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[HORT]

Our toilet was furnished with squares from The Daily Chronicle and Reynolds News. You could always tell who had put them there. Gran used scissors and made perfect squares, grandad didn't use the scissors, he just ripped them up because he couldn't be arsed. (No pun intended)

[dibuzz]

I remember running down the yard at my Nanny's in Bramwell Street.I was always scared someone would jump out from behind the rhubarb and grab me.
She died in 1981 in hospital where she had been for a few years but when she eventually let the house go (late 70s I think) it still had the outdoor loo.
Our downstairs loo was originally outside but everybody has added an extra back door so it's now inside.

[Phyll]

Hi DB, Sorry about your Nan, missed your posts, welcome back.

Yeah, that sounds like the kind of Loo we had,
back door, loo and small porch and another back door.

[RUnuts]

the finest backyard loo I remember (down the bottom of the yard) as it lead through a gate onto the back entry was when we lived for a very short period in Eccleston St, St Helens. Just past Napier St left side heading towards Boundary Rd.

There was no front yard, because the front door was a yard in measure from the street.

In the dark walking that 20 odd feet felt like a long way ... smelly, dirty & dark - with old newspaper on the nail at the back of the door to wipe yer backside with.

You'd come back inside the house to wash your hands in very cold winter water. There never seemed to be any hot water unless it was boiled in a pan or a kettle

Wife says to mention the house in Thatto heath, its loo was the same way

Not a fancy enclosed porch loo like some of you lot had

[jmosh]

Our loo was the same Phyll but with had pink squares of paper form the football pink newspaper
anyway RUnuts even the posh loos froze up the winter

[tessmop]

Hi jmosh,I could never understand what was behind a football newspaper being printed on pink paper,all you men on here please free to enlighten me!!!!

[Phyll]

Oh yeah, forgot about the Pink Echo, why was it pink?

[bridger]

First house we had when we were married was a very old terraced house in the back of beyond at Bold Heath and it had one of those dry toilet's which was emptied on Mondays. Plus just in front of the toilet over the wall was the bus stop and anyone on the top deck of the bus could see over the wall, so you had to time it when you went.

[SWIMMER]

Hi all, yes I remember the outside loo, ours was similar to that of RUnuts, understandable really because I lived in Talbot street, and our loo was at the bottom of a long yard right next to the back gate. The winter walk was fun especially in the fog as I think I have posted before. I also remember the pink paper, maybe it was to make that particular paper stand out from the others, no doubt someone on here will know and tell us. Hi DB, wondered where you had got to, great to have you back posting

[gangad]

I seem to remember the pink i think that was the saturday one with the final scores in it

[Nanny Ogg]

The pink paper was called the footie echo I think and after once trying the night-time trip to my grandma's end-of-the-yard loo, which never lowered itself to other than black and white newspapers, I stuck with the guzunder.