People are confused about the historic reason for odd-shaped fences in the UK.

The UK has many hidden historic things like statues and memorials.

You can find historic things anywhere in the UK, especially in London, which has many old treasures to explore.

Sometimes, historic things seem weird at first, like a person's question about odd fence designs on Reddit.

The person asked why UK fences were designed like the one in their photo.

The fence had a metal mesh and thicker metal railing with odd kinks, which made the user wonder about its design.

A Reddit user explained that the fences were made from surplus WWII stretchers.

The stretchers were designed for a purpose and had advantages during the war, and later became suitable for conversion to railings.

Over 600,000 stretchers were produced during the Blitz, with a simple design and single material, and kinks that elevated the bed and made it easy to pick up.

The Blitz stretchers were turned into fences.

The stretchers were used by ARP wardens who helped during the war, and later became estate railings in the 1960s.

Many estates lost their metal railings during the war, so the London Council used leftover stretchers as railings.

You can still see these fences in places like Brixton and East London, where local groups protect them from rust and removal.

Other areas, like Norwich, have also used surplus WWII items, like runway matting, for fencing.

A Reddit user shared a photo of fencing made from repurposed WWII runway matting, with a similar metal design but no hand railing.