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Title: What is the thing in the lower left hand corner???
Post by: fliffy42 on July 12, 2012, 05:30:42 AM

Can anyone identify the object in the lower left hand corner of this photo? I am guessing an old fire hydrant but dont know anything about such things.

Title: Re: What is the thing in the lower left hand corner???
Post by: HeelSpur on July 12, 2012, 05:53:22 AM

A headless women? Maybe a mannequin.
Guess I have women on my mind.

Title: Re: What is the thing in the lower left hand corner???
Post by: john k on July 12, 2012, 07:02:01 AM

That may be an early cast iron mail drop box, or a police call box.   I see its mounted on a concrete pad, and the police call boxes were always mounted securely.  FYI a police call box was a telephone in a locked steel box, just for police to call in to the station, when on patrol.

Title: Re: What is the thing in the lower left hand corner???
Post by: amertrac on July 12, 2012, 07:34:16 AM

thats the guy who rings the bell when the crossing gates go down ,He just could not get his head on straight this morning   bob w.

Title: Re: What is the thing in the lower left hand corner???
Post by: Aunt Phil on July 13, 2012, 11:02:52 PM

Call box.
There's a web site for them, but I've lost the url.