Using a public toilet from 1906!
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2022
- It’s not often I film inside gents toilets, but I’m making an exception just for you! This is a fascinating trip back in time to Edwardian England and 1906 - This is an original cast iron public convenience made at the height of the British Empire…there’s a Ladies block too of course!
The antique toilets are in use and you can see them (and try them out) at the Chiltern Open Air Museum in Buckinghamshire - here’s their website: www.coam.org.uk
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It’s amazing to see how well built things were at one time. The indoor swimming pool I went to as a child, in Montreal, was one of those old bath houses that had been converted. It was still in use up until just a couple of years ago too. They built things to last!
A different time, when workmanship and materials were expected to be of the highest standard. Before the invention of throw - away mass production…even with public conveniences!
I am annoyed and extremely angry that you did NOT film the toilet cubicles and you did NOT show us what the actual toilets themselves look like please go back again and next time actually video the toilet cibicles each one including the Universal Access toilets its a shame that you missed the most impirtant thing the actual toilets themselves and why on earth would you be scared?
The high point in public convenience construction. 🇬🇧👍
I saw your video on google maps reviews! Thank you so much for showing us the toilets. Very interesting!!!
I remember toilets like that from my youth in England. I’m in America and haven’t been back to Britain since ‘87. I miss it so!
Thanks so much for saying so and come to England!
I love it! The urinals themselves are quite an impressive feat, towering over everything. Unlike the silly little things they manufacture now only about the size of a bake sheet.
BLOODY NICE! I'd take me old dumper in there yeah!
David ! Can only imagine what those walls have seen , with those open urinals and all !!
Amazing loved the Twyfords stamp on the urinals,thanks for sharing😍
Thanks so much
Some things never change. Not nearly enough ladies' facilities, and did anyone else notice how few washing sinks were in the gent's compared to the number of urinals? Even back then men never washed their hands!
Love the sink basins .fabulous
I look forward to your new videos. I always have a smile on my face at the end, your delivery, fun attitude and the contents are perfect
Thanks, I really appreciate that. D
Dear David Harper, Unbelievable this is still in operation! Cool video David
As a toilet inspector I’m fascinated with this!
That’s fantastic, thanks Jessica
Even my grown up kids are toilet inspectors!! (Cleaners) with living in a Victorian sea side town I remember all the old loos before they got ‘updated’. We even had an outside toilet! Some places I go even have the original bathroom furniture!
@@jessicapayne8622 Prefer the old looking toilets. There was one on the seafront at Silecroft in Cumbria until they updated it with boring slate grey tiles a stainless steel 'rickety' hand basin that was so small that you could not fit both hands into it and the old fashioned toilet was in perfect working order 'I took a photo of it while we were on holiday up there' as these beautiful toilets are rare to see 'even had the name of the old Company that made the toilet ware in the back of the toilet bowl' The toilets still had the victorian tiles on the wall and everything looked fine until soulless modernisation found it's way to these lovely old toilets.
@@shiralleehaggart72 it kills my soul too knowing they take the style out of toilets
@@jessicapayne8622 Totally agree with you. We holiday there every couple of years 'in Cumbria' and I was gutted when we stopped at Silecroft and I used the toilet and saw the boring modern upgrade.
Particularly this 'Grey' everywhere when the tiles before were white and in immaculate condition as well.
"Subscribed" I tried to leave a comment on your bronze-spelter educational video which I found extremely informative, but my computer is playing up. Great videos very impressed, thank you. :)
Thanks so much. Really appreciated
The last time I visited a public toilet was in Dewsbury, and I was accosted by strange men so I got out of there 🤣 Sadly the toilet block wasn't as attractive as this one though. History is so beautiful.
so interesting - love it - also the old letter boxes - because a friend of mine and I looked at one in Oxton Birkenhead and we realised it must be very old - as having RVE on it - at the bottom and still working??? at the bottom meaning Regina Victoria ????
Victoria Regina is usually marked simply as VR, nor sure what RVE is?
I didn’t see the toilets. Did I miss something? But, aside from that great video.
Yes they’re certainly featured!
@@DavidHarperAntiquesTV if you say so😂 I just watched the video again and I clearly see the urinals, sinks and the bathroom attendants desk. I don’t actually see the antique toilets themselves.
@@DavidHarperAntiquesTV Where, the urinals were filmed, but I too did not see an actual stall?
shame the colouring is wrong for that the metal work should be black and the church the flat pack as well one in Portsmouth
It does seem quite similar to go away green that Disney use. Probably just meant to blend into the scenery.
No actual toilets!?! Interesting
Yes, actual toilets !
Strange only he who filmed them, actually saw them. Sounds like a politician to me LOL!
@@GI4JYT urinals are toilets!
@@DavidHarperAntiquesTV Agreed, but you know what I and the other contributors
meant!
@@GI4JYT I do and I don’t. The whole story here is the age of the block, an idea of what they were like to use, the construction and the history of public toilets!
Pity you didn't actually show a cubicle or flush. You couldn't persuade find a woman willing to film the other half of such a lovely antique toilet block?
I was filming Antiques Road Trip for the BBC at the time…I took a few minutes away to film this. Asking a lady to take cameras into toilets to film for me might have caused one or two issues!
@@DavidHarperAntiquesTV Yes, I guess it would.
sorry forgot to like it
What a load of 💩