Toilets, eh!
My childhood home was one of hundreds of terraced houses built to accommodate the families of engineering workers in the mid-19th century. All the houses had lavvies down t'yard with access from the wide gully outside for the night soil men.

Our outside lavvy was a flusher, but I'm not sure all my neighbours' were. Friends who lived a couple of streets away had a bog with a wooden board with a hole in instead of a pedestal, and it smelled so awful that I'd run home to ours rather than use it! This was in the late 60s.

There were definitely still night soil collections in local rural areas in the late 1970s because I knew someone who worked on them.

No horses were involved, though.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Mon 11 Apr 2011, 18:42, Reply)