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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I once went to take a leak in a Midlands R=
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and, looking just above me I observed a fine iron cistern complete with Roy=
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Arms with JOHN WARNER & SONS, SANITARY ENGINEERS TO HER MAJESTY. PATENT=
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which made me go quite weak at the knees (perhaps I should have=20
genuflected). Next year when I was there, <EM>it had been removed with=
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trace. </EM>Should have been listed by the CCC.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>DLC</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 14, 2003 1:36=
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<<A href=3D"mailto:zen16073@z...">zen16073@z...</A>> wrote:<BR>>=
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found an advert for Warners in the Clergy List for 1856. <BR>Appare=
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they made sheep bells too, which seems odd for a London <BR>foundry. =
; I=20
had always thought that such bells were made locally until <BR>the fashio=
n for=20
nails suspended in tin cans took on.<BR><BR>I recently saw a framed copy =
of a=20
Warner advertisement (given to David <BR>Potter by the inimitable Mr Plad=
dys),=20
and this advertised various <BR>wares which they made. Toilets and 'plumb=
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cocks' featured, amongst <BR>other items!<BR><BR></TT><BR><BR><TT>This=20
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