It was a golden age when Newcastle was flush with public loos.
A century ago, the city had more than 80 toilets a century ago. But the inconvenient truth is that today, there are none.
Now an exhibition which explores how this came to pass, titled The Rise and Decline of Newcastle’s Public Toilets, will open at the City Library on June 21 and run until August 14. It is based on research by Newcastle University architecture graduate Maud Webster and Dr Shane McCorristine, a reader in cultural history from the university’s school of history, classics and archaeology.
