"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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Aren't all Aussie dunnies in the shed?

They never were in the shed when we had dunny
carts collecting the **** and **** that was in tins under
the seat and emptied weekly into the dunny cart.
https://www.google.com/search?q=dunn...ralia&tbm=isch

Great job, eh ?

The job is described in census returns in the UK as "gong farmer" or "night
soil".

My grandpa, who lived in a small town in the woollen manufacturing area of
West Yorkshire, could remember when he was little (so maybe 1910-15) a man
leading a horse-drawn cart with a big wooden barrel, calling out "Old Wesh"
(wash). This was one of those street-vendor's calls that sounds like
gibberish because it's said so many times (as in the Morecambe and Wise
"Morny Stannit" sketch). But this man was actually asking people to take out
their chamberpots of **** to pour into the barrel: stale urine was used for
treating the wool - not sure whether it was part of the fulling process or
for fixing the dye into the wool.