Bootscrapers of Park Circus in the west end of Glasgow. Bootscrapers are very basic, functional item of metalwork, but I love all the different ways they've been made to look a bit more fancy.
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Love this style of bootscraper from outside a townhouse on Hill Street in the Garnethill area of Glasgow. The exact same bootscrapers can also be found outside 10 Downing Street in London (and you can often see them on the background during news conferences and interviews carried out on the street outside - and yes, I'm geeky enough to notice such things!).
I love these bootscrapers outside Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's Great Western Terrace in the West End of Glasgow. They just fit so well with the lines of the rest of the building.
I love it when I come across an old bootscaper still in place. This one, outside a Victorian townhouse in the Park area of Glasgow, is particularly nice, if a little bit worse for wear, and is nearly identical to the ones outside 10 Downing Street in London, the traditional home of the British Prime Minister. And before anyone asks, yes I really am geeky enough to have spotted this!
Love this ornately sculpted bootscraper recess beside the front door of the 1870s Western Baths Club on Cranworth Street in Glasgow.
I think this might be the largest bootscraper in Glasgow. Most are about six to eight inches across, making them just wide enough to scrape the sole of one boot at a time. This one outside Renfield Saint Stephen's Church on Bath Street is about a foot and a half long meaning several people can clean their boots at the same time.
A beautiful little bird-shaped bootscraper on Park Circus in the west end of Glasgow. This is a design for a bootscraper I haven't come across in Glasgow before.
Boot scraper, Alexander 'Greek' Thomson Style. Even this minor detail from his Great Western Terrace in Glasgow oozes classical elegance with its bold, clean lines.
This is not the only design of boot scraper to be found in Glasgow, and more up-market buildings tended to have much more fancy free-standing boot scrapers, like this one from the nearby Park Circus area.
I've seen these small holes near the ground at the entrances to tenement closes in Glasgow for years, but only recently found what they are for.
They were there to house simple metal boot scrapers, and you can just see the remains of one here in this picture from a close on Argyle Street.
