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Missing Paragraphs - (C1) Advanced Certificate of English

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Living in a toilette

Would you live in an old public toilet? There are very few young women who would get excited about a line of art deco urinals, but when architect Laura Jane Clark first saw the antique porcelain in a block of Gents toilets in south-east London, she had a light bulb moment. She thought they were totally wonderful.
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When she finally got the keys, her descent below ground revealed a Ladies and Gents placed end-to-end to form a long thin space furnished with rubble, rusty plumbing and unsavoury toilet cubicles complete with cisterns.
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With her architect's eye, Clark saw the height, the glass-brick ceiling lights set into the pavement above and space for an indoor-outdoor courtyard. But it would be almost seven years before she got the go ahead to turn it into a home. Some might celebrate a new home by popping the bubbly and having a house-warming get-together.
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Known to friends as Laura Loos, Clark's Lamp Architects practice has since been called upon by buyers to advise on other lavatory conversions. She is helping with a planning application for one in north London and is about to work on designs for a converted toilet in central Cambridge.
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Austerity-pressed councils, looking for ways to cash in on assets, have recognised the potential for flogging their under-used conveniences. But don't get too excited. While Clark and Ranger found buildings with history, features and desirable locations, these buildings tend to be dull, utilitarian post-war buildings with nothing to boast of but pebble-dash and plumbing.
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The only one of the five to offer a faint hope of residential use is a flat-roofed, post-war toilet on Canaan Lane in Morningside. No guide prices were given, but a week after the closing date in August, the council said there was a good level of interest.
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In Bristol, an ornate period lavatory is leased by the council as a gallery space called the Edwardian Cloakroom. A former Victorian public convenience in Kentish Town, north London, was reopened last year as a cocktail bar, aptly named Ladies and Gentlemen.

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