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Thomas Crapper was born in Thorne, West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1836; the exact date is unknown, but he was baptised on 28 September 1836.His father, Charles, was a sailor.
The Appleton Water Tower is a Victorian water tower located in Sandringham, Norfolk. It was constructed in 1877 to improve the quality of the water supply to the nearby Sandringham House and its estate. Accommodation was provided within the tower on the ground and first floors for the water tower custodian, whilst the second floor above the ...
Sandringham is a village and civil parish in the north of the English county Norfolk. The village is situated 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of Dersingham, 12 km (7.5 mi) north of King's Lynn, and 60 km (37 mi) north-west of Norwich. [1] The village's name means 'Sandy Dersingham', with Dersingham meaning 'homestead/village of Deorsige's people'.
The cottage was originally called the Bachelor's Cottage, and built as an overflow residence for Sandringham House. [2]In 1893, it was given by the future King Edward VII, then the Prince of Wales, as a wedding gift to his son Prince George, the Duke of York (later King George V), [1] who lived there with his wife, the future Queen Mary, after their marriage. [3]
Sandringham House is a country house in the parish of Sandringham, Norfolk, England. It is one of the royal residences of Charles III, whose grandfather, George VI, and great-grandfather, George V, both died there. The house stands in a 20,000-acre (8,100 ha) estate in the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The City of Sandringham was a local government area about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia, on the eastern side of Port Phillip. The city covered an area of 14.97 square kilometres (5.78 sq mi), and existed from 1917 until 1994.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sandringham had a population of 205 living in 101 of its 120 total private dwellings, a change of -10.5% from its 2016 population of 229. With a land area of 9.57 km 2 (3.69 sq mi), it had a population density of 21.4/km 2 (55.5/sq mi) in 2021. [1]
Joseph C Gayetty [disputed – discuss]. Joseph C. Gayetty (c.1827 – May 2, 1895) was an American inventor credited with the invention of commercial toilet paper. [1] [2] [3] It was the first and remained only one of the few commercial toilet papers from 1857 to 1890 remaining in common use until the invention of splinter-free toilet paper in 1935 by the Northern Tissue Company.