Bootscrapers - a social profile
October 29th, 2008
posted by Cptn
Even the bootscrapers try to lord it in Dartmouth
Towns can live up to their image in the oddest ways. The structured hierarchical idea that Dartmouth projects and the devil-may-care randomness of Totnes come through even in the towns’ bootscrapers.
The blog Faded London, which looks at the remnants of architectural windows into the past, went on the road recently and discovered the Bootscrapers of Totnes and Dartmouth.
There’s an obvious descent from the aesthetic bootscraper at the top of the hill in Dartmouth. “I think I’d be a bit ashamed to put mud anywhere near it,” says Faded London. And “the further down the hill you go the less impressive the scrapers. Some sort of social stratification going on here?”
Ending up with the no-fuss, simple honest-to-goodness scraper at the bottom of the hill.
Totnes, on the other hand, had bootscrapers competing with a plaintive dandelion, oddly placed poles, ‘odd white things’ and an ancient public faucet.
Check out the full story at Faded London in Dartmouth and Totnes.
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