Off topic? Date my bollards.
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Hello chaps.
Our new house purchase has resulted in the acquisition of two of these here traffic bollards.
While they have a certain retro charm they are a bit out of place with our rural locale.
They were allegedly liberated from Parliament Sq according to our seller.
Would any PHer care to speculate on their age and desirability?
I'm thinking 1930's?
Cheers, Whatty.
Our new house purchase has resulted in the acquisition of two of these here traffic bollards.
While they have a certain retro charm they are a bit out of place with our rural locale.
They were allegedly liberated from Parliament Sq according to our seller.
Would any PHer care to speculate on their age and desirability?
I'm thinking 1930's?
Cheers, Whatty.
The original street bollards became adapted from the French cannons (captured at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805?).
They were placed on street corners to stop the iron wagon wheels of carts from mounting the kerbs and doing damage.
They proved so popular that they adorned many of the London streets and, once the real Cannons were all used up, copies were made and are still to be seen on the streets of London today.
They were placed on street corners to stop the iron wagon wheels of carts from mounting the kerbs and doing damage.
They proved so popular that they adorned many of the London streets and, once the real Cannons were all used up, copies were made and are still to be seen on the streets of London today.
I like it - which makes it desirable, at least to me! 
It looks like a variant of the Gowshall street bollard?
You can see it on this phot captioned "Gowshall late 1940s trade stand - can I have a time machine please! Lots of road signs - pre-Worboys report - and all those things that made up such an important part of 1950s Brirish streetscapes."
Gowshall street furniture exhibition, c1950 by Mikey, on Flickr
It is first on the left.
It looks like a variant of the Gowshall street bollard?
You can see it on this phot captioned "Gowshall late 1940s trade stand - can I have a time machine please! Lots of road signs - pre-Worboys report - and all those things that made up such an important part of 1950s Brirish streetscapes."
Gowshall street furniture exhibition, c1950 by Mikey, on Flickr It is first on the left.
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