Black and grey ornate floral tattoos in a matching pair on the lower legs and feet, with a stem running down each shin and a feather-like scroll across each foot.

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Symmetrical floral leg and foot tattoos

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The photograph shows a person's lower legs and bare feet resting on a dark table, with the tattoos mirrored on each leg. Each shin carries an ornate, Art Nouveau-style stem topped with a stylised flower and a small rosette, which continues down towards the ankle. Each foot has a feather-like scrolling design across the instep, and the shading is in greys with bold outlines.

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Sit yourselves down, the eight-fifteen is never on time, so you may as well hear this while you wait. Ask the old men in the Crown about the Tallis brothers and they will give you two stories, and both will be wrong about the lamps. The brothers were smiths in Wensley Cross, twins who could never agree on the time of day. When the company asked for a pair of standards for the new platform, each brother drew one, and when the drawings came back they matched down to the last rosette. Nobody in the valley had ever seen twins agree on anything, and their mother said it was the first sign of trouble.

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They forged the iron through a hard winter. Joseph made the stems and the lilies that open at the top like a held breath. Edwin made the rosettes at the ankle and the feathers that curl over the base where the metal meets the stone. For a month they spoke only to pass tongs across the forge. Then the first real frost came, and Joseph walked out one morning with his coat buttoned to the chin and took the Leeds train without a word. Edwin finished the second standard alone. He could not bear to make it match, so he turned every feather the other way, and the company paid him anyway because nobody noticed until the lamps were up.

Every dusk since, a porter has lit the pair of them. On a clear night you can watch the light run down each stem and out along the sleepers until the two beams meet in the middle of the line. That is where the trains slow down, whether the driver knows it or not. Mind the step, now. Here it comes.

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