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I clicked this photo last week, and it struck me that it might well be out of a 19th century postcard. (ended up giving it a bit of color toning in Gimp to complement the feel)
Clocktower in the former Eastney Marine Barracks, Eastney
Now part of a housing development called " Marine Gate "
Grade 11 Listed
A climb up the old Bank Clocktower in the early hours of the morning for some post beer exploration. I'm a little surprised at just how well fitted out phones are with cameras these days, the old times of lugging DSLR's and tripods around over? Don't get me wrong the resolution isn't there, but then again I was never planning on fitting my photos onto billboards!
The Clocktower and Stable Block at Dunham Hall bathed in this morning's sunshine, which didn't last for long.....................
It's not the Empire State Building or anything, but being out on the 23rd floor of this clocktower and having the bell go off with your ears 9 feet away... it's like being inside the engines of the space shuttle during takeoff...
Oh, this is the belltower of the D&F Clocktower, Denver...
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NASA Flight Director Chris Kraft: Rendezvous: two spacecraft meeting up in orbit. Want to have fun? Come over to my house. You stand in the back yard, I'll stand in the front, you throw a tennis ball over my roof and I'll try to hit it with a rock as it comes sailing over. That's what we're going to have to do...
--"From the Earth to the Moon" (HBO)
Clocktower in the former Eastney Marine Barracks, Eastney
Now part of a housing development called " Marine Gate "
Grade 11 Listed
Sun setting on the belltower atop the Daniels & Fisher Clocktower, Denver.... yes, it's VERY windy up there...
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House: Everybody's happy until they unwrap the pretty present and find they got a wall clock in the shape of Africa...
--"House" (FOX)
This is Clocktower Place (Historic and Luxurious Apartments), condos in Nashua, NH in the former quarters of the Nashua Manufacturing Company on the Nashua River in downtown Nashua, New Hampshire USA. This is the view from Main Srteet.
The History of Nashua, NH USA - 1775 - 1830
After the Indian Wars and until the American Revolution of 1776, Dunstable was mostly a farming community. Corn and Vegetables were grown on the Merrimack/Nashua River intervale. Hay and Orchards were prevalent on the southern side.
Merchants and travelers from outside of town from the north and south used Nashua as a thoroughfare thereby creating a hospitality and entertainment economy. Many taverns and hotels were built along The Great Road (Main Street) such as Tylers Tavern which provided necessary comfort and service.
Daniel Abbot moved to the upper community of Dunstable in 1802. Abbot is a Harvard graduate who soon after opened a law practice here. Abbot quickly became a civic leader who then proceeded to rename Dunstable to "Nashua Village" in a speech given on July 4th in 1803.
Right about the same time, Josiah Griswold Graves, MD became the first physician in town. He became very popular because he had an exceptional ability in diagnosing ailments of his patients.
Nashua was heading towards a full scale industrial makeover. During the 1820's, Abott, along with the Greeley brothers, Daniel Webster and some Massachusetts Industrial Investors formed a coalition to create the first textile mills in Dunstable powering Nashua's Industrial Revolution. Abott had been watching his Harvard counterparts in Massachusetts and knew Dunstable had the water power to begin the Waltham-Lowell venture. He moved forward to begin the industry that would become the socio-economic scene dominating the 1830's - 1860's.
Robert Owen, resident of New Lanark, Scotland is credited with creation of the infant structure of our city. The basis of his landmark design includes the layout of the streets, the mills and their basic architecture, and most importantly; social planning which included how the employees would be treated.
Two men, Nathaniel Appleton and Patrick Tracy Jackson, traveled to New Lanark and studied the designs of Owen. The Owen design made it all the way to Nashua from Scotland; consisting of a mill, worker housing, a school, and a church, all run by the originating mill company. This combined with the mastermind of Francis Cabot Lowell and the energy of Daniel Abbot began the enterprise of Nashua's economic future.
Francis Cabot Lowell, Harvard graduate and math major, traveled to England with the express interest of studying the textile designs of the James Archright Power Loom and creating it's mirror here in the United States. His extended vacation included touring the industries where the loom existed and in essence, formulated the designs in his mind. An extreme form of piracy in that day as the patent for the machine and exporting the technology was expressly prohibited. His textile looms were better than their English predecessors and his fabrics soon found their way into world commerce.
Francis Cabot Lowell - Nathaniel Appleton
The first large company created was the Nashua Manufacturing Company in 1823. Nashua Manufacturing was the first in New Hampshire completed in the full scale Waltham-Lowell design.
The Waltham-Lowell design, including especially the church, met the demands of the New England farmer father as a "socially and morally acceptable" place of employment for their daughters, as they made up the majority of the mill workforce.
For 30 years, tens of thousands of young, single women migrated to the Waltham-Lowell mills and revolutionized women's labor in America, and the world, right here in Nashua!
Mill Girls
Daniel Abbot was a great and powerful force fueling the creation of Nashua's Mills. His passion for growth and success empowered the people to achieve their greatest, evident even
'Ye Olde Clocktower', Whitehorse Road. Formerly 'The Coach & Horses' and 'The Mailcoach'. For sale, with planning permission for flats to be built on the site.
Back in the 1880s, the Mail Coach was still running along Whitehorse Road; no doubt from London to major points south. The horses were changed at this pub, and the stable building still exists in the back yard.
(...that's it on the left of the picture). I actually climbed the darn thing -- the narrowest staircase I've ever been on!
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The clocktower at UC Berkeley that towers over the landscape. I've never been up it. Apparently, on a clear day, it gives you an amazing 360 degree view of the San Francisco Bay Area. Sketched the week before classes begin. Bye, bye summer.
Kimpton Clocktower Hotel
Built between 1891 to 1932
Architects: Alfred Waterhouse -1891, Paul Waterhouse -1910, and Stanley Birkett - 1932
Originally the Refuge Assurance Company and later converted to a hotel in 1996
yet another shot of the interior of the clocktower in Downtown Denver.... still couldn't tell what time it was from the inside though :)
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Zack: Sometime when you're not busy, I wonder if I could ask you a few questions about sexual positions?
Booth: If you even try, I will take out my gun and shoot you between the eyes...
--"Bones" (FOX)
The historic clock tower in the small town of Covington, GA that has been made famous by productions such as The Vampire Diaries.
I was chatting with my son after showering when my girlfriend Nancy called to tell me the sky was ablaze that evening.
The clocktower had to serve as the site to view the sunset!
Refurbishment by Allan Murray Architects, 2003-5; project architect: Mark Cousins. Planning Permission & Building Warrant for the Clocktower was granted May 2003; started on site August 2003. The distinctive south elevation of the Clocktower employs large stone crenellations in faux mediaeval style which are grafted on to a red brick industrial box. The proposals respect the fundamental symmetry of the original building and helps reinforce its role as an urban marker with streetscape presence.
Transformation of the former yeast house on the former Scottish and Newcastle brewery site.