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Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up, It's only 20p...

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....to view, and indeed use this magnificent facility.

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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/

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Disappointing to see that the end of the personal hygene paper isn't folded into a neat point.
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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. :moon:
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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. :moon:
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It's all in the width. The greater area of contact reduces the pressure (of contact ).

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And being a poor conductor of heat they are warm to the, ermmmm, touch.
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Izal Medicated Toilet Tissue On Request

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. :D
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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.
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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.

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