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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 !!!
[Wikipedia] On the façade is a chiming clock, with figures of giants, perhaps representing Gog and Magog, who strike the bells with their clubs. It was installed on the previous church in 1671, perhaps commissioned to celebrate its escape from destruction by the Great Fire of 1666. It was the first public clock in London to have a minute hand. The figures of the two giants strike the hours and quarters, and turn their heads. There are numerous literary references to the clock, including in Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown's Schooldays, Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield; Nicholas Nickleby, Master Humphrey's Clock and Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens, The Warden by Anthony Trollope, the penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls (in which the character Sweeney Todd first appears), David Lyddal's "The Prompter" (1810), and a poem by William Cowper.
In 1828, when the medieval church was demolished, the clock was removed by art collector Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford, to Winfield House, his mansion in Regent's Park, which became known as St Dunstan's. During the First World War, Winfield House was lent as a hostel for blinded soldiers, and the new charity took the name St Dunstan's.
The clock was returned by Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (the brother of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe) in 1935 to mark the Silver Jubilee of King George V.
A sundial on a balcony of the Sorrento Coast.
Una meridiana su un balcone della Costiera Sorrentina.
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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.
This clock, mounted on the outside wall of Wells Cathedral in Somerset, is driven by the same mechanism that connects to an interior astronomical clock in the north transept.
It was first installed between the 14th and 15th centuries and has, quite understandably, been restored a number of times down the centuries.
The clock’s original mechanism was removed in the 19th century to the Science Museum in London.
Despite its age, that original clock movement is still working!
Working Technic Clock with hour and minute hand. Step motor rotates 1/4 per second. Very compact design. See it in action: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYdNBaWsxaw