[Judith Addison]

We had a tippler toilet in Ossy until about 1958 when the Urban District Council started giving Grants. We then had one of the two back bedrooms converted into a bathroom with flush toilet, washbasin and bath. Prior to that it was the "old tin bath". When you were a child and not big enough to use the tippler you used a "potty" in the house. Adults also had them under the bed to use at night. You went to bed with a hot water bottle - rubber if you were a child, a stone bottle if you were an adult. Those were the days!