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Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, It's only 20p...
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:07 am
by ash
....to view, and indeed use this magnificent facility.
The crew was disappointed to find that the Ladies isn't to this standard. I've just read on t'interweb that the facility was only a Gents, and that the Ladies is more modern.
Only a few steps from the embarkation gangway on Rothesay Pier, Isle of Bute, lies the most impressive surviving late Victorian public convenience in Scotland, if not Britain.
Commissioned by Rothesay Harbour Trust in 1899 during Rothesay’s hey-day as a holiday resort, the gents lavatory, a most unusual survivor of the Victorian era, was always intended to impress.
The interior is magnificient with walls entirely clad in decorative ceramic tiles, ornately patterned in rows. The floors are designed with ceramic mosaic, with the crest of the Royal Burgh of Rothesay at the entance.
Open 7 days a week, the Victorian Toilets are fully functional Public Lavatories. As part of the £300,000 restoration project in the 1990′s there are modern ladies toilets with mother and child facilities, disabled toilets with father and child facilities and ladies & gents showers.
http://www.visitbute.com/2012/01/rothes ... n-toilets/
Ash
Re: Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, It's only 20p...
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:10 am
by Pete Cooper
Disappointing to see that the end of the personal hygene paper isn't folded into a neat point.
Re: Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, It's only 20p...
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:34 pm
by Booby Trapper
Maybe not the most hygenic but the old wooden toilet seats in there are the most cumffy I have ever had the pleasure of resting my arse on.
Re: Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, It's only 20p...
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:40 pm
by ash
Booby Trapper wrote:Maybe not the most hygenic but the old wooden toilet seats in there are the most cumffy I have ever had the pleasure of resting my arse on.
+1
It's all in the width. The greater area of contact reduces the pressure (of contact ).
Ash
Re: Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, It's only 20p...
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:52 pm
by aquaplane
And being a poor conductor of heat they are warm to the, ermmmm, touch.
Izal Medicated Toilet Tissue On Request
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:26 pm
by BlowingOldBoots
You can even ask for Izal Medicated Toilet Tissue for the true authentic experience. The "Adamant Deluge" toilet cistern as a significant flow rate which easily flushes away the mass of shiny, low friction paper, that is needed for effective results.
Re: Izal Medicated Toilet Tissue On Request
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:54 pm
by ubergeekian
BlowingOldBoots wrote:You can even ask for Izal Medicated Toilet Tissue for the true authentic experience. The "Adamant Deluge" toilet cistern as a significant flow rate which easily flushes away the mass of shiny, low friction paper, that is needed for effective results.
I have a couple of rolls of Izal medicated stashed away at home, to be brought out if guests stay too long.
Re: Izal Medicated Toilet Tissue On Request
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:59 pm
by Fingal
ubergeekian wrote:
I have a couple of rolls of Izal medicated stashed away at home, to be brought out if guests stay too long.
That is indeed a cunning plan.
Re: Izal Medicated Toilet Tissue On Request
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:38 pm
by Old_Glow_In_The_Deep
ubergeekian wrote:BlowingOldBoots wrote:You can even ask for Izal Medicated Toilet Tissue for the true authentic experience. The "Adamant Deluge" toilet cistern as a significant flow rate which easily flushes away the mass of shiny, low friction paper, that is needed for effective results.
I have a couple of rolls of Izal medicated stashed away at home, to be brought out if guests stay too long.
Not a chance! … I’d just think I was back at my Nan’s & enjoy the experience.
Re: Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, It's only 20p...
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:55 pm
by Arghiro
Ahh, yes, bin there & done in that.
I used to be berthed at Rothesay Inner Harbour. The first half hour of every visit to the boat was spent clearing chip papers, fag packet (& stogies) and beer cans/ wine bottles out of the cockpit. genereally managed a half bin bag full.
Re: Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, It's only 20p...
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:46 pm
by Aja
Arghiro wrote:Ahh, yes, bin there & done in that.
I used to be berthed at Rothesay Inner Harbour. The first half hour of every visit to the boat was spent clearing chip papers, fag packet (& stogies) and beer cans/ wine bottles out of the cockpit. genereally managed a half bin bag full.
Ah. Sorry about that.
Donald