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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 995388, member: 29&quot;]It&#039;s the history of London, we are built on it. Our sewer pipes are made by Doulton Lambeth, as are Tube rail insulators, the tiles that line our tunnels, and the facades of public buildings. Our medicine pots, marmalade jars, beer bottles, water purifiers, the everyday heart and soul of my city. Still used, over a century on. </p><p><br /></p><p>All London clay, that stuff the Romans potted and before them, the Beaker folk, with&nbsp; Thames water and London hands. Most of those streams now are hidden under our streets, but if you listen carefully above a Victorian cast iron manhole, you hear them sing. </p><p><br /></p><p>The bases of Doulton Lambeth pots have the century old hand scribed initials of the decorators and if you&#039;re really lucky, a fingerprint. Wonderful things. </p><p><br /></p><p>I covet a Doulton Pushkin cat. I also covet a set of miniature Doulton Lambeth plumbing parts in a case: I know someone who found a set at a car boot sale and I will hunt. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d also quite like a piece of Hannah Barlow for Doulton or anything by the Martin brothers, but hey.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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