Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on March 04, 2008 at 16:36:03 from 82.27.16.167 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: Water in the bathroom. posted by Jock on March 04, 2008 at 13:22:43:
Is there no end to this subject?
1) There should be at least one cold tap in a normal British bathroom connected to the rising main, which supplies clean fresh water which is fit to drink and is as far as I am aware satisfactory for flowers. Hot water comes from a tank in the loft, with risks of contamination. (Modern enclosed systems rely on mains pressure for hot and cold and do not have the tank in the loft)
2) But I think that there is general agreement that Beckfoot could not have had mains water. So all water in the house would have been taken in some way from a natural source to a tank in the loft. So all taps would have provided water of equal purity.
3) My parents' house in the Lake District took water from a fellside collecting point (actually an old bath) to a tank in the loft well into the late 1970s when the house was sold. Despite, I have no doubt, dead sheep in the general catchment area they - and my family - drank it without apparent ill effect, although at one point the Public Health Department tested it and expressed reservations - dear old Health and Safety in one of its early appearances.
4) Peggy does point out that the GA "likes..a glass and a jug of water" by her bed. But it seems unlikely that Nancy would be referring to this at the moment she is handing vases - not a jug - to Dot as she says "water in the bathroom"