Cos mousies need homes with fancy schmancy front doors. In the UK the mice don't live like peasants. They be fancy AF. And it's cute.

Local planning laws - it is designed to break the roof line in non urban sites

Here in Holland they are giant concrete balls and here they are meant to deter motorists from driving on the sidewalks. So I guess same but with metal cones?

There used to a window tax, the more windows you had, the more tax you paid. These are bricked up windows to so the home owner at the time paid less tax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax

Statues dedicated to the Covid nose swab.

True story, America did try to adopt them by pretending they invented them and calling them something like pastry dogs only to be called out globally for their bullsh*t

Jesus - is this a joke......????

They are Karen traps. If you annoy shopkeeper or pub landlord, they open these so that you fall into the hole as you leave. This is why we don't have as many Karens in the UK.

Who exactly is this American?? Every major city has these in the downtown areas and all over new York city. They can be seen in tv shows and movies. Many of them have their own social media

Yes! they're cellar hatches for keg deliveries

They're not everwhere. Just outside pubs and bars.

They have these in older parts of US cities not just for coal but for any delivery of items-you often see them in old Popeye cartoons or old movies like with Laurel & Hardy.

Coal 'oles

Garbage can storage

Access to basement. The cities in the US that have them tend to have solid steel doors instead of wood.

Don't know about everywhere in the US, but Seattle WA has lots of these storage access doors.

For deliveries !

we have them in america too, mostly in larger cities.

New York City has a lot of them, too. They are definitely for goods deliveries, and some, at one time, were used for coal deliveries.

They’re for delivering coal to the businesses. In the past and sometimes today coal is the main way that people heat their homes and businesses.

Trapdoors which lead to cellars for deliveries. Common outside public houses for beer barrels.

Cellar access for deliveries.

It's either the door to deliver coal to the homes cellar or the cellar doors for deliveries to a public house

They are cellar doors. They are there to deliver beer to the cool cellar. Coal cellars also exist but are not used. The beer pub cellars still are used by some city pubs.

Used to be access to coal storage in the basement over a slide. In some restaurants, some of them are kept and the slide has been replaced with a lift for deliveries

Delivery hatches. I've seen them in my hometown, Kansas City Missouri, U.S. This woman is really coming across as very naive.

easy unloading to the basement....

This guy is a clueless tool. In nearly every old neighborhood in every old City east of (and including St. Louis), similar doors lead to the basement/cellar. And in some rare cases, vaults installed directly below the sidewalk. I've even seen some still in use, open, and goods delivered to the store behind. Here in the US, though, they're steel.

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They are gates to hell would be my guess.

Probs a 'coal hole'. If in the past this was a pub, could also be a beer barrel deli ery chute.

Gremlins...

They're in New York City, too.

They are loading ramps for deliveries. Most often seen outside Pubs but we're also used by bakeries etc for receiving sacks of flour or even coal for heating etc

Doors that give easy access to the basement. They're all over New York City as well.

Gee, how thick can you be? Um... they're called HINGES...

These are all over the US as well. Though not often in wood. Mainly metal.

Deliveries of barrels to pubs - they go in the cellar to keep them cold

I'm sure I've seen cellar doors in the US. Maybe only in NY?

I have a small one for my house. Coal chute in houses.

Troll hatches. Leads to Hogwarts dungeons and girls toilets

Salt is stored in them for when the roads are icy and the grit trucks come out

The school one is two children

Because many of our homes were built before we had proper roads. There wouldn't have been any cars when that house was built.

Can someone tell me why Americans pour milk over candy, and eat it with spoons at breakfast?

Because most of us don't live in big a** mansion with laundry room ? And very normal in Europe ?!

Because they were often houses or shops that were converted to be restaurants by the look of it.

These are very unusual: possibly 2 on the country. The one in the town of Slough is known as the "magic roundabout".

So the cars can watch Top Gear

we dont make fridges in the UK