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Originally Posted by MargaretR
There were no chemicals for the one I spoke of.
'Cleaning' was a shovel parked outside - for use when the pile was high enough to reach your bum.
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Think there's another thread about smells that stay with you?
At my Great Grandmothers your privy "doings's" as she called em' were covered with ash from the coal fire. Now and again some hot ash still in there sizzled and sparked as it came into contact with the doings's.
I've always thought thats how the word hum became associated with smells.