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If everyone has
2" pipes, the water supplier needs bigger pipes too. Olde English houses
have 1/4" water supply lines and tanks in the attic, which is handy for
catastrophes, eg firefighting after a blitz.

My father's house in suburban London was equipped
thus. Traditional in red brick architecture, no one called
it "olde" when brand new in 1938.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)