Different names for littlest room (From York Press)

Different names for littlest room

10:10am Monday 8th February 2010

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I HAD to smile at Sue Nelson’s column “At a loos end” (The Press, Monday, February 1).

I remember the first time I went on a visit to America where my sister lives.

We were in a restaurant and nature called, so I asked where the toilet was and my sister looked at me in horror. She said: “You don’t use that word here, you ask where the restroom is.”

In the north-east (Co Durham), where I was born and brought up, it was called the netty.

Our family were fortunate to live in a colliery house in New Lambton which had both bathroom and inside toilet.

The toilet was situated on the landing half way up the stairs, so we always called it “the halfway house” and still do.

Mrs M Robinson, Broadway, York.

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