From memory it was used for people to clean their shoes before going in
It’s to clean the soles of your shoes.
Jep.. and now in Antwerp some of them have little artworks inside them
From the time when you’d regularly step in horse crap.
You’d scrape horse dung off your shoes with the bottom metal piece.
It’s a small door for small people. In the olden days Belgium had laws that small people weren’t allowed in the main door in case someone stepped on them and small wheelchair would need to be constructed, hence a small door was created. There is no need for them anymore since Spanish flu unfortunately eradicated “The kleintjes” they were known as, and have since become extinct. Their relative still exists here in Ireland knows as the leprechaun, commonly found near rainbows and chasing after Jennifer Anniston.
People in Antwerp just really like their mice so they give them a separate vip entrance.
Shit scraper.
A soul-cleaner. For very small sinning people 😉
Check it out on Instagram: verwonderende voetschrapers. An artist making beautiful tiny diaramas in these bootscrapers.
I’m pretty sure these small studio’s will also be rented out for “woekerprijzen” soon enough..
just wonder how much poo there was on the streets then that you needed this as a solution. Many houses from those era have this at the frontdoor.
Stuart Little 🐭
It’s where the Belgian fry goblin comes out to gobble on some fries
It’s for cleaning your shoes from mud, because real belgians keep their shoes on inside the house 💪😤 🇧🇪 /s
It’s a shoe scraper! 😂
People like locking bikes to them.
It’s a portal to the nether
Someone posted the same question to r/london today. What are the chances?
Nowadays an artist made little miniatures from it all over the city. I don’t know what it’s called but it’s really worth it. You can take an actual walking route with information on Spotify.
I will look for it and give you a link.
R/london asked the same literally today haha coincidence?
It’s for Jerry
To remove shit from your shoes. Horses would be running in the streets instead of cars
It’s to clean your shoes, there are some building in Brussels with this in front.
Called a décrottoir in French, they’re everywhere in Brussels.
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From memory it was used for people to clean their shoes before going in
It’s to clean the soles of your shoes.
Jep.. and now in Antwerp some of them have little artworks inside them
From the time when you’d regularly step in horse crap.
You’d scrape horse dung off your shoes with the bottom metal piece.
It’s a small door for small people. In the olden days Belgium had laws that small people weren’t allowed in the main door in case someone stepped on them and small wheelchair would need to be constructed, hence a small door was created. There is no need for them anymore since Spanish flu unfortunately eradicated “The kleintjes” they were known as, and have since become extinct. Their relative still exists here in Ireland knows as the leprechaun, commonly found near rainbows and chasing after Jennifer Anniston.
People in Antwerp just really like their mice so they give them a separate vip entrance.
Shit scraper.
A soul-cleaner. For very small sinning people 😉
Check it out on Instagram: verwonderende voetschrapers. An artist making beautiful tiny diaramas in these bootscrapers.
I’m pretty sure these small studio’s will also be rented out for “woekerprijzen” soon enough..
just wonder how much poo there was on the streets then that you needed this as a solution. Many houses from those era have this at the frontdoor.
Stuart Little 🐭
It’s where the Belgian fry goblin comes out to gobble on some fries
It’s for cleaning your shoes from mud, because real belgians keep their shoes on inside the house 💪😤 🇧🇪 /s
It’s a shoe scraper! 😂
People like locking bikes to them.
It’s a portal to the nether
Someone posted the same question to r/london today. What are the chances?
Nowadays an artist made little miniatures from it all over the city. I don’t know what it’s called but it’s really worth it. You can take an actual walking route with information on Spotify.
I will look for it and give you a link.
R/london asked the same literally today haha coincidence?
It’s for Jerry
To remove shit from your shoes. Horses would be running in the streets instead of cars
It’s to clean your shoes, there are some building in Brussels with this in front.
Called a décrottoir in French, they’re everywhere in Brussels.
Stuart Little’s house.
Narnia access door for the rats