@@AbandonedOZyep. It’s at the top of George street where it joins lower fort street. (At the top of the rocks markets) it still has the old wrought iron walls
There are outdoor urinals in Europe that rise out of the ground on nights when lots of people are going out. They used to put portable outdoor urinals out in Sydney for a time on George Street, before they ruined it with the tram, on Friday and Saturday evening, but I dont know why they stopped. Outdoor urinals are good because they stop people simply pissing on the street-they were gonna piss outside anyway so might as well get them to piss into something that will keep the footpath clean.
Little known in Bondi there were are bunkers built for WW2 As a young boy we explored several bunkers one in Francis Street and one at end of Rockley Street Bondi next to was once a large property called Bannockburn that had a mansion with servant quarters at the back It was owned by a Jewish family the Manns. I dare say it may been originally built for wealthy Scotsman who named it after the Scottish victory over the English
Public toilets are found in seemingly odd places everywhere. There was an underground men's toilet in the middle of the road outside the Union Club Hotel in Wagga Wagga until it was filled in during the 70s.
I was working at both sides of Everliegh in the 1960's, at different times. The carriage works on the west side of the lines, and the loco works on the other. Both places were strictly men only. There wasn't a woman to be seen anywhere even in the upholstery section doing NSWGR's seat.s It's interesting that workers were docked pay for long toilet visits. A couple of times I'd take a wrong turn and there'd be a number of men masterbating along the walls. Not a foreman in sight taking down times that it would take. It wasn't the best environment for a young fella at the time.
Interestingly we've gone full circle... theres a public street urinal next to town hall thats there ever friday/sat night 😂 i guess they were tired of the stairs there stinking like piss every monday morning
I think they had a privacy wall they could haul wall placed any time but yes I supposed there were times when only men were attending, extraordinary that this was considered normal behaviour for back then, thumbs up really enjoying the vids
I deliver food supplies to the restaurant that urinal is joined to. What a coincidence! Thought you may be interested to know that mansion at Homebush west is about to be demolished. Theyve cleared the yard already.
Keep in mind, when the workshops were operational, run by the NSW Rail, this would have been a gated, no-go area(out of respect) for the - fairer - sex. Possibly with the exception of war time periods.
Are you sure about that, or are you just assuming? Why would an organisation that treats its employees like animals and would penalise them so much for every minute of extra toilet time even care one bit about their privacy? I highly doubt it, and don’t see any proof of it either.
@@iant6625 I think you are the one assuming; I am actually skeptical of the historical notes associated with the feature of this video. I have heard rumors of that sort of practice (docking wages for too much time spent in the toilet) in England, however I have never heard of the practice in Australia. I know (and you can still see the remnants of) that the Coal Mines and Steelworks and all of the Industries in Port Kembla all had very large shower and change room facilities going back at least to the 1920's. Australia in the past was far more egalitarian than it is now. One of the aspects associated with that was that there was a degree of unforced mutual respect between people that is missing nowadays. Social class did exist, however, it was very much restrained and was not expressed overtly. I am from the generation after what is portrayed in this video, however, I have had countless conversations with people from that era. My grandparents were all born before 1890, one of my Grandfathers was born in 1876. I had an English teacher who was a child during the Boer War; an uncle who knew Ned Kelly's younger brother and who broke his wrist starting a brand new Model T Ford. The characteristic of that era was one in which people had a sense of being an important part of a nation and that they were individually responsible for it and that they owned it. This sense I describe was irrespective of the role that people had. That sense is lost now. Your assertion that the "Upper" class treated the working class like animals in the overt sense, is false. They were mean and penny pinching, however it was done in a very polite way.
They used to have a pair of overlapping walls that provided privacy but allowed gents to relieve themselves, they were quite frequent around the city in the early 70's
Many countries in Europe have "open air urinals", and I think they were trialled at night time in Sydney before in the 2010's or 2000's. I find it very gross, but I guess they're meant for drunk people.
I'm slightly puzzled by the fact that the quote on the sign was from the Barrier Miner, which was a newspaper in Broken Hill, so I'm not sure what relevance it has to Eveleigh.
OMG!... and I thought the old iron men's urinals under the Sydney Harbour Bridge at The Rocks & the old urinals in the upstairs Men's rooms at the Queen Victoria Building were the only real old conveniences for males in the city of Sydney?... well THIS 1 I have never actually have known until now!, so it's actually located outside an old railway workshop building at Everligh near Redfern??... I'll definitely go there & check it out for real?, knowing today's world I would not be too surprised if people still actually use it without being noticed??, such a shame that so many old amenities especially the old underground men's toilets are disused around the city?, if the government had sense then they would put funding into restoring & reopening them again to stop such disgusting people from urinating everywhere in public?, plus also make them somehow safer if possible??, very interesting video.
The P&O 'Urinal' was a sculpture on Hunter St. Reportedly it's been saved and has been reinstated elsewhere in the building, presumably not in the public station parts given no coverage over the weekend open day
No. This was not strange in earlier decades. Even in the seventies in a timber yard I worked in there was a very long outdoor urinal to cope with a large number of men working there. Sure it probably dated back to the fifties or something and wouldn’t have been added in the 70’s but we all used it so we didn’t have to hike back to the main amenities block on the other side of the yard. It was a men only site except for some clerks in the office and they stayed clear. Back then no one thought twice about using it. Times have changed. The speculation by some that there must have been barriers and buildings around a facility like this seems to arise from today’s thinking which frankly is a bit more uptight about bodily functions I think. Outdoor urinals , much more open than these , are on the streets of many European cities where the population seems to be a bit more relaxed
Interesting that it is out in the open. Looking at the building, are there signs that there was an attachment to the building meaning was there a shed/room/construction built over it to form a cheap toilet block that has been removed to expose the original frontage. Oi you guys ... you left something else behind! With that word "behind" we should be thinking that there were other porcelain partners when thinking of a Toilet Block.
In Amsterdam they still have large plastic outdoor urinals that consist of a series of partitions in a circular form and the tank is the construction..lifted on to a truck piss and all.
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I'm sure you know it, but there is still the public urinal at the end of George St under the Harbour Bridge too.
Oooh i didn’t know about that one!
@@AbandonedOZyep. It’s at the top of George street where it joins lower fort street. (At the top of the rocks markets) it still has the old wrought iron walls
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@@lisadolan689 you can still use them.. they stink of urine though
The one you are talking about is from the 1880's it was originally on Observatory Hill and relocated to it's current spot in the early 1970's
As a child in the 1970's, if my memory serves me correctly, Dubbo in regional NSW had underground public toilets in the main street (Macquarie St).
There are outdoor urinals in Europe that rise out of the ground on nights when lots of people are going out. They used to put portable outdoor urinals out in Sydney for a time on George Street, before they ruined it with the tram, on Friday and Saturday evening, but I dont know why they stopped. Outdoor urinals are good because they stop people simply pissing on the street-they were gonna piss outside anyway so might as well get them to piss into something that will keep the footpath clean.
What about females urinals are useless to females.
Little known in Bondi there were are bunkers built for WW2
As a young boy we explored several bunkers one in Francis Street and one at end of Rockley Street Bondi next to was once a large property called Bannockburn that had a mansion with servant quarters at the back
It was owned by a Jewish family the Manns.
I dare say it may been originally built for wealthy Scotsman who named it after the Scottish victory over the English
Public toilets are found in seemingly odd places everywhere. There was an underground men's toilet in the middle of the road outside the Union Club Hotel in Wagga Wagga until it was filled in during the 70s.
the ones under Hyde park are still there just the entrances have been filled in.
Taylor square
My Sherlock Holmes brain deduces that for whatever reason, it was more popular to take a piss on the right-hand side.
I was working at both sides of Everliegh in the 1960's, at different times. The carriage works on the west side of the lines, and the loco works on the other. Both places were strictly men only. There wasn't a woman to be seen anywhere even in the upholstery section doing NSWGR's seat.s It's interesting that workers were docked pay for long toilet visits. A couple of times I'd take a wrong turn and there'd be a number of men masterbating along the walls. Not a foreman in sight taking down times that it would take. It wasn't the best environment for a young fella at the time.
LOL!
Geez they were really into their trains back then ay?
Interestingly we've gone full circle... theres a public street urinal next to town hall thats there ever friday/sat night 😂 i guess they were tired of the stairs there stinking like piss every monday morning
Hahaha i think the whole City would be a urinal on a Friday/Saturday night 😂😂😂
Oh, did they start putting those out again? I remember them doing it years ago, but then they stopped for a while. I didn't know they started again.
Docked _thirty minutes pay_ for every "wasted" minute... this is why we have trade unions.
I think they had a privacy wall they could haul wall placed any time but yes I supposed there were times when only men were attending, extraordinary that this was considered normal behaviour for back then, thumbs up really enjoying the vids
Surprised it hasn't been vandalized.
I deliver food supplies to the restaurant that urinal is joined to. What a coincidence!
Thought you may be interested to know that mansion at Homebush west is about to be demolished. Theyve cleared the yard already.
Oh really! That’s so cool!
It’s a great area too. I love the old Locomotive workshops and all.
It’s sad to see the place go!
Keep in mind, when the workshops were operational, run by the NSW Rail, this would have been a gated, no-go area(out of respect) for the - fairer - sex. Possibly with the exception of war time periods.
That is very true!
Times have changes so so much
Are you sure about that, or are you just assuming? Why would an organisation that treats its employees like animals and would penalise them so much for every minute of extra toilet time even care one bit about their privacy? I highly doubt it, and don’t see any proof of it either.
@@iant6625 I think you are the one assuming; I am actually skeptical of the historical notes associated with the feature of this video. I have heard rumors of that sort of practice (docking wages for too much time spent in the toilet) in England, however I have never heard of the practice in Australia. I know (and you can still see the remnants of) that the Coal Mines and Steelworks and all of the Industries in Port Kembla all had very large shower and change room facilities going back at least to the 1920's.
Australia in the past was far more egalitarian than it is now. One of the aspects associated with that was that there was a degree of unforced mutual respect between people that is missing nowadays. Social class did exist, however, it was very much restrained and was not expressed overtly.
I am from the generation after what is portrayed in this video, however, I have had countless conversations with people from that era. My grandparents were all born before 1890, one of my Grandfathers was born in 1876. I had an English teacher who was a child during the Boer War; an uncle who knew Ned Kelly's younger brother and who broke his wrist starting a brand new Model T Ford. The characteristic of that era was one in which people had a sense of being an important part of a nation and that they were individually responsible for it and that they owned it. This sense I describe was irrespective of the role that people had. That sense is lost now.
Your assertion that the "Upper" class treated the working class like animals in the overt sense, is false. They were mean and penny pinching, however it was done in a very polite way.
They used to have a pair of overlapping walls that provided privacy but allowed gents to relieve themselves, they were quite frequent around the city in the early 70's
Very interesting!
Thank you for the info mate 😊
Self-cleaning when it rained!😂
Many countries in Europe have "open air urinals", and I think they were trialled at night time in Sydney before in the 2010's or 2000's. I find it very gross, but I guess they're meant for drunk people.
Interesting!
It’s a good idea.
I suppose it’s better than people going anywhere and everywhere
Does it still have a drain in it? ie. If you used it would the urine have some where to go?
in india you can go where ever you like
Oh really?
A free for all lol
>DESIGNATED
Thanks for this video, Shared.
Cheers Michael! 😊
I'm slightly puzzled by the fact that the quote on the sign was from the Barrier Miner, which was a newspaper in Broken Hill, so I'm not sure what relevance it has to Eveleigh.
OMG!... and I thought the old iron men's urinals under the Sydney Harbour Bridge at The Rocks & the old urinals in the upstairs Men's rooms at the Queen Victoria Building were the only real old conveniences for males in the city of Sydney?... well THIS 1 I have never actually have known until now!, so it's actually located outside an old railway workshop building at Everligh near Redfern??... I'll definitely go there & check it out for real?, knowing today's world I would not be too surprised if people still actually use it without being noticed??, such a shame that so many old amenities especially the old underground men's toilets are disused around the city?, if the government had sense then they would put funding into restoring & reopening them again to stop such disgusting people from urinating everywhere in public?, plus also make them somehow safer if possible??, very interesting video.
The P&O 'Urinal' was a sculpture on Hunter St.
Reportedly it's been saved and has been reinstated elsewhere in the building, presumably not in the public station parts given no coverage over the weekend open day
strange having a urinal outside
I'd say the building around it was torn down. If the plumbing was still hooked up it would be handy though (pun intended)
No. This was not strange in earlier decades. Even in the seventies in a timber yard I worked in there was a very long outdoor urinal to cope with a large number of men working there. Sure it probably dated back to the fifties or something and wouldn’t have been added in the 70’s but we all used it so we didn’t have to hike back to the main amenities block on the other side of the yard. It was a men only site except for some clerks in the office and they stayed clear. Back then no one thought twice about using it. Times have changed. The speculation by some that there must have been barriers and buildings around a facility like this seems to arise from today’s thinking which frankly is a bit more uptight about bodily functions I think. Outdoor urinals , much more open than these , are on the streets of many European cities where the population seems to be a bit more relaxed
That Urinal could be Handy on a Friday or Saturday night after a drink at the pub
No Common at railway Workshops But Cover in not like this I worked there for 20 years and know it's True
Interesting that it is out in the open. Looking at the building, are there signs that there was an attachment to the building meaning was there a shed/room/construction built over it to form a cheap toilet block that has been removed to expose the original frontage. Oi you guys ... you left something else behind! With that word "behind" we should be thinking that there were other porcelain partners when thinking of a Toilet Block.
Glad it was just a urinal 😅
Imagine just a bunch of dunnies outside along the wall 😂😂
Hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💩
yes
In Amsterdam they still have large plastic outdoor urinals that consist of a series of partitions in a circular form and the tank is the construction..lifted on to a truck piss and all.
There used to be one down towards the quay ,the rail yards no women were around there back in the day we called them Piss Troughs
At least there wasn't an outdoor latrine.
Very quite interesting.
Indeedy!
Thank you for watching 😊
no not out in open
Do we know what happened to that urinal/art work from the P&O Building? I heard it was preserved in a crate and stored somewhere?
2:08 Ah the good old days
These are no good for females, what female staff?
interesting
Very much so!
I was amused to see this but also very curious about its history.
I have posted this video around asking for a bit of info :)
Eerie..
That early in the morning it was!
Now I have to go there and piss in it.