It's Still Life

28 Sept: Cockermouth and Ambleside

The last image is an AA Emergency Box (#487) located on Dunmail Raise in Cumbria. It’s quite a find because they’re rare and Grade II listed structures. For a little more info … It’s interesting.

The second to last image is a “ghost sign” which is an advertisement associated with a building or shop that no longer exists, but the sign lives on. More info …

The 4th image is my husband, Peder. I couldn’t coax any strangers to stand under the flood water sign for me. (no, of course I’m not serious … 😂 )

Misky

Sep 28, 2022

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7 responses to “28 Sept: Cockermouth and Ambleside”

Mister Bump UK

Sep 28, 2022 at 8:18 am

Those old signs are superb. Our village has one on the side of a house for a butcher’s shop, gone long before we arrived in ’99.

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1. Misky
  
  Sep 28, 2022 at 9:09 am
  
  I wasn’t aware that ghost signs had such a following until I researched them a bit.
  
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  1. Mister Bump UK
    
    Sep 28, 2022 at 9:22 am
    
    Certainly in our village, it’s interesting that a village which now supports one shop, basically, used to suppoirt a whole food industry.
    
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abigfatcanofworms

Sep 28, 2022 at 12:35 pm

Lovely photos. Love the ghost sign. Love English architecture. Love streams and big skies. And that flood sign! Yoiks!

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Michele Marsh

Oct 3, 2022 at 12:33 am

Did you guys go in Fletchers Fearless clothing shoppe? Did you use a camera for the pics or your phone?

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1. Misky
  
  Oct 3, 2022 at 3:15 pm
  
  Fletcher’s Fearless Clothing shop no longer exists. Only the sign painted on the building remains. That’s why they’re called ‘ghost signs’.
  
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  1. Michele Marsh
    
    Oct 4, 2022 at 1:51 am
    
    Ahh that went over my head clearly! 😁all those photos are intriguing
    Thank you for sharing them with us ❤️
    
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