EVIDENTLY, with the huge market for all kinds of reproduction artefacts, many folk enjoy living in the past.
Nigel Fryer, student of the year on a home design course, was featured having transformed his home with Victorian decor (LET, November 20).
However, a particular detail in the bathroom had been, sadly, overlooked.
I refer to the low-level toilet cistern pictured, instead of the wonderful high-level pull-chain operated flush box of the period. This great Victorian innovation was produced by the famous Thomas Crapper, who acquired the patent rights.
What self-respecting Victorian, Edwardian, or indeed any, house would be without one? And it makes a fascinating topic at any fashionable gathering, especially now - a century later!
J A MARSDEN, Scarborough Road, Blackburn.
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