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Re: My birth
« Reply #81 on: Saturday 04 March 23 11:57 GMT (UK) »
Certainly that sounds 'posh' Top-of-the-hill!!
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« Reply #82 on: Saturday 04 March 23 13:06 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Pennines on Saturday 04 March 23 10:34 GMT (UK)
Carol - I am so pleased to hear that I was not the only person to have these 'facilities' in the family when I was a child.

However, in my head, I had always spelt them as Jerry and Guzunder - whereas you spell them Gerry and Gusunder. Mind you, we never got those words in a spelling test at school did we - so how do we know how they were spelt!!

There isn't a dictionary spelling  for It, so it's just down our interpretation of the words.
It certainly beats having to go out to the yard in the night  ;D
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Re: My birth
« Reply #83 on: Saturday 04 March 23 13:21 GMT (UK) »
I think we favoured ‘po’ but also ‘jerry’.
Skipping rhyme:
‘Eenie, meenie, miney mo
Put the baby on the po’

I won’t continue it … ;)

*there might be an ‘e’ on the end of ‘mo’ etc
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« Reply #84 on: Saturday 04 March 23 13:23 GMT (UK) »
Heywood - you are right! I had forgotten about 'po'!
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« Reply #85 on: Saturday 04 March 23 13:30 GMT (UK) »
Oh yes, Po.... short for potty!!  ;D
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« Reply #86 on: Saturday 04 March 23 13:36 GMT (UK) »
You were talking about outside lavatories previously. Ours was a tippler toilet like most.
The young woman next door married and her husband came to live with her family. He was a lovely man and enjoyed singing.
You always knew when he was using the lavatory as you would be serenaded with Mario Lanza songs and similar  :)
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« Reply #87 on: Saturday 04 March 23 13:57 GMT (UK) »
What was a Tippler toilet?
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« Reply #88 on: Saturday 04 March 23 14:28 GMT (UK) »
My brothers and I were born in hospital in Quebec in the 1940's and 50's.  My oldest brother was born in the "old" hospital in town where the nursing staff were French Canadian Catholic nuns.  Right after he was born the nuns wanted to baptize him (RC) but my Anglican mother said oh no, you're not!  By the time my other brother and I came along, the new hospital had been built and there was no such confusion (or she had made it clear beforehand, no RC baptism!).

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« Reply #89 on: Saturday 04 March 23 16:07 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Treetotal on Saturday 04 March 23 13:57 GMT (UK)
What was a Tippler toilet?
Carol

Sorry, Carol. It had nothing to do with my story but it was the old style that didn’t have a flush. There was some sort of ‘bucket’ contraption as part of the sewerage system and when it filled with waste water, it would then ‘tip up’ and get rid of whatever was there.
We all had our own toilet in our own back yards and our neighbour would  serenade us with his ‘songs from the shows’.
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