[Tealeaf]

Yep. . None of this indoor plumbing rubbish. The term for it was a "Tippler", (Read carefully, you young 'uns, because you've never lived unless you've sat on a proper Bog). The principle was quite simple: the waste fell down the hole (usually) and was collected in a metal, 'V' shaped container; when the container - the tippler - was full (usually after about a week) the thing tipped over on springs and deposited it's load into the main sewer pipe. Sometimes, though, it got stuck - and this is where the washing line prop (also kept in the back yard) fulfilled it's secondary function - as a large poking stick, down the hole, on order to assist the tippler in the disgourging of it's contents. Ah, those were the days.

There was none of this nonsense either with "Andrex" or similar Asda own label. We used the previous days Daily Mirror, each page making 4 sheets. Still, somethings never change; thats what it was fit for then, and thats all it's fit for now.