I reel-off a strip and my hand shakes like I’m receiving an electric shock. I shiver as I know this is when the innocent looking enemy bursts into life and inflicts punishment that will torment me for hours. I hesitantly lock the door behind me and drop my trousers before carefully placing my bum on the chilly black toilet seat.īusiness completed and poo flushed away. I enter, and my enemy is there, innocently hanging from the dispenser roll.
I enter the cubicle like a boy heading into the headmasters office for six of the best. It’s no good, I give into the sensation and my hand shoots up requesting permission to go to the cubicle of pain.
I exit the cubicle of pain walking like I’ve been shot in the backside. Keep clenching, take slow deep breaths, don’t think about it – instead think about making it home and finding relief in the smallest room in the house.
It’s 2pm: only an hour and a half to go but I’m bursting! Can I make it? No… yes… maybe… I’d hold my breath and clench my buttocks hoping to hold out until home time. Shiny on one side, rough on the other, experience showed that the paper was better at smearing rather than cleaning, and children of a certain age remember it better as being a useful musical instrument (comb and paper), as well as an excellent tracing paper.Īlongside the toilet Rolls, the Izal brand extended to San Izal Disinfectant, San Pine Disinfectant, soaps, shampoos, shaving foams, Polly kitchen rolls and even Izal lozenges and mints, in all about 137 products.I WOULD dread it! The thought of heading into the grey chilly cubicle would make me tremble. During World War 2, the sheets were printed with a cartoon of Adolph Hitler, very popular with the public but less so with officials. In 1924, William Heath Robinson, a cartoonist and illustrator, was employed by Newton Chambers to provide amusing illustrations on the toilet rolls, and in the 1930s there were rhymes printed on each sheet. Izal Toilet paper appeared in hospitals, schools and public buildings (‘Government Property’) around the country and wasn’t sold to the public until 1922.
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One of its products was a ‘scratchy’ toilet paper, impregnated with Izal disinfectant, and given away free to local authorities which bought bulk supplies of hygiene products. The claims seem unbelievably wild today, but Izal attracted favourable reports from bacteriologists. Izal prevents infection in Cholera, Smallpox, Diphtheria, Influenza, Scarlet Fever, Swine Fever, Malaria, Worms, Typhus, and Typhoid Fever, and practically covers the whole field of infectious diseases.” “Izal – the new non-poisonous disinfectant and prevention of infection. The resulting product was trialled in hospitals and became known as Thorncliffe Patent Disinfectant before being called Izal – reputed to be an anagram of Liza, Worrall’s sister. The origins go back to 1793 when George Newton and Thomas Chambers became partners in the Phoenix Foundry and, along with financier Henry Longden, they signed a 21-year-lease with Earl Fitzwilliam, the landowner, to extract coal and ironstone from the Thorncliffe Valley near Chapeltown.Ī hundred years after coal production began it turned to Jason Hall Worrall, a chemist, to analyse the oil produced by coke and subsequently develop a germicide oil which, when mixed with an emulsifying agent, dispersed through any liquid. I’m talking about Izal, made here in Sheffield, famous for that waxy disinfectant toilet paper that many of us grew up with. Here’s a topical post because it involves disinfectant and toilet paper… and a brand that was once a brand leader.
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