“I don’t think turning a public lavatory into an eating place is the best idea,” she said.
“If people knew what it had been, would they really want to go?”
Nice rational argument there. *clutches pearls* *reaches for nosegay*
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » General Edinburgh
Public Toilets
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Those genuine Victorian porcelain tiled interiors would be all the rage if they still exist (I don't think I've ever patronised any of the facilities in question to check on the fittings and furnishings).
If I didn't have a baby in a pram with me and wasn't rushing for a train, I would have paused to photograph both the number and private hire registration plate and the back of the driver none-too-subtly relieving himself in Regent Road park yesterday morning.
Posted 8 years ago # -
When I lived in Manchester I used to go passed a barber's on my way to work that was situated inside an old public convenience. The Men's Room, iirc.
Can't say it being a former toilet would have stopped me from going in.
Posted 8 years ago # -
One of the property programmes on C4 showed an old public toilet that had been converted into a house. They'd done a great job of it, even more impressive as it was down a set of stairs on a busy road in London.
Posted 8 years ago # -
The seafood temple in Oban was a tiled Victorian park pavilion as the lonel planet calls it (my old man said it was the best seafood restaurant he had ever eaten in). I am told it is run by a family name of Hogg and is known locally as Hogg's Bogs
Posted 8 years ago # -
I'm told that cafes are legally obliged to allow non-customers to use their toilets.
Posted 6 years ago # -
"I'm told that cafes are legally obliged to allow non-customers to use their toilets."
I don't think that's correct.
Posted 6 years ago # -
From link
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The council would try to offset the closures by stepping up its “community toilet scheme”, which pays businesses £500 a year for allowing members of the public to use their loos. Only nine businesses are signed up to the scheme.“
Posted 6 years ago # -
In the warm dry weather over the summer it was quite noticeable that a "community toilet" scheme was in full operation in various parts of Edinburgh.
I guess they are going for the traditional medieval vibe for this World Heritage site.
(Garde l'eau...)
Posted 6 years ago # -
Yes, it didn't sound likely to me either but the person who said it did so by way of explaining why so many people were wandering in to use the toilets in the Costa we were in.
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Britain's desperate lack of public toilets says so much about our country
"Roaming the streets of Bristol with my son, before and during the pandemic, I’ve found myself doing what many others can’t do so easily: I’ve broken the law by pissing in parks and scrapyards, my son in his buggy or strapped to my chest an unwitting accomplice to my heinous crimes. If I wasn’t an able-bodied cis man, this would either be much harder or it would be impossible. If I weren’t a white man, I would most likely attract far more attention and would, if discovered by law enforcement officers, find it far harder to talk my way out of trouble. If I was homeless, and had no access to a public facility, it would be used as an excuse to remove me from public land.
A society’s provision of public toilets may seem like a small thing but it cuts to the heart of almost everything. When out in the world, at some point everybody needs to use the toilet. Yet so often in this country we have to pay money for the privilege of doing something we have no real control over, particularly – and really this list could be endless – if we are disabled, or on our period, or pregnant, or with a baby, or suffer from a digestive disease.
What we have in the demise of public toilets in Britain is a story with which we are becoming more and more familiar – a story about a place that sold off public space to private interests."
Posted 4 years ago # -
The one toilet in Blair Atholl had a fair sized queue though on the plus side we all held the door open for each other so did not need to pay the 20p
Posted 4 years ago # -
The Netherlands doesn't have much by way of public toilets at all - even shopping centres won't necessarily have them!
Hot tip for the touring cyclist - libraries usually have toilets that aren't just for staff!
Robert
Posted 4 years ago # -
Pro-tip for Pitlochry. There is a good set of toilets in the Faskally Forest car park a few miles out of town; they're (usually) both clean and free.
Posted 4 years ago # -
I say Consult The Cottagers
Posted 3 years ago # -
They didn't consult anyone before closing the toilets in London Road Gardens. Now converted into offices, home to several creative/design/advertising businesses. The toilets at Haymarket are long gone too.
Clearly the Council were more hesitant about upsetting the residents of certain other areas, but the now the axe of ongoing public sector austerity "lite" will fall there too...
Posted 3 years ago # -
Two out of three public loos have closed in Portobello, four if you include the Tardis automated loo that used to be on the prom. One permanent closure at the pumping station, one long term at the cross.
The closed set of loos is to become a 'Lobster and Champagne Bar' and there was talk of trying to take one set of loos into community ownership - Porty, eh?
Posted 3 years ago # -
On the Cramond esplanade there is an offical-looking sign that directs you to the public toilet. Kudos to them.
Cafes being closed have made outings more difficult for those of us who aren't blokes.
Provision of public toilets was a big feminist issue in the nineteenth century. That was one reason for the popularity of department stores - they were somewhere clean and safe for women to relieve themselves.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Good points Rosie
I was coming down the Maidens Cleugh off the Pentlands towards Harlaw last night
Three cats really tanking it. With The fastest One I was able to warn some quite doddery dog walkers to get out the way as he was taking no prisoners.
Then I am bumbling down as very rutted and I was on a tourer.
What are these guys up to in the middle of the path with no bushes or even the drystane.
You guessed it. A big pee pee. FFS
Ranger Centre loo shut but cuh mon. In Mallorca the Germans on the Max Train will just pee next to you.
Men eh?
Posted 3 years ago # -
gembo, is your objection to them peeing outdoors, or merely their lack of discretion? (Men are very variable in the latter, I find.)
Posted 3 years ago # -
Lack of discretion, attempt to find a Bush or loup a wall
Posted 3 years ago # -
Corstorphine public toilets up for sale including office space at the rear.
Posted 3 years ago #
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