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This door pull has been polished by frequent use
Our Daily Challenge group has chosen Patina as today's topic.
A matched set of door keyholes and pulls spotted on Tomar's Rua São Joãa.
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June 23, 2023 - Door hardware detail at 32 Boulevard du Rempart-Lachepaillet on this mornings walking tour of Bayonne with Andy our city guide.
Another bell-pull, but unlike the ones I posted pics of recently, which are old, this looks to be very new, and very, very shiny!!! Obviously I had to take a pic!
Door opener on a church side door in my hometown
Türgriff an einer Nebeneingangstür einer Kirche in meiner Heimatstadt
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Brass door handle with two lions in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, June 5, 2023.
A wee bit of local history - these objects next to the entrance to a block of Victorian tenements are a leftover from those older days, they are bell-pulls. You grasp the knob in the middle of those square to ring a bell in the apartment you are calling on.
Long since replaced by electronic entryphones in most tenements, you still find some on buildings, some, as here, even have names on them. Occasionally some of them are actually still connected and work! A friend had a flat for several years here which still had a working bell-pull, which naturally I would delight in ringing every time I went round.
I love these, you still find them all over the city - these are old bell-pulls, from before the days of home electricty and electronic doorbells. These are mechanical, grab the knob and it pulls out, tugging a wire to ring a bell in the flat.
While many of these are now just a decorative reminder of a different era (in the same way you can still see the fixtures for gas lighting in the stairwells of these old tenements), you still find some that actually work - a friend once had a flat with a working Victorian bell-pull that jangled bells inside, and of course I delighted in ringing it every time I went round to visit!
I quite liked these ones, all covered in cobwebs. And I like that so many of our homes in this old city have these little remnants of the past still built into them, and wonder how many generations past pulled those bells as they called on a friend or relative. History is never really past, it's still here, especially in a city like Edinburgh, and not just the grand histories of kings and queens but the little, domestic, everyday histories like these.
~ “MACRO MONDAYS” ~ “PUSHPULL” ~ “8/17/20” ~
~ "BRASS DOOR PULL" ~ "2 1/4" X 2" " ~ WOOD, BRASS ~ "ANTIQUE" ~ 51 1/2" YEARS OLD ~
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