TIDAL TOILETS

Tidal toilets like the ones preserved in Stronsay 2023 (thanks to a project sponsored by the North Isles Landscape Partnership) were once common in coastal villages, but there are now only two examples still surviving in Orkney. This building was constructed when the herring fishing was at its height in Stronsay and would have been in daily use by the hundreds of gutter lasses, coopers and workers emploued in the area. It was, of course, a unisex toilet with little privacy and was flushed twice a day by the rising tide.