Black and white photograph of a small black cross tattoo with pointed ends on the ankle of a bare foot, resting on a grey shag rug.

Small cross tattoo on an ankle

Blackwork · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A bare foot rests on a grey shag rug, with the lower leg covered by a rolled trouser cuff. A small black cross with pointed, flared ends sits on the ankle, drawn in solid, clean lines. The black and white photograph is framed so the foot fills the lower half of the image and the tattoo is the clear focal point.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

You want the truth of it, or the version they tell on the platform? The platform version has a ghost in it, and a dog, and a signal box that burned down twice. I'll give you the true one, which is duller and better. Ada Pennock kept the ticket office at Hollin Bridge for thirty-one years, and every morning she swept the step with a broom that had lost half its bristles, and she never once let a passenger see her put her feet in her shoes before the eight-ten came through. That was her way. Small things, done exactly.

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The winter the line flooded, a young engineer came up from the works in Leeds with a bag of drawings and a wet coat, and he stood under her awning asking for the old survey stakes. She had them in a biscuit tin. Nobody else had thought to keep anything. He asked her why, and she said that a railway is only a set of promises made in iron, and somebody has to remember where each one was pinned. He laughed, then he didn't, because she was not joking.

They found the last stake on the Sunday, bent over in the reeds below the culvert, and Ada knelt in the mud with her good skirt soaking and pressed her thumb into the ferrule until it gave a little click. Then she stood up, brushed her palms against each other, and said, there, that's the line put back where it was. The engineer wrote it down. I have the page. It says only: where it was.

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