The Londoner’s fear of fire
I’m wondering whether the massive over-use of fire-doors in London has a similar cause. Though I could be entirely incorrect, anyone know when fire-doors began springing up in the UK capital? I remember reading that it’s possible for babies to ‘inherit’ a susceptibility to stress from their mothers, if their mothers are suffering from PTSD while the baby is in the womb. photo credit: La Ni?a Graphics Maybe 340 years just isn’t enough time for London to forget its Great Fire, or maybe each generation has inherited a predisposition to fire-door-building. While these doors made me feel a tad safer while reading World War Z (I’m sure my apartment in the Barbican is perhaps the safest place to be when the zombies attack), I’m wondering why Londoners are so worried about fire doors while we in Melbourne are so naive as to have entirely open-plan offices and doorless corridors festooning our office buildings. In fact, I can’t move more than 10 metres at university before running into an oversized and heavy door, reminding there that it is there “in case of fire”. In virtually every building I’ve been in here in London, there has been an over-abundance of large, swinging doors – confusingly some are designed to operate in either direction, whilst others are fixed.
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