The bookshop, Wenbourne
Boar Lane, Leeds, by Lamplight, John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1881. Public domain. Not a picture of Ink & Ember: its own painting is still to come.
Ink &
Ember
The market has packed up and the street is shining. In the back room of the bookshop there is a fire, and nobody has asked you to leave.
Ink & Ember is on the main street of Wenbourne, the market town one stop down the line. The front of the shop is all window, and on a wet evening every drop on it carries a little of the lamplight from across the road.
The bookseller lives in the flat upstairs and keeps late hours. There is a half-finished letter on the counter, weighted with a paperknife. The fire in the back room is small and well behaved, and the chair beside it has shaped itself to a great many readers.
- Town
- Wenbourne
- From Hollowmere
- One stop
- Open
- Later than the sign says
- Best in
- Rain, after market day
Listen in
Steady rain on the village green, heard from indoors.
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