Ianws Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 21 hours ago, Ronaldo47 said: My first canal houday was in 1976, when I was one of a group of 14 that hired the entire original Black Prince fleet of two boats. One had toilets that simply pumped everything into the cut from under the boat, the other had two chemical loos. That one came with a nice shiny spade that the owner said was for emergency use! If no sanitary station was available, we should dig a hole at the side of the towpath and bury the WCs' contents in it. The drought of 1976 severely restricted movements, and as we happened to be confined to a sanitary station-less pound when both loos filled up, one of our crew, who was in the T.A., duly took the opportunity to practice trench-digging at the edge of a converient canal-side field. By the time we hired them again the following year, they had been converted to pump-out operation. It was probably helpful that your movements were restricted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canalboat Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 After years of wondering if the Elsan disposal point at Boughton Rd, Brownsover on the North Oxford was ever to open again, after the toilet building that it was attached to was closed, the conservative party leaflet has just announced their councillor's plan to open it again - as a community cafe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy3196 Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 (edited) 24 minutes ago, canalboat said: After years of wondering if the Elsan disposal point at Boughton Rd, Brownsover on the North Oxford was ever to open again, It took a while to fix the problem, but "years" is a huge exaggeration, it reopened in January 2020 https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/16199-boughton-elsan-brownsover Edited May 20, 2021 by andy3196 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maffi Posted May 21, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2021 On 19/05/2021 at 20:17, Jennifer McM said: There's a space under the bridge there where kids, and some not-so-kids, looked to be doing drugs, amongst them were some youngsters who looked (to me anyway) vulnerable. It didn't look good as some of the group were aggressive, so I phoned the police. Police said they knew what was going on.... I couldn't do any more Are you suggesting that those under the bridge are the vandals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maffi Posted May 21, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2021 On 20/05/2021 at 19:09, BlueStringPudding said: My brother who is in the area told me this too - he reckons the Elsan point has only been working a handful of times in the last three months. So people have been emptying their cassettes into the public toilet there apparently, and blocking that as well. And the disabled toilet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightwatch Posted May 22, 2021 Report Share Posted May 22, 2021 The disabled loo have been out of action for years. I don’t think the bus station loo is an option to empty cassettes. No reason to think that, just a feeling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted May 22, 2021 Report Share Posted May 22, 2021 With all these sanitary stations out of use, why not just bag up your poo and chuck it in a rubbish bin?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterboat Posted May 22, 2021 Report Share Posted May 22, 2021 52 minutes ago, David Mack said: With all these sanitary stations out of use, why not just bag up your poo and chuck it in a rubbish bin?? Or compost it like myself?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bearwood Boster Posted May 22, 2021 Report Share Posted May 22, 2021 (edited) On 20/05/2021 at 23:35, canalboat said: After years of wondering if the Elsan disposal point at Boughton Rd, Brownsover on the North Oxford was ever to open again, after the toilet building that it was attached to was closed, the conservative party leaflet has just announced their councillor's plan to open it again - as a community cafe. 'Oooh errr...crap !' Edited May 22, 2021 by The Bearwood Boster 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterboat Posted May 22, 2021 Report Share Posted May 22, 2021 1 hour ago, The Bearwood Boster said: Glad I have a composting loo seems like the elsen system is going down the can ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Rose Posted May 23, 2021 Report Share Posted May 23, 2021 On 20/05/2021 at 23:35, canalboat said: After years of wondering if the Elsan disposal point at Boughton Rd, Brownsover on the North Oxford was ever to open again, after the toilet building that it was attached to was closed, the conservative party leaflet has just announced their councillor's plan to open it again - as a community cafe. I moored there in April and it was in good working order then. The Castle Marinas expansion in recent years gives a few more free (I assume) Elsan options to Castle moorers given they now own the marinas at Hinkley, Brinklow, Crick and Cropredy. Haven't tried it yet but I might well pop into Cropredy Marina this/next week if I bother going further South than Fenny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maffi Posted May 24, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 22/05/2021 at 08:28, Nightwatch said: The disabled loo have been out of action for years. I don’t think the bus station loo is an option to empty cassettes. No reason to think that, just a feeling. And that was due to vandalism too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbybass Posted June 2, 2021 Report Share Posted June 2, 2021 On 19/05/2021 at 20:17, Jennifer McM said: There's a space under the bridge there where kids, and some not-so-kids, looked to be doing drugs, amongst them were some youngsters who looked (to me anyway) vulnerable. It didn't look good as some of the group were aggressive, so I phoned the police. Police said they knew what was going on.... I couldn't do any more I thought you were going to suggest emptying the cassette there....to keep the kids away...? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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