Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on March 11, 2006 at 08:45:42 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot posted by Adam Quinan on March 11, 2006 at 00:52:17:
Did they use rams in the lake district?
Well all those sheep must have come from somewhere
Actually in the Lake District they call these particular animals 'tups'
I don't see the difficulty about the Beckfoot water supply. A big house with well-off owners would have had modern plumbing by the 1920s, and as several people have said the normal system in the Lakes was until very recently an open tank in the roof supplied by water piped from the fell - certainly not from the Amazon River.
Nancy's mention of the bathroom clinches it. There wouldn't have been a bathroom without a proper water system and a properly plumbed in bath. Ed, over here we don't refer to the room used for sanitary purposes as 'the bathroom' unless there actually is a bath in it. We now understand American useage rather better, but one's first reaction in America on being told the location of the bathroom used to be "But I don't want a bath!"