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The old was the site of Marlboro Works, Thomas Crapper's toilet showroom. It was on Marlborough Road, which is now Drayton Avenue ( the street Mossop Street joins)
https://londonist.com/2016/03/thomas-crapper-s-london
Marlboro' Works is credited as the first sanitary showroom in the world. It boasted plumbed-in toilets so that clients could 'try before they buy', and huge plate-glass windows to show off the stock. Such a display was brazen, at a time when bodily functions were never acknowledged in polite company. Those windows must have been somewhat controversial, though whether they caused anyone to faint (as is usually claimed) remains doubtful.
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