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Dusty Bell-Pulls

            I love these, you still find them all over the city - these are old bell-pulls, from before the days of home electricty and electronic doorbells. These are mechanical, grab the knob and it pulls out, tugging a wire to ring a bell in the flat. 

While many of these are now just a decorative reminder of a different era (in the same way you can still see the fixtures for gas lighting in the stairwells of these old tenements), you still find some that actually work - a friend once had a flat with a working Victorian bell-pull that jangled bells inside, and of course I delighted in ringing it every time I went round to visit! 

I quite liked these ones, all covered in cobwebs. And I like that so many of our homes in this old city have these little remnants of the past still built into them, and wonder how many generations past pulled those bells as they called on a friend or relative. History is never really past, it's still here, especially in a city like Edinburgh, and not just the grand histories of kings and queens but the little, domestic, everyday histories like these.

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Taken in: UK / Scotland / Marchmont (show map)

Taken on: August 4, 2020

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Camera: motorola one macro, f/2.0, 1/33 sec, 3.5mm (=0mm), ISO 306 (more info) (hide info)

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