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where have all the out lavies and coil sheds gone ?

just curious

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I had to have mine removed/ knocked down about 25 years ago before they would give me my mortgage, part of the agreement, surveyors and all that stuff.

:)

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There is still some somewhere, last i saw an outside lavvy was in yard of shop top of water st about 15 years ago dunno if its still there:confused:

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OMG! That made me nostalgic then :) Everytime I went out my mum and Nan used to say "Don't be playin on the coits (*sp) or in them the're bin oils"!

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I renovated mine, and rent them out as a holiday gites to stupid southerners.:p

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I cant remember them over here - over in ireland yes but cant remember them in our back garden. As far as i can remember we've always had an inside loo. Next door had an outbuilding which they used for storing stuff but that was when i was about 4 when we moved from there.

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I still have my outside loo. It’s a god send for when we’ve been having curry for tea.

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Oh my god, that's brought back some memories - not good ones either. When I was little we had an outside loo and I remember being frightened to death of fallin down it, it seemed like it went on forever. Best day of my life when my mum & dad had our bathroom installed - sheer heaven :)

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My Mum still has an outside Lavvy...and a bin hoil......but alas the coal hoil was pulled down.
When I was young (many years ago)...the coal hoil was the equivalent of the naughty step....and yes I did spend some time locked in there in the dark.
Now today, that would constitute child abuse and the social workers would have whisked me off to a place of safety. Did it scar me mentally? NO...of course it didn't.

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I rem our outside lavvy etc thank god for the day we got indoor bathrooms ..I also rem first folk to get a bath installed on our street was my mates gran and every sun night all kids on street used to go for a bath

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My dad still has an outside loo. Use to sunbathe on top of his coits (when i was younger).

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I used to sunbathe on the coits too. In me cossie. :)

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I used to wear my cossie as well Willow. Also use to put on homemade sun oil, think it was olive oil and vinager. Be up for child abuse now putting that on our children.

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I used to hide on top of our coits and tip bowls of water over my brother when he came outside haha

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Yeah its a shame all the lavies have gone!!:confused:
and with it the nail to hang the Evening Telegraph (if you were really posh the sporting pink):mad:

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We as kids used to collect bonfire wood and store it on our coits until bonfire night.

:)

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Yep we would, raiding being a particular October pastime.:D

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Ian's mum still has her outside loo.

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The Mum - in - law still as an outside loo and we used to have one wen we first got married. It was horrible.

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outside loo,gave you a shock when sat on too cold,

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Brings back memories from my chidhood.My gran had one.If I remember correctly she used to call the dustbin bit 'The Middin'.Has anyone else heard that expression?

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Twas worse if you forgot to light that little oil lamp and the water in the toilet froze ..... :D Yuk.

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Course .. what else was it called then ?

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remember one of our cats fell down the tippler loo, mum used the clothes prop or something for it to climb back out again.

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good heavens - I use Middin all the time here - ie when the house is like a tip - no one knows what the heck I'm on about - good to hear it again - coil hoil and lavs and newspaper - didn't get an inside lav until I was married in my twenties, still think it's a luxury, espec on a wet cold night, and soft toilet paper, wonderful. An old aunt had a tippler, it was awful, she once had a blackout and nearly fell down it, not funny really. I hated having to use the thing.

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When we lived in Haslingden some pals had 'tubs' the council used to come round and empty them, farms used tubs and some were emptied on the muck midden.

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My Nan had an outside lav which was always freezing in the winter. I remember using it when we visited her house on Sundays. There were always spiders in there and a roll of Izal which was, and still is, useless for bum wiping. She had a chamber pot under her bed for night time and used to slop out in the mornings.

My elderly next door neighbour had an outside lav until about 10 years ago. I used to clear her path for her in the winter so that she could get to the loo without slipping and breaking a hip.

I remember us having a coil bunker when we lived in Church. I used to hide in it when I was in trouble.. (most of the time) :D

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ha ha mitzy me gran did the same with her clothes prop. amazing ingenuity eh?

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came across this on the Evening Telegraph web-site , seems there are only about fifty left in Accy/Hyndburn , maybe Gayle or someone interested in preserving local heritage/culture could start a movement to preserve a few of them for posterity, maybe issue a Blue Peter type badge to local youngsters who have the courage to use it , as a matter of course the required toilet paper would either be the slick sided Izod or the other horrible cheap stuff made out re-cycled wood chips.

Joe Is Left Cold By Outside Loo (from Lancashire Telegraph)

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We still have an outside loo, attached to the garage, the window cleaner finds it very handy..lol..

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Talking of outside lavies, how many remember the old tipplers? I converted a few of them many years ago, not a pleasant job.

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We were part way up Whalley Road . . . bit posh!! . . . just below the hospital.

We had an outdoor lavvy (old fashioned spelling!) as well as an indoor bathroom. The outdoor lavvy adjoined the coal shed . . . . . . . and the two of them had an easily accesible roof,. which was so much fun for a small boy when his parents weren't watching.

Don't ever forget the dustbin hole . . . . .for some weird reason (which Jung and Freud and all their brethren would love!) I have a passion for dustbin holes! And remember the keys that accessed them. And remember back streets! War-time . . . . green pig bins?

God but it all happened up back streets. I love them!