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Originally Posted by Lost in Cornwall
I think tippler toilets were one of the great moves forward in hygiene from the earth closet and the like. I think it is a north / south thing because I've never met anybody in the south who's come across them. They probably moved straight on to the next step, indoor flush toilets but it took them longer to come to terms with better sanitation.
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Down the pit in the sixties we didn't have any flush or tippler toilets apart from in the pit bottom there were Racasan toilets half filled with racasan chemicals. For every 100 people working down the pit there had to be 1 of these tubs. A certain gentleman who we named Jimmy Racasan had the luxurious job to bring them out the pit when they were full and empty them down the sewers. One Friday his wage was wrong and the pay clerk told him he would have to wait till next week for his money. Jimmy Racasan accidentally tipped a completely full tub of racasan chemicals and some other disgusting stinking smelly human crap through the pay office window. His pay was never wrong again. I must add that the photo attached bears no resemblance to the ones we had. I think we used old 5 gallon oil drums.