Nightcart Lanes
| Place type: | Locality |
|---|---|
| Town or Locality: | Gawler |
Before modern sewerage and before septic tanks, the Council service was for an employee with a horse and cart calling on each home (generally weekly) to collect the toilet waste. Most toilets were in the back yard and the rear of the toilet had a flap which enabled access to the bucket for removal and replacement. For some reason this operation was called the 'night cart' and the position of the 'night cart man' was, no doubt, a highly prized vocation within the Council. There was an urban myth that the contents of the pans were dumped into the North and South Para Rivers. We have been assured that this was not the case.
Up until approximately 2006, the lanes that ran behind the houses were unnamed and the suggestion was made to actually name them. If the lane was not a through road because of bollards etc being halfway down the lane, separate names were given at each end of the lane, so as to aid the speed of service from emergency services.
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