night-carts

night In St. John's, along some streets sewage receptacles were placed at intervals of a few hundred yards; they were simply large earthenware pipes up-ended above gratings that led to the sewe pipe underground.People carried buckets of sewage to these hoppers last thing at night before going t...

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Language:English
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English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/61601
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spelling ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/61601 2023-12-31T10:19:28+01:00 night-carts image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/61601 eng eng N 1973 SMALLWOOD I Chose Canada, 56 References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 14382 N_14382_night http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/61601 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:34Z night In St. John's, along some streets sewage receptacles were placed at intervals of a few hundred yards; they were simply large earthenware pipes up-ended above gratings that led to the sewe pipe underground.People carried buckets of sewage to these hoppers last thing at night before going to bed or first thing in the morning before going to work. On streets where there were no hoppers . . . there were the night-carts - horse-drawn carts followed by two men who would pick up the buckets of "night soil placed in from of each house and empty them into the carts. The night carts started to come along around midnight, and they carried oil-fed torches which gave off a flare of light and much smoke. PRINTED ITEM G. M. Story APR 1974 JH APR 1974 Used I Not used Withdrawn [see 'hoppers', 'soil cart', etc.] 'sewage hoppers' Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI)
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topic English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
spellingShingle English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
night-carts
topic_facet English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
description night In St. John's, along some streets sewage receptacles were placed at intervals of a few hundred yards; they were simply large earthenware pipes up-ended above gratings that led to the sewe pipe underground.People carried buckets of sewage to these hoppers last thing at night before going to bed or first thing in the morning before going to work. On streets where there were no hoppers . . . there were the night-carts - horse-drawn carts followed by two men who would pick up the buckets of "night soil placed in from of each house and empty them into the carts. The night carts started to come along around midnight, and they carried oil-fed torches which gave off a flare of light and much smoke. PRINTED ITEM G. M. Story APR 1974 JH APR 1974 Used I Not used Withdrawn [see 'hoppers', 'soil cart', etc.] 'sewage hoppers'
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title night-carts
title_short night-carts
title_full night-carts
title_fullStr night-carts
title_full_unstemmed night-carts
title_sort night-carts
url http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/61601
genre Newfoundland
genre_facet Newfoundland
op_source Department of Folklore
Original held in the Department of Folklore.
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore
op_relation N
1973 SMALLWOOD I Chose Canada, 56
References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php
Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database
14382
N_14382_night
http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/61601
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