East Anglian Privies: A Nostalgic Trip Down the Garden Path
de Jean Turner
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- First
- Estado
- Very Good Condition
- Librería
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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Countryside Books, Newberry, Berkshire, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. When Jean Turner was a child in the Norfolk countryside in the 1940Âs, the family loo was an earth closet at the end of the garden. This was emptied on a weekly basis by her father and the contents buried in their vegetable patch. Few of these outside privies have survived into the 1990s, so.Jean Turner decided to record a dying species before it was too late. Vivid, anecdotal, gruesome, crammed with outlandish information and shamingly funny, East Anglian Privies is a descriptive and pictorial tribute to the Iavatories of yesteryear, It takes us from the unpleasing Middle Ages ('Beware of emptynge pysse pottes, and pyssing in chyrnnes') to the misadventures of a 'night cart' man called George. Having hung his jacket on the cart and been too slow to stop it falling into the load he was attempting to fish it out of the tank. His partner expressed the view that the jacket would not be of much more use, 'Um not worried abou' t'jacket' George replied, 'Urn tryin' to get me sandwiches out o' the pocket!' Jean Turner lives near Beccles and has become well known locally through her writing. She is also the author of Tin Bath Night, an affectionate look back to the weekly childhood scrub in front of the fire. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 128 pages. no Dust Jacket as published.. Black titles spine. illustrated by b/w. drawings & photo's.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Humour; East Anglia; History; Sociology & Culture; England; Genealogy & Local History. Inventory No: 4835. .
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- Librería
- Bookbarrow (GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 4835
- Título
- East Anglian Privies: A Nostalgic Trip Down the Garden Path
- Autor
- Jean Turner
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Softcover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good Condition
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Editorial
- Countryside Books
- Lugar de publicación
- Newberry, Berkshire
- Fecha de publicación
- 1995
- Palabras clave
- BZDB227 Humour/Local History/History/Sociology & Culture/East Anglia/Toilets/Privies Humour; East Anglia; History; Sociology & Culture; England; Genealogy & Local History. Unbranded Jean Turner East Anglian Privies: A Nostalgic Trip Down the
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