- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Countryside Books; 1st ed. edition (2 Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1853065897
- ISBN-13: 978-1853065897
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 15 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 537,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book presents a light-hearted look at Dorset's loos of yesteryear with local anecdotes and photographs of those buildings still standing. It is fully illustrated.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Those were the days!,
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This review is from: Dorset Privies (Paperback)
Today, I doubt if any young people even stop to consider where everything goes when they pull the chain in the bathroom. Yet had they been born a half-Century or so earlier they would be far more than aware, as emptying 'the bucket' would be part of their daily chores. They would also be expected, as was my father in his youth, to spend quarter of an hour on Saturday morning tearing or cutting a few newspapers into the suitable size to hang on the wall for cleaning purposes; there was no TV then, never mind adverts with a stupid Labrador unwinding a roll of it all around the house; and having the paper steeped in Aloe Vera would have been thought quite insane to say the least!
This book is excellent, and I am so pleased that author, Ian Fox, chose the privies of Dorset as his subject, and the photos and text most certainly reflect that bygone era when there would always be a potty under the bed, or one hoped and prayed they could make it on-time if they didn't, as most privies were sited at the far end of the garden; for obvious reasons! And I am not only applaudiing this book just because it sports a photo of my old school toilets at Lytchett Minster junior school (as was), and many other in this locality, but that Ian Fox, with nudges from his good wife, had the mad idea that the book buying people of Dorset would buy it. And we have and will continue to do so for as long as it's in print.
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