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MY GRAN HAD AN OUTSIDE LOO
WITH A BOARD ACROSS IT WITH A HOLE
IN IT AND NEWSPAPER CUT IN SQUARES AND IF NOT CAREFUL YOU GOT THE PRINT ALL OVER YOUR BUM AND THE LOCAL RESIDENTS OF THE
RODENT TYPE,LUCKY I WAS LITTLE AND MY
FEET NEVER TOUCHED THE GROUND...THE WINTER WAS
A BIT ICY IMAGINE SITING ON THE FROZEN PLANK OF WOOD
OH GROWING UP IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS IN THE 1950'S LOL

Today’s bathroom has some wonderful ideas never seen in my young days, such as under-floor heating, ‘his and her’ sinks, and roll-top baths on a plinth with Jacuzzi jet streams to tickle the places that nature never intended.

The shower is no longer an off-white rubber tube attached to the two bath taps – looking like the original implement for an enema; it now has a rain-shower head that recreates a downpour in the jungle.

We kept a lit candle on the back of the toilet in an attempt to stop the pipes from freezing - which was never really successful.

We had pots under the bed for during the night - although the bedrooms were not much warmer than the outside loo. No central heating in those days although the bedrooms did have fireplaces which my mother would light only if you were very ill indeed.

Kath. x

My Gran's loo was like Dizzi's. I hated it because I was always afraid of falling down the hole!

It was an old oil drum and my Grandad used to carry it down to the bottom of the field to empty it. I'm not sure where he tipped it, but it would have been untreated sewage wherever it was! :-| :-| :-|

I find my grandmother's china chamber pot quite useful on occasions, even to-day. It fits in my loo perfectly and you know that annual envelope that plops on your doormat when you're over 60? Nuff info, but it works a treat ;-) :-D

You almost grow nostalgic for the old days when a home had one functional bathroom with a sink, a toilet and a bath – and that was a huge step up from the outside loo and the tin bath in front of the open fire, filled with hot water from the kettle, on a Saturday night.

Lino was the height of luxury when it came to bathroom floor coverings – although that material too has gone the way of the dodo.

we lived in a little cottage on a hillside when I was young and the toilet - not a flush job - was around the side of the house and looked up the mountainside across the fields - we had newspaper cut in squares hanging on a nail - you didn't have to close the door as there was no one to look in so you had a lovely view - with sheep, cows and horses as well - downside was that Dad had to empty the toilet every so often - he'd dig a big hole in the garden to empty it into - when we had eaten lots of tomatoes in the summer the seeds in the toilet germinated and we had stacks of tomato plants in the garden - now that's what I call recylcling!!!

it wasn't so good in the winter or on dark nights going round the side of the cottage :-(

My aunt had a house in Imber park Road in Esher 1950s. Def. no planks, newspaper on hooks etc. I had no idea that business affairs could be so exciting in the mid C20. I had a blacksheep uncle who lived in a caravan on Canvey Island and his arrangements while primitive were at least the right side of freezing. baaa

There were two bathrooms one prohibited to kids ( to my dying day I regret never stealing the key and taking a look ) while the other had a shower of sorts, a huge steel disk looking like a cut off from a watering can. It was operated by various handles but in any case was either a torrent / dribble and scalding hot / freezing by turns.

Modern pulse showers are a miracle of Polish skill over English resistance to new technology.

A female colleague of mine regularly boasts about the quality & sumptuousness of her bathroom. She has a habit when visiting other homes to pardon herself politely & asks to use the loo.

She is not an incontinence sufferer or anything like that. She is just nosey & keen to see the 'facilities' of others. Any fresh or different ideas gleamed elsewhere will surely be promptly incorporated in her own establishment,

She is Mrs Bucket's double - well, almost!

Was just going to write a long reply, but now you have mentioned it>>>>>>I>>>>> Need ...to>>>>>>>>>>>Go

Our outside loo was in the corner of a lean-to built on the back of the house.
No light, just a candle. The system froze regularly in the winter.

One Sunday morning when I was three, my mother left me sitting on the loo while she went to do things indoors.
Out of the blue a doodlebug - V2 rocket landed in our street, doing extensive damage and killing several people.

My mother couldn't get out of the back of the house because of damage.
When she did get to the back, the lean to had completely gone.
The toilet pan, and me, had gone.

I was later found ten metres up the garden, having gone over a fence, and under a pile of rubble - there was no sound apparently.
Being a small boy I was wedged firmly into the toilet pan, and it had to be smashed to get me out by a neighbour.

Taken to hospital, but nothing broken, just cuts and bruises.
I apparently didn't say a word or make a sound for six weeks after the event.

No recollection of this, but always thought what an undignified way to die.

Thought I would share my experience of an outside loo with you lol.

Tec

I was going to write something about the outside loo at the bottom of the yard and then I read Tecwyn's post and thought ..... "forget it !!".,

No one can beat that :-0

Wend..........you bought a tear to my eye!

:-D <3

You must be under 60 Prickles. There's more than a tear involved in the business I shall have you know :-D

I am so looking forward to it Wend.

Please give me a lend of yer Gran's china chamber pot!

:-D :-D <3

We were very upmarket, we had a bath in the kitchen under the hinged kitchen worktop and a kettle on the stove to the side for hot water! ;-)

strewtth - Tec - what an experience - no need for Syrup of Figs for you then :-D :-D :-D

Dermot's reply about the enema tube.made me laugh!
I can relate to a lot of these,but we had a bathroom when I was little,but my gran had the one outside with newspaper squares.......we were posh,we had San Isal very thin toilet paper.