Stop 8 of 32
The Underground Toilets
Getting hereCome back out towards the main gate and the road junction. The underground toilets were beneath the pavement here.
Until the early 1980s there were public toilets beneath the pavement at the park entrance, where Drummond Place, Kings Park Road and Queen's Road meet — the junction now occupied by the roundabout.
They were built below ground and lit from above through glass-brick skylights set into the pavement, a common arrangement in Victorian and Edwardian towns. Two stairways led down, screened from view by hedges, with the ladies' entrance on one side and the gentlemen's on the other as you left the park.
Local recollection places their removal in the early 1980s. The ornamental drinking fountain nearby stands close to where one of the entrances came up.