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View of the clock tower from inside the refurbished atrium of the Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall.

This attractive clock stands in front of the Preble County Courthouse in Eaton, Ohio.

Watch the video on YouTube

 

A working ball clock built out of LEGO. I had one of these bad boys growing up, and despite the colossal noise it made I thought it was super cool. I finally got around to building a version out of LEGO.

 

I actually runs surprisingly well, and the LEGO version is much less noisy than the real thing.

 

more details

 

January 2013

Fritz Olsson Storgatan 39

While waiting for the Harvest Moon to rise, I captured a few images of the fall colors around the clock tower.

Using my Christmas lights draped over my wall clock in the spare room. Just trying something different with my photography until the dark nights have pulled out. For this image the only light in the room is from the white Xmas lights and a little fill-in light from my phone on the face of the clock. The wallpaper is homage to my love of books. I have hundreds of books - although I need to find time to read them all and not just look at them on the shelves.

Lannon stone clock tower in downtown Waukesha, WI USA.

Alarm clock with a piece of German shell embedded in the dial. The clock was damaged during the bombardment of the Hartlepools on 16th December 1914. It is said that the clock stopped at the time of the shell hitting it. The clock belonged to a resident at 14 Collingwood Road but is now part of the collections at the Museum of Hartlepool and is on permanent display. Ironically the clock was manufactured in Germany. HAPMG : 1990.6.1

 

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It's been in the family for years and years, it still works and keeps good time.

 

52 in 2024 #10 Vintage

www.flickr.com/groups/14851624@N20/discuss/72157721919961...

The sun sets early here these days. Madison, CT.

Wall Clock - Village Clockworks Birmingham est.1782

St. Mary Street, Cardiff, Wales

title.

clock. building. male.

  

Do you want to hear my voice?

:)

 

I updated Youtube.

It is only in Japanese.

I explained comments on photos etc.

If your time is permitted, please look.

:)

 

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw

  

1

About the composition of the picture posted to Flicker. First type.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw

 

2

About the composition of the picture posted to Flicker. Second type.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=443

 

3

About when I started Fotolog. Architect 's point of view.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=649

 

Four

Why did not you have a camera so far?

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=708

 

Five

What is the coolest thing? The photo is as it is.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=776

 

6

About the current YouTube bar. I also want to tell, I want to leave.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=964

 

7

About Japanese photographers. Japanese YouTube bar is Pistols.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1059

 

8

The composition of the photograph is sensibility. Meet the designers in Milan. Two questions.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1242

 

9

What is a good composition? What is a bad composition?

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1482

 

Ten

What is the time to point the camera? It is slow if you are looking into the viewfinder or display.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1662

 

11

Family photos. I can not take pictures with others. The inside of the subject.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1745

 

12

About YouTube 's photographer. Camera technology etc. Sensibility is polished by reading books.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2144

 

13

About the Japanese newspaper. A picture of a good newspaper is Reuters. If you continue to look at useless photographs, it will be useless.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2305

 

14

About Japanese photographers. About the exhibition.

Summary. I wrote a novel etc. What I want to tell the most.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2579

  

Manhattan . New york city 2017. shot …              5 / 6

Day of departure from Japan, August 16, 2017.

The day I came back to Japan, 21 August

(4 nights 6 days.)

(Today's picture. That's unannounced.)

  

( ( Lumix G3 shot ) )

  

Images.

A Taste Of Honey - Distant

youtu.be/FC3DIp66_fA

  

_________________________________

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Profile.

In November 2014, we caught the attention of the party selected to undertake the publicity for a mobile phone that changed the face of the world with just a single model, and will conclude a confidentiality agreement with them.

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/03/tokyo-big-s...

  

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Interviews and novels.

  

About my book.

  

I published a book in old days.

 

At that time, I was uploading my interview on the net on the net.

 

That Japanese and English.

 

I will make it public for free.

 

Details were explained to the Amazon site.

 

How to write a novel.

How to take pictures.

Distance to the work.

 

They all have a common item.

  

I made a sentence about what I felt, and left it.

 

I hope that my text can be read by many people.

 

Thank you.

  

Mitsushiro.

  

1 Interview in English

「interview_eng.pdf」

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/08/interviews-...

 

2 novels. unforgettable 'English version.(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)

「novel_unforgettable_eng.pdf」

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/08/interviews-...

 

3 Interview Japanese version

drive.google.com/file/d/1w5l2hrV5a6lraDiC_Lz2tG_HqatqUCO5...

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/08/interviews-...

 

4 novels. unforgettable ' JPN version.

「novel_unforgettable_jpn.pdf」

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/08/interviews-...

 

5 A streamlined trajectory. only Japanese.

「streamlined_trajectory.pdf」

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/08/interviews-...

 

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iBooks. Electronic Publishing. It is free now.

 

0.about the iBooks.

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2017/03/about-digit...

 

1.unforgettable '(ENG.ver.)(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)

itunes.apple.com/us/book/unforgettable/id1216576828?ls=1&...

  

2.unforgettable '(JNP.ver.)(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)

itunes.apple.com/us/book/unforgettable/id1216584262?ls=1&...

 

3. Streamlined trajectory.(For Japanese only.)

itunes.apple.com/us/book/%E6%B5%81%E7%B7%9A%E5%BD%A2%E3%8... =11

 

_________________________________

_________________________________

 

My Novel >> Unforgettable'

 

(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)

  

Mitsushiro Nakagawa

All Translated by Yumi Ikeda .

www.fotolog.net/yuming/

  

images.

U2 - No Line On The Horizon Live in Dublin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKwnkYFsiE&feature=related

  

There are two reasons why a person faces the sea.

One, to enjoy a slice of shine in the sea like children bubbling over in the beach.

The other, to brush the dust of memory like an old man who misses old days, staring at the shine

quietly.

Those lead to only one meaning though they do not seem to overlap. It’s a rebirth.

I face myself to change tomorrow, a vague day into something certain.

That is the meaning of a rebirth.

I had a very sweet girlfriend when I was 18.

After she left, I knew the meaning of gentleness for the first time and also a true pain of loss. After

she left, how many times did I depend too much on her, doubt her, envy her and keep on telling lies

until I realized it is love?

I wonder whether a nobody like me could have given something to her who was struggling in the

daily life in those days. Giving something is arrogant conceit. It is nothing but self-satisfaction.

I had been thinking about such a thing.

However, I guess what she saw in me was because I had nothing. That‘s why she tried to see

something in me. Perhaps she found a slight possibility in me, a guy filled with ambiguous, unstable

tomorrow. But I wasted days depending too much on her gentleness.

Now I finally can convey how I felt in those days when we met.

  

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Fin.

  

images.

  

U2 - No Line On The Horizon

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKwnkYFsiE&feature=related

  

_________________________________

_________________________________

 

Title of my book > unforgettable'

Author : Mitsushiro Nakagawa

Out Now.

ISBN978-4-86264-866-2

in Amazon.

www.amazon.co.jp/Unforgettable’-Mitsushiro-Nakagawa/dp/...

 

_________________________________

_________________________________

The schedule of the next novel.

Still would stand all time. (Unforgettable '2)

(It will not go away forever)

Please give me some more time. That is Japanese.

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An exhibition in 2019.

 

spring.

 

theme.

Silence Is the Way. (Tentative title)

 

place. Tokyo Big Site.

www.bigsight.jp/

 

Sponsoring. Design festa.

designfesta.com/

  

2020.

Date unknown.

  

DIC Kawamura Memorial Art Museum attached gallery.

kawamura-museum.dic.co.jp/

 

place. Sakura City, Chiba Prefecture.

 

theme.

From that day, forever ...

  

_________________________________

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instagram.

www.instagram.com/mitsushiro_nakagawa/

_________________________________

_________________________________

 

Pinterest.

www.pinterest.jp/mitsushiro/

_________________________________

_________________________________

  

_________________________________

_________________________________

 

fotolog

www.fotolog.com/stealaway/

 

_________________________________

_________________________________

 

twitter.

twitter.com/mitsushiro

 

_________________________________

_________________________________

 

Do you want to hear my voice?

:)

 

I updated Youtube.

It is only in Japanese.

I explained comments on photos etc.

If your time is permitted, please look.

:)

 

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw

 

1

About the composition of the picture posted to Flicker. First type.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw

 

2

About the composition of the picture posted to Flicker. Second type.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=443

 

3

About when I started Fotolog. Architect 's point of view.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=649

 

Four

Why did not you have a camera so far?

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=708

 

Five

What is the coolest thing? The photo is as it is.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=776

 

6

About the current YouTube bar. I also want to tell, I want to leave.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=964

 

7

About Japanese photographers. Japanese YouTube bar is Pistols.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1059

 

8

The composition of the photograph is sensibility. Meet the designers in Milan. Two questions.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1242

 

9

What is a good composition? What is a bad composition?

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1482

 

Ten

What is the time to point the camera? It is slow if you are looking into the viewfinder or display.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1662

 

11

Family photos. I can not take pictures with others. The inside of the subject.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1745

 

12

About YouTube 's photographer. Camera technology etc. Sensibility is polished by reading books.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2144

 

13

About the Japanese newspaper. A picture of a good newspaper is Reuters. If you continue to look at useless photographs, it will be useless.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2305

 

14

About Japanese photographers. About the exhibition.

Summary. I wrote a novel etc. What I want to tell the most.

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2579

_________________________________

_________________________________

Japanese is the following.

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/

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_________________________________

  

タイトル。

時計。ビル。男性。

  

あなたは僕の声を聞きたいですか?

:)

 

僕はYoutubeを更新しました。

日本語だけです。

僕は写真などの解説をしました。

もしも、あなたの時間が許されれば、見てください。

:)

 

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw

  

1

フリッカーへ投稿した写真の構図について。1種類目。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw

 

2

フリッカーへ投稿した写真の構図について。2種類目。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=443

 

3

Fotologを始めた時について。 建築家の視点。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=649

 

4

なぜ、今までカメラを手にしなかったのか?

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=708

 

5

何が一番かっこいいのか? 写真はありのままに。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=776

 

6

現在のユーチューバーについて。僕も伝え、残したい。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=964

 

7

日本人の写真家について。日本のユーチューバーはピストルズ。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1059

 

8

写真の構図は、感性。ミラノのデザイナーに会って。二つの質問。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1242

 

9

良い構図とは? 悪い構図とは?

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1482

 

10

カメラを向ける時とは? ファインダーやディスプレイを覗いていては遅い。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1662

 

11

家族写真。他人では撮れない。被写体の内面。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1745

 

12

ユーチューブの写真家について。カメラの技術等。感性は、本を読むことで磨く。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2144

 

13

日本の新聞について。良い新聞の写真はロイター。ダメな写真を見続けるとダメになる。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2305

 

14

日本の写真家について。その展示について。

まとめ。僕が書いた小説など。僕が最も伝えたいこと。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2579

  

次の小説のイメージ。

Still would stand all time.(unforgettable'2)

(いつまでもなくならないだろう)

  

Manhattan . New york city 2017. shot …              5 / 6

Day of departure from Japan, August 16, 2017.

The day I came back to Japan, 21 August

(4 nights 6 days.)

(Today's picture. That's unannounced.)

  

(( Lumix G3 shot ))

  

Images.

A Taste Of Honey - Distant

youtu.be/FC3DIp66_fA

  

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プロフィール。

2014年11月、たった1機種で世界を塗り替えた携帯電話の広告を請け負った選考者の目に留まり、秘密保持同意書を結ぶ。

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/03/tokyo-big-s...

  

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インタビューと小説。

 

僕の本について。

  

僕は、昔に本を出版しました。

 

その際に、僕のインタビューをPDFでネット上へアップロードしていました。

 

その日本語と英語。

 

僕は、無料でを公開します。

 

詳細は、アマゾンのサイトへ解説しました。

 

小説の書き方。

写真の撮影方法。

作品への距離感。

 

これらはすべて共通項があります。

  

僕は、僕が感じたことを文章にして、残しました。

 

僕のテキストが多くの人に読んでもらえることを望みます。

ありがとう。

  

Mitsushiro.

  

1 インタビュー 英語版

「interview_eng.pdf」

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/08/interviews-...

 

2 小説。unforgettable’ 英語版。

「novel_unforgettable_eng.pdf」

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/08/interviews-...

 

3 インタビュー 日本語版

drive.google.com/file/d/1w5l2hrV5a6lraDiC_Lz2tG_HqatqUCO5...

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/08/interviews-...

 

4 小説。unforgettable’ 日本語版。(この小説は未来のアーティストへ捧げます)

「novel_unforgettable_jpn.pdf」

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/08/interviews-...

 

5 流線形の軌跡。 日本語のみ。

「streamlined_trajectory.pdf」

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/08/interviews-...

 

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iBooks.電子出版。(現在は無料)

  

0.about the iBooks.

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2017/03/about-digit...

 

1.unforgettable’ ( ENG.ver.)(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)

itunes.apple.com/us/book/unforgettable/id1216576828?ls=1&...

For Japanese only.

  

2.unforgettable’ ( JNP.ver.)(この小説は未来のアーティストへ捧げます)

itunes.apple.com/us/book/unforgettable/id1216584262?ls=1&...

  

3.流線形の軌跡。

itunes.apple.com/us/book/%E6%B5%81%E7%B7%9A%E5%BD%A2%E3%8...

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_________________________________

  

僕の小説。英語版 

My Novel Unforgettable' (This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)

  

Mitsushiro Nakagawa

All Translated by Yumi Ikeda .

www.fotolog.net/yuming/

  

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Fin.

  

images.

U2 - No Line On The Horizon Live in Dublin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKwnkYFsiE&feature=related

  

_________________________________

_________________________________

 

Title of my book > unforgettable'

Author : Mitsushiro Nakagawa

Out Now.

 

ISBN978-4-86264-866-2

in Amazon.

www.amazon.co.jp/Unforgettable’-Mitsushiro-Nakagawa/dp/...

  

_________________________________

_________________________________

次の小説の予定。

Still would stand all time.(unforgettable'2)

(いつまでもなくならないだろう)

もう少し時間をください。それは日本語です。

_________________________________

_________________________________

  

2019年の展示。

春。

 

テーマ。

Silence Is the Way.(仮題)

 

場所。東京ビッグサイト。

www.bigsight.jp/

 

Sponsoring. Design festa.

designfesta.com/

  

2020年。

日時未定。

DIC川村記念美術館付属ギャラリー。

kawamura-museum.dic.co.jp/

場所。千葉県佐倉市。

テーマ。

あの日から、ずっと…

  

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instagram.

www.instagram.com/mitsushiro_nakagawa/

_________________________________

_________________________________

 

Pinterest.

www.pinterest.jp/mitsushiro/

_________________________________

_________________________________

  

_________________________________

_________________________________

 

fotolog

www.fotolog.com/stealaway/

 

_________________________________

_________________________________

 

twitter.

twitter.com/mitsushiro

 

_________________________________

_________________________________

 

あなたは僕の声を聞きたいですか?

:)

 

僕はYoutubeを更新しました。

日本語だけです。

僕は写真などの解説をしました。

もしも、あなたの時間が許されれば、見てください。

:)

 

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw

  

1

フリッカーへ投稿した写真の構図について。1種類目。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw

 

2

フリッカーへ投稿した写真の構図について。2種類目。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=443

 

3

Fotologを始めた時について。 建築家の視点。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=649

 

4

なぜ、今までカメラを手にしなかったのか?

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=708

 

5

何が一番かっこいいのか? 写真はありのままに。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=776

 

6

現在のユーチューバーについて。僕も伝え、残したい。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=964

 

7

日本人の写真家について。日本のユーチューバーはピストルズ。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1059

 

8

写真の構図は、感性。ミラノのデザイナーに会って。二つの質問。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1242

 

9

良い構図とは? 悪い構図とは?

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1482

 

10

カメラを向ける時とは? ファインダーやディスプレイを覗いていては遅い。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1662

 

11

家族写真。他人では撮れない。被写体の内面。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1745

 

12

ユーチューブの写真家について。カメラの技術等。感性は、本を読むことで磨く。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2144

 

13

日本の新聞について。良い新聞の写真はロイター。ダメな写真を見続けるとダメになる。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2305

 

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日本の写真家について。その展示について。

まとめ。僕が書いた小説など。僕が最も伝えたいこと。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2579

 

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Japanese is the following.

stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/

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I was given the idea to turn this into a clock by a reddit user lonelytax. So I put one together quickly.

 

Here is video explaining the basics of the Magic Circle www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F50PbQ6s4U and on IGTV www.instagram.com/tv/BkvkubmgYOI/

 

FB page www.facebook.com/AwesomeLegoDad/

  

Instagram feed www.instagram.com/playwell_bricks/

  

Youtube Channel www.youtube.com/c/PlaywellBricks

Former Offices of the Belfast Telegraph

Our Daily Challenge 28 May -3 June : The Inside Workings.

 

The innards of this Eight Day clock, see in the comment box below.

OLYMPUS

Salzburg, Austria

Zegar na ścianie kościoła Mariackiego na Rynku Głównym, Kraków, Polska

In The Clock Museum the Time lives you!

 

This is an older photo, that I had put away initially because the background isn`t really good.

Suddeny I ran on this sim when i was looking for ... clocks, to complete my initial idea. I havent really succeded but I had took this photo to remember this place where the clocks rule.

Shot at The Clock Museum

Outfit from BRII Underground wear: Bella

 

Windlight: custom

 

Processing in GIMP: some contrast corrections in layers, softglow

This was taken a number of years back in 2016. My son was getting married up in British Columbia, Canada, and my daughters and I were, of course, getting our hair all styled for the wedding! This classy looking clock was hanging in the hair salon and I just had to take a couple pics. Hope you all enjoy!

  

Hair Salon

Maple Ridge

British Columbia, Canada

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© Copyright 2024 MEA Images, Merle E. Arbeen, All Rights Reserved. If you would like a copy of this, please feel free to contact me through my FlickrMail, Facebook, or Yahoo email account. Thank you.

 

This piece would deserve a much better photo!

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Gracias por vuestras visitas :)

{Thank U, Grazie, Danke... :D

Burke County Courthouse Clock in Waynesboro, Georgia

The McKee Clock in Bangor, County Down. It was built in 1915 and is named for the local person who donated a large sum towards its construction.

Two girls play in front of the clock tower in downtown Pachuca, Hidalgo

Mersey Ferries Seacombe Ferry Terminal on reopening day – October 17, 2022. The terminal had been closed for refurbishment since November 2020.

 

The building is Grade II listed

 

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Seacombe Ferry and omnibus terminus was constructed between 1930-3 to designed by L St G Wilkinson, the Wallasey Borough Surveyor for the municipally owned Wallasey Ferries and Corporation Motors. These were incorporated into the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive (MPTE) in 1969 with the combined Birkenhead and Wallasey Ferries being rebranded as Mersey Ferries. Following bus deregulation The MPTE became Merseytravel.

 

Comprises brick with Portland stone dressings; tiled roofs. Two ranges, one of a single story parallel to the Mersey containing booking and entrance halls, the other returning, of two storeys, containing waiting rooms, workshops and offices which are now being repurpsed as the Eureka Science attraction due to open in 2023.

 

Both ranges connected by a loggia (defining two sides of a courtyard bus station), supported by paired Doric columns. The riverside range with deep hipped roof and monumental central clock tower, the latter slightly tapering to upper courses, the clock faces over ventilation slits contained within superordinate arches, the stepped plinth, with stripped classical detailing, of stone; all this over a broken pedimented projecting entrance block (all stone) with tall round-headed arch.

 

Loggia of 3-bays to either side with clerestory windows containing iron chevron- patterned glazing bars. The return range of eleven bays, similarly fenestrated to both ground and 1st floors, with doors treated in the same manner. Outer bays with overhanging eaves; central bays with stepped parapets surmounted by urns and central flagstaff over municipal coat of arms.

Contemporary fittings include bronze lamps. Interior: hall with massive unadorned round-headed arches of three orders (to front range); tie-rod roof; part-glazed.

 

Several contemporary features include ticket offices with chevron and other art-deco style glazing patterns. A fine restrained composition in the simplified classical style popular at the time. Historical note: the first commercial shore- based Radar station in the world for the navigation of ships was installed at the Seacombe Terminal buildings in 1947.

 

(Notes from Historic England)

 

Clock enfurruñado porque los conejitos blancos no tienen deditos para jugar con la tablet. Nadie diría que lo pillé con las patitas en la masa!

An old circular clock with Roman numerals marked the time in the lobby of The Caledonian Hotel. Late in the afternoon, chandelier crystals reflected onto the clock face, distorting the view but not obscuring it entirely. The subtle tension between precise timekeeping and reflective beauty caught my attention, a sight which I found alluring.

 

Location: Scotland, Edinburgh

The clock tower was built in 1720 and remained so until 1887-88 when it was remodelled to commemorate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. £200 was to be raised by public voluntary subscription for the clock to be built, and the final amount came to £227, 7 shillings and 6 pence. The clock was lit by gas until the mid 1920s when electric took over. Quoted from The Way Marking website.

The Clock Tower on Morecambe’s Marine Road Central is one of the town’s smaller but more distinctive landmarks. It symbolises the late-Victorian and Edwardian expansion of the town in terms of population and facilities, adding to its growing reputation as a major seaside resort. The Tower was installed on the seafront next to the Central Pier and around half a mile from the Winter Gardens and Harbour.

 

‘Promenading’ was a common pastime for visitors who might need to know the time – meal times at their boarding house or the times of shows – but not have a watch. As the photographs at the end of this leaflet show, this was a bustling part of Morecambe. Usefully, public toilets were right next to the Clock Tower (underground and with a landscaped roof area). They have been rebuilt at ground level.

The Tower’s story starts with the generosity of Alderman and then Mayor John Robert Birkett JP who had pledged £400 of his own money (nearly £50,000 in 2020 value) to part-fund a public library for Morecambe. This plan fell through when the Council refused to raise the rates to pay for its upkeep. Birkett then switched his donation to the construction of a Clock Tower. He made his proposal formally to the Council in March 1905 with the aim of ‘opening’ the Clock Tower on 22 July.

The Tower was designed by Cressey and Keighley, a short-lived architectural practice on Euston Road, Morecambe. It was built by Messrs Edmundson. The clock was made by Rhodes of Lancaster and there is an internal vertical ladder within the Tower to give access to the clock mechanism.

There is a memorial and foundation stone laid by the Mayor’s wife on 24 June 1905. After very rapid construction, the Tower was declared ready on 6 September 1905 and the clock was illuminated for the first time two days later. Oddly there was no formal opening or unveiling ceremony.

There was an objection to the Tower’s location from a neighbour who said it would damage his view but this was overruled. One councillor did not approve of so much building on the seaward side of the Promenade. An alderman thanked the Mayor for his generosity but recalled the criticisms made while it was being built. The month after it was opened, there was a debate in the Council about whether they could afford to illuminate the four clock faces. The Mayor’s generosity did not extend to its running costs.

In practice the Mayor’s £400 did not buy the town all that much Tower. It is only 46 feet tall (14 metres). It is built in a striking design of red brick with buff sandstone banding and dressing. There used to be benches around the base between the four corner buttresses, each with a roof to give sheltered seating, but these have been lost.

The Tower was partly functional – to give the time to those without watches – and partly to decorate the Promenade. The Central Pier next door and much else of Morecambe in its heyday have disappeared. The Clock Tower remains.

[Info Text – Gordon Clark. Published by Lancaster Civic Society]

Clock Tower, Firth Park Road

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