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Metal thingies beside main doors

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  • 16-08-2014 12:59pm
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    El Inho
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    Anyone know what these are? Was thinking possibly for a bottle of milk in the mornings of old?

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    yoyo
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    I always thought they were for cleaning shoes :) .

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    tricky D
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    Yup, shoe cleaning from the days of horse travel.


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    El Inho
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    cleaning shoes? really....that wouldnt have occured to me...


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    spurious
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    Poo scrapers.


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    septictank
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    El Inho wrote: »
    cleaning shoes? really....that wouldnt have occured to me...

    If you are around Merrion or Fitzwilliam sq's you will se the fancier versions which are wrought iron free standing from the wall usually painted black on the right of the door.


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    tricky D
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    septictank wrote: »
    If you are around Merrion or Fitzwilliam sq's you will se the fancier versions which are wrought iron free standing from the wall usually painted black on the right of the door.
    Eg
    bootscraper-at-the-Emerson-House.jpg


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    Frosty McSnowballs
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    El Inho wrote: »
    cleaning shoes? really....that wouldnt have occured to me...

    Yep.

    There are a lot of them in and around stoneybatter etc.


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    El Inho
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    Thanks guys... That was annoying me a while!


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    tricky D
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    Another feature outside of Georgian/Victorian houses is the iron coal hole usually located on the path outside which leads to a bunker under the path and outside the basement entrance. They are usually about 10 inches in diameter and the bunkers and other storage vaults can extend quite far out from the house, sometimes under the street. The storage vaults were to keep stuff cool in the time before refrigeration.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/georgian-cellars-dublin-908479-May2013/
    http://bocktherobber.com/2011/03/obliterating-hidden-georgian-limerick/

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