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Updated: May 9, 2025
"There used to be a wash-place here a year or two back," said a friendly porter, "but it didn't pay and was abolished." Of course they only cared about the money. The comfort of passengers mattered little. This porter took me down into a rat-and-beetle-haunted basement, and gave me soap and a clean towel.
Bunnett good-bye becos 'e said he'd got to get back to 'is work, and Mr. Bunnett had 'ardly got 'ome afore Henery Walker turned up full of anxiousness to ask his advice about five little baby kittens wot 'is old cat had found in the wash-place: the night afore. "'Drownd them little innercent things, same as most would do, I can't, he ses, shaking his 'ead; 'but wot to do with 'em I don't know.
Bunnett good-bye becos 'e said he'd got to get back to 'is work, and Mr. Bunnett had 'ardly got 'ome afore Henery Walker turned up full of anxiousness to ask his advice about five little baby kittens wot 'is old cat had found in the wash-place: the night afore. "'Drownd them little innercent things, same as most would do, I can't, he ses, shaking his 'ead; 'but wot to do with 'em I don't know.
The lavatories and bathing arrangements consisted of a tap in the yard and an open furrow through which the town water ran, the lower end of which was used as a wash-place by prisoners, white and black alike. Within a foot or two of the furrow where alone washing of the person or of clothing was allowed stood the gaol urinals.
One member of the hut's company, more fastidious than his fellows, objected to expectorating on to his Soldier's Friend. Rather than do so he would tramp the fifty yards to our wash-place and obtain a couple of drops of water from the tap. That is by the way.
The sink was used as a wash-place by surgeons, chauffeurs, and stretcher-bearers. Nurses would come through with bloody rags from the ward, which was only an open door away. Lightly wounded men, covered with Yser mud, would sit at a side table, eating the remnants of other people's meals.
He smoked on, with the air of a man who has just given a very clever answer to a very difficult question. "We ain't on'y got one room besides this," said the old woman solemnly. "Years ago we used to have four and a wash-place." "Oh, I could sleep on the floor here," said Flower, lightly. "I'll pay you five shillings." "Let's see your money," said the old man, leaning forward.
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