Relaunched topic.
I didn't notice any in any of the photos. I've lived in places with those kind of shutters and they didn't have any, but they were heavier than the 5A ones seem to have been. There was no way you could simply lift the ones I'm familiar with from the outside more than a few centimetres without them jamming. The 5A ones seem to have quite light-weight.
I noticed in a recent photo that that window now has a wrought-iron frame on the outside.
We were there for the second time about a month ago.
Yep virtually all the entrances are now guarded with wrought iron grids of some sort. Even the blacony at the back which is virtually first floor level has one over the arched street side window and the sitting room window had bars.
The little side gate at the back, up to the outside stairs, no longer has the lpretty little low gate ... but the whole area of the gate gap has a full height metal grid over it . It is no longer see thru and has what looks like a lock.
Madeleines bedroom has 4 bars over it. No wonder after Petermac having the affrontery to go fiddling with the shutters on someone elses appartment !
All the iron work at each place is painted a deep yellow and tbh the bars are too widely spaced to prevent a slim burglar, imo
As we all know the beautiful trees surrounding the 5A end of block 5 are cut right down. BUT , most of block 5 still has the trees as does the entire length of block 4
Still it enabled Pat Brown to take her famous con-trick photo of Madeleines room window, didn't it ? I wonder who set that con trick up? Might not have been Pat Brown herself.
Block 5 now has the search lights fitted, but they weren't on May3rd 2007, nor when we visited in mid 2010. Similarily dimly lit block 4 still has all its trees and no searchlights.
That new search light was convenient for Pat Browns photo too, wasn't it?
Was there about 5 weeks ago
