Thursday Doors: An Old Brown Door in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter There are many hundreds, no thousands, of fascinating old doors in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter. This one really caught my eye because of the its ironmongery . I love the old bolt and letterbox juxtaposed below the new(-ish) padlock. They must Read more…
My photograph this week for Thursday Doors was taken in 2005, many digital cameras ago. On my trip to Venice that year I had a Sony digital camera which took a Memory Stick with a capacity of, I think, 64Mb (and that was near the top of the range !). Read more…
Honister Cottage 1628 We were in the village of Seatoller in the Lake District a couple of weeks ago and were captivated by this cottage dating back to 1628. Is the door the original one? I don’t know. Probably not, though by normal standards it’s pretty old. I must see Read more…
In response to Thursday Doors Challenge: How wonderful it would have been to enter through this door every day as a student at the Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Glasgow School of Art, but it’s not too bad going in as an occasional rubber-necking day-tripper. (N.B.Work is ongoing to restore this Read more…
Door “When is a door not a door?” asked the riddle in my Tiny Tots comic hundreds of years ago. Their answer was “When it’s a-jar”, but that never made me laugh. But this did……… …….especially as it’s in a lane in my home city of Glasgow’s West End, and Read more…