public lavatory

Campaigners, though, say there is a crisis in public lavatory provision with "unprecedented low levels", because local authorities want save money due to funding cuts.

Their solution — considerate but controversial — was to build a lavishly appointed public lavatory with walls of Alaskan marble, brass fixtures and terrazzo floors.

"I saw the queues, the shortages, the filthiness of public lavatories, the bureaucracy, the corruption, the red tape, the rudeness of officials, the impossibility of obtaining redress when one had a complaint," he remembered.

"McDonald's, all public lavatories are shut… I use gyms to get showered, all the gyms are closed."

It reminded me of the smell inside the men's public lavatory at our local railway-station.