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If you liked these there's also a cool set of Victorian era toilets in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute: https://www.britainexpress.com/scotland/Bute/rothesays-vict
by smcl 4y ago
If you liked these there's also a cool set of Victorian era toilets in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute: https://www.britainexpress.com/scotland/Bute/rothesays-victorian-toilets.htm https://www.britainexpress.com/scotland/Bute/rothesays-victo...
As I was scanning the page to make sure it had a couple of nice photos I even learned something - the origin of the slang "steaming" for being drunk ("Davey was steamin' last night..."):
Why were there originally only male toilets?
The answer begins in 1853, when a law was passed banning the sale of alcohol in Scotland on Sundays. However, paddle steamers were exempt from this ban. The result ought to have been predictable; Scots intent on a drink took to 'steaming', which became popular slang for getting drunk.