"Derek ^" wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 10:25:48 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


"r.p.mcmurphy" wrote in message
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Ooh ta! I will let the group have the pics when its done...its gonna be
built out of reclaimed bricks with Staffordshire blues for the sloping
back roof. it will be part of a small out building im building that
will
include a coal room and a wood store room. Three doors in a row, the
nearest one to the house being the lav!

It does sound good, I wish we had room for such a structure.

Our outside lav when I was a child had a full-width boxed in porcelain,
er,
part*

If it was a large porcelain conical funnel, I'd doubt it ever had a
proper name. Typically the manufacturer FWIW would emblazon a name
such as "Achilles" in the glaze. My old auntie had an outside toilet
like that, she lived in Jubilee Terrace (Off Woodhouse Street) not
that far from you.

No, it was my dysphasia playing up, sometimes the most ordinary words won't
come.

As far as I remember the bowl was conventional, it had a trap. I can't
remember a name but there might well have been one.

But how did you know where I lived? !

I suspect they were made/sold to convert the original night-soil
closets (netties) which were emptied in the middle of the night by a
couple of blokes with an 'orse and cart, to online WC operation.

There might have been one like that in ours originally but itmust have been
modernised. My mother had lived there since she was four, he always referred
to it as the midden but it definitely had a trap.



made from softwood which was scrubbed by my mother and always clean
and warm to sit on even in winter. What's more, it provided a resting
place
at each side for whatever one was reading, the key, or anything.

When we were first married we had an outside lav which had a modern (well,
1950s) wc with a plastic seat. Believe me that cold be c-c--c-old to the
cheeks.

If you can, I'd recommend the bench, a rounded profile to the hold will
ensure comfort. A full length hinge at the back will allow it to be lifted
for cleaning.

Billy Connolly goes on about these in his early material.

Ah well, you get my memories free ;-)


I know that ours did have such a hinge but can't remember ever
seeing it lifted. I was never involved with the cleaning and never dared
lift it myself.

Mary
* the old brain trouble manifesting itself! The word will come the minute
my
finger hits 'send'

Large conical porcelain receptacle. Not really a WC "pan" or "bowl" as
we know it.

No, it was just like the bowl we use here. Mind you, that hasn't been
replaced since the house was built in 1937.

Mary

DG