60p for visits to the toilet !

In our local authority area, I'm pretty sure most, if not all of the public toilets have been closed now.

In the 1950s, when Britain used the old pre-decimal currency, 1d was 1/240 of a pound. Adjusting for inflation, 1 old penny in the early-to-mid 1950s has a purchasing power of roughly 50p to 70p today, depending on the exact year and which inflation measure is used. So 60p today is a reasonable approximation for what 1 old penny (1d) could and did buy in the 1950s.

Sometimes I wish people would be grateful for what we have. Of course, there are plenty of genuine grievances, but I feel that the online environment also encourages a more manufactured sense of being hard done by.

Currently on a break in Holland. It’s €1 here! I shall be using the facilities of any cafe etc go in at that price!

ViceVersa

In our local authority area, I'm pretty sure most, if not all of the public toilets have been closed now.

I live in a Cotswold's tourist town.

There was one public toilet. It was closed, refurbished - and put on the market as a 'bijou' one-bedroom property. And snapped up PDQ.

We have dozens and dozens of hikers and walkers visiting (we're near The Cotswolds Way) as well as standard tourists.

... and nowhere for them to go other than the local hostelries.

I live close to a bus terminus. There used to be a little public toilet next to it, which was used by the bus drivers, but it was demolished several years ago when they built a new housing estate next to it. I dread to think where they 'go' now. There is a designated bus drivers' toilet (which they have their own key to open) in a lay-by just on the outskirts of Edinburgh, but apart from that, I guess they've just got to hold it in!

It's a wonder your bank didn't pick it up as a possible fraud

Tbh I don't mind paying as long as there is someone on site making sure they are clean. There is a toilet in our town where you have to pay but they are safe and clean

JaneJudge

It's a wonder your bank didn't pick it up as a possible fraud

Tbh I don't mind paying as long as there is someone on site making sure they are clean. There is a toilet in our town where you have to pay but they are safe and clean

That’s it, safe and clean.I think up to now that I have only paid 20pence ( I don’t like writing pee)😄

When you think about it, prior to decimalisation nobody said
4 dee did they?

Do males have to pay, or is it just females?

The problem in England, can’t comment on the rest of the UK ,public toilets are too few.Some locked for no obvious reason and hardly enough to start with.
Last year I was stopped by some German tourists as they needed the loo and I could only direct them to the nearest McDonalds.They were reluctant to go there as they said they didn’t needed any food or drink and felt guilty at using their facilities.
I told DP about this and without looking up from his newspaper he said ‘that’s why they lost the war’.

All the public toilets in my town have now closed.
One of the Council cuts.
If you need the loo you have to find a cafe or a pub or wet yourself

Our council tax is high enough but I guess in lieu of having some brilliant reimagining of what our taxes should be spent on, we put up with it and are glad the library is still open.

Not many tourists come here but I have been asked a few times where the nearest toilets are.

I don’t mind paying 60p for the loo. Last month I went to the library with DGD and paid her 12p fine for a late book with my card.

Sane in Russia you pay the lady and get one small piece of loo paper
Our public toilets are all still free in my town

Whoops posted to soon I was going to say I never found a public toilet in Barcelona but everyone uses the pubs and eating places