{"id":7423,"date":"2021-11-13T10:45:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T09:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7417"},"modified":"2022-12-28T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T11:50:44","slug":"we-salute-the-decades-of-service-by-brutalist-public-conveniences-that-graced-loch-ness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/13\/we-salute-the-decades-of-service-by-brutalist-public-conveniences-that-graced-loch-ness\/","title":{"rendered":"We Salute The Decades Of Service By Brutalist Public Conveniences That Graced Loch Ness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These were happier times before global catastrophes and woe filled the news everyday. Drumnadrochit was a siple little village with simple pleasures like hunting for Nessie, a pastime enjoyed by many locals and visitors alike. <\/p><div id=\"lochn-1596097827\" class=\"lochn-content lochn-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3003812232025940\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3003812232025940\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course lengthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lochness.co.uk\/livecam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">monster hunting<\/a> meant that a state-of-the-art public convenience (WC or toilet) was required and so an award winning brutalist masterpiece was created that rivalled the old supermarket. You can see the attention to detail and the careful maintenance that kept this cherished building flush with success for so long.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"709\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Drumnadrochit-old-loos-toilets.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Drumnadrochit-old-loos-toilets.jpg 709w, https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Drumnadrochit-old-loos-toilets-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Award winning Brutalist loos serviced the area for years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sometimes queues of people formed between the loo and the bus stop as people were eager to try out its comfy environs. But alas, eventually it&#8217;s time passed and the thunder box was demolished with a small ceremony but lives on in village folklore. It was a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lochness.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Loch Ness Monster<\/a>, worthy of the name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were happier times before global catastrophes and woe filled the news everyday. Drumnadrochit was a siple little village with simple pleasures like hunting for Nessie, a pastime enjoyed by many locals and visitors alike. Of course lengthy monster hunting meant that a state-of-the-art public convenience (WC or toilet) was required and so an award &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/13\/we-salute-the-decades-of-service-by-brutalist-public-conveniences-that-graced-loch-ness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We Salute The Decades Of Service By Brutalist Public Conveniences That Graced Loch Ness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[121,182,233,243,275,310,332,333,386,387],"class_list":["post-7423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-drumnadrochit","tag-highlands","tag-loch-ness-monster","tag-loo","tag-nessie","tag-public","tag-scotland","tag-scottish","tag-tourism","tag-tourist"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7464,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions\/7464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}