REVIVAL IN ROSE STREET - ianbalfour

There was no running water and no sanitation – water had to be drawn from street wells and waste was collected in buckets. The Edinburgh custom of throwing the day’s slops out of upstairs windows as the St Giles’ belfry sounded 10 p.m., with the perfunctory warning cry ‘gardyloo’ (gardez l’eau: ‘look out – water… ................
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