I HAD better point out straight away this week’s piece comes with a public health warning. So if you are of tender disposition you’d better waft a perfumed lace hankie under your nose and pass swiftly on to the public announcements or the letters page. Because it’s all about the origin of the word “bog”. As in: “Where’s Dad?” Response: “He’s on the bog.” In other words the slang term for the toilet, lavatory, dunny, crapper or privy. For the answer to this troublesome question, come with me back to the Worcester of the early 19th century. A time when the city’s population was starting to explode – and any other double entendre Carry On scriptwriters might come up with.
16 of Yeovil s most missed lost pubs from years gone by
The town has lost many great boozers over the years
The Fleur de Lys became a Co-op
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