Today I learned from Alice Loxton, who writes on Twitter as History Alice, that there are metal street fence rails in London that were once stretchers used during the World War II Blitz:
The original fences had been removed to harvest the metal for the war effort:
During the Blitz, utilitarian stretchers were created that were made up of a metal frame overlaid with a wire grid...
...which made them easy to clean.
After the war, in rebuilding London, someone had the idea to use the stretchers, unmodified, as fence panels in at least some parts of the city.
They're still there today.
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(The images are all screen grabs from the 1-minute, 20-second video Alice posted.)
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