Ancien vestiaire d'usine aménagé.
📍 Viviez, France
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Boekenruilkast
📍 Roeselare, Belgium
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Love this ornate, and rather frog-like, Victorian bootscraper outside a townhouse in thr Park District In the West End of Glasgow.
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In the 1920s, the name grandually shifted, and the original F.P. style signs (left) were replaced by ones with the letter H on them (right). It wasn't until the 1940s and 1950s that the standardised fire hydrant signs we are now familiar with were finally introduced. However, a few of these earlier versions still exist.
Old fire hydrant markers on Glasgow University's Gilmorehill Campus. The valves fitted to water pipes which we now know as fire hydrants were originally known as fire points, marked by the leters F.P., when they were first intoduced in the late 1800s (which replaced the earlier fire plugs, which were literally plugs fitted into water pipes).
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An access panel in the Broomhill area of Glasgow produced by the Lion Foundry in Kirkintilloch. This foundry was established in the early 1880s by a number of former employees of Walter MacFarlane's Saracen Foundry in the north of Glasgow.
Originally named Jackson, Brown, Hudson and Cuthbert, they became known as the Lion Foundry in 1885. It closed almost a century later in the 1980s.
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One of the rather wonderful lamp posts on Royal Crescent in the west end of Glasgow. I don't think they're particularly old, but they're a great addition to the street.
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An old Rely-A-Bell burglar alarm box on a wall in the Hidden Lane in Glasgow. First created around 1904, Rely-A-Bell alarms were initially manufactured by the London ironmonger Thomas Gunn. It was spun off into its own company, the Rely-a-Bell Burglar and Fire Alarm Company Limited, in 1921. It's believed to be the oldest burglar alarm company in the UK.
Apparently, they also made apparatus for lemonade producers, machine makers and spirit rectifiers.
A. Watson and Co access cover from University Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. I love coming across these old bits of street furniture as they are a reminder of long-gone businesses. In this case, it's a firm of plumbers, brassfounders and gasfitters established by Archibald Watson in 1833 which went on to become one of the best known plumbing and gas-fitting firms of its age and was based at 86 George Street.
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