I remember finding one in Worsbrough near Barnsley about ten years ago, still open but very basic (I don't think it even had a flush).Following on from the ‘Things that used to be commonplace in the home’ thread, shall we continue with the nostalgia? This was inspired by this quote:
and I remember there used to be a lot of public Gents urinals, which were little more than a wall, with a bit of a curved entrance so people couldn’t see inside, and a drain. They usually - not surprisingly - stunk of stale urine, but were very convenient, as it were. The last example I can remember using was at Hawes, maybe twenty years ago, though this was ingeniously somehow built inside a wall.
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There are a few that are still in situ but boarded up or bricked up: on the Kelham Island/Neepsend border in Sheffield and opposite the Victoria pub near Lincoln Castle, for example (the one in Lincoln was still open in the early 2000s).
Sheffield used to have several: there was one on Abbeydale Road, next to the Broadfield pub, that has now (very appropriately!) been turned into a convenience store.
There is still one at the National Tramway Museum (a.k.a. Crich Tramway Village) in Crich, Derbyshire. It's round the side of the Red Lion pub and has only been there about 10-15 years. It's one made from green railings rather than a brick-built one.
As well as gents' urinals, two other types of public toilet that were once commonplace but are now pretty rare are the underground toilet (which I think had been around since Victorian times) and the Superloo (self-flushing toilet cubicles, usually coin-operated but sometimes free of charge) which I think were first invented in the 1980s but have now largely disappeared. In the 1980s and 90s many councils saw them as a cheaper alternative to conventional toilets, but in recent years they have realised that they too cost a lot to maintain.
And public toilets in general are fast disappearing because of council budget cuts: these days you only tend to find them in popular touristy areas, where for obvious reasons they are still considered socially necessary.