Welcome to bollards of London (incorporating bollards of Britain), a site dedicated to those rather odd looking pavement objects you find in the most interesting of places. Bollards have a history richer than most objects placed upon the pavement and we can easily find some from the earlier part of the 19th Century. Welcome once again to bollards of London and please do follow/contact me on the twitter @BollardsEngland or via gmail john.bollards@gmail.com #thankyou...
Monday, 31 January 2011
The 93rd Post....sorry Bollard.
We approach the 100th post (bollard) with a few crackers that I've found in the last few weeks dotted mainly around central London.
This rather odd even painful looking bollard can be found off Marloes Road in a private estate (rather nice too). It's actually designed to stop lorries mounting the pavement at corners of kerbs and damaging the footpath/paving stones.
What is odd is the fact it juts out into the road and just looks nothing like the standard bollard we find all over the capital.
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At a guess, and as a new visitor to Bollards of London, I'd suggest this one to predate motor traffic, and to be designed to protect against iron-shod cartwheels.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! One day there will be bollards that prevent banker's bonuses, cure cancer and find rhymes for the word 'orange'
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