Melbourne sewerage question

[lurker17260]

I had someone tell me today that they remember, in about 1965, the night soil man coming around in inner city Melbourne.  Really?  I thought they would have been gone by then?

She also mentioned bread and milk deliveries by horse and cart.  I'm finding this very hard to believe (being the same age as her).

I think she is pulling my leg.  Is she?

[clair.de.lune]

What the heck is that ll?!

[lakeland27]

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@clair.de.lune wrote:

What the heck is that ll?!

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 thats from an early john waters movie 'Pink Flamingoes' he shot it in super 8 so it looked as cheap and nasty as possible,

[lurker17260]

Well, I am amazed  

I cannot remember, in my lifetime, not having a flush toilet.  Or having to go to the shop to get groceries.

What a backward lot you aussies were 😛

[lakeland27]

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@lurker17260 wrote:

Well, I am amazed  

I cannot remember, in my lifetime, not having a flush toilet.  Or having to go to the shop to get groceries.

What a backward lot you aussies were 😛

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  but we washed more frequently than just saturdays.

[*elizabeths-mum*]

Hubby in the bush in the 50s had septic. He can't believe how backward we were in the city. 

[nicnacs_4u]

I also remember the Box Hill dairy very close to where Shoppingtown is locate now.Top end of Tram Road..memories

[*elizabeths-mum*]

We were in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago, staying on Elizabeth Street and there were still horse drawn vehicles around. 

[lurker17260]

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@lakeland27 wrote:

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@lurker17260 wrote:

Well, I am amazed  

I cannot remember, in my lifetime, not having a flush toilet.  Or having to go to the shop to get groceries.

What a backward lot you aussies were 😛

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  but we washed more frequently than just saturdays.

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I think you assume too much.  Us Kiwis washed every day as well 

[lakeland27]

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@lurker17260 wrote:

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@lakeland27 wrote:

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@lurker17260 wrote:

Well, I am amazed  

I cannot remember, in my lifetime, not having a flush toilet.  Or having to go to the shop to get groceries.

What a backward lot you aussies were 😛

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  but we washed more frequently than just saturdays.

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I think you assume too much.  Us Kiwis washed every day as well 

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 drat its probably a good thing i got it wrong anyway.. i did have second thoughts about it afterward.

[cat_mioux]

I remember the "dunny man" collecting the toilet pan. I was sitting on it once when it was suddenly pulled out from the back. Ewww! (I was probably about 6 years old).

But the clip clop of the milkman's horse in the wee hours of the morning I remember up to my early teens. I loved laying there in bed listening to the sound of the horses hooves.