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Originally Posted by DtheP47
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"
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There were night soil lorries still around in Walsden when I was growing up.
They had a curved cover over the back which could be slid up from either side to allow the "night soil" to be tipped in from the tub.
The little stone hut at the bottom of the yard had a small door opening into the back lane where the tub could be pulled out.
One chap I remember well, Called Fred Scutt, was only small and when he lifted the tub to tip it in the lorry it was over his head, I never saw him spill any. He always wore wellies about two sizes too small.
We could only buy fireworks after the 4th November but you could bet that within an hour some one had thrown one through the small door trying to blow someone off the board over the tub.