Kathleen had gone to the communal toilet their family shared with the other two families on the landing.
More than 85,000 families lived in 19th century tenements; a 1947 official survey found that 33,000 homes had communal toilets.
Down the dim hall, there is one communal toilet for the 14 rooms.
The residents know that change is unstoppable, and few will miss the communal toilets.
All prisoners have to use dirty and crowded communal toilets.
I smelt the communal toilet on my way here, at the end of the corridor.
There was a communal toilet on the other side of the alley, behind Rap.
Pretending to the extent of sharing the communal toilets and showers with them didn't appeal to him, however.
There was a cast iron range in each flat and two communal toilets on each floor.
Her parent's empty room is over the open pit that is the communal toilet.