Old Fashioned Toilet

Gosh... as kids we just used newspaper cut into small squares and tied with string hung on an old rust nail on the wall. Great days they were sitting behind a creeky old drafty wooden door looking at all the flakey limewash paint and spider webs, I used to hate the condensation and damp brick floor in Winter...those days will never come back... thank goodness.

 

Bloody heck YOU HAD A DOOR... posh eh? We had to burn our door to keep warm.

 

I see what you did there…

not sure I’d want the runs on an outside lav…

@Jim Freight I see what you did too!! Being a Wee lad!

 

The type I encountered were like single sheets of grease proof paper ! I’d look and decide I could wait till I got home some times. Horrible stuff.

wonder if it’s still available?

 

Ah, now we're getting into what today would be classed as "Antisocial behaviour"! At my old junior school, a Victorian affair, the toilets were outside, back to back with the girls toilets, urinals in the Boys were against the dividing wall which was about 8ft high. You always knew who'd been successful in the 'highest-up-the-wall' game when you heard shrieks from the girls on the other side!!!
On the subject of Izal toilet rolls, back in the 80's, I worked in a carton printing factory, and they were 'standard issue' in both ladies and gents toilets at the time, until suddenly the ladies were moved onto 'Soft' toilet paper (though it resembled abrasive paper!). At one of the union/management meetings, one of the mechanical fitters (who was noted for his sense of humour) stood in for the usual union rep, and queried why the ladies toilets had been moved onto soft toilet paper, but not the gents? When management asked why it made a difference, the fitter replied that when using Izal, due to the shiny surface, when using it you could end up with what you were trying to wipe halfway up your back! When the laughter had subsided and management red faces had returned to normal, the fitter was assured that from tomorrow, all would have the soft toilet paper.

 

Mossy you are a star ... your thread has captivated conversation ... my sincere apologies for hijacking your very sensible and informing thread and us lot turning it to base... carry on lads

cheers Yorkie

 

Was that for half a crown ???

Bit before my time LOL

 

Out of pure ... I don't know what... Here was what the Model @York Paul 's toilets were modelled on. He made his own urinal for Leek's station toilets.

And as you can see, no toilet lid....

Any idea why they don't do this in public ? - none of the toilets in our new build work place have the top cover -just the seat...

I'm just glad Leek station wasn't as posh as these ones, which are in Bute in Scotland



More info can be found at Rothesay victorian public toilets.. I bet despite looking clean they still stunk of stale P155.

Andy