Posted by Peter H on March 11, 2006 at 20:23:51 from 86.130.133.111 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: water systems - Re: Beckfoot posted by John Nichols on March 11, 2006 at 18:39:13:
Cause if there was a bathroom why not take a bath - that river would have been very cold even in Summer?
Dullsville! Come on John, you were a boy once - which would you prefer - queueing for the bathroom or splashing out in the sunshine with your friends? For me, it's no contest. Yes, the water would have been cold, but after the first shock you get used to it, and the S&A's and D's were a tough lot anyway. Open air bathing was very popular in Britain in the 1930's - the era of the 'Lido'.
I am perplexed by all the attention being given on this board to the Beckfoot plumbing arrangements. That doesn't seem to me what Ransome's story is really about.