Posted by Alan Hakim on February 28, 2012 at 01:44:03 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Re: Tarboard is working again! posted by Jock on February 28, 2012 at 00:29:37:
In the Good Old Days, when the plumbing was installed in Beckfoot, the toilet cistern was up near the ceiling so as to get a good head of water for the flush. More modern practice is to have the cistern at about waist level, with no separate pipe between it and the toilet, i.e. close-coupled.