Boot Scrapers & Carriage Blocks
Both Boot Scrapers (to scrape the mud off your boots when you're entering a building) and Carriage Blocks (sometimes 'Mounting Blocks', to help you onto a horse or in to a carriage) have both disappeared from newer buildings - neither being necessary now.
Made obsolete by sealed roads and motorised vehicles respetively.
Read MoreMade obsolete by sealed roads and motorised vehicles respetively.
Lilyfield, Sydney, NSW, Australia
The former 'Callan Park Hospital for the Insane' beside the Iron Cove. Originally a private estate owned by Crown Solicitor and Police Magistrate John Ryan Brenan, it was later purchased by the Colonial Government and repurposed as a site for a new lunatic asylum.
The hospital operated here from 1885-1994. Several of the buildings are now home to the 'Sydney College of the Arts' (part of Sydney University).
