Please help the old Fossil Digger

[Niksmum]

What a wonderful face he has

Hers my one

Niksmum

[Springbok]

Nessie.

Up until  quite late into the 20th Cent. not everyone had W.C's or cess pits in their gardens , so the contents of Chamber Pots (sometimes  known as " Gazunders") were collected and taken to be spread as manure on Farm Lands.

I can remember a famous actor Sir Bernard Miles talking about his early days ,taking produce to Covent Garden Market from Berkshire . and I know that he once mentione the practise.

I lived in Malta in the late 1950's and human manure was still used then in one (and only) fertile valley

Spring
Spring

[Niksmum]

and if you prefer a black and white one

Niksmum

[Treelover]

I suppose I'd better own up, one of my ancestors was a "night soil worker", I did think that may have been his job (somehow a farmer who only ploughed at night didn't seem quite right in the middle of Manchester) 

I also remember my grandparents having a guzunder, when I was little I asked what a pretty bowl was doing under the bed.   "Its a guzunder" my grandad replied.  Why - because it guzunder the bed.  Seriously it happened

Joan

[Woodentop50]

A touch of colour from me !

                                             Jim

[Nessie56]

Hi Niksmum and Jim

I am so pleased with the work you have done on my photo, I am going to send copy's to the person who sent me the original photo, it will give them a nice suprise. 

They also sent me pictures of Williams wife his daughter and son-in-law and  his grandsons wedding day (my granddad). Hopefully I will get these photo's restored at some stage, but I don't want to push my luck by asking to much of the restorers.

Joan
I think it's great to find out what are relatives did in the past at least they didn't have boring jobs.
Yes I have heard of a guzunder and they called it the good old days

Thanks to everyone again, much appreciated.

Nessie

[bluedooo]

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