Iron Handrail.
This is a detail of the iron handrail that runs beside the steps going up the Richer Saint Michel d’Aighuile in Le Put en Velay. No idea how long it’s been in place but it’s certainly very well used, I saw several people grateful to hang on to it.
10 September 2014
The Sixwheeler Chronicles 
I too was grateful for that rail – it is a lot of steps but well worth the climb. Amazing to think that someone carved those steps and carried all those building materials up there 1000 years ago!
I call it the “Thank God” rail!