Old Style Outside Lavvy

Rebob

We have an outside loo. It came in handy when we had no bathroom for 3 weeks and when the water pipe system was renewd inside and we had no water in the house. Cannot get in at the mo as we use ours to store bike and scooters etc.

tootles_2

We had an outside loo, in winter my grandmother used to put a little oil lamp in to keep it from freezing up, she would rather go outside than upstairs....... I stayed in the country for a while with a cousin when Grandma was in hospital and unable to look after me, we had the old cluggies in the yard, a wooden bench with holes in it and newspaper on a string, the smell in the summer was atrocious!!!!!! The men used to come and take away the stuff from the buckets at night, but it still did not smell any better. It left me with a phobia about toilets which both my daughters have inherited, I will not use a dirty toilet, always look first, it I do not like the look of it I will wait until a clean one is available. It would not be ther first time I have waited until i got home to go to the toilet, which can backfire at times!!!!!

Chipps

We lived in a bungalow which had been built in the 1930s, which had an indoor bathroom, but outside loo, although when we lived there in the 60s it had been incorporated into a conservatory, so you didn't have to actually go outside to get to it.
When my mum went to visit friends in Canada a couple of years ago, she found that outside loos were the latest fashion. Her friends live in Toronto where most people seem to also have holiday cabins out in the country, & they have designer earth-closets outside their cabins. It's not considered quite the thing to have indoor loos in one's cabin!!! (something to do with keeping the fresh air atmosphere I suspect!)

Aries

I lived with my Granny as a child during the war,and I remember the outside shared Loo with whitewashed walls and stone floor.In winter it was very cold and sometimes it used to freeze up,but when the thaw came we had a fountain.I Remember taking it in turns to clean it,scrub the stone floor and do the step with white scouring stone...Oh for home comforts.

exlibris

Does anyone remember tipplers. My auant had one. The pan was a standard pan but the flush was operated from the kitchen sink. The waste water collected on a swivel thingy which tippled when full to flush the loo with a swooshing noise. We were sat in the back yardon a hot day and Aunty went indoors to make a drink and she ran the tap to get cold water - operating the tippler!

It scared the living daylights out of me