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Epsom clock tower is seen during the snowy weather of February 2009, when Epsom was reported to have had the deepest snow in Britain at the time!
time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life -William Faulkner
this is the coolest, most interesting clock i have ever seen, that hangs upon the wall my friend, sandy's house.
"Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires." ~Charles Caleb Colton
..i put two quotes because i couldn't choose which one i liked more. they both make me think, and i hope they make you as well.
This is a reconstruction based on remains at All Saints' Church, Highcross Street, Leicester, supplemented by documentary evidence. The original carved wood quarter-jacks disappeared many years ago, but traditionally dates back to the early 17th Century. In Jacobean costume, they represented heralds.
Like it's predecessor, this clock operates every quarter-hour, and chimes the hour on the hour.
Constructed with aid of National Lottery funds and installed in October 1999 to mark the beginning of a new millennium.
New glazing in the clock - the rest will appear soon, when the hands will be replaced and a repaired mechanism reinstated behind.
Peer closely into the clock, and you can see right through into the attic offices behind....
Cathédrale Notre-Dame of Strasbourg
The Strasbourg astronomical clock is located in the Cathédrale Notre-Dame of Strasbourg, Alsace, France. It is the third clock on that spot and dates from the time of the first French possession of the city (1681–1870). The first clock had been built in the 14th century, the second in the 16th century, when Strasbourg was a Free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.
The current, third clock dates from 1843. Its main features, besides the automata, are a perpetual calendar (including a computus), an orrery (planetary dial), a display of the real position of the Sun and the Moon, and solar and lunar eclipses. The main attraction is the procession of the 18 inch high figures of Christ and the Apostles, which occurs every day at solar noon, while the life-size cock crows three times.
Clock is located at the Hiroshima Peace Museum. The first number indicates how many days since the world's first atomic weapon was dropped and the second number indicates how many days since the last nuclear test.
Victoria Clock - Grey Scale - Six Sided Clock - The Victoria Tower, Salisbury Dock, by Jesse Hartley, is dated 1848. It is constructed of granite of irregular shaped blocks and takes the form of an octagon with a high tapered circular base which is pierced by round arched openings. Above the base is a string moulding and narrow slits at the first floor below a continuous balcony carried on stone brackets. Higher again are eight circular clock faces and long open slits and round eyes at the top. The tower is crowned by a projecting castellated parapet carried on corbels.
Ref: Buildings of Liverpool ISBN 0 9506178 0 6
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