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- Piddle Valley Relief
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In January 1991, MP Sir James Spicer
opened the new indoor lavatories for Piddle Valley First School
at Piddletrenthide near Dorchester.
- Privy
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This used to be a general word for 'lavatory' or 'toilet' but was used
especially for a shed or hut, separate from the house, which contained
seats over an earth closet, or sometimes a
water closet. Modern dictionaries say privy is an Amercian word for
an outside lavatory, but according to the OED, the word privy is 600 years
old, and means a private place of ease, a latrine, a necessary; hence privy
house and privy stool.
A privy was the normal lavatory in Britain for people living not only in the country, but in industrial towns, until the first half of the twentieth century; it was often at the bottom of the short garden, and was called by various names---'netty' in the north-east [of England] (see inspiration) and 'cludgie' in Glasgow.
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