do you remember freezing your nibs on the outside lavvy?

Question

yes snow and rain, thunder and lightning dark back-yard cats jumping out and scaring the life out of you,thats without the rats,and how many wiped their a.rse on newspaper?

oh yes and the only person to have a very expensive metal bucket in her bedroom was my mother,and being the youngest had the pleasure of emptying it without a gas mas may i add! every morning and if that boghouse was to get blocked,it was all hands to the metal coathangers!

hey that colcaths family must have been right posh lot,a parafin heater in the outside bog now thats what i call living the high life,eh by gum thys a reet posh un! but was it pink or was it bum bum bum bum,esso blue!

Answer 1

Many houses here in Lancashire STILL have an outside loo, but usually there is also one indoors, for the women and poofs.

PS don't use the local paper or the headlines will come off on your nipsy.

Answer 2

Yes I do! In winter you had to contend with snow jammed up against the door, Then there was the waiting when you had to take a younger sibling to the lavvy. Then you had the wild life such as Spiders (which always seem to be there no matter how clean the lavvy was),Butterflies hibernating over winter. Then off course the news paper to wipe with when the loo paper had run out. Do I Miss This NO!

Answer 3

oh yes it dose'nt seem that long ago trapseing downstairs unlocking the backdoor walking round to the back of the house sittin on the loo with the wind howling under the door come rain and snow no bathroom either just a big tin bath in front of a parrafin heater filled by boiling every pan in the house way back when the parrafin man came to your house
and a pack of soap powder was sixpence from the machine in the laundrette

Answer 4

Aye up to the age of 10 I lived in a place called West Cornforth in Co Durham , all we had was the outside lavvy was cauld int winter and yes we used "The Sun" for bog paper

Answer 5

Happy days,remember them well.The only form of lighting was a candle which doubled up as central heating.You were posh if you had torch.My job used to be cutting up the newspaper into squares to hang oh the nail behind the door.But mind it had other uses as well.Ive had a few knee tremblers in the outside room.

Answer 6

Yes! I remember .Now I am happy that at night, I can walk along the landing, on the coldest of nights in dressing gown and slippers. But when I am in the garden and my footwear is wet or caked with mud, How I wish we had an 'outsider'

Answer 7

Yes, in East London in the 40's. But we had a potty under the bed we used most of the time. Also one in the air raid shelter! Poo! Good old days? Not really.

Answer 8

My granny had an outdoor toilet in her cottage. It was a raised platform in a shed adjoined to the cottage. It had two holes (in case you wanted company??) and a stream of poo ,etc, flowed into a steam outside and under a small bridge. The newspapers (loo paper)were interesting.

Answer 9

Now then you are showing your age .
I bet the rs not a kid around who has used news paper to wipe there **** on .our loo was at the end of the long back yard with a tippler toilet that went down about 30 ft very scary

Answer 10

I remember as a boy, my granda had an outside loo with a tennis ball in it to stop it freezing.

I remember when you had to skip across the bedroom floor, dive under the blankets and huff away to warm your bed up. No central heating in those days.