Older Penrith
Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, History, Trips at 12:00 on 12 March 2019
Penrith, Cumbria, is remote enough from major population centres to have retained some elements of ye good olde days.
Just look at this Drapers, Costumiers and Milliners. Not to mention Furriers, Dressmakers, Shirt Specialists:-
And Carpet, Curtain and Linoleum Furnishing Warehouse:-
A High Class Drapers no less – and a Silk Mercers, Hosiers and Glovers, Irish Household and Fancy Linen Warehouse:-
A real throw-back. Not that most of those trade lines will still be ongoing I’d have thought.
You can see from this the shop front faces on to a square of sorts:-
A bit further on in the town lies this Chemist’s. Cowper’s. 1930s style lettering. I can’t quite decide if the whole is deco or not:-
In St Andrew’s Churchyard lie a good many graves, including the “Giant’s Tombstone”. This is supposedly the grave of Owen Caesarius, king of Cumbria between 900 and 937 AD:-
Giant’s grave stones:-
Giant’s Tombstone in Penrith, Viking hogback stones:-
