Stallard12 Posted July 16, 2011 Report Share Posted July 16, 2011 Had a little password trouble which Gary has kindly sorted for me, made it too late for me to comment on a recent topic, so I hope you will bear with me reintroducing it. Re the brave men of the sanitary department, who emptied the 'one holers' every night, known as the 'midnight wedding'. In the early forties I would sometimes sleep at my grans house on Manchester Rd, close to St Elfin's Park. On warm nights the window would be left open and around midnight I would hear the bins being dragged over the cobbled alley and then carried to the waiting truck. It was quite usual to hear conversations and comments of the two men carrying a tub like: "Let your end down a bit Fred, it's running down my clog!". As a cyclist, I would automatically avoid the trickle escaping from the rear end of the familiar round top truck and hold my breath until the cloud around it cleared. Ahh, the good old days!!! Thought this was a bit of a light hearted change from politics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted July 16, 2011 Report Share Posted July 16, 2011 excellent.... love the clog moment! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted July 16, 2011 Report Share Posted July 16, 2011 Kids would go round tickling bums with a stick, as you could access the crap house from the back - gay days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted July 16, 2011 Report Share Posted July 16, 2011 Or a bunch of nettles if they could get hold of them, I never did anything like that though honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted July 16, 2011 Report Share Posted July 16, 2011 Had a little password trouble which Gary has kindly sorted for me, made it too late for me to comment on a recent topic, so I hope you will bear with me reintroducing it. Â and you can change your name in your profile settings if yuou want to - I notice a family member has also registered now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted July 16, 2011 Report Share Posted July 16, 2011 It made me crindge reading that Stallard12... especially the bit about the clogs and the trickle from the van YEUCH !! How times have changed eh ... thankfully. Â ... and now we know what Obs and Algy used to get upto too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stallard12 Posted July 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2011 An interim measure that is now redundant. Thanks for the help Gary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted July 17, 2011 Report Share Posted July 17, 2011 There was foreman at ICI. called 'Rolley' who was in charge of the works utilities or in those days the 'Mains & Drains Dept', when there was a sewerage blockage he would descend down into the foul sewer to investigate, if anyone remarked to him that the didn't know how he could do such an unpalatable job he would inevitably reply " It may be 'Shit' to you but it's my bread & butter". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stallard12 Posted July 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2011 Just a final anecdote on this revolting subject. Our neighbor (not close thank God !)in Woolston worked at the treatment plant and he smelled so bad that he was permanently banned from using the buses, even on his off days, sorry, days' off. He had to walk all the way from Woolston to Warrington twice a day. In those days it was permissable to use human ...... as fertilizer. My father was a big rose grower and one day the neighbor knocked at the door and handed my father a brown paper parcel, "For the roses" he said. It stank to high heaven, we had to bury it three feet deep to hide the smell and we left the doors and windows of the house open for about a week to purify the house. OK, that's it, I'm officially out of this discussion !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted July 18, 2011 Report Share Posted July 18, 2011 Phew thank goodness for that. I don't think I could bare to read any more descriptive tales about poop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted July 18, 2011 Report Share Posted July 18, 2011 Phew thank goodness for that. I don't think I could bare to read any more descriptive tales about poop I wonder why that's why they call it the 'poop' deck on a ship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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