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.