[PW] Re: ? Toilets in England

[Marian Drabkin]

>From twenty-odd years of visits to England as a tourist,
  I can say that there isn't any standard place for a
  flush.  Sometimes the flusher is in the form of a button
  on the top of the tank (modern), sometimes it's a
  pull-chain (very old and no longer made), more often
  it's a handle like the American toilets.  It lends a
  certain interest to traveling around and staying in
  hostels and bed-and-breakfasts.  One very old b&b
  in Oxford had a toilet with a blue-willow-pattern bowl
  and a wooden tank up near the ceiling and a very
  long pull-chain with a china knob.  That was probably
  Victorian, but it worked just fine so nobody ever saw
  the need to replace it.  I love non-standardization.
   
  If you look at  http://www.armitage-shanks.co.uk/homeowners/index.html
  you can see a variety of designs for
  bathroom fixtures.  In some, I wasn't
  able to figure out how on earth they flushed,
  but I trust they do.
   
  Marian Drabkin

Mary Barna <mbarna at albright.org> wrote:
  A patron has a picture of a toilet in England and the flush is on the
opposite side from where the flush is on American toilets. Her question
is, is this standard for British toilets? I have been to England but
toilet flushes are not memories that I brought back with me. I do
remember some pull chains, though. What can I say? It is Friday.



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