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Customer Service counter at Blackwood, NJ Kmart, with ceiling clock over entrance area. Sign by exit gives the year the store opened, the first in this area in April, 1973.
The Millennium Clock in Eastwood. The post just to the right of it has a representation of a Phoenix on the top. This image is all over the town, little steel plates in the pavement, picked out with different colour bricks in walls, and names of various businesses. I asked at least 10 people what it represented, and nobody could give me a definitive answer. There seemed to be a general belief that it was something to do with D.H. Lawrence who was born here. I later found out it is part of the town coat of arms. Lawrence took it as his own.
Anniversary clocks are torsion pendulum clocks that have to be wound only once a year. The pendulum of an anniversary clock rotates horizontally and is twisting back and forth instead of swinging. The mechanism of these clocks is usually exposed under a glass dome which makes them collector's items for enthusiasts. Unfortunately, I could never get this one to run for more than an hour or so! Bronica SQ-B, 80mm, Ilford FP4+, Ilford DD-X.
You can't beat a good public clock. The clock tower outside Altrincham Station dates from 1880 and is listed Grade II. The station was opened on 3 April 1881 as Altrincham & Bowdon by the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway.
Youghal, Cork, Ireland.
Built in 1777 as a gaol, on the former site of Trinity Castle, one of the five principal fortifications of the late 14th/15th century Walled Town.
This clock, inside in the north transept, has been telling the time in Wells Cathedral (Somerset, England) since around 1390. The second oldest original working clock in the world, and the oldest with its original dials. (That and following information pp notice displayed with the clock.)
It shows hours and minutes, and the number of days since a new moon.
Above the dial, there is a group of figures which spins around on the quarter hour. As it spins, a knight is unhorsed by a lance. He is merely 600 years old. I presume the first one wore out!
(My id Wells clock 1390 pde0159)
Calgary, Alberta. Old city hall building and the Calgary Tower.
9:40:18 PM, 2007/04/02. The old clock still works!
Snowy snowy night! About two weeks ago, the daytime temperature was about +20 C like summer. Just before taking this photo, I was walking around in a severe -40 C wind chill (my estimate) outside downtown. So the mild gusts shown here were like a tropical breeze in comparison.
The Clock Tower (sometimes called the Jubilee Clock Tower) is a free-standing clock tower in the centre of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built in 1888 in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, the distinctive structure included innovative structural features and became a landmark in the popular and fashionable seaside resort. The city's residents "retain a nostalgic affection" for it, even though opinion is sharply divided as to the tower's architectural merit. English Heritage has listed the clock tower at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.
The Clock Tower at the old Port looking nice at night. The giant hospital "CHUM" project is going up behind it.
GAC Citybus KC96 is seen at the Clock Tower on the Quay in Waterford City back in March 1995 on a city service number 5 with a garage sign written plate as a destination scroll !!!
Clock tower on the top of the Lido, in Peterborough. One of the very fewe remaining buildings of its type in the country.
Horology is the art or science of measuring time. People interested in horology are called horologists. That term is used both by people who deal professionally with timekeeping apparatus (watchmakers, clockmakers), as well as aficionados and scholars of horology. For more info, check the wiki.
I took this for Kaptain Kobold's choice at We're Here, Teach Me Something New. And since gears are just wheels with teeth, it suits the December 6 topic at december 2011 in photos, Wheels! Yay.