A strange question perhaps but if anyone knows the answer you folks might. In my travels I have noticed in Europe and especially the UK the door handles on both interior and exterior doors are very high. Chest high for the average person high. Our 200 year old homes here in Canada do have a few higher then a modern lock set or handle but not as high as the UK. Some of those doors are 400 years old, or older. It really bugs me to not ever been given the definitive answer. Silly stuff bugs me more the older I get.

I'm thinking most all old interior doors usually had it's own lockset on them and because of inferior lighting back in the gaslight days or earlier even it may have been easier to see the skeleton key and lock at or near eye level. People were much shorter only 100 years ago.

I see things that many others don't, not like I see "dead people" things but my wife always say's I should have been a Cop. I was a safety investigator for a time with the Province but they wouldn't let us flash a badge.

Can anyone set me free of this dilemma so one day I may rest in peace?

Johnny D