Is that actually true, or was it just that plumbing was prohibitively expensive? I ask genuinely, as I don’t know anything about this specifically, but I would imagine they at least knew about plumbing, given that the Romans knew about and had plumbing, and the Romans controlled most of England for a good while.
This will be long because I want to mention how plumbing problems were the reason tea became popular in England.
Indoor plumbing is expensive so general solution was to have the toilet outside in an outhouse. Once it’s filled farmers would collect it as a convenient bucket of manure.
After fall of Rome, they continued with dumping their shit into rivers they drink from or outside their windows as people walk by.
The rivers part is interesting because that means average English had better chance of surviving and reproducing if they liked taste of boiling water with medicinal herbs in it.
Tea is popular in England slightly because of the generations of purging anyone that doesn’t like it.
Is that actually true, or was it just that plumbing was prohibitively expensive? I ask genuinely, as I don’t know anything about this specifically, but I would imagine they at least knew about plumbing, given that the Romans knew about and had plumbing, and the Romans controlled most of England for a good while.
This will be long because I want to mention how plumbing problems were the reason tea became popular in England.
Indoor plumbing is expensive so general solution was to have the toilet outside in an outhouse. Once it’s filled farmers would collect it as a convenient bucket of manure.
(If lemmy compresses too much, click image to get better resolution)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumbing
After fall of Rome, they continued with dumping their shit into rivers they drink from or outside their windows as people walk by.
The rivers part is interesting because that means average English had better chance of surviving and reproducing if they liked taste of boiling water with medicinal herbs in it.
Tea is popular in England slightly because of the generations of purging anyone that doesn’t like it.
Think of it this way. Versailles had elaborate fountains and zero indoor plumbing.
Yes but that doesn’t mean they were shitting all around the place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_of_the_Stool
Historical reenactment
https://youtu.be/7OWMB3ewpNM