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P. - much like my secondary school - they were happy for generations to run about there but when it came time to demolish it - suddenly all the builders were dragged up like Neil Armstrong.It put me in mind of the asbestos board that the GPO used in telephone boxes to mount the phones. Naturally, youths gleefully carved their names into them freeing all those lovely lung-killing fibres.
It looks like a bloodletting bowl. A task barbers could perform up till around the 17th Century.I'm sorry, I didn't take proper photos. I just pulled my phone out and snap snap done. This shaving bowl was in the British Museum.
"Tin-glazed earthenware shaving bowl painted with instruments in the centre and on the rim the legend SIR YOUR QUARTER IS UP
London, probably Lambeth, about 1700
The legend refers to the custom for gentlemen to pay their barber's bill quarterly."
Edit: I don't know the best place to post this, it's not really what this thread is for...
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