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Look up: Garderobe

  1. Garderobe
    A small latrine or toilet either built into the thickness of the wall or projected out from it; ; projects from the wall as a small, rectangular bartizan
    Found on http://www.castlesontheweb.com/glossary.

  2. Garderobe
    latrine; privy, normally set over a stone shaft or drain
    Found on http://www.castlexplorer.co.uk/glossary.

  3. Garderobe
    Individual lavatory or privy.
    Found on http://www.digital-documents.co.uk/archi

  4. garderobe
    Medieval lavatory. Garderobes were often built into the thickness of a castle wall, with an open drop to the moat below. ...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  5. Garderobe
    The Medieval term for a toilet. These could be arranged so that they drained away from the house into a ravine, e.g. Aydon 'Castle', Northumberland.
    Found on http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/k

  6. Garderobe
    safe store, but more usually a privy, very often to be found in thickness of a castle wall.
    Found on http://www.trp.dundee.ac.uk/research/glo

  7. Garderobe
    `Garderobes` were medieval toilets in large buildings and castles. They were often holes in the outer walls of these buildings which dropped into cess pits or moats (depending on the structure of the building involved.) Many can still be seen (from the inside and out) in Norman and Tudor castles. They became obsolete with the (re)introduction of indoor plumbing. Category:Architectural elements Category:Castles Category:Toilets
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garderobe

  8. garderobe
    latrine, toilet or bathroom. A room to store personal items. Wardrobe
    Found on http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castle


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8 November 2009

This day in history:
Just before 11.00am on 8th November 1987 a Provisional IRA bomb exploded without warning as people gathered at the war memorial in Enniskillen for the annual Remembrance Day service. Eleven people were killed and 63 injured, nine of them seriously, when the three-story gable wall of St Michael's Reading Rooms crashed down burying people in several feet of rubble. The Provisional IRA admitted responsibility the following day. read more

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