Shadows of a Forgotten World

In addition to its abundance of beautiful architecture, famous colleges and courtyards, spires, museums, and canals, Oxford also has its fair share of lovely boot scrapers. In a quiet residential area, I stumbled across a long street filled with boot scrapers  —  almost every one with a unique shape. But they were found all over, in the colleges and in other residential neigborhoods. Above this boot scraper is a handle Matching door and boot scraper There used to be door here...

I first heard of anti-toilets from an article about urine deflectors in London. Since then I have come across them in Austria  and Prague, and possibly a curious indoor one in Lviv . In my recent short visit to London, I came across this set of anti-toilets.

A modern take on urine deflectors or "pee bumps" - a special paint that makes urine bounce back. From the article: " When peeing in public in this German city, beware walls that pee back "