The Victorian Water Closet Or Toilet As It Is More Commonly Known These Days Stock Image

If you needed to go anytime from the Victorian era onwards there was a good chance that something like this small brick shed would be situated at the bottom of the garden or sometimes built on the back or side of the house requiring you to go outside in all weathers to use. No such thing has soft toilet tissue, Old newspapers were cut into 6` squares and the corners bodged with a sharp instrument and then string threaded through the holes and tied and hung on a nail on the wall, very often there was no lights in there and spiders came out a night, also many didn`t flush requiring you to take a bucket of water in there with you to flush the waste away, This photograph was taken at the Black Country Living Museum with a barrier in the foreground to stop visitors, spending a Penny