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An ornamental clock in the Somerset town of Frome. The clock uses the letters of Frome and Selwood instead of numbers. Selwood was one a small village but has now become one of the suburbs of Frome.
Clock programmed using Processing. The 'planets' follow the hour, minute, and second hand, whilst the gradients change hue gradually each minute. The gradient is produced by changing the HSB values, with brightness highest for the outer ring and becoming darker by 10% for each ring towards the centre.
Halifax Town Clock located in the City of Halifax Nova Scotia Canada
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent commissioned a clock tower in 1800 prior to his return to England. The Town Clock opened on October 20, 1803, at a location on the east slope of Citadel Hill on Barrack (now Brunswick) Street and has kept time for the community ever since.
We arrived at Hauptkirche Sankt Michaelis a bit too early before their opening time, luckily for me, Michiel is very good in finding nearby places to explore. We ended up visiting the Kramer-Witwen-Wohnung (Grocer Widow's apartment) museum.
Partial and edited quote from their web site:
shmh.de/en/kramer-widows-apartment
"The „Krameramt“ was the Guild of the Shopkeepers, whose statutes date back to 1375. They had their permanent stalls or shops in the city and traded mainly in spices, silk and iron wares.
In 1676 the wealthy guild built these houses to provide room for the widows of its members. The guild’s aim was to re-accommodate the widows and hence to vacate premises for new members in the shops. A plaque on the wall facing the land gives the date of construction as 1676 and indicates that the houses were a charitable foundation.
The living area of each widow is divided in two storeys. There is a small living-room with a kitchen on the ground floor. The upper floor consists of a living-room with sewing table and a sleeping accommodation. On the top floor is a drying loft with a clotheshorse attached to the outside of the window facing the lane. Furthermore, the loft was needed for the supply with wood and carbon. Water pipes were not installed until the end of the 19th century. In the previous time they used two water pumps.
By today's standard this apartment appears tiny, with minimal space and amenities but according to the circumstances at this time it was a quite comfortable and progressive arrangement.
A view through time , in the foreground obviously is the Elizabeth Tower housing Big Ben ( a shot before all the scaffolding went up ) and beyond is Westminster Abbey which goes back in time even further .
Westminster Abbey is steeped in more than a thousand years of history. Benedictine monks first came to this site in the middle of the tenth century, establishing a tradition of daily worship which continues to this day.
The Abbey has been the coronation church since 1066 and is the final resting place of seventeen monarchs. The present church, begun by Henry III in 1245, is one of the most important Gothic buildings in the country, with the medieval shrine of an Anglo-Saxon saint still at its heart.
A treasure house of paintings, stained glass, pavements, textiles and other artefacts, Westminster Abbey is also the place where some of the most significant people in the nation's history are buried or commemorated. Taken as a whole the tombs and memorials comprise the most significant single collection of monumental sculpture anywhere in the United Kingdom.
Medieval Marketplace
Welcome to the third project of my little medieval town - Medieval Marketplace!
In my marketplace you can see a tall tower with an astronomical clock on one side (a copy of the Old Town Hall Tower) and ordinary clocks on the other.
On the same square, life is in full swing! Here you will see a butcher chopping a piece of meat for the next customer - an old astronomer in a luxurious hat, and a fish merchant. A prosperous merchant with all kinds of trinkets, living in a house near the tower and unloading all sorts of supplies from the cart. A baker just baked another pretzel in his bakery. Well and of course the guards keeping order. :)
The project also includes 10 minifigures:
a jester fireman,
two guards,
a merchant of some supplies,
a fish merchant,
a baker,
a butcher,
two peasants,
a horse
The second floor of the houses and the roofs are easily removed. The whole model is fully playable. The tower is empty inside.
I was inspired to create this project by my trip to Prague last summer. Initially, I planned to create a project only for the Astronomical Clock (Old Town Hall Tower), but having built the tower, I decided to slightly change it and add a market square to it - in the end it’s a fantasy! :)
Also, when building this project, I was inspired by such clock towers as The Zytglogge and Ledbury Clock Tower, and a set of lego castle 10193 medieval marketplace.
I hope you enjoyed
DominikQN
This was a day of looking up at things much taller than ourselves. Big Ben. Parliament. Westminster Abbey.
"Surely one of the most iconic images of Morningside is the Station Clock which has stood at the foot of Morningside Road (off and on) since it was gifted to the city by Messers Inches, Inman and Torrance, the then councillors for the Morningside ward in 1910 – a time when it was possible to travel by train from Morningside to Waverly via Haymarket in precisely 13 minutes!
The structure itself is an example of east-west collaboration by leading craftsmen of the time – the ironwork pillar supplied by Walter MacFarlane & Co. of Glasgow and the clock mechanism by James Ritchie & Son of Edinburgh. The craftwork of these fine Scottish companies can still be seen all over the UK, Europe and even further afield in exotic locations such as Singapore and Brazil.
The clock has of course been a familiar landmark for generations of locals and travellers alike. The writer can remember when on long trips from Dumfriesshire to visit Edinburgh as a small boy in an Austin Cambridge – sight of the clock meant that we really were ‘almost there’. And then all of sudden – the clock wasn’t there anymore!
The clock disappeared in the late Sixties during modification of the road junction and, as Charles Smith noted in his Historic South Edinburgh volumes, after it failed to re-appear after some considerable time ‘many residents made enquiries in official quarters’ which pre-empted its return, complete with new electrics installed, to restore familiar perspective of the of the station area in 1968."
Information supplied by:
edinburghsouthwest.com
A southbound Jubilee line train accelerates away from St John's Wood passing the station clock. A similar timepiece is on the northbound platform.
The clock in the middle of Grand Central holds a secret. The little point at the top is a compass that's aligned to true north, so the four sides of the clock line up perfectly with the four compass points of the building.
L'horloge au milieu de Grand Central détient un secret. Le petit point au sommet est une boussole, de sorte que les quatre côtés de l'horloge s'alignent parfaitement avec les quatre points cardinaux.
على ارتفاع أكثر من ٦٠٠ متر تم التصوير من الجو من طوافه عسكرية .. رافقني في الرحله اخي العزيز الفوتوغرافي عبيد الفريدي .. لا اخفيكم الموقف رهيب والتجربه مخيفه لكنها ممممممتعه
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1270206
Date First Listed : 20 June 1972
This was built 1836-8 as a Trustee Savings Bank, designed by George Webster in Italianate style, and the clock tower was added in 1844. The bank is in limestone, on a plinth, rusticated in the ground floor and ashlar above, and has a slate roof and two storeys. There is one bay on Market Street and three on Union Street. On each front is a band between the floors, a modillioned cornice, and the central part projects under a pediment. The doorway, on Union Street, has unfluted Doric columns, an inscribed frieze, and a cornice, above which is a decorated cast iron balcony. On the roof is a two-stage tower with open arches in the lower stage, and above is a dome with clock faces, a finial and a weathervane.
Built in 1897 and Grade 1 listed since 1955, the faces were glazed in 1988 after the hands were repeatedly stolen and has the reputation as being the second most photographed clock in the UK after the Elizabeth Tower at Westminster
It’s dark o’clock
But the Ludgate House timepiece has it covered.
P107-2253 Taken at: Ludgate Circus, London
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After all the finals hysteria, I think I have a little time in my hands to post more 365 photos... =S yes I've been absent A LOT! ... but... I promise to keep it updated as posible =D
PS: the clock in the photo is real...
wait!!.. Thenari and I suddently realize that one of his photos and this photo of mine kida look a like.. or as they were from a serie!... Look! ...what do you think?
The Earl Layman Street Clock is incumbently installed at First Avenue South and South Main Street in the historical Pioneer Square district of Seattle. It was commissioned in 1907 by Young’s Credit Jewelers, and was installed during 1922 in front of their Third Avenue and Seneca Street store.
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