Double seater toilet anyone? 😨 Outdoor toilets like these outhouses were a normal part of life up until the 1950s, 1960s and even 1970s. Over the years, the humble toilet has been referred to in many regional slang terms, one of the oldest is “privy”. The word ‘privy’ dates back hundreds of years and derives from the phrase ‘private place’. A look inside and you will see a wooden board with a large hole: this is the seat and beneath would have been a bucket which would have been emptied regular