Night soiler???

[carol sea]

Good stuff, Jane. But I can't imagine why you happen to have a photo of a loo??!!

Carol

[smeghead]

Looks like a job for Dan Dan the lavatory man.

[smeghead]

Just a little poem i found

                The lavatory man The lavatory man down  in the subway underneath the ground theres an awful lot of bulls--t
hanging around some is wet some is dry some don't smell but me o My dan dan the lavatory man hes the superintendent of the s--thouse gang picking up the papers rolling up the towels working to the sound of the grumbling bowels plipperdeplop, a sound is heard its the sound of the slippery turd plipperdep,hear them drop do the oakey coaky to the s--thouse rock.

  ps  tryed to keep it clean

                                            Jim

[KeithS]

Spot on Jane with the pic!

Does anyone know what a Tippler toilet is/was?

[Jane Eden]

Keith

2 links for tippler toilet.

http://members.aol.com/tamesidehistory/memories.htm

http://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/ltp/Interviews/TAPE%2078AH13.htm

Jane

[carol sea]

Well, it's true that you learn something every day! Especially on this site.

Carol

[KeithS]

Thanks for that Jane. I was in fact asking if anyone had or had not heard of them. Having sat on ours for many a year I am intimately aquainted. I would have regaled posters with some experiences but thought the subject was drifting to far off list. The diagram available on the Tameside site is accurate save that the 6 foot drop is a minmum, not a maximum. Also, no technical diagram can convey the experience.

Keith

[mikehicks]

I have an ancestor whose occupation on marriage was "bottom trimmer". My wife thinks it's something to do with the seats of chairs, but his father was a farmer, so I reckon it's something to do with sheep, if you know what I mean.

Is anyone else out there a bottom trimmer?

Mike

[KeithS]

Bottom Trimmer Occupations in Google comes up with some interesting links about every kind of bottom job except trimmer. I know you've alluded to farming but was there any other major industry in the area. I'm thinking of course of the famous Sagger Makers Bottom Knocker which was a pottery job. Have you checked a relevant census. If you look at neighbour's occupations you may get some clues. Keep us posted.