Re: Kanchou



Louise Bremner wrote:

Don Kirkman <donsno2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've never seen a privy attached (on an outside wall) to a house;

I lived for several years in a house with that arrangement---it's not
uncommon in Britain, I believe. In this case, it was a large old house
with a loo outside in the basement "area" just outside the scullery, so
we assumed it had been placed there for the use of the kitchen staff, to
save them having to go up two flights of stairs to the main one. Maybe
even to prevent them coming into contact with the family, but it wasn't
_that_ big a house, though.

Often it was just the only place that had room to add on a loo. Saw some
old council houses with part of the kitchen converted to a bathroom. Not
allowed these days.

I've seen a similar arrangment of a lean-to against an outer wall of the
house on the garden side, so that gardeners and other grubby persons
don't have to remove their muddy boots to come into the house.

Lived in an old worker's cottage in Somerset with that sort of
arrangement, but at sometime part of that had been converted to a shower
room; no loo though.
.

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