Interesting public toilets/bathrooms

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  • Makes sense! Clochemerle rules OK!

    The toilets on the paddle steamer "Kingswear Castle" are rather special (one on each side, by the paddle wheels), however - and I speak from experience - a certain amount of mountaineering is required to access them! https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/08/fa/26/cf/paddle-steamer-kingswear.jpg

    I remember blowing "Kingswear Castle"'s whistle at an open day at Chatham Dockyard that must have been about 1986, but I've no recollection of anything else about her. That's impressive - not sure it meets modern accessibility standards!
  • Long ago - and perhaps it still is - there was a public bog on the South Inch in Perth, where we would announce a stop to admire the copper pipes. For indeed, whoever maintained the place at that time must have taken some pride in the beautifully polished copper and brass fittings in an unusually well-maintained public convenience. One of those odd little things that stays in the memory.
  • [quote="Sandemaniac;c-721600"That's impressive - not sure it meets modern accessibility standards! [/quote] It doesn't, the steamer's website says so.

  • Gill HGill H Shipmate
    Boogie wrote: »
    My friend has just returned from Japan and couldn’t get over their high tech toilets!

    We once knew someone who bought a Japanese ‘washlet’ toilet for his house, after visiting Japan.

    They are indeed an experience.
  • Gill H wrote: »
    Boogie wrote: »
    My friend has just returned from Japan and couldn’t get over their high tech toilets!

    We once knew someone who bought a Japanese ‘washlet’ toilet for his house, after visiting Japan.

    They are indeed an experience.

    One of our friends has one, his excuse being that it will make old age easier for him. He has a CD player connected to it, the latest recording being the Hallelujah Chorus. When I complimented him on it his lady friend complained that she's tired of having to resist the reflex to stand each time it plays. She preferred the Royal Fireworks that he had before.
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    Gill H wrote: »
    Boogie wrote: »
    My friend has just returned from Japan and couldn’t get over their high tech toilets!

    We once knew someone who bought a Japanese ‘washlet’ toilet for his house, after visiting Japan.

    They are indeed an experience.

    One of our friends has one, his excuse being that it will make old age easier for him. He has a CD player connected to it, the latest recording being the Hallelujah Chorus. When I complimented him on it his lady friend complained that she's tired of having to resist the reflex to stand each time it plays. She preferred the Royal Fireworks that he had before.

    Surely Handel's 'Water Music' would be more appropriate?

  • Or Smetana's "Vltava".

    You could have a framed text on the wall from Revelation 14:2: " I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters". (I suppose though that's only really appropriate if you have one of those old-fashioned toilets with a high-level cistern fixed to the wall).
  • We were surprised when we first saw toilets in japan that had a baby seat in which to place your baby.

    https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/36/57/a9/in-the-toilet-the-seat.jpg
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    Or Smetana's "Vltava".

    You could have a framed text on the wall from Revelation 14:2: " I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters". (I suppose though that's only really appropriate if you have one of those old-fashioned toilets with a high-level cistern fixed to the wall).

    Or 'Tinkle tinkle little star'.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Or Smetana's "Vltava".
    I was thinking Strauss’s An der schönen blauen Donau (“On the Beautiful Blue Danube.”)


  • Hmm ... one wonders if he'd actually seen it!
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Hmm ... one wonders if he'd actually seen it!
    Given that he lived in Vienna, I suppose we can assume he had. But perhaps he viewed it through sapphire-colored glasses.


  • TBF I've only seen it between Budapest and Szentendre, where it tends to be brownish.
  • We were surprised when we first saw toilets in japan that had a baby seat in which to place your baby.

    https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/36/57/a9/in-the-toilet-the-seat.jpg

    I've seen seats like that in a few family-oriented places in the US. It's a great idea. Surely most parents who have had newly-mobile little ones are familiar with the contortions necessary to keep your business end where it's doing its business, whilst simultaneously stretching out your spare limbs like an octopus to prevent your curious little one from unlocking the door and wandering off...

    (Surely Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" is the appropriate music, though.)
  • PriscillaPriscilla Shipmate
    Tebay has a child Level toilet in the family toilet.
    The toilets on the Hayes in Cardiff used to be splendid, with brass pipe work, brass coin slots on the heavy wood doors and an attendant in her own little office. She kept it immaculate, putting fresh flowers above the single hand basin. The toilets were under the pavement and had tiles in the pavement to let in light.
  • SighthoundSighthound Shipmate
    The gents at Barton Grange Garden Centre (north of Preston) are interesting and amusing.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7515513.stm

    They sell postcards of the 'flowers' so that women can also enjoy them!
  • ClimacusClimacus Shipmate
    Sighthound wrote: »
    The gents at Barton Grange Garden Centre (north of Preston) are interesting and amusing.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7515513.stm

    They sell postcards of the 'flowers' so that women can also enjoy them!

    Wow!

    I love the fact beauty [in my eyes] is present sometimes. I get we must be careful with money, but sometimes something different, unusual, etc. brings a smile and a bit of joy. Thank you for sharing.
  • AravisAravis Shipmate
    I remember the Hayes toilets in Cardiff too!
  • TelfordTelford Shipmate
    When I was a beat officer in the late 60s I was responsible for policing a small area on the east side of Wolverhampton town centre( Now city centre) Before WW2 it was a highly populated area of small streets, terraced houses and courts. There were about 30 public houses. Very few houses had their own toilets. They were shared between about half a dozen other houses. I my time almost all the terraced houses had been replaced by council houses but there were still 24 pubs and many shops on the main roads.

    Another relic of the past were three strategically placed brick built urinals for the males living or frequenting the area. They have now gone. There were no public toilets for females. I can't claim that these urinals had any architectural merit and they were actually a source of nuisance
  • TubbsTubbs Admin Emeritus, Epiphanies Host
    Down a side street near Covent Garden there is a fabulous restaurant. Downstairs is a toilet marked as being for under 16’s. The walls of both upstairs toilets were decorated with what’s best described as ‘scenes of an adult nature’. (Compared notes with husband afterwards).

    No photos as I didn’t take my phone. Which is possibly just as well for anyone accessing at work.
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