{"id":1175,"date":"2011-02-14T17:19:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T17:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2011-02-14T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T17:21:15","slug":"richardsons-funeral-directors-penrith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/2011\/02\/richardsons-funeral-directors-penrith\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardsons Funeral Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jutting about 1m (3ft) from a red sandstone building in Penrith, Cumbria is our latest clock.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1176\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_0385_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1176\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1176\" title=\"Richardsons Funeral Directors, Penrith, Cumbria\" src=\"http:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_0385_2-203x152.jpg\" alt=\"Richardsons Funeral Directors, Penrith, Cumbria\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_0385_2-203x152.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_0385_2-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_0385_2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richardsons Funeral Directors, Penrith, Cumbria<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Looking up and down Victoria Road in Penrith is this clock on the <a title=\"Richardsons Funeral Directors\" href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsons-funerals.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richardsons Funeral Directors<\/a> building.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time we have seen a clock on a funeral directors and in some ways is quite apt. Let us know what you think via the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p>Written just below the centre of the clock is the text &#8216;Established 1852&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h2>Richardsons Funeral Directors<\/h2>\n<p>For over 150 years the family owned business in Penrith has been arranging funerals for the local populous.<\/p>\n<p>Historically many funeral directors have connections to timber or wood. \u00a0Often joiners or carpenters were also the local funeral directors. \u00a0In the case of Richardsons they also operate a <a title=\"John Richardson &amp; Son\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnrichardsonandson-timber.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">timber merchants<\/a> on Roper Street in the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking along a Road in Penrith is this clock on the Richardsons Funeral Directors building<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1097,1143,10,1138,26,1139,1147,1137,1140,1142,791,300,1146,1145,1144,1135],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unusual","tag-1m","tag-carpenters","tag-clock","tag-comments-section","tag-cumbria","tag-family-owned-business","tag-funeral","tag-funeral-directors","tag-funerals","tag-joiners","tag-penrith","tag-penrith-cumbria","tag-richardsons","tag-roper","tag-timber-merchants","tag-victoria-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}