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Originally Posted by davebtelford
Surely it's a generation thing rather than north/south. Tipplers were normal in Ossy (up until the 1960s?) and some parts without sewers had tubs that used to be emptied by hand into a council wagon - nice job. But in one of his books Spike Milligan refers to the 'night soil' lorry doing the rounds in Bexhill-on-Sea (and you can't get much further south than that). I think there were a lot more flies when we had tipplers.
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The night soil lorry would be referring to the emptying of an earth privy I reckon DBT.
Back to my Great Grandmothers in Durham they didn't have running water in the home using a communal stand pipe in the early 50's. They couldn't have had a tipples so hence the "soil privy"