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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson
Have they heard of 'thunderboxes' ?
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Originally Posted by MargaretR
..and garderobes
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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
So when we had moved on to tipplers they were still emptying their potties out of the upstairs windows onto passers by? Or nipping round the back to use the pit loo.
Poor devils, glad you're educating them.
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I am not telling em' yet that back in the early 50's when visiting my maternal Great Grandmother up in Barley Mow, County Durham we had to use an earth privy.
I'll save the graphic description of that until lunchtime
