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Old 03-05-2012, 19:51   #1
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Does anyone still have and use an outside toilet? Who had a longdrop
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Old 03-05-2012, 20:05   #2
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Moving off at a tangent - name the locations of the public urinals/toilets in the towbn. I'll start off with the urinal in Wheat Street, between Blackburn Rd & Dale St . Me & my mates called in Wee Street. This had nothing to do with the length of the street.
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Oh! I remember the longdrop. My gran used to have one in her back yard on Willow St. in Clayton. She used to call it the 'petty' and I was absolutely scared stiff of falling down it( I know that would be impossible, but I was just a kid).
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Old 03-05-2012, 20:12   #4
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I don't know what made me ask. My mum and dad lived on Willow Street when they were first married and they had a long drop. My wife's uncle lives near Newcastle. He still uses an outside toilet
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Old 03-05-2012, 20:28   #5
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My wife's uncle lives near Newcastle.
Well there you go then, Newcastle ??? say no more.




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Old 03-05-2012, 20:31   #6
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I've addressed the outside pot myself. It's not pleasant on a cold day.
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Old 03-05-2012, 20:47   #7
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I've addressed the outside pot myself. It's not pleasant on a cold day.
A primary school I went to still had outside toilets, during the winter 62/63? The drifts had buried the toilets. With great anticipation we pupils expected to be sent home. No such luck, the caretaker dug a path to each cubicle every morning, if there was any further snow that came down during the day, the boys from the eldest classes were sent out to clear it away again.
None of the toilets could really be used cisterns and pans completely frozen, lead pipes burst and turned off at the mains, but being sent home was never even considered. (most annoying I had a new sledge I wanted to use).
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I bet the cold certainly got the nipper offer tightened up
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My mum still has an outside toilet.......she has an inside one as well, but the inside one is upstairs. Fine when she goes to bed, but a trial when needing the loo during the day(she has mobility problems)....so when she is downstairs during the day she goes to the outside loo. It is a water closet, not a long drop.
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Moving off at a tangent - name the locations of the public urinals/toilets in the towbn. I'll start off with the urinal in Wheat Street, between Blackburn Rd & Dale St . Me & my mates called in Wee Street. This had nothing to do with the length of the street.
Blackburn Road, opposite the Big Crown, Scaitcliffe Street near the railway bridge, Whalley Road end of Queens Road West, Dutton Street, Burnley Road.
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Old 03-05-2012, 22:47   #11
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Long drop? no, we were posh, we had a tippler.
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Old 03-05-2012, 23:07   #12
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When i was very young we had a communal backyard -one bog fer all. Can't remember the score wi the coal hole though Twas Number 14 Burnley Rd, the houses on that little row above Ann Parkins shop plus the few houses on the first block of Melbourne St, shared, Everyone who shared that yard were very friendly, n a guy n his wife used to take me oer Whalley Nabs n places in the summer, Happy Days.
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Old 04-05-2012, 06:31   #13
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My dad often talks about the communal bog they had on Mill Street in Clayton. He said you could always tell when someone had been drinking Lion's bitter
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Old 04-05-2012, 08:33   #14
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Can remember us having a long drop and for my sins I've dug a few out on grant jobs in the sixties, it was a task usually falling on the shoulders of the happyrentice. My family home still had an outside WC up until my Father died in 2003, whether it still has I don't know. Not sure but I would think long drops would be illegal now, elf and safety
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Old 04-05-2012, 10:24   #15
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Alice Street (where some horrific crime aginst a young boy took place), Blackburn Road near the railway arch (where I once disturbed a sleeping tramp at midday).
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