Toilet letdown (From York Press)
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Toilet letdown
11:17am Thursday 15th November 2012 in Letters By Reader's letter
THE back page of The Press of November 8 shows a beaming William Derby, CEO and clerk of the course, explaining the proposed £5 million-plus plan to improve the facilities at York racecourse.
The huge bulk of these improvements involve the horses, owners and trainers, jockeys etc. This is very admirable and, as a keen race-goer, I welcome it.
But go into the course enclosure on a busy race day and you may eventually have to visit the gents’ toilets.
Once you have joined the queue of about 12-15 men waiting to go in, you wait patiently and lo and behold, eventually you reach the inside of what is a tiny Victorian building with fewer facilities than a pigsty.
And it is worse than a pigsty, with an unimaginable filthy area too bad to describe in this newspaper.
These toilets have been like this since I first went in 1972. So much for bringing York Racecourse into the 21st century.
Phil Wadsworth, Haroldsway, Stamford Bridge.
inthesticks says...
1:04pm Thu 15 Nov 12
When I think of going to the races this is my abiding memory - that can`t be right can it?
Phil, if you think the Gents is bad you should try being a woman. The Loos also stink but we have to queue behind about 100 ladies all with legs crossed before we can get there! I used to look at the queue for the Gents and feel jealous!