Wrought-iron gateway arch, the Butts
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Wrought-iron gateway arch, the Butts
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 18 Jun 2014
At the front-garden gate of a Victorian house in the Butts. Structures somewhat like this were not uncommon in Georgian days, but I don't remember ever having seen a Victorian example. The gate-posts themselves appear to be of similar date, though cast iron. I know that a lot of iron railings were sacrificed during World War 2 in the name of the war effort, so I wonder whether this is a rare surviving example of something which was once more common.
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