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This is the clocktower and clock house in Coggeshall, Essex. It is a bit of a practice run for this weeks SSC Challenge as I was in Coggeshall to photograph a different building.
A beautiful Victorian fountain/clock tower built in 1887 was a gift to the town in honour of Queen Victoria's Silver Jubilee. Horse-troughs, now filled with flowers, stand on each side, and the fountain no longer provides water.
Grafton's iconic Clock Tower (1909) stands at the intersection of Pound and Prince Streets.
Day 16 of Pentax Forum's Daily in July 2018 Challenge.
and so to the top of the tower.
Here are two giant statues in bronze known as 'The Moors'. They were cast in 1497 by Ambrogio della Ancore. The body of the Moors is hinged at the waste enabling them to strike the bell on the hour. Each Moor strikes the bell in turn.
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No, not the Leaning Tower of Siena, just my attempt to take an unusual photo of a well known landmark........
As was the nature of our trip to Tuscany, we never had very long in any one place. Siena was no different as we arrived at about 5pm and spent about two hours there. Whilst it was a great time to wander round the city unfortunately the famous tower and most churches etc were already closed. I'd definitely like to go back some time and spend a few days there.
More photos from Tuscany here : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157714689304067
From Wikipedia : "The Torre del Mangia is a tower in Siena, in the Tuscany region of Italy. Built in 1338-1348, it is located in the Piazza del Campo, Siena's premier square, adjacent to the Palazzo Pubblico (Town Hall). When built it was one of the tallest secular towers in medieval Italy. At 102 m, it is second tallest after Cremona's Torrazzo (112 m (367 ft)), the Asinelli tower in Bologna at 97 m being third.
The tower was built to be exactly the same height as the Siena Cathedral as a sign that the church and the state had equal amounts of power. Literally meaning "Tower of the Eater", the name refers to its first bellringer, Giovanni di Balduccio, nicknamed Mangiaguadagni ("Eat-the-profits", that is "Profit eater") either for his spendthrift tendency, idleness or gluttony."
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Clocktower by the bridge in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Merry Gregmas Eve to all... (look, I know tomorrow is really His day, but can't I get a shot at it once in awhile? Are all my birthdays to be overshadowed?? :)
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Clock Tower Thirsk. This clock was erected by public subscription to commemorate the marriage of H.R.H. The Duke of York and H.R.H. The Princess Mary of Teck 1896. Restored by public subscription promoted by Thirsk Parish Council 1956.
Clockface on the Daniels & Fisher Clocktower, Denver....
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The Clock Tower is a prominent structure in the centre of Epsom .
From the days of Epsom Spa until 1847, a weatherboarded Watch House stood by the pond in Epsom High Street. The traveller Celia Fiennes praised its clock in 1711, although even by this date the building was thought to be old-fashioned. Like its counterpart in Ewell, the watch house was divided by a partition into a fire engine house and a temporary lock-up. The village constable was paid by the parish vestry for escorting prisoners to trial at the nearest town after they had been locked up overnight.
In 1847 the vestry resolved to pull down the Watch House and sell its materials, including the clock and the old fire engine. William Andrews, whose father (the caretaker of the old building) had died the year before, sat on the rebuilding committee and had hoped for the architect's contract. In response to the advertisement for a clock tower - not more than 40 feet high, costing less that £350 - plans and estimates had to be prepared in nine days. To Andrews' chagrin, however, the winning design was submitted by two London architects, James Butler and Henry Hodge. 'The extreme height of the building is 70 feet', reported The Builder magazine, 'and the openings for the dials are 4 feet 6 inches. It is to be built of red and Suffolk bricks, the external faces rubbed and finished freely. The four lions, bearing shields, are to be of Caen stone'.
On 19th November 1847 the foundation stone was laid by Thomas Tompson. He was chairman of the rebuilding committee, a linendraper in private life . After the ceremony, his committee retired to a sumptuous dinner at the nearby Kings Head, while hundreds of enthusiastic locals celebrated with beer in the streets.
The heraldic lions had disappeared from the corners of the tower by 1902, and were replaced first by electric lanterns, and then in the late 1920s by globe lights. At the same time the toilets were constructed east and west of the present building. The new fire engine was still kept at the base of the tower; in 1869 it was arranged that the bell at the top (a new addition, from the foundry of G.E. Mears) should be rung by a hammer as a fire alarm. In the 1870s Epsom received a fire escape from the Royal Society for the protection of Life from Fire, and for about thirty years this was left leaning against the tower, always at the ready.
All public events in Epsom involved the Clock Tower, along with processions, a bonfire, patriotism, endless supplies of bunting and a large committee of local worthies. Particularly successful were the Diamond Jubilee of 1897, the Coronation of 1902 (when an ox was roasted at the foot of the tower), the Silver Jubilee of 1935, and the Coronation of 1937. In September 1937 the Clock Tower had its proudest hour when the charter declaring that Epsom and Ewell formed a Borough was handed over at its foot.
I wouldn't swear to it under oath or anything, but the Denver Clocktower might be my favorite place to take pictures in.. well, North America I suppose...
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The Schloss Drachenburg first captured my imagination over a year ago when I stumbled upon it in my Twitter feed. My first question was - is this even real? I was shocked I had never seen the beautiful structure before, and from that moment on, I was pretty well set on bringing this hidden gem to life.
I've been told several times that I'm "obsessed" with this castle, and perhaps that's true. I started by making several Minecraft variants of the structure, one of which is one of (if not the tallest) structure ever made in the game at 671 blocks tall. If I could make a massive version in Minecraft in 9 months, surely I could make a LEGO one in under a year!
So I started designing this in LDD shortly after Brickworld 2018. That was my first mistake. I've never made a MOC in LDD before, and it's hard to get a sense of scale in the program, and also hard to know which bricks you do and don't have. Also, owning 2 modular Town Halls made me realize that dark orange is not as common as I thought. Thus the Bricklink orders ensued, as well as the random E-Bay hauls. Dark orange and medium dark flesh was a far more limited brick palette than I'm used to, but I think it's in those limitations that I was able to make this build something special.
The final model comes out to approximately a 4 x 2 foot base, with the clocktower being 3 feet tall. The 30,000 piece count makes this my second largest MOC, behind the behemoth that was the Tunnels Project in 2016.
Yet in what probably adds up to about 20 days total of build time, I was able to pull off what I regard as my best MOC. Without further ado, a proudly present my rendition of German's Schloss Drachenburg.
Come see it at Brickworld Chicago 2019!