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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.
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Pyrmont, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Pyrmont, Sydney, NSW, Australia

The former Pyrmont Public School, on the corner of John and Mount Streets. Designed by William Kemp (NSW Architect for Schools), and built 1884-1891.

Now the Pyrmont Community Centre.

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