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Hampshire Privies - Softcover

Ian Fox

 
9781853064708: Hampshire Privies

Synopsis

48 b/w photographs (if I’ve counted correctly)“Although Ian Fox was brought up in a household where full flush facilities wer available, his favourite WC was outside the back door, next to the coal shed. It had a cast iron cistern and a paraffin stove to keep it from freezing up in the winter. This sanctuary also provided the opportunity for reading and thinking and was a great bolthole to avoid doing the washing up. … In this book … he takes us from the dangerous Middle Ages (‘Beware of emptynge pysse pottes, and pyssing in chymnes’) to the more comic encounters of recent times …”

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