Mediaeval ASBO!

[caddyman]

A rare document about a public nuisance in 14th century London shows that the neighbours did not like Alice Wade’s poo…


700 years ago, these would have been rather slimier than
they are now...

And the word "loo" dates from medieval times, says Worsley, presenter of BBC Four's If Walls Could Talk, a history of our homes to be broadcast on 13 April.

"Ordinary people would use a chamber pot, and when they wanted to empty it, they would open a window and shout out 'gardez l'eau' - watch out for the water. Gardez l'eau became loo."

And that’s where Muckrakers comes from, too…