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Night soil

Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 17/12/2024, 14:11:19

Hope someone will know what that means, when we lived in Hong Kong,a friend told me that what was used there on veg a salad green,dont know if they were right,as long as i didnt see it fine I was never ill there,

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Posted by Ronnie <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Ronnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 18/12/2024, 8:56:39, in reply to "Night soil"
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Night Soil was the collection of human excrement from from cesspools, privies, pail closets, pit latrines, privy middens, usually at night, Norma.

A few houses in Litherland still had pail closets and middens up to the 1920s, these would been emptied by 'night soil' men from the council.

In Victorian times Liverpool's night soil was transported in barges and off loaded in dumping areas past Cookson's Bridge, it was used as fertilzer.

I remember my mate's dad saying never to eat Egyptian spuds as they put their s#@* on them

He was out in Eqypt during WWII.

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Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 18/12/2024, 11:00:07, in reply to "Re: Night soil"

Dad took use to visit some family in southport,they had a toilet that had to be emptied,and remember as late as 1962 a friend I worked with went down to Cornwall to stay with her boyfriend family,same type of loo,

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My Dad would never eat dates,he said after being in North africa during the war,The date s were pick by men who who would only use one hand when using the loo,and never eat food touched by that hand, hope this makes sense

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Yes that's right, Norma

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Not Night soil but sweets, had on elderly lady who didn't like Turkish delight, she would suck the chocolate off, and then offer it to you, got wise told her i didn't like it,

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