Welcome to our live Crieff Cludgie website – quite possibly the only public toilets in the WORLD to boast their own website – and you’ll share in that unique distinction by visiting such a rare site! What a discerning surfer you are!
We’d far rather you visited the REAL thing of course, because then you could sample the many great delights that we – and our surrounding Scottish Highlands – have got to offer the visitor to Crieff.
But, for the moment let’s concentrate on our public toilets that we’ve renamed The Crieff Cludgie, a name that some of you will find strange. A ‘cludgie’ – pronounced KLUJI – is the Scottish word for the traditional stand-alone little building (just big enough for one!) that was the family’s outside toilet or ‘privie’ before the days of indoor plumbing and flushing cisterns came along to spoil us all.
It was also the name that was long associated with the 19th and early 20th century Glasgow tenements – multi-storey, stone-built apartment buildings that didn’t have toilets or running water inside the individual flats. Those early working-class tenements relied on shared outdoor toilets (privies) and a single water tap located in the back garden or back court, often shared by 8 to 10 families—or up to 30 to 50 people in the most crowded areas.Welcome to our live Crieff Cludgie website – quite possibly the only public toilets in the WORLD to boast their own website – and you’ll share in that unique distinction by visiting such a rare site! What a discerning surfer you are!
We’d far rather you visited the REAL thing of course, because then you could sample the many great delights that we – and our surrounding Scottish Highlands – have got to offer the visitor to Crieff.
But, for the moment let’s concentrate on our public toilets that we’ve renamed The Crieff Cludgie, a name that some of you will find strange. A ‘cludgie’ – pronounced KLUJI – is the Scottish word for the traditional stand-alone little building (just big enough for one!) that was the family’s outside toilet or ‘privie’ before the days of indoor plumbing and flushing cisterns came along to spoil us all.
It was also the name that was long associated with the 19th and early 20th century Glasgow tenements – multi-storey, stone-built apartment buildings that didn’t have toilets or running water inside the individual flats. Those early working-class tenements relied on shared outdoor toilets (privies) and a single water tap located in the back garden or back court, often shared by 8 to 10 families—or up to 30 to 50 people in the most crowded areas – but not in the cludgie itself!