Concrete portaloo

I’m back from my holidays and once again ready to resume high quality Cartoon Blog programming.

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Today’s picture is a heavily fortified concrete portaloo, originally developed for use at music festivals back in the 1960s. It wasn’t long before the inventors realised that aerial bombardment was unlikely, so the plastic portaloos we know and love became predominant, although a few isolated concrete examples remained in use until the end of the cold war.

Another design flaw was the lack of a door.