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Перевод: standpipe

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Тезаурус:

1. Er two bedrooms, it was a number sixty six Street in those days, there were new houses built on where it is now, I haven't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row, there was a family named at one end, there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs, a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family, there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was, another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were, there was a, a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we hadn't got running water in the sink, we had a, a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe.
2. The nearest clean water was from the standpipe in the churchyard; they did not like to wash their finds there, because the water was for the flowers on the graves, but Martha fetched some in a bucket.
3. No you have to get a bucket of water and flush it with a bucket, what we did have on the sink in the brew house was a a, a about a couple of foot square and on the top of that was an old pump handle, well that water used to drain all the rainwater from the roof all rainwater from the roof used to drain into that well that was sunk in the brewers, so that we could pump water out of the little well, so that we could have soft water for doing the washing, rainwater, otherwise it meant going to the standpipe in the, out in the yard to get your water for washing.
4. Well the standpipe used to freeze up and er when that occurred the grown men in the house used to light a fire round the standpipes, of course it was cast iron it wasn't copper or anything like that, and light a fire to thaw it out, I don't remember ever being without water but we used, it was a bit primitive but burn newspaper and stuff round the standpipe and er the old as I say we used to, the water for the washing we used to pump into the sink and er fill the old dolly tub with water for the washing and use the rainwater for washing.
5. And it helped to maintain that crazy '70s wartime austerity, by forcing millions of us to flush the lavatory with our bathwater, boil potatoes in the fish pond and wait in yet more queues, this time for standpipe water.
6. If water is easily available from a yard tap, a water-vendor or a public standpipe, then a pour-flush toilet is appropriate.