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townie

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Birmingham Urinals
« on: May 12, 2018, 10:13:05 PM »

There used to be hundreds of public urinals dotted around Birmingham. Here are some photos that I doubt you would use now.


A Victorian toilet on Great Barr Street in Digbeth

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Re: Birmingham Urinals
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2018, 02:21:32 PM »
Is there one in Acocks Green, I will need one when I do the 11 bus tour?

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Re: Birmingham Urinals
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2018, 05:27:35 PM »
The last one I saw was in March not Brum though it is by the castle in Abarystwyth, in fact there are two ladies and gents.
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Re: Birmingham Urinals
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2018, 08:28:18 PM »
Is there one in Acocks Green, I will need one when I do the 11 bus tour?

There used to be one in Westley rd, its a shop now

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Re: Birmingham Urinals
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2018, 07:09:04 AM »
My memories of using them they alway had a strong smelt of urine, but when you have to go you have to go. All those short ones in France have disappeared I remember seeing them when the roller skating team went to the continent around 1960.
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Re: Birmingham Urinals
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2018, 10:17:42 AM »
There is a modern one in Reading, but you would not see it in the daytime as it disappears - at around 7,00pm it rises from the ground and disappears later in the night.
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Re: Birmingham Urinals
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2018, 11:46:40 AM »
Remember the notices above the Urinal 'Please adjust your dress before leaving' seem to remember that they still have one in the Gents at Moor St Station. Then the was the notice about VD. Today it is usually erectile disfunction.
Just going back to the old Victorian Urinals seem to remember one near to the Shakespeare Boozer just below Camp Hill and there was one on the corner of Lionel St and Livery St just under the railway bridge.
They really were awful places but I remember a Toilet in Barcelona in Las Ramblas around the 1960s it was just a hole the floor with ' Straining Bars' fixed to walls.

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Re: Birmingham Urinals
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2018, 01:01:14 PM »
There was one by the canal in Selly Oak.

To be honest, I don't think there are that many public toilets in general these days.
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Re: Birmingham Urinals
« Reply #8 on: May 15, 2018, 10:16:29 AM »
I think they have been replaced by multi story car parks and doorways in the city (use wise that is)  >:(
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Re: Birmingham Urinals
« Reply #9 on: May 15, 2018, 01:43:45 PM »
I think they have been replaced by multi story car parks and doorways in the city (use wise that is)  >:(
And of course the subway under Horsefair by Pagoda Island.  That seems a very popular spot.  You have to hold your breath walking through there....
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Re: Birmingham Urinals
« Reply #10 on: June 07, 2018, 10:27:36 PM »
There used to be hundreds of public urinals dotted around Birmingham. Here are some photos that I doubt you would use now.


A Victorian toilet on Great Barr Street in Digbeth

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There was a modern day one at the Scott Arms silver in appearance probably s/steel and in the twenty one years of living in Gt Barr
never known it to be open at all. No wonder the underpasses and elsewhere are stinking of urine
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