What are these iron gate-like items I’ve seen drilled into the walls and ground outside some tenements in Glasgow’s West End?

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1. Most of the Iron Work around tenements was removed during WWII to be reused in other things. That’s why you see so many low walls with holes in them and stairs without rails etc. generally the posher area’s have more bits where some escaped that fate or people reinstated them after the war.

   So, yeah doesn’t really answer your question on what these were but most tenements would have had some sort of ironwork outside of them originally.

2. Waiting expectantly for the answer.. noticed these on Dowanhill Street last week and wondered exactly this

3. I would say their purpose is so you don’t bump into someone when coming out of the close.

4. Bootscapers for giants

5. Banging your doormats against to clean them.

6. Got them in Govanhill as well.

7. They’re to make moving furniture more difficult.

8. Stop you fae getting hit by a bike

9. I always assumed they were just decorative.

10. Theyre to allow residents to safely enter what would have been very crowded streets, without immediately being bumped into

11. There’s actually a really interesting story to them

12. tie their horse?