Yea Vin, outside toilets, WC cistern would ice over and it wouldn't flush, had to break the ice ~ slopping out the guzunder or tripping across t'yard to t'toilet to do number twos in the dark with a lump of Daily Mirror, in case the strips on the 6 inch nail had all been used up

O'course printed newspaper were a bit iffy as the print came off on your hands and - well!

I have some old photos of conditions prior to 1936 - which of course were even worse, I'm doing trad song at Saddleworth and have some pictures of linen weavers cottage in Barnsley, might be of interest to those singing weaving/industrial song