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... at Old City Hall rises 103 metres (340 ft) at the corner of Queen and Bay Streets in Toronto, directly opposite the new(er) City Hall. It may have taken 10 years to build, but Old City Hall finally opened its doors in 1899. Today it's home to the Ontario Court of Justice and the Superior Court of Justice which try cases ranging from minor provincial offences to serious criminal charges under the sharp eyed gaze of four gargoyles atop the tower.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_City_Hall_(Toronto)
Processed in PS with a firm hand to emphasize the warming late afternoon light and a rich blue sky. Photographed 03Nov2015.
Wikipedia: The site has been the London terminus of services provided by the Great Western Railway and its successors since 1838. Much of the main line station dates from 1854 and was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is the second busiest station in the United Kingdom
Anyone who has been to Glasgow’s Buchanan Bus Station will have spotted the striking Clyde Clock.
The cube shaped clock – perched on top of a pair of stainless steel legs, 20 feet high – reminds locals to run on time every single day.
Twelve years after its installment, though, the clock suddenly stopped – and it took the power of Glasgow’s people to get things ticking over again.
After finishing it`s work for the day, this Claas Lexion 780 'Terra trac' Combine Harvester follows it`s tracks back home through this wheat field at Milton Malsor, Northamptonshire. It roat attachments have been removed, and are being taken back on a special trailer which is towed, in this case, by a tractor.
2nd August 2019.
A table cuckoo clock built in the course of 24 hours as a contender for an exhibition.
It will be displayed among three other fan-built clocks in the LEGO House celebrating the 60th birthday of the LEGO brick.
One of the requirements was that the dials point to 1.58 which is the exact time the patent for the LEGO interlocking brick was registered 60 years ago.
One of several astronomical clocks constructed from the 14th through the 16th century in the West of England, the Clock at Wells Cathedral, Somerset, is rather legendary. As the cathedral website notes, it’s the second oldest still-in-use clock mechanism in Britain, and likely the world, to survive in its original condition. Dating back to circa 1390, the interior clock face is the “oldest surviving original of its kind anywhere.” (The original, still-operating mechanisms are now housed in a museum). Age aside, one of the geocentric clock’s most notable characteristics is that it has both interior and exterior dials — that is, there are distinct clock faces viewable from both the interior of the cathedral and from the exterior — the latter was constructed roughly 70 years later but is operated by the same mechanism.
In 2010, the clock made the switch from human winding to electric motor-assisted winding when Paul Fisher — aka the Keeper of the Great Clock of Wells — announced his retirement. Fisher, who hailed from a long line of clock-winders dating back to 1919, was tasked with turning a trio of 250 kg (500 pounds) weights 800 times, three times a week. While performing this 600-year-old-plus ritual was no doubt crucial to the clock’s operation, it had left Fisher eager for retirement: “I'm a bit sad that all these years of history are coming to an end but winding the clock by hand is just so time consuming,” he told the Daily Mail. “By the time you have walked up all the steps and winded the weights it takes at least one hour three times a week.”
Photo／Words：Eliot C.
百無聊賴，
神出鬼沒的蚊子成了狩獵物。
緊迫的盯伺謀殺，蚊子魂歸西天於我手臂上。
腫隆起的疙瘩丘陵，像是蚊子葬身的墓塚。
偶一抬首，瞥見圓鐘上的時針，
忽跳一格，頓止。
有種放大鏡效果，
時間真是匆匆得鬼鬼祟祟。
Living room clock using the Droste mathmap code in Gimp.
Thank you all who have shown interest in this image. So far it has been used on an Alzheimers Support web site, a personal scrapbook page and now will be used for a software logo. I will post a link to the software site once I have it.
Cathedrals were built to inspire awe - and the chimes of the clock helped notify the clergy and parishioners that it was time to worship.
The clock, in it's wood structure, was installed during the time of Prior Thomas Castell (1494-1519), and renovated by Dean Hunt between 1620 and 1638.
One of the only substantial wood items to survive the Civil War, when even the soldiers billeted in the cold at Durham recognised how precious the clock was.
The inner workings of a pendulum clock. The rod coming up from the bottom is attached to the pendulum and the other end is attached to the anchor. At either end of the anchor are the pallets. The motion of the pendulum causes the anchor to rock back and forth. The pallets alternately catch and hold the pointed teeth of the escape wheel. This give the clock its tic toc sound. This was my grandfather’s grandfather clock.