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13th April 2014., O'Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland
More than a clock, it was a meeting place for Dubliners for years. "Meet you under Clerys Clock"
Farley Clock Tower, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England, UK.
Grade ll Listed Building. "This tower was erected in recognition of the public services of Alderman Reuben Farley JP"
The Prague Astronomical Clock, or Prague orloj was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world .
Eternal Sailor Moon alarm clock! I found it recently at a kiosk in my mall! Most likely a bootleg, but a darn cute one!
The Kankakee Glass Company, now up the road in Bradley, Illinois. I love how my old Minolta 70-210mm lens always captures the deep colors.
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Manufactured by Gents of Leicester and hanging high over the main concourse, Waterloo’s huge four-sided clock has been a popular meeting point for Londoners (especially those on a romantic rendezvous) since the early 1920s.
Hoboken Terminal's clock tower (which appears to be missing its hands and part of its face at the moment) shares the scene with ConEdison's 14th Street clock tower as the 2018 edition of the Macy's Independence Day fireworks light up the sky above the East River.
Hoboken Terminal, Hoboken, NJ
SPRING O'CLOCK...
#AbFav_SPRING_EASTER_🐥
Dandelions are once again sprouting up all over, prompting the city, lawn-care specialists and amateur gardeners alike to again declare war on the broad leaf weed.
A dandelion is really many tiny flowers bunched together.
Each little flower becomes a seed...
We don't like them in our gardens.
AND YET: The dandelion plant is a beneficial weed, with a wide range of uses, and is even a good companion plant for gardening.
Its taproot will bring up nutrients for shallower-rooting plants, and add minerals and nitrogen to soil.
It is also known to attract pollinating insects and release ethylene gas which helps fruit to ripen.
Taraxacum seeds are an important food source for certain birds.
Great in a salad etc...
Enjoy and make the BEST of every day! Thank you, M, (*_*)
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The Belfry of Bruges is a medieval bell tower located on the square Markt (market square). One of the city's most prominent symbols, the belfry formerly housed a treasury and the municipal archives and served as an observation post for spotting fires and other dangers.
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.
- Erykah Badu
2017 Doors Open Pittsburgh - October 7-8,
a great opportunity to enter some of the beautiful buildings in the city (both old and new) to take photos. Most of the time these buildings are open only to tenants and clients.
See my "Doors Open Pittsburgh" Album for more images.
The Arrott Building, Pittsburgh’s oldest skyscraper, was built in 1902. It is part of the Fourth Avenue Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Designed by Frederick J. Osterling, the Arrott Building was added to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 2000.
This wasn't on the DOP list this year but it's one of my favorite Pgh bldgs. Last year it was open and we were supposed to be able to go up to this balcony near the top of the building to take photos, but because of renovations, we were allowed only into the foyer. The DOP people there assured me it would be open this year, but it wasn't even on the list. So this year, I zoomed in from the street level for a photo of where I wish I could be. The building is covered with lion heads, coats of arms, varied decorative motifs, and at the very top are human heads with crowns of rays, perhaps Helios or another sun god.
See my photo with a view of more of the building here:
www.flickr.com/photos/cj_proartz/27058199515/in/album-721...
The Eastgate Clock, in Chester. As this has been photographed to within an inch of its life, I wanted to try a different angle on it, and, combined with a sky full of clouds that were just breaking up a little, I'm quite pleased with the result...
The clock on the Colonial American National Bank-Colonial Arms, building in Roanoke, Virginia. Built in 1926.
The Salisbury Cathedral clock is a large iron-framed tower clock without a dial, in Salisbury Cathedral, England. Thought to date from about 1386, it is a well-preserved example of the earliest type of mechanical clock, called verge and foliot clocks, and is said to be the oldest working clock in the world, although similar claims are made for other clocks. Previously in a bell-tower which was demolished in 1790, the clock was restored to working condition in 1956 and is on display in the North nave aisle of the cathedral, close to the West front.
It was not until the nineteenth century when clocks became the norm for telling the time. Previously, as far back as the thirteenth century, civilisations used sun dials in order to tell the time. The Greeks and the Romans frequently used sun dials and evolved them to become more accurate to tell the time.
Salisbury Cathedral Clock is claimed to be the oldest working clock in Britain dating back to 1386. It is made from hand-wrought iron and was created by three horologists (the study of measurement of time) Johannes and Williemus Vrieman and Johannes Jietuijt of Delft. What some may find unusual about the clock is that it has no face and was designed to only strike at the hours to remind local parishioners of service times. This design was first introduced in Salisbury itself and was a very new concept. Standardised hours had never been used before but rather increments based on the four seasons as seen in when sundials were the usual method of keeping time.
The Cathedral clock has a large, iron-framed movement with few moving parts. It is also known as a ‘turret’ clock which measures at 1.29M by 1.06 and standing 1.24 high. The frame is held together with steel tenons and wedges in much the same way that timber structures were being built as nuts and bolts were yet to be invented. It is also separated into two sections, both of which are named. The right-hand section is known as the ‘Going Train’ while the left-hand section is known as the ‘Striking Train’. The mechanics behind the clock has been designed so that each section is driven by falling weights which must be wound up every day.
In 1790, the old bell tower 'on the ditch of the close of the canons of the said church' mentioned in the deed of 1386 which had housed the clock was demolished, so the clock was moved to the Cathedral's central tower. In 1884, a new clock was installed and the old one was left to the side.
The old clock was left to deteriorate and was only rediscovered in 1929. It was partially restored and placed back on public display. It was not until 1956 that the clock was fully restored to its original condition and set up in its current position.
However, it was after the disassembling and restoration that the age of the clock was questioned. With records confirming that the cathedral itself was built in 1386, it was only the design of the clock itself that was debated. Similar clocks were discovered in the UK and Europe with similar designs dating back to the 1500s insinuating that the original clock may have been removed and replaced 200 years later. This 45-year period of inactivity between 1929 and 1956 has led to debate for the title as the World’s oldest working clock as well as having no dial or hands limiting it to not being able to tell the time in a traditional sense. Despite being the centre point for many debates, the cathedral and its unusual clock continue to draw visitors and both are still as intriguing as they were when newly built in the fourteenth century.