Tank Cleaning Sponge

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TWO toilets!?! LUXURY! I have only one toilet and it's in a shower room, downstairs...next to the kitchen.

Cue Python...
A TOILET!?! Luxury! We 'ad a bucket...in t'yard...and there weren't a dockleaf* for miles.

A BUCKET!?! We 'ad an 'ole int ground...and nettles!

Etc., etc..


*Dock is a large-leafed weed.

Dockleaf......every nettle should have one nearby

 

[Essjay]

Sorry @Bruce Leyland-Jones it's THREE toilets (1 downstairs, 2 upstairs)

Dockleaf......every nettle should have one nearby

Ah, the number of times I returned home as a child with green legs........

 

[ClownLurch]

We've never had a toilet separate from a bath or basin in every place I've lived since I was a child. Currently we do have a toilet and basin with no bath but that's what house builders call a downstairs WC. Upstairs we have a room with a bath, basin and toilet and another room off our bedroom with a shower cubicle, basin and toilet (what builders call an en-suite)

In York there are still houses built in the time of Elizabeth the first (1553 - 1603). The upper floors project further out than the ground floor and we are always being told that was to provide somewhere safe to walk while people emptied their chamber pots from an upstairs window into the open drain which ran down the middle of the street. Google images of The Shambles York.

Yeah. We lived in a 1500s house in Hastings Old Town before moving back to London. The setup was the same. It was on dozens of different postcards.
Sir Quentin Blake (Ronald Dahls illustrator) owned the house next door (saw him once iirc).
The staircases were either side of the dividing wall and shared timbers that went through the wall to create platforms from which the next flight of stairs started. No fire safety regs back then.
If anyone walked up them next door it sounded as if they were in your house. No doubt how ghosts and haunted house stories start. I must admit I was terrified first time it happened!