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The clock tower at Cliveden House, in Buckinghamshire, was built in 1861, and was built originally as a water tower - which still functions today!
Cliveden has been the home to the Prince of Wales, several nobles, and Nancy Astor, wife of the 2nd Viscount Astor, and is now a luxury hotel.
Preserved by the Crooker family, at Thomas Point Beach resort. One of the few remaining functioning clocks of this type -- the four faces light up, and it does the Westminster Chimes every quarter hour.
The Wells Cathedral clock is an astronomical clock in the north transept of Wells Cathedral, Somerset dating from around 1392. The dial shows a geocentric universe with the sun and moon revolving around a central fixed Earth.
Part of the grounds of Abney Hall are closed off to the public, as they are the grounds for offices that take up part of the hall.
The old clock would have greeted visitors to the hall's gardens and square back in the day.
Wall clock in the north transept, with 16th century clock-jack figures to chime the hours, originally installed on the south transept facade.
York Minster is England's largest medieval cathedral and almost impossible to do justice to. It has an awesome presence that cannot fail to impress.
Uniquely the cathedral was spared the ravages of the Civil War that decimated the medieval art of most English cathedrals and churches, and it thus possesses the largest collection of medieval glass in Britain throughout most of it's vast windows.
Clock on the wall around the courtyard, containing the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Note: As pointed out in a comment below, this is not a clock at all! Instead its the direction indicator of the wind vane above.
We had a 43 year old woman tell us that she remembers having more free time because they had early release day once a week.
Kern's Clock (1933), corner of Gratiot and Woodward, Detroit MI. [Built for Kern's Department Store which once stood at this corner. Kern's sold the store in 1957 and ceased operations in 1959; when the building was torn down in 1966, the clock was placed in storage until the 1970s. It was placed in storage again in 1998 for the construction of the Compuware Bldg., and restored to its current site in 2003.]
Pleasant day out in Chester looking round the charity shops and cathedral etc. Had a pound bakery vege sausage roll and Pepsi on a bench in the main drag surrounded by pigeons. We know how to live it up!
An inside look at the clock tower in Bangor, PA. The antique four-faced clock was manufactured by the E. Howard Clock Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, and was installed in the borough hall in 1907. In addition to being Bangor’s timepiece, the clock chimed a coded ring to alert the borough fire department as to the location of the fire. They also used the tower to hang the fire hoses after a fire to dry.
After a period of neglect when the chimes fell silent, the Slate Belt Heritage Center, under the guidance and care of Jay Albert, brought the historic clock back to life again in early 2000. The help of a generous personal donation helped Jay to single-handedly restore the faces. The clock mechanism was restored by David Morgan, former president of the Worldwide Clock Towers Association.
Check out the Slate Belt Heritage Center for other neat regional history and artifacts.
Brisbane's Central Station has a clock tower. Not that you'd know from street level. This is from inside the Sofitel.
This is a picture I have to give credit for. I was looking through the "24 Hours of Flickr" photo pool when I came across this lovely little composition of matchsticks by Nadiobolis. For some reason (possibly my recent poem about time ...) it made me think of clocks, and given what time it happened to be, this is the image that came out.