Water tanks, sheds and outhouses were built, including the mysterious dunnies.
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The dunnies ran all the way from end to end of the tenement.
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Research has shown that when choosing where to visit, decent dunnies can be a deciding factor.
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The half-barrels had no lids. These toilets were known as dunnies in Australia, hence the "dunnywagon" driven by "dunnymen".
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These were communal dunnies so every now and then someone would open the door, loudly sniff the air and promptly scarper.
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In Group Four, Speke Dunnies battered Yew Tree 8-2 and the match between The Botanic and LH FC ended goalless.
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Speke Dunnies managed a narrow 2-1 home win against Elmoore as Mosslane romped to a 7-0 win over Victoria Memorial.
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The city is 15 feet below sea level and so they bury everyone above the ground in these little huts that look like dunnies.
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Speke Dunnies hit nine in an incredible 9-6 win against LH GC in Group Four and Botanic beat Victoria Memorial 4-1 in the same section.
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There are fireworks, of course, and wee boys have a licence to roam the streets letting off bangers up closes, down dunnies and underneath unsuspecting old-age pensioners.
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Incidentally, if you're on the train direct from Jolimont to Flinders St, you can actually see the dunnies from the train window if you know where to look.
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There's a favourite old joke in political circles, about two government MPs sneaking into the dunnies at a Labour Party conference to have a bit of how's your father.
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Rain water was collected in tanks and some people had wells. Cans were collected weekly from the outside dunnies. Residents remember it as a close- knit, happy community where the winters were "harsh, cold, wet and windy" and heavy snowfalls were a regular occurrence.
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Improved water supplies and sewerage systems in England led directly to the replacement of the pail closet during the early 20th century. Municipal collection of pail toilets (dunnies) continued in Australia into the second half of the twentieth century. In the western world, the pail closet has now been almost completely replaced by the flush toilet. However, similar systems still exist in poor countries, and are discussed at Sanitation.
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In European history the terms "nightsoil collectors" or "nightmen" and gong farmers were used. (The current term for the safe collection of human waste is fecal sludge management.) Towns with sanitation systems based on pail closets (bucket toilets in outhouses) relied on frequent emptying, performed by workers driving "honeywagons", a precursor to the vacuum truck now used to pump out septage from septic tanks. The municipal emptying of pail toilets continued in Australia into the second half of the twentieth century; these were known as dunnies and the workers were dunnymen.
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Also includes 2 Rugby union fields, 6 tennis courts, 3 bowling greens, 50m swimming pool, 2x0.5 basketball courts, 2 ping pong tables and 2 waterfront parks, 1 on the river, 1 on the beach. Surf breaks include Pipes/Seabreeze, Poofters dunnies/Abdul's, Carpark, Pinnies, the Mouth and North Shore. (Pipes was named after the location of the old sewer effluent pipe, Poofters after a derelict toilet block, Abdul's after death of local surfer Ryan Abdy) Although 'unbounded' as a suburb it's generally recognised as being east of Aerodrome Road and including all numbered avenues and esplanades. Sometimes known as Forgotten Tree.
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While White was addressed in numerous newspaper articles as "Tex", no explanation was ever given as to how he got that nickname. From 1917 to 1923, played with the Barrie Canoe Club, Toronto Canoe Club, and Dunnville Dunnies of the Ontario Hockey Association. In 1923, after seeing how well the fans in Pittsburgh took to Lionel Conacher, the owner of the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets, Roy Schooley, asked Conochar to invite a number of his friends in Canada to play for his team. These players included Harold Cotton, Hib Milks, Harold Darragh, Rodger Smith, Duke McCurry, Roy Worters and "Tex" White.
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During the course of The Ice Dream's broadcast, a number of suggestions were presented by the hosts to the audience in order to make the holding of the Winter Games possible at Smiggin. For example, in order to provide a tall enough mountain for skiing events, Roy and HG proposed that either Mount Kosciuszko be raised 300 metres (from its current height of 2,228 metres), or that a new mountain be built in Smiggin itself, which would be named Mount Steggall, after Australian Nagano slalom bronze medalist Zali Steggall. "We've just got to get the nation to dump all its rubbish on top of Kosciuszko, compact it a bit and voila, Mount Steggall." In addition, the duo suggested that the caravan park could be used as the athletes' village, and local portable toilet business Dougie Does Dunnies promised the cleanest Olympic Games ever as far as toilets were concerned.
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