does anybody remember how cold it were in winter
i lived down cliffe and our toliet was right down the yard we never even had an inside bath either

hi paul
yeah i remember em!!
mi dad was still using it seven yrs ago just before he died!
its still there at me ma's!
when we were kids we had a dog called Paddy, bless im', he could yodel as well!! we used to tether him to the lead an tek im' with us!
they were the days of the 'Big Film' on a sat nite, usually a cowboy. one of us were sent to the beer -off on scott road for nibbett's and a bottle of dandelion and burdock!
then t' bog after wi' dog!!
thats gospel
Dean

I remember it well! Tin bath hung on the wall outside, outside loo across 2 yards, even in snow - and then the scream when tall visitors went to it. They strangled themselves on the washing line because my mum was only little!!!:hihi:

I remember them well the seats were freezing, I used to bribe one of my sisters to sit on the seat until it warmed up before I used it. :hihi: :hihi:

Wonder if they still remember that :)

Remember them well especially in winter when they froze up.Also spendin hours cutting the newspaper into squares.Wasn`t it rough on the rearend.:hihi: :hihi:

flashbang
got really got me laughing!!! he he he he
dean
shelby
hilarious!!

my grandparents lived down cliffe on shortridge street opposite banners and they had outside toilets, i remember waking up in the middle of the night to got to the toilet i was scared stiff but i got up and went i couldn,t see a thing i just couldn,t imagine my kids doing the same

lazyherbert
IZAL at mi' grandma's!!
and mi' grand dad, news of the world or what ever, in two, then four, 6" nail, hammer, back of door, BANG! bog roll!

lazyherbert
IZAL at mi' grandma's!!
and mi' grand dad, news of the world or what ever, in two, then four, 6" nail, hammer, back of door, BANG! bog roll!

Spot on. Reading & ******** at the same time,if it was light because we had no lights in the bogs in those days.Also sometimes when you pulled the flush a great gush of water came over the top of the cistern & wet you through.

scariest part though was gettin' out of it! not so bad going, but coming out and feeling the hairs on the back of yer neck stand up, cause when you was in there you thought there was some insiduous, mallingering,hackneyed orgre waitin' for yer'!! our dog's feet never touched the floor till he landed in the off - shot kitchen!!

does anybody remember how cold it were in winter
i lived down cliffe and our toliet was right down the yard we never even had an inside bath either

We had an inside bath,it was the copper in the kitchen that my mother boiled the whites in.We got in straight after the washing & our skin set like leather afterwards.I think it must have been the starch or something.

does anybody remember how cold it were in winter
i lived down cliffe and our toliet was right down the yard we never even had an inside bath eitherwe never got bathed as kids any way I kept pigeons in our outside tiolet cuz....:roll:

Remember them too, freezing in there, we had an oil lamp
in the outside toilet

Remember them too, freezing in there, we had an oil lamp
in the outside toilet

We had a candle in ours.

Do you remember the women of each house in the yards having to empty the chamber pot every morning.

The long trek from the house to the outdside crapper must have been an unsavoury job but they did it without any complaints.

Does anyone also remember the little oil lamps that were left burning in the toilet to avoid them freezing up?

Happy Days????

my grandparents lived down cliffe on shortridge street opposite banners and they had outside toilets, i remember waking up in the middle of the night to got to the toilet i was scared stiff but i got up and went i couldn,t see a thing i just couldn,t imagine my kids doing the same

Didn’t you have one of these.

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I lived in a back to back house in the 60's with an outside toilet - we used to have a bucket in the bedroom which we had to take down to the toilet everyday. I used to hate it in the winter.

Then in the 70's I lived again in a house with an outside loo, no hot running water just a cold tap. The toilet was quite a distance from the house and it was awful in the winter when everything got frozen up.

Do you remember the women of each house in the yards having to empty the chamber pot every morning.

The long trek from the house to the outdside crapper must have been an unsavoury job but they did it without any complaints.

Does anyone also remember the little oil lamps that were left burning in the toilet to avoid them freezing up?

Happy Days????

That takes me back we had a little oil lamp,
I remember the spiders mostly,
always looking round before I went in, and for some reason
I always used to sing vo lari at the top of my voice ,
to let my mum know I was still there.

In the sixties we lived in a two up two down terraced house. I even had my daughter at home in the living room, and we didn't have a bathroom, just a small water heater over the kitchen sink! Our toilet was across the yard, one night while I was on the toilet, something furry and warm ran across my foot, I ran across that yard still pulling my pants up. :shocked: I found out later it was a rat.:gag:

We've still got ours - Great for when you're gardening or having a lazy day sunbathing in the garden - saves trecking through the house.

Talking about oil lamps & buckets.We had a little parrafin lamp in our bedroom because we had no electric on the attic where we slept.One night we were messing about ,my 3 brothers & i & one of my brothers knocked over the lamp & the parrafin spilled out & set the floor on fire.Quick as lightening my older brother acted. He threw the contents of the pee-bucket on it.It put the fire out but boy what a stink it left. This was followed by good hidings all round for all concerned.

Yes it was a social but cold experience. Went to a cottage near Boston where they had a 2 seater earth toilet ( It Stank)

You want to try those 10 & 12 seaters in the Ukraine. Now.Phew.

We had one when I was little and no bath in the house either!

do i remember,that would be our 2nd port of call, running away fm Fullwood homes 1st place to sleep would be the anderson shelter's, but i spent many a night two to a seat &one sleeping standing up in the corner

We kept the outside bog key on a kitchen shelf,and used to say"Quick,quick, the key,it's rolling down my trousers"!

In the early 70s I lived for several months in one of a set of 10 back to backs called Stone Terrace in Stweart road, off Sharrow Vale Road (long since demolished and replaced). It was quite an experience and I do remember the outside loo down the path. Needless to say I kept a chamber pot for night use...

However,coming from tropical Queensland, I was used to having an outside loo (called a dunny by Australians), and it was quite a trek from the house. There was a metal pan under the seat, which was collected once a week by the Sanno Man (from the word sanitary) as we called him. I've had the experience of being on the seat when the little back door was opened and the pan taken out and replaced!! We used torn up paper, and sprinkled sawdust on the results after using it.

Do you remember the women of each house in the yards having to empty the chamber pot every morning.

The long trek from the house to the outdside crapper must have been an unsavoury job but they did it without any complaints.

Does anyone also remember the little oil lamps that were left burning in the toilet to avoid them freezing up?

Happy Days????I work on the railways and we still use them in winter at remote places E.G. hope valley ,casleton :headbang:

Would those oil lamps be 'Tilley' lamps?
I remember on VE night, having a bonfire in the backyard of the houses on 'little' Hayward Road. It was big enough at the beginning, but when the clubs and boozers turned out extra fuel appeared like magic. The toilets were in a line at the bottom of the yard, about 10 feet from the bonfire. In no time at all the doors were smouldering, one or two actually caught fire, and some kitchen window panes cracked. Great night that was.

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I lived in a 'one up and one down' back to back in Pitsmoor in the '50's. The lavvy was down the bottom of the yard. We were posh, our lavvy had a door on it AND a lock!
Newspaper was hung on a nail on the back of the door and we kept a candle and a little night light candle to leave lit when it was freezing.
Some of the lavvys didnt have doors on, they had been nicked for firewood.
One cold water tap and one sink in the house and a trek down the yard to go to the toilet. Wer'nt life grand, by god we did'nt know we were born.

Does anyone remember?

The most popular paper to be used for the toilet was the Radio Times.

It was just the right size when cut into four.

The outside 'Crapper' was regularly painted inside with limewash to keep the bugs down.

They called it 'Bugblinding' when this was done, later people used Distemper paint.

Happy days!

We kept the outside bog key on a kitchen shelf...!

Key ?

I can't recollect anyone in our neighbourhood ever having a lock on the door of them.

People had so much respect for each other, not everyone locked their houses.

We had one when I was little and no bath in the house either!

Exactly the same as us.

Do you remember the women of each house in the yards having to empty the chamber pot every morning.

The long trek from the house to the outdside crapper must have been an unsavoury job but they did it without any complaints.

Does anyone also remember the little oil lamps that were left burning in the toilet to avoid them freezing up?

Happy Days????

That was my chore up to being 14yrs old in 1975, when we moved from Darnall and I always thought the Tilly lamps were for light, didn't realise it was to stop the pipe freezing

my nan had an outside loo in her yard with squares of newspaper on a string nailed to the door.....then came the dreaded Izal!!!think the newspaper was softer!the tin bath was always hung at the top of the cellar steps,only used on a sunday in front of the fire!!!x

my nan had an outside loo in her yard with squares of newspaper on a string nailed to the door One of my earliest recollections (aged about 4) was being given the job of cutting the newspaper into squares. We had "The Star" but upper-crust people used the "Sheffield Telegraph". This was on Low Road (Woodland View) and we shared an outside loo with our next-door neighbour Ivy. She and my mum took turns to clean it (it was always spotless - as neither wanted the other to think that standards were slipping). The house ("one down, one up and one further up") was demolished in 1964, but we had moved to Dykes Hall Road in 1952 - and so acquired our own, private outside loo (talk about posh...). That house was demolished in 1982 - as I always say, the house where I was born was demolished in the sixties, the house where I grew up was demolished in the eighties, but I'm keeping one jump ahead of the bulldozers. I've still got the Tilley lamp - I tried to flog it on eBay but it didn't sell. Maybe people don't have outside loos nowadays...

lazyherbert
IZAL at mi' grandma's!!
and mi' grand dad, news of the world or what ever, in two, then four, 6" nail, hammer, back of door, BANG! bog roll!

I remember my brother locking me in scared the s*** out of me ended up stabbing my hand on the nail going straight through ¡¡¡¡¡¡ the nail not the s***

i remember my nans
and the newspaper sheets cut up to wipe your bits on.:hihi:

Do you remember having to wipe your botty on a sheet of paper torn out of "The Star". By Fridaynight (bathnight) it was black bright with newspaper print. That soon muckeyed up t' watter in't tin bath :gag:

I think that my mum used squares from the Daily Mail (well, she was a bit posh...) Outside loos were freezing cold in winter, so you didn't stay there longer than absolutely necessary. And they used to freeze up. I once hurried back to the house and fell flat on my face - I hadn't noticed the frozen puddle. Happy days...

P.S. I like the Lenin quotation in BorderReiver's signature "A lie told often enough..." It reminds me of a quotation from Molotov - "The trouble with free elections is that you can never be sure of the result".

does anybody remember how cold it were in winter
i lived down cliffe and our toliet was right down the yard we never even had an inside bath either
and you lived next to a grave yard
that would give you the shivers

my gran lived in a one up one down Watery Lane and shared the toilet with the next door neighbours who had a son who sang like Dean Martin all the time he was using the toilet.When the singing stopped you knew the toilet was empty and you could the go.And how annoying when you were reading the newspaper on the back of the door
and the interesting part had already been ripped off.

we had an outside loo in pitsmoor in the early 70's.

what with bathrooms and bbq's now. surely it was better in the old days when we ate indoors and s**t outside

and you lived next to a grave yard
that would give you the shiversone can assume that were Burgess road uncle!!:hihi:

When I was a kid we had outside toilets. We had to share with our neighbour. It was in a communal backyard. However, prior to that there were Middens which had been left standing when the new outside loo was built. People will not believe this at all, but it is true - they actually had double seats (two, side by side). I once got a clip round my ears, as I had been in the flush loo and whilst I was there I had picked a lot of the limewash off the wall. The floor was covered in it. We didn't have any electricity or hot water. There was a 'set pot' (copper) in the kitchen corner - we had to light a fire under it to get hot water. We had a Yorkshire Range in the living room and a gas ring in the kitchen.

Remember it well at mi Gran's.
Nail on the door for the newspaper...oil lamp to stop it freezing.

I remember when mi Gran bought her first roll of Izal, and mi Grandad played hell with her.

He said it spread it, instead of wiped!

I lived on Ripon Street 50's to 1969. Our lav waas about 25 yards away. Had to go for a sit down with an umbrella because some git had nicked the slates off the roof. One day dad gave me a crack because I`d used the bit of paper he had been reading earlier and he hadn't finished reading the article. Sad things about newspaper though it spread rather than wiped.