Underground London Toilets

[dat brown skin]

Isn't that handy, a web page devouted to toilets opening hours so you can plan where and when you#l be caught short. How convenient

That's why London is so special.

 

[dat brown skin]

I don't travel much by public transport, but was at Stratford station last month with a bladder about to burst...I even took pictures (noooo, not me peeing). Oh and you can do your business to the strains of Vivaldi.... Bet you West minster doesn't offer piped music The loo isn't quite underground but above.

Stratford station loo

 

[EastEnder]

There are some very grim toilets in Old Street tube station.

They're minging & utterly pointless - they close by about 7pm. The only time I'd be desperate enough to use them is on my way home, after 4 or 5 post-work pints, by which time of course, they're shut. So you end up pissing behind the phone shop by the roundabout, as per usual....

 

[Crispy]

They haven't gone. Not sure what they plan to do with them though.

I remember readin a feasability teport by (I think) urban splash that had all sorts of possible uses for them, but without money I don't know. Any new use would have to include wheelchair acess which would drive the cost right up.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

one at West Smithfield was still there about a year ago.

 

[Guineveretoo]

There is still one on the corner of Aldwych and the Strand.

Here is a googlemap picture.

 

[salem]

There are some very quaint but pretty underground toilets near Hampstead Heath station. Probably the same ones George Michael got arrested in as above.

http://www.qype.co.uk/place/114193-South-End-Green-Public-Convenience-London/photos/137598

Them's the ones. Also featured in the video for

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Some nice ones near Monument, fancy Victorian tiles and stuff

 

[lang rabbie]

There is still one on the corner of Aldwych and the Strand.

Here is a googlemap picture.

Isn't that one now the Cellar Door jazz bar?

 

[maldwyn]

I like the ones under Blackfriars Bridge open from April - Sept, with ceramic tissue box holders which until as recently as last summer still held those shiny, tracing-paper like, totally useless arse wipes..

 

[oryx]

The ones still around but locked up - Stamford hill, Brixton, Crystal Place and West Norwood ( by the cemetry) Kenningtons (which they are trying to turn into an art space). Stockwells - fancy metal vent (stink pipe) still sticks out above the ground.

Any more then?

There are some next to Battersea Arts Centre (to the right if you're facing the building).

I lived in Battersea from the early eighties till recently & don't ever remember them being open!

 

[Planty]

And there's always that one in Whitechapel High St that they turned into a trendy Indian restaurant - Taja, is it?

 

[blossie33]

There used to be some in the middle of a road junction, the Camden end of Kentish Town, which was a Hairdressers for a while.

 

[PacificOcean]

There are some next to Battersea Arts Centre (to the right if you're facing the building).

I lived in Battersea from the early eighties till recently & don't ever remember them being open!

There used to be a sign on those when I was on the 77 going to school in the late 80's saying they would be permanently closed from April 1980!

Are they some funky estate agents now?

 

[paolo]

I don't travel much by public transport, but was at Stratford station last month with a bladder about to burst...I even took pictures (noooo, not me peeing). Oh and you can do your business to the strains of Vivaldi.... Bet you West minster doesn't offer piped music The loo isn't quite underground but above.

Stratford station loo

Heads of giant frightened robots, embedded in wall.

 

[oryx]

There used to be a sign on those when I was on the 77 going to school in the late 80's saying they would be permanently closed from April 1980!

Are they some funky estate agents now?

Last time I saw them, about 2007, they looked still closed and possibly derelict.