In two separate locations in Nottingham, the council have seen fit to close two such buildings and replace them in close proximity with a coin operated booth instead. Although these are undoubtedly cleaner, they lack the character of the buildings that we are losing.
As someone from the weak bladder brigade, I usually try to avoid public toilets if possible due to the general state of them; no proper hand washing, acrid stench of piss, graffiti, I can however tell you the way to punctuate your journey around this city by toilet visits.
The way that many public toilets have fallen into such revolting disrepair might have been intentional. After all, wherever we live we all know of at least a handful of decisions made by the local council that suggest brown envelopes full of money were involved. Buildings of beauty usually fall victim to neglect simply because some corrupt planner has approved a glass and steel structure. In every town someone will remember the lovely, well designed Victorian hall that used to stand where a grey 1960s Lego set now occupies.
