Tippler toilets

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Judith Addison

We had a tippler toilet in Ossy until about 1958 when the Urban District Council started giving Grants. We then had one of the two back bedrooms converted into a bathroom with flush toilet, washbasin and bath. Prior to that it was the "old tin bath". When you were a child and not big enough to use the tippler you used a "potty" in the house. Adults also had them under the bed to use at night. You went to bed with a hot water bottle - rubber if you were a child, a stone bottle if you were an adult. Those were the days!

Ah ... the good old "po" ...

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by Judith Addison

We had a tippler toilet in Ossy until about 1958 when the Urban District Council started giving Grants. We then had one of the two back bedrooms converted into a bathroom with flush toilet, washbasin and bath. Prior to that it was the "old tin bath". When you were a child and not big enough to use the tippler you used a "potty" in the house. Adults also had them under the bed to use at night. You went to bed with a hot water bottle - rubber if you were a child, a stone bottle if you were an adult. Those were the days!

There must surely be a stone hot water bottle in the new Heritage Museum Judith maybe even a "gazzunder" ?

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by DtheP47

There must surely be a stone hot water bottle in the new Heritage Museum Judith maybe even a "gazzunder" ?

I have both - they were my entry in photo comp#62
http://www.accringtonweb.com/gallery...1-31-86051.jpg

[Lost in Cornwall]

When I started University in 1975 one of the first things we had to do was to search the 1971 for various facts about where we lived, one of them being the percentage of houses without an indoor toilet. When I returned with the figure for Clayton the tutor refused to believe it because it was so high. When I went back to check I did some more research and discovered that the old Clayton UDC had the second highest percentage of houses without indoor sanitation in the country. I forget exactly where the highest was but it was somewhere in the West Lancs coalfield. The thing was that it had never particularly bothered me as a kid. We didn't get an indoor bathroom or toilet until 1971 although the tippler was replaced by a flush toilet sometime in the 60's.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

There were no chemicals for the one I spoke of.
'Cleaning' was a shovel parked outside - for use when the pile was high enough to reach your bum.

Just wondering a bit, when you mentioned piling high enough to reach your bum, it reminded me of using a commode in hospital

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Back in the 60's people were getting grants to have a bathroom fitted especially in terraced houses, I was an apprentice plumber then and this meant it was my job to dig out the old tippler and then either fit a flush toilet in its place or concrete over after filling in the hole. It took a day to do this and 3 days to get over the sewer gas smell!

I remember that too Dave, can remember thinking at the time that I was glad I'd become an apprentice Joiner and not a plumber