helen Harrison; Director, Pollock-Krasner House

A very Happy Birthday to you Jean. You are nearly catching up with me...<grin>. We hope the day brings lots of happiness and cheer. Kindest Regards Johno, Mary and Cathy

Congratulations Jean and have a Happy Birthday!! Hugs, Gwen > WOW,Jean,Oz, the big 80---Congratulations. Hope you have a wonderful day. > Jean USA > > > > > > Dave Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Off to the west side of Australia again, > this young lady is celebrating her 80th Birthday > Happy Happy Birthday Jean (oz) > Lots of Love and Hugs > Dave, Pam and Nikki > . > "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? > If not, PLEASE change it." > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? > If not, PLEASE change it." > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Happy Birthday, Jean OZ, Brenda and Capt'n John

Happy Birthday Jean,,,,,,,,,hope it was a good one.........Wendy > > Edna C <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jean. > Can I add my birthday wishes too? > I hope you have a happy day and a happy year ahead. > Hugs, > Edna > > > Dear Jean, > > Wishing you a lovely birthday & a wonderful, happy & healthy year ahead. > > Hugs, > Pat & Shaun.xxx :o)) > "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? > If not, PLEASE change it." > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? > If not, PLEASE change it." > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? > If not, PLEASE change it." > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Jean, Wishing you a lovely birthday & a wonderful, happy & healthy year ahead. Hugs, Pat & Shaun.xxx :o))

80 ?????? Are you sure ????????? Crikey !!! I'd never have known from the way Jean *speaks* to us !!! I'd have said early to mid-60's !! Well, you live & learn !!! Pat.xxx :o)) A Maid of Kent, UK. www.lawrence.eastkentgenealogy.co.uk Off to the west side of Australia again, this young lady is celebrating her 80th Birthday Happy Happy Birthday Jean (oz) Lots of Love and Hugs Dave, Pam and Nikki . "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? If not, PLEASE change it." ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I'll ALWAYS be too young to be a Grandma, Marlene !! But what the heck - I'll be a FUN Grandma !!! Pat.xxx :o)) A Maid of Kent, UK. www.lawrence.eastkentgenealogy.co.uk Congrats to all of you ...... Ummmm didn't you say a little while ago that you Was Too Young to be a grandma :-))))) Marlene who's now counting down in single digits on days to being a Gt Nan again, if the stork can find one busy traveling grandau, hopefully she'll stay home this week ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Anyhoooo - for those of you who don't know, see > below: > > Pat.xxx :o)) > A Maid of Kent, UK. > I'M GONNA BE A GRANDMA > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > In September !!!!! > > I know it's a bit quick & all that,but Sophy & > Sean are over the moon. It wasn't planned, they're > not married, but these things happen. She'll be 24 > in April, he'll be 25 in May, so they're not kids. > > But who cares ??? > > I'M GONNA BE A GRANDMA !!!!! > > Grandad to be Shaun's thrilled beyond belief !! > :o) > > Pat.xxx :o)) > A Maid of Kent, UK. > www.lawrence.eastkentgenealogy.co.uk > > __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Trivvies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Trivvies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/info/terms.html

Very interesting John .... So he never got to sit on the *Throne* then? <g> John A number of my recent topics have been of a more serious nature, so today I decided to enlighten you on the subject of (Sir?) Thomas Crapper and the flushable toilet. While I realize that this is a subject that is not often dealt with in polite society, it is one that is used on a number of occasions daily by effectively everyone in today's society. I find it rather surprising that Thomas has been able to reach the level of fame that he has, considering that he was not the inventor of the flushable toilet, nor would it appear that he was knighted. I refer you to the article below for an explanation about the toilet, and the Wikipedia article with regard to his possible knighthood. "In the 1880s, Prince Edward (later Edward VII) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Thomas Crapper & Co. to supply the plumbing, including thirty lavatories with cedarwood seats and enclosures, thus giving Crapper his first Royal Warrant. The firm received further warrants from Edward as King and from George V both as Prince of Wales and as King. Contrary to popular belief, however, Crapper never received a knighthood and was never styled Sir Thomas Crapper." It is interesting to note that the Thomas Crapper & Co. Ltd is not only still in existence, but still bears the founder's name. See http://www.thomas-crapper.com/ Other articles that may add some interesting information about this man and his work may be found at: http://www.thomas-crapper.com/history02.asp http://www.victoriancrapper.com/Tcrapper.html http://www.jldr.com/crapper.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper Capt'n John Thomas Crapper: Myth & Reality The debate over who Thomas Crapper was - or even if there was a Thomas Crapper at all - continues. His contributions to the plumbing industry are even more suspect. But with this article we intend to replace myth with fact, for we have found a cadre of Thomas Crapper scholars who have made it their life's work to prove that Crapper is more than just a slang term brought home by the World War I doughboys. For this article we interviewed Dr. Andy Gibbons, historian of the International Thomas Crapper Society, and Ken Grabowski, a researcher and author who is writing a book on Crapper's life. Myth: Thomas Crapper as a person never existed. Fact: Though we do not know his actual date of birth, we can now say the man Thomas Crapper probably was born in September 1836, since he was baptized the 28th of that month. Crapper did have a successful career in the plumbing industry in England from 1861 to 1904. The date of Crapper's death has also been a source of confusion for many years. For example, Chase's Annual Events, the authoritative book for listing special days and dates, has listed January 17 as Thomas Crapper Day and January 17, 1910 as the date of his death. After all his research, Gibbons was certain that Chase's was 10 days off. The actual date of Thomas Crapper's death was January 27, 1910. The error probably resulted from an honest typo in "Flushed With Pride," by Wallace Reyburn, says Gibbons, "but I waged a 10-year battle with Chase's to get them to change the date." He finally won his battle this year after supplying them with a photo of Thomas Crapper's tombstone, notes from a living descendent, and a copy of the man's official death certificate. Myth: Thomas Crapper invented the toilet. Fact: No one in the know about Thomas Crapper would ever make this statement. In his research, Grabowski has created a detailed history of Crapper's business life. The man holds nine patents, four for improvements to drains, three for water closets, one for manhole covers and the last for pipe joints. Every patent application for plumbing related products filed by Crapper made it through the process, and actual patents were granted. The most famous product attributed to Thomas Crapper wasn't invented by him at all. The "Silent Valveless Water Waste Preventer" (No. 814) was a symphonic discharge system that allowed a toilet to flush effectively when the cistern was only half full. British Patent 4990 for 1898 was issued to a Mr. Albert Giblin for this product. There are a couple of theories on how Thomas Crapper came to be associated with this device. First, is that Giblin worked for Crapper as an employee and authorized his use of the product. The second, and more likely scenario, says Grabowski, is that Crapper bought the patent rights from Giblin and marketed the device himself. Myth: Thomas Crapper never was a plumber. Fact. Oh yes he was. He operated two of the three Crapper plumbing shops in his lifetime, but left the business three years before the final and most famous facility on Kings Road in London. When Crapper retired from active business in 1904, he sold his shop to two partners who, with help from others, operated the company under the Crapper name until its closing in 1966. Several of London's current plumbing companies trace their trade roots to Thomas Crapper. One, Mr. Geoffrey Pidgeon of Original Bathrooms (Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, Great Britain), continues the trade of his great uncle and grandfather, both of whom apprenticed under Thomas Crapper. Thomas Crapper did serve as the royal sanitary engineer for many members England's royalty, but contrary to popular myth, he was never knighted, and thus isn't entitled to use the term "Sir" before his name. Myth: The word "crap" is derived from Thomas Crapper's name. Fact. The origin of crap is still being debated. Possible sources include the Dutch Krappe; Low German krape meaning a vile and inedible fish; Middle English crappy, and Thomas Crapper. Where crap is derived from Crapper, it is by a process know as, pardon the pun, a back formation. The World War I doughboys passing through England brought together Crapper's name and the toilet. They saw the words T. Crapper-Chelsea printed on the tanks and coined the slang "crapper" meaning toilet. The legend of Thomas Crapper takes its flavor from the real man's life. While Crapper may not be the inventor of the product he is most often associated with, his contribution to England's plumbing history is significant. And the man's legend, well, it lives on despite all proof to contrary from : Plumbing and Mechanical, June 1993 "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? If not, PLEASE change it." ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.12/1245 - Release Date: 26/01/2008 15:45

Off to the west side of Australia again, this young lady is celebrating her 80th Birthday Happy Happy Birthday Jean (oz) Lots of Love and Hugs Dave, Pam and Nikki .

And a great big HAPPY BIRTHDAY from me too Jean! Hugs Glennis Edna C <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Jean. Can I add my birthday wishes too? I hope you have a happy day and a happy year ahead. Hugs, Edna Dear Jean, Wishing you a lovely birthday & a wonderful, happy & healthy year ahead. Hugs, Pat & Shaun.xxx :o)) "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? If not, PLEASE change it." ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? If not, PLEASE change it." ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Jean. Can I add my birthday wishes too? I hope you have a happy day and a happy year ahead. Hugs, Edna Dear Jean, Wishing you a lovely birthday & a wonderful, happy & healthy year ahead. Hugs, Pat & Shaun.xxx :o)) "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? If not, PLEASE change it." ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

WOW,Jean,Oz, the big 80---Congratulations. Hope you have a wonderful day. Jean USA Dave Cox <[email protected]> wrote: Off to the west side of Australia again, this young lady is celebrating her 80th Birthday Happy Happy Birthday Jean (oz) Lots of Love and Hugs Dave, Pam and Nikki . "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? If not, PLEASE change it." ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Congrats to all of you ...... Ummmm didn't you say a little while ago that you Was Too Young to be a grandma :-))))) Marlene who's now counting down in single digits on days to being a Gt Nan again, if the stork can find one busy traveling grandau, hopefully she'll stay home this week ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Anyhoooo - for those of you who don't know, see > below: > > Pat.xxx :o)) > A Maid of Kent, UK. > I'M GONNA BE A GRANDMA > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > In September !!!!! > > I know it's a bit quick & all that,but Sophy & > Sean are over the moon. It wasn't planned, they're > not married, but these things happen. She'll be 24 > in April, he'll be 25 in May, so they're not kids. > > But who cares ??? > > I'M GONNA BE A GRANDMA !!!!! > > Grandad to be Shaun's thrilled beyond belief !! > :o) > > Pat.xxx :o)) > A Maid of Kent, UK. > www.lawrence.eastkentgenealogy.co.uk > > __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com

I know Saturday 26th was officially Australia Day .. But enjoy all the Celebrations tomorrow ...Monday Have A Wonderful Day. Special bit for Jean in OZ ... use this day to Have a Brilliant Birthday ... hope the New Birthday Year will be good and kind to you Marlene in Oakville. __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com