Fake 42

This fake thirties shop, snapped across the road from the car park of the Hassocks Hotel. Much the same sort of thing as we have here in Epsom, although sometimes we manage to work some genuinely old bits into the plot.

We wondered what the black beams were made of. One assumes that they are not actual timbers, perhaps strips of black plastic which one sticks onto the wall after it has been painted.

Fake it might be, but it is also inoffensive; it does fit in with the rest of the parade - so perhaps faking old is a better bet than trying to be contemporary. Furthermore, architects have been faking old, in one way or another, for a very long time. Certainly 500 years, maybe as much as 1,500 years, starting with the Ancient Greeks.

PS: in the original, on my laptop, you get interesting image processing artefacts in the roof tiles, artefacts in the form of patches of curved stripes, some this way, some another. More or less lost here, even when you click to enlarge.

Reference 1: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/05/addendum-to-fake-30.html.

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