Tippler toilets
 

Breaktime office banter in the soft South and nobody here had heard of Tippler Toilets. They took some convincing until I found this link on the Ramsbottom Heritage site

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Have they heard of 'thunderboxes' ?

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..and garderobes
Garderobe

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So when we had moved on to tipplers they were still emptying their potties out of the upstairs windows onto passers by? Or nipping round the back to use the pit loo.

Poor devils, glad you're educating them.

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I was the works engineer at Ducketts of Burnley in the early 60's but they had ceased to make the tipplers by then, there were a few old bits and pieces in an out building there.
The main product was earthenware sewer pipes and the old gents urinals which were made by slicing a large pipe down the middle and hand shaping it before glazing it white.

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I am not telling em' yet that back in the early 50's when visiting my maternal Great Grandmother up in Barley Mow, County Durham we had to use an earth privy.
I'll save the graphic description of that until lunchtime ;)

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Preferably while they're eating!

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Precisely GB :cool:

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i note that this was posted by D the Pee.

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I thought "Tippler" meant it was something to do with this:
http://www.dvdreams.co.uk/webcam/2013-12-04.GIF

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Uneducated oiks down yon "D";):D just glad theres someone wi sense to educate the numpties.

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First time I brought some Cissy Green's down here Ol, I think they thought they was some kind of roadkill pie...."ooo whats that shiny stuff on top" said one "Is it fat?" :)

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I remember our tippler toilet on Stonebridge Lane in the early 70's, it was proper disgusting. In winter it use to freeze up and we used to use long cane sticks to un jam it and then in summer it stunk to high heaven, never again lol.

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When I was a child we used to spend weekends at a farm in Ingleton with no mains drains - I have used one - it had a double holed wooden board over the short drop to the pile - YUK!

Why seating for two? - it wasn't as though you would need conversation whilst you did it - anyways you can't converse whilst holding your breath.

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Our caving hostel was at Braida Garth,Kingsdale Margaret, we had a chemical bog but as callow youths who was gonna chip in any beer money for any Elsan Blue? Les in the Marton Arms got first dibs on our brass, & there were times in high summer when whosoever was elected to empty it had to use a demand valve and diving bottle to breathe as he carried it out.