That seems strange to pull the chain and the lights shut off its always done that for some time as i been to these my self and i was young at the time but i find stainless steel toilets very cold to sit on and un comfy with those pads but they are ok to sit on with normal seats over all they are good toilets for community to prevent damage and saves money on repairs
@dauntless486 would be tempted. I know that places in Devon & Cornwall have been filmed in the past. I remember going to Torquay when I was younger but the only toilets I remember where some horrible stainless steel 70s style ones concealed.
@dauntless486 no, we used to have an original china low level from 1953 when our house was built but we replaced it in 2007. Upstairs we also have a modern button toilet. Nothing exciting really.
@breadcrub possibly the original height and when replaced at a later date they put a new cistern where the old one was. Had this toilet been built in the 70s no doubt it would be the boring concealed arrangement.
@smoogie7 Interesting point you make on if the toilet was built in the 70s it would have been concealed.I always wondered when the concealed ones came about,as I know a lot of high cisterns in the 80s was open,and was quite common.
In my moms road the houses all used to have high level cisterns in the outhouses :-)
@breadcrub I don't know when the concealed arrangement came about but I know it was the 50s some time. In Bournemouth libary there are plans of most of the schools built and one school, a junior school (since demolished) had this arrangement and this school opened in 1952. Also a school built in 1956, 1957 and the college extension also 1957 had the concealed arrangement.
@smoogie7 Interesting,never knew it was that far back.I always thought it was more modern.Alot of the weatherspoon pubs have high cisterns that are concealed also :-)
@breadcrub However many schools built up to the present day still used the 'exposed' so a number of schools built in the 50s, 60s and 70s had high level exposed. I know the public toilets in Poole Park which where built as part of the cafe was built in 1961 and they where concealed. I think Bournemouth's last exposed toilets where the Boscombe Pier rebuild of 1962. Near by was a set of concealed toilets that looked late 50s. They have now gone.
@smoogie7 Thanks so much on your comment on the concealed toilets.Shame to hear the ones on the pier have gone.
I also think these old high level cistern toilets seem to last for a very long time if well looked after,the ones in Goodrington must be over 30 to 40 years old.
@breadcrub The Boscombe Peir toilets where in a horrible state of disrepair at the time of closure, the area has changed alot over the last few years. The earliest concealed toilets in B'mouth where to East of Boscombe Peir and I saw a hole in the wall (where an air vent was) and but my camer and filmed inside the space and managed to catch some now level white cisterns, a replacement of a high level no doubt.
@smoogie7 Always a shame when high levels are replaced.
Shame how the Pier toilets went so bad that they couldnt have been restored to there former standard.You reminded me of seeing High level toilets in Western Super Mare,but sadly I had no camcorder then,since going back a year later they were shut,doubt I go back to Western as not much there for me to travel a good while to get too,but it be a shame if these high cisterns I last saw there are now gone.
@breadcrub Around half of the B'mouth toilets where refurbished in the 90s (some closed) around 10 years ago therer was 12 you could fine and now only one left :'( I started discovering them in 2002 onwards but I always wonder what it would have been like to go back to the early 90s before the others were refurbished. Nearly all of them (I worked out B'mouth once had nearly 50 toilets) would have been high level except for a few that got done in the 80s.
@smoogie7 Shame only one left out of so many.Wow nearly 50!
I know exactly what you mean feeling like you want to see them how they was,I am like that also..Bham used to have alot of high cistern park toilets in the 80s,now public toilets in Birmingham are very rare,unless you get those computerised pay ones which I never use,horrible!
Even the new stainless steel public toilets are closed at the bus station not far from me.
@breadcrub I rememberd the only other public high level in B'mouth are the ones in Kings Park which I also filmed but they are male only and only ever open now and then. I heard in Manchester they are going to close all but one of their public toilets. Its a cheeky tactic councils use to get through the 'cuts' but really this has gone on four years. In the local paper a few weeks back I read that B'mouth council has decied to close some toilets. These had been closed for years though
@smoogie7 This is the sad thing were public toilets are hardly open anymore.Interesting you mention of the public toilets closing,another friend on here say that coucils are wanting to get rid of the brick toilets and instead have superloos,well I wont use those kind.Its such a shame that also they think of having to save money,if thats also a problem they should do what they do in London charge to go in to keep the cost up.
@breadcrub We have 10p toilets in Poole which replaced some nasty (and concealed) 60s style toilets. These new pay toilets although as cheap as possible are even worse, lights don't work and litter on the floor. I would pay a pound at a time to use some well maintainted high level toilets and I would pay a fiver it is victorian! I heard they planned to close half the toilets on the Isle of Weight but some victorian ones are being saved.
@smoogie7 Interesting to hear of the 10p toilets,shame they not that nice,esp as you have to pay to use them.I agree,I would also pay more for better toilets esp for some fantastic victorian ones.
The toilets in our New Street station are 30 pence here,but Snow Hill station is free.London charge 50p near the thames but 30 at the stations.
Shame so many toilets are been closed on the Isle of weight,but good to hear some victorian ones will be saved and looked after.
@breadcrub well I sent an Email to Brighton & Hove City council asking if they will reopen any of their closed toilets. They said they have no intention to do so although are planning on selling one on. Seems like a money making scheme set up by the council and a great shame I never got to see them. Also I read in 2002 tyhere was over 50 public toilets in Brighton but now the number has dropped to 43. I believe at one time (pre 2000s) there was more and good ones as well.
@smoogie7 I think thats a very good idea,I admit I never though of doing that,good luck :-) Oh I see,shame you got such a reply.Yep what a shame,though Im glad you tried by emailing them.These councils seem quite stubourn sadly.
Such a shame so many are closing.Really wish I had my camcorder and Youtube in the 80s/90s as there was great toilets around back then.Though Im glad you still have alot of good ones around that you videoed.
@breadcrub Even 10 years ago there was enough that could keep me busy to film, and thats just in my area. Other places might have been even more worth a film. I wasn't born until 1987 so I can't say I remember any high levels back then but I do remember alot in the 90s, right up until ten years ago. My Grandparents house in Harrow, London had a black shires which I think is how it started for me.
@smoogie7 I hope my friend,in another 10 years there be so little left in public toilets we be thinking nowadays was very good lol :-D
Great to hear how it started for you with your Grandparents black shires.
Yep I agree the 90s had still alot of good toilets though I guess I remember them more from my childhood more,as in the 90s I stopped noticing them as much,it was only seeing the Victorian bowl in Devon that I got into toilets,that was 2005.
@smoogie7 PS..On my last comment I meant I hope not in anothewr 10 years.
I remember alot of public toilets in parks and even in bus stations in the early 80s been very dull,darkly lit and scarey lol,esp with the big metal doors,properly used lead paint sadly before the dangers was known,even the school toilets wasent very welcoming,but dispite the mustard yellow walls the rows of old bowls and high black cisterns where fantastic,sadly these old toilets got demolished for inside ones.
@breadcrub outside toilets in schools are very rare these days. My secondary school would have had outdoor acess both outside and inside. The doorways got boarded up and the toilets later refurbished but I came across the old boys toilets while helping clear out an old store room. The store room was once a coridor to outside and a small window revealed the original toilets which had brown tiles and rows of doors. The urinals where in a seperate space. It was a shame they closed them.
@smoogie7 Found your story on the old school toilets very interesting.I liked how you managed to see the original toilets,tiles and doors,must have been great to see them again.Wish they open these old toilets again.Seems a waste!
I remember seeing outdoor toilets in Harbourne but with iron black gates so you cannot enter,I cannot remember going in them,but I imagine inside they be great to see.
I would pay a yearly fee to see the old public toilets back like they used too be.
@breadcrub i can remember nearly every toilet I visitited. I am thinking of goin back to Eastbourne soon. When I was last there in 2003 the black shires where still standing
@smoogie7 Great news on you going back to Eastbourne,hope the toilets there are exactly the same as they was in 2003,it be great if they still were still black shires.
@breadcrub on the imagae sharing site flikr someone had pics of some Eastbourne toilets I had never seen still open and high level but one set closed. When I do go back I will have to see toilets in other places as well as just the seafront. Also I might be off to Brighton this Wednesday or Thursday so I aim to find at least one set of high levels.
@smoogie7 I take a look at that,I admit Flicker is a great site,good photos of toilets on there when I can find them.
Let me know if you get to video any toilets in Brighton my friend,hope you find some great high levels there :-)
I went to Wales a few months back to Aberwisyh (sorry on spelling) I really hoped been at the cost there be alot of high cisterns,but sadly all modernised,nice toilets though,some even got Loo of the year awards :-)
@breadcrub the only Welch toilets I had where on my channel, the victorian ones in Cardiff. Brighton & Hove City Council are going to close a few (the public have been protesting like mad to keep them open) and I will try to film these as if they do close then no one else will.
That seems strange to pull the chain and the lights shut off its always done that for some time as i been to these my self and i was young at the time but i find stainless steel toilets very cold to sit on and un comfy with those pads but they are ok to sit on with normal seats over all they are good toilets for community to prevent damage and saves money on repairs
Dorritopepsi900 1 month ago
Try Devon
dauntless486 1 month ago
@dauntless486 would be tempted. I know that places in Devon & Cornwall have been filmed in the past. I remember going to Torquay when I was younger but the only toilets I remember where some horrible stainless steel 70s style ones concealed.
smoogie7 1 month ago
Have you filmed your home toilet?
dauntless486 2 months ago
@dauntless486 no, we used to have an original china low level from 1953 when our house was built but we replaced it in 2007. Upstairs we also have a modern button toilet. Nothing exciting really.
smoogie7 2 months ago
@smoogie7 Oh I thought you would keep it but pubs can still have high levels I think
dauntless486 1 month ago
Whats up with the lights?
Markb03 3 months ago
@Markb03 No idea. It seemed strange to me
smoogie7 2 months ago
These cisterns look alot higher than normal,I really like them!
breadcrub 3 months ago in playlist More videos from smoogie7
@breadcrub possibly the original height and when replaced at a later date they put a new cistern where the old one was. Had this toilet been built in the 70s no doubt it would be the boring concealed arrangement.
smoogie7 2 months ago
@smoogie7 Interesting point you make on if the toilet was built in the 70s it would have been concealed.I always wondered when the concealed ones came about,as I know a lot of high cisterns in the 80s was open,and was quite common.
In my moms road the houses all used to have high level cisterns in the outhouses :-)
breadcrub 2 months ago
@breadcrub I don't know when the concealed arrangement came about but I know it was the 50s some time. In Bournemouth libary there are plans of most of the schools built and one school, a junior school (since demolished) had this arrangement and this school opened in 1952. Also a school built in 1956, 1957 and the college extension also 1957 had the concealed arrangement.
smoogie7 1 month ago
@smoogie7 Interesting,never knew it was that far back.I always thought it was more modern.Alot of the weatherspoon pubs have high cisterns that are concealed also :-)
breadcrub 1 month ago
@breadcrub However many schools built up to the present day still used the 'exposed' so a number of schools built in the 50s, 60s and 70s had high level exposed. I know the public toilets in Poole Park which where built as part of the cafe was built in 1961 and they where concealed. I think Bournemouth's last exposed toilets where the Boscombe Pier rebuild of 1962. Near by was a set of concealed toilets that looked late 50s. They have now gone.
smoogie7 1 month ago
@smoogie7 Thanks so much on your comment on the concealed toilets.Shame to hear the ones on the pier have gone.
I also think these old high level cistern toilets seem to last for a very long time if well looked after,the ones in Goodrington must be over 30 to 40 years old.
breadcrub 1 month ago
@breadcrub The Boscombe Peir toilets where in a horrible state of disrepair at the time of closure, the area has changed alot over the last few years. The earliest concealed toilets in B'mouth where to East of Boscombe Peir and I saw a hole in the wall (where an air vent was) and but my camer and filmed inside the space and managed to catch some now level white cisterns, a replacement of a high level no doubt.
smoogie7 1 month ago
@smoogie7 Always a shame when high levels are replaced.
Shame how the Pier toilets went so bad that they couldnt have been restored to there former standard.You reminded me of seeing High level toilets in Western Super Mare,but sadly I had no camcorder then,since going back a year later they were shut,doubt I go back to Western as not much there for me to travel a good while to get too,but it be a shame if these high cisterns I last saw there are now gone.
breadcrub 1 month ago
@breadcrub Around half of the B'mouth toilets where refurbished in the 90s (some closed) around 10 years ago therer was 12 you could fine and now only one left :'( I started discovering them in 2002 onwards but I always wonder what it would have been like to go back to the early 90s before the others were refurbished. Nearly all of them (I worked out B'mouth once had nearly 50 toilets) would have been high level except for a few that got done in the 80s.
smoogie7 1 month ago
@smoogie7 Shame only one left out of so many.Wow nearly 50!
I know exactly what you mean feeling like you want to see them how they was,I am like that also..Bham used to have alot of high cistern park toilets in the 80s,now public toilets in Birmingham are very rare,unless you get those computerised pay ones which I never use,horrible!
Even the new stainless steel public toilets are closed at the bus station not far from me.
breadcrub 1 month ago
@breadcrub I rememberd the only other public high level in B'mouth are the ones in Kings Park which I also filmed but they are male only and only ever open now and then. I heard in Manchester they are going to close all but one of their public toilets. Its a cheeky tactic councils use to get through the 'cuts' but really this has gone on four years. In the local paper a few weeks back I read that B'mouth council has decied to close some toilets. These had been closed for years though
smoogie7 1 month ago
@smoogie7 This is the sad thing were public toilets are hardly open anymore.Interesting you mention of the public toilets closing,another friend on here say that coucils are wanting to get rid of the brick toilets and instead have superloos,well I wont use those kind.Its such a shame that also they think of having to save money,if thats also a problem they should do what they do in London charge to go in to keep the cost up.
breadcrub 1 month ago
@breadcrub We have 10p toilets in Poole which replaced some nasty (and concealed) 60s style toilets. These new pay toilets although as cheap as possible are even worse, lights don't work and litter on the floor. I would pay a pound at a time to use some well maintainted high level toilets and I would pay a fiver it is victorian! I heard they planned to close half the toilets on the Isle of Weight but some victorian ones are being saved.
smoogie7 1 month ago
@smoogie7 Interesting to hear of the 10p toilets,shame they not that nice,esp as you have to pay to use them.I agree,I would also pay more for better toilets esp for some fantastic victorian ones.
The toilets in our New Street station are 30 pence here,but Snow Hill station is free.London charge 50p near the thames but 30 at the stations.
Shame so many toilets are been closed on the Isle of weight,but good to hear some victorian ones will be saved and looked after.
breadcrub 1 month ago
@breadcrub well I sent an Email to Brighton & Hove City council asking if they will reopen any of their closed toilets. They said they have no intention to do so although are planning on selling one on. Seems like a money making scheme set up by the council and a great shame I never got to see them. Also I read in 2002 tyhere was over 50 public toilets in Brighton but now the number has dropped to 43. I believe at one time (pre 2000s) there was more and good ones as well.
smoogie7 1 month ago
@smoogie7 I think thats a very good idea,I admit I never though of doing that,good luck :-) Oh I see,shame you got such a reply.Yep what a shame,though Im glad you tried by emailing them.These councils seem quite stubourn sadly.
Such a shame so many are closing.Really wish I had my camcorder and Youtube in the 80s/90s as there was great toilets around back then.Though Im glad you still have alot of good ones around that you videoed.
breadcrub 1 month ago
@breadcrub Even 10 years ago there was enough that could keep me busy to film, and thats just in my area. Other places might have been even more worth a film. I wasn't born until 1987 so I can't say I remember any high levels back then but I do remember alot in the 90s, right up until ten years ago. My Grandparents house in Harrow, London had a black shires which I think is how it started for me.
smoogie7 1 month ago
@smoogie7 I hope my friend,in another 10 years there be so little left in public toilets we be thinking nowadays was very good lol :-D
Great to hear how it started for you with your Grandparents black shires.
Yep I agree the 90s had still alot of good toilets though I guess I remember them more from my childhood more,as in the 90s I stopped noticing them as much,it was only seeing the Victorian bowl in Devon that I got into toilets,that was 2005.
Really miss the coloured ones too.
breadcrub 1 month ago
@smoogie7 PS..On my last comment I meant I hope not in anothewr 10 years.
I remember alot of public toilets in parks and even in bus stations in the early 80s been very dull,darkly lit and scarey lol,esp with the big metal doors,properly used lead paint sadly before the dangers was known,even the school toilets wasent very welcoming,but dispite the mustard yellow walls the rows of old bowls and high black cisterns where fantastic,sadly these old toilets got demolished for inside ones.
breadcrub 1 month ago
@breadcrub outside toilets in schools are very rare these days. My secondary school would have had outdoor acess both outside and inside. The doorways got boarded up and the toilets later refurbished but I came across the old boys toilets while helping clear out an old store room. The store room was once a coridor to outside and a small window revealed the original toilets which had brown tiles and rows of doors. The urinals where in a seperate space. It was a shame they closed them.
smoogie7 1 month ago
@smoogie7 Found your story on the old school toilets very interesting.I liked how you managed to see the original toilets,tiles and doors,must have been great to see them again.Wish they open these old toilets again.Seems a waste!
I remember seeing outdoor toilets in Harbourne but with iron black gates so you cannot enter,I cannot remember going in them,but I imagine inside they be great to see.
I would pay a yearly fee to see the old public toilets back like they used too be.
breadcrub 1 month ago
@breadcrub i can remember nearly every toilet I visitited. I am thinking of goin back to Eastbourne soon. When I was last there in 2003 the black shires where still standing
smoogie7 1 month ago
@smoogie7 Great news on you going back to Eastbourne,hope the toilets there are exactly the same as they was in 2003,it be great if they still were still black shires.
breadcrub 1 month ago
@breadcrub on the imagae sharing site flikr someone had pics of some Eastbourne toilets I had never seen still open and high level but one set closed. When I do go back I will have to see toilets in other places as well as just the seafront. Also I might be off to Brighton this Wednesday or Thursday so I aim to find at least one set of high levels.
smoogie7 1 month ago
@smoogie7 I used to live in Eastbourne I visited Eastbourne yesterday and shot 3 toilets but i will go back get the shoots of the other toilets
Dorritopepsi900 1 month ago
@smoogie7 I take a look at that,I admit Flicker is a great site,good photos of toilets on there when I can find them.
Let me know if you get to video any toilets in Brighton my friend,hope you find some great high levels there :-)
I went to Wales a few months back to Aberwisyh (sorry on spelling) I really hoped been at the cost there be alot of high cisterns,but sadly all modernised,nice toilets though,some even got Loo of the year awards :-)
breadcrub 1 month ago
@breadcrub the only Welch toilets I had where on my channel, the victorian ones in Cardiff. Brighton & Hove City Council are going to close a few (the public have been protesting like mad to keep them open) and I will try to film these as if they do close then no one else will.
smoogie7 1 month ago
@smoogie7 Never been there,great that they victorian ones,esp in a big city like that.
Shame if they close after so many want them open,but good idea to video just incase they do shut them.
breadcrub 1 month ago
A bit weak but nice cistern
dauntless486 3 months ago
@dauntless486 Thanks for the comment didnt think anyone would view it yet.
smoogie7 3 months ago
@smoogie7 I'm waiting and watching them at the moment
dauntless486 3 months ago