Posted by Alan Hakim on September 17, 2006 at 17:26:15 from 212.137.198.144 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot water supply posted by Peter Ceresole on September 17, 2006 at 15:42:38:
and from memory she said that the kitchen relied on a hand pump, presumably from a well. If so, would water have to be carried upstairs to the bedrooms and bathroom?
What Taqui said was that the hand pump in the scullery supplied "the only drinking water". That implies that water for washing came from some other source. A rain-water tank? the lake? Wherever it came from, it probably arrived in the scullery sink from a tap, and jugs could be filled and taken up to the bedrooms.
As for septic tanks, all the villages round here (Hampshire/West Sussex) rely on them.
I'd love to read that, but our local library can't get hold of it. I should try Amazon...
Unfortunately, the Amazon Publications In Aleppo Once is now out of print. I'm surprised your library can't get you a copy of the original edition, even if it's nearly 40 years since it came out.
The other, simpler solution - but only if you are a TARS member - is to borrow the Amazon edition from the TARS library.
Or do you mean amazon.com?