HOW many of these public conveniences do you remember? Amazingly, for a town that is now extremely short of places in which to spend a penny, Darlington was once awash with toilets.

How many you can locate? Answers are at the foot of the page – if you get them all right, you will truly be flushed with success!

And are there any that we've missed out? Are there any other unusual toilets in our region that we should be looking at? If you've got any toilet talk for us, please email chris.lloyd@nne.co.uk

























































ANSWERS:

1. High Row. The pubs for the Pedestrian Heart water feature now occupy to the subterranean toilets, which have been closed since at least 2007.

2. East Row, beneath the Covered Market. They were the last council-run toilets in Darlington, and when the council shut them in 2012, it saved £38,000-a-year

3. Northgate, beside Marks & Spencer.

4. Cockerton, on the green. The two superloos arrived in the mid 1980s. The council claimed they were not popular and that they were costing £26,000-a-year to run. They had disappeared by the mid 1990s.

5. Southend Avenue. Whoever knew there had been toilets here?

6. Neasham Road – presumably built for men going to work at the railside engineering works. Closed in 1993.

7. Stanhope Park. Closed 1993.

8. Victoria Embankment entrance to South Park, complete with Victorian mural drinking fountain.

9. South Park, behind the lodge – South Park once had three toilets, with the third been situated at the Bedford Street entrance. All closed in 1993.

10. Heighington, seen here in 1975. The only other village we can think of that had its own toilets was Hurworth Place.