Monday 8 April 2019

Three Doors Ancient, Three Doors Dinky

A post about doors - you could say "a doorpost"!

First of all some rather ancient doors I've found on my travels. And some are rather ancient pictures too, so I hope I've got their locations right.

The door on the oldest house in Hertford, "The Old Verger's House".
The house dates from 1450, though the door must be newer.

I'm reasonably certain this one was in Histon, near Cambridge.
You can't buy a door like that these days!

And our final ancient entrance was photographed in Newport, Essex.


Now on to the second selection of doors. These have started to spring up in Cambridge in the last few months. I noticed the first one as I crossed Parker's Piece, the park in the centre of Cambridge.


It's hard to spot, but it's in the base of that famous lamppost known as Reality Checkpoint. Some time in 1973 it was painted in psychedelic colours by some students. It's not so gaudy these days but the name has survived and it's even marked on some maps and has its own Wikipedia page. And now it has a little door where the person in charge of checking reality presumably resides.


Here it is, though there's a note to say that the reality checker is on holiday at the moment. Anyone reading the news would have guessed as much! Then near the Market Square I found this....


Squeezed between two telephone boxes are more dinky doors, this time on a Teleport-O-Matic machine. A portal onto another reality perhaps. But there's more....


This one may look familiar but it's actually Number 10¼, not Number Ten. And where in Cambridge would you find this miniature seat of power??


Obviously. 

You can read all about these Dinky Doors and others online too.


Take care.


23 comments:

  1. ME ENCANTAN ESAS PUERTAS!!!Y LA CHIQUITA UN AMOR!
    SALUDITOS

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  2. I really enjoyed this doorpost!

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  3. Those old doors are sure made to withstand the test of time...and wondering who came up with the dinky doors. I like them but would never have thought of doing something like that.

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  4. What a great fun post...all full of great surprises. We call them fairy doors, and find them frequently on trees along our wooded paths. I admit I don't walk that much along streets, so don't know if there are some there as well.

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  5. Love those dinky doors! Thanks for sharing your photos of them.

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  6. A temptation to enter these little doors and see what lies behind!

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  7. Awesome doors, but big and little! The little ones are so imaginative and the big ones are quite classy.

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  8. I love ancient doors - and those three are perfection.

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  9. Some wonderful old doors here John - if only they could talk.

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  10. Where do you find these doors John. You would have a field day in the old hill top towns in Italy.

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  11. Very cool doors you have there.

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  12. You opened the door to a great post. Well done!

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  13. I like each and every door you photographed, those little ones are very fun.

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  14. Hi John - love the doors and especially seeing the dinky ones - a surprise to see. The ancient ones are beautiful - cheers Hilary

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  15. Brilliant well spotted with the doors.

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  16. The ancient doors are wonderful. I wonder how many people walk past those little doors and don't spot them?:)

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    1. Lots of grown up people pass by, but most children seem to spot them!

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  17. Beautiful little escape hatches . . . thanks!

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  18. Lovely post John and fascinating doors.

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  19. Beautiful ancient old doors John, the miniatures are such fun, my grandchildren have a fairy door in their garden and yes it was moi who put it there 😉

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