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The principle decoration of the Anver Central Railway station in Antwerp, Belgium. This magnificent railway station has been modernised and extended but they retained much of the decoration and fine workmanship. This is the central facade above the stairs and escalators.
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Apparently dates from 1790 - 1800 and I expect has been in the Slater family for all those years.
Gone away for a clean up and overhaul - not before it was due …….. has not been attended to for well over 60 years. But it keeps going and keeps reasonable time, which has always been its saving grace.
The analog clock at an information booth in the main hall at Washington National (NOT Reagan!) Airport. That's AM; way too early.
Sold recently at auction in Newark - yours for £1,400, Sir. The magic letters M S & L signify that this clock, which came from the station in Grimsby, was originally for the "Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Company". That company built the line from Grimsby out to Gainsborough and beyond in the 1840s, and were the successors to The Great Grimsby & Sheffield Junction Railway Company, who had first proposed and planned the line through Gainsborough from Grimsby. In 1847 that company amalgamated with the Sheffield & Lincolnshire Junction Railway and the Sheffield, Aston-Under-Lyme & Manchester Railway Companies to form the MS&LR. When the company's ambitions extended further South to London, the MS&LR became the Great Central Railway Company in 1897.
This clock, which I'd personally love to have ticking away on my office wall, would probably be worth only a couple of hundred pounds at most if it was not for it's railway connection, and in particular, those magic letters M S & L.
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At some point, probably back in the 1920's, Grandpa Harrison's neighbor exchanged this pocket watch for one of his purebred Guernsey heifer calves. Grandpa gave it to Dad. Dad gave it to me many many years ago. I wound it up and it ticks!
The label reads "Trade Mark, Official RR Standard, Ball Watch Co., Cleveland". A little research showed that Mr. Ball started his watch company after a head-on collision of trains on the same track due to an inaccurate watch from a track switcher. The Ball watch became the standard synchronized timepiece for all train personnel.
Hence the phrase "Keep your eye on the Ball" was born. Yes, I too thought that was derived from baseball or some other sporting event.
The Prague astronomical clock, or Prague orloj, is a medieval astronomical clock installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still working. The astronomical dial has a background that represents the standing Earth and sky, and surrounding it operates four main moving components: the zodiacal ring, an outer rotating ring, an icon representing the Sun, and an icon representing the Moon.