1. Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11

   …flushing public toilets in the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851; over 827,000 people paid attendants one penny to use the 'Wash-rooms'. His installation went on to produce a revenue of £1000 a year. Jennings was awarded a gold me…

2. Pay Toilet — 2022-09-27 07:23:49

   …nted the first modern pay toilet in the late 19th century. His door lock for London toilets required the insertion of a penny coin to operate it, hence the euphemism to "**spend a penny**". Born in Cheltenham, [[Gloucestershire]], [[England]]. …

3. Postage Stamp — 2021-11-06 16:32:56

   …labour thus cheapening the whole operation, which would enable the Post Office to fix the postage rate as low as **'One Penny'** this made postage available to the masses. == The postal reform that swept the world == It took only five months …

4. Modern Olympics — 2021-08-14 20:26:14

   …Modern Olympics :: {{Databox caption="Creator" Image="Brookes.jpg" width="300" title="Dr William Penny Brookes" birth_date="13/8/1809" birth_place="Much Wenlock [[England]]" death_date="11/12/1895" death_place="Much Wenl…
   …ock" }} ===Dr William Penny Brookes 1850 === ~-[[CategorySport Sport]]:[[1800s]] "If the Olympic Games that Modern Greece has not yet been able to…
   … to Dr. W.P. Brookes." Baron de Coubertain. |?| Modern Olympics || ||{{toc}}|| {{adsense}} || In **1850** Dr William Penny Brookes (1809 - 1895) founded the Wenlock Olympians Class. Dr Brookes aimed to promote physical and intellectual improv…

5. Bicycle — 2020-08-15 09:22:15

   … A rear-wheel, chain-driven cycle with two similar-sized wheels. Two wheeled forms of [[CategoryTransport ]], like the 'Penny Farthing', were fairly dangerous way to travel. So the need for a safer design was being sought. Starley was born 24t…
   …o// with William Sutton a local cycling enthusiast. They set about developing safer and easier to use bicycles than the penny farthing. {{Image url="RoverBicycle.jpg" class="right" title="Rover Bicycle" width="400" }} In 1885 Starley produced t…

6. Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30

   …width="200" title="Christmas Card" }}||The custom of sending Christmas cards started in Britain in 1840 when the first 'Penny Post' public postal deliveries began. Over a billion Christmas cards are now sent every year in the United Kingdom, man…

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