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Corn Street in Bristol contains many little architectural gems high above the street. This decorative clock looks down form the top of a bank.
The Historic Clock Tower is situated near the site of the original Bertie's Landing Restaurant, the Victorian Gothic-style Clock Tower has always been an icon of the old docks and has become an important focal point in the Waterfront's recent urban design. This was the original Port Captain's Office completed in 1882.
On the second floor is a decorative mirror room, which enabled the Port Captain to have a view of all activities in the harbour. On the bottom floor is a tide-gauge mechanism used to check the level of the tide. Restoration of the Clock Tower was completed towards the end of 1997.
The Time Ball Tower (invented by Captain Robert Wauchope) is a signaling device in which a ball is dropped at a given time in order for ship masters to determine the error and rate of their chronometers whilst in harbour. The Time Ball Tower in the Waterfront was built in 1894 and is situated next the Harbour Engineer's former residence (Dock House). It remained in use for 40 years after which new technology led to it lying idle for 63 years before being restored and officially recommissioned in November 1997.
Clock and skylight in the filtration building of the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant, taken at Doors Open Toronto 2012.
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The old Halifax Clock Tower and the first roll with the insert in the Holga.
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Blessing ceramic quartz wall clock, made in Germany. The movement takes a C-cell battery, and is also made in Germany. Late 1970s or early 1980s. The slight green colouration on the face (mainly at the bottom) is in the original ceramic glaze.
The Dandelion Clock
A children's amusement in which the number of puffs needed to blow the filamentous achenes from a dandelion is supposed to tell the time.
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David Wright, an 8 year old school boy from Bath, yesterday failed to arrive back into his school class on time after lunch due to the failure of a dandelion clock to give him an accurate reading.
"I had a feeling that I'd been out on the playing field for about an hour so I blew on the seed head to find out the time." said a distraught David from the detention room. "It told me it was still one o'clock so I stayed out a while longer until another dandelion informed me that it was two o'clock, so I went back to class, only to find myself getting a stiff telling off for playing truant".
The Secretary of State for the Environment, has expressed deep concern about the case and is to launch a public enquiry iinto whether global warming is to blame for the strange behaviour of the nation's flora, and to what extent the damage extends. "I'm just hoping that dock leaves will still be an effective remedy for nettle stings, and that the petal plucking "she-loves-me-she-loves-me-not" test contunues to provide effective relationship advice to lovestruck swains".
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The dandelion clock is a very strange clock.
It doesn't say tick, and it doesn't say tock.
It hasn't a cuckoo. It hasn't a chime.
I don't think it can really tell me the time
Anon
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Be silent child
when you dream
your thoughts are sweet
like dandelions
they grow beyond
a hollow stalk
and burst into a flower.
What seems a weed
to a passersby
is really all you have
of hope
and when you blow
its pearl globe
you'll live inside
the wind..
Carol Lynn Grellas
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For the last 150 days I have been greeted by this nasty little device at 05:25 am, just a few more days and the clock will no longer be master!
this is the clock notice board outside the local Primary School. I knew that the clock was there but waited till Saturday, when the school was closed, before taking my camera up to the corner by the school. I am lucky that this clock notice board runs 24/7 not just in school hours. Not only did I get to find out what time of day it was but also when to buy school uniforms and the air temperature outside. Nice warm sunny winter's day!
8. An outdoor or public clock
The famous Flower Clock at Bürkliplatz, presented to Zurich by Beyer in 1985, has been given a fascinating, new summer (2006) attire. To mark the 75th anniversary of Zurich’s Succulent Plant Collection, this summer (2006) the five-metre wide clock face is decorated with a wide variety of succulent plants.