Cock Bull Sign North Carolina

North of Durham and Raleigh North Carolina is a closed concrete block building with a cock and bull painted sign I have been past many times. Each... more

by Norma Brandsberg

Title

Cock Bull Sign North Carolina

Artist

Norma Brandsberg

Medium

Photograph

Description

North of Durham and Raleigh North Carolina is a closed concrete block building with a cock and bull painted sign I have been past many times. Each time I reminding myself I need to get a photo. I finally got a photograph, added a bit of texture and a border at the bottom to balance the artwork.

Cock and Bull signs are very popular, used in artwork, art, signage, advertising and even making it to a common popular phrase "A cock and bull story," which is a fanciful, unlikely story....so where and when did this combinnation materialize?

The English Cock Inn and the Bull Inn, both in Stony Stratford, a town in Buckinghamshire, were staging posts for rival coach lines on the London–Birmingham turnpike. It is said that local people, regarding the passengers staying at the inns as a source of news, were told fanciful stories. There was even rivalry between the two inns as to who could tell the most outlandish story. These inns are still in existence: the Cock Hotel is documented to have existed on the current site since at least 1470; the present building dates from 1742.

The provenance of The Bull is less well documented but is certainly older than 1600; the present building is late eighteenth century.

This current version here is located in a North Carolina rural area near a number of cattle and tobacco farm operations, not too far from the border of North Carolina and Virginia.

I find this sign very charming and see it framed or used in a child's room or on a number of other household items, pillows, totes, shower curtains.

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April 21st, 2023