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Norman Park, Queensland, around 1950; like many areas of Brisbane this area was unsewered until the late 1960s [citation needed], with each house having an outhouse or "dunny" in the back yard. The little sheds in each back yard are outhouses. "Dunny" or "dunny can" are Australian words for a toilet, particularly an outhouse. The combinations ...
Norman Park, like many areas of Brisbane, was unsewered until the late 1960s, with each house having an outhouse or "dunny" in the back yard. Norman Park began taking in the first settlers in 1853. One of the early Deeds of Grant was in 1854 to Louis Hope of land totalling about 40 acres. [6] Hope was a grazier and Ormiston Sugar Mill owner.
Agro, as he appears in Agro's Cartoon Connection.. Agro is an Australian puppet and media personality, not owned although operated by comedian and voice artist Jamie Dunn.He was especially prominent on Australian television in the 1990s due to his co-hosting opposite Ann-Maree Biggar and Terasa Livingstone of Agro's Cartoon Connection, a children's program that was aired from 1989 to 1997 on ...
Before reticulated sewerage systems replaced them, major cities in Australia had a nightsoil collection system, with its own special terms. "Nightsoil" was collected from "dunnies" (outhouses/water closets) at the rear of dwellings, often accessed by "dunny lanes" (narrow laneways) by a "dunny man" (a nightsoil collector). Most inner-city areas ...
Brisbane, Australia was largely unsewered until the early 1970s, with many suburbs having a dry toilet (called a dunny) behind each house. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Academic George Seddon claimed that "the typical Australian back yard in the cities and country towns" had, throughout the first half of the twentieth century, "a dunny against the back ...
West End, Brisbane: 3×2 m (9.8×6.6 ft) This was a public sculpture that once stood on the lot next to Paul's dairy factory on Montague Road. The area is now part of the ramp onto the Go Between bridge, and the fate of the sculpture is unknown. Last photo located on the internet was dated 2007. [citation needed] The Big Peanut Tolga: 1977 [101]
Brisbane, its third most populous city, relied on "dunny carts" until the 1950s (one source says until the 1970s [27]); because the population was so dispersed, it was difficult to install sewerage. [28] Tar, creosote, and disinfectant kept the smell down. [29]
Dunny is Australian/New Zealand slang for a toilet. Dunny may also mean: Dunny Goode (1929–2004), head football coach for Eastern New Mexico University "Dunny", nickname for Fred Dunlap (1859–1902), 19th century baseball player and manager "Dunnies", nickname for the Whitby Dunlops, a Canadian Major League Hockey team