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Sold recently at auction in Newark - yours for £1,400, Sir. The magic letters M S & L signify that this clock, which came from the station in Grimsby, was originally for the "Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Company". That company built the line from Grimsby out to Gainsborough and beyond in the 1840s, and were the successors to The Great Grimsby & Sheffield Junction Railway Company, who had first proposed and planned the line through Gainsborough from Grimsby. In 1847 that company amalgamated with the Sheffield & Lincolnshire Junction Railway and the Sheffield, Aston-Under-Lyme & Manchester Railway Companies to form the MS&LR. When the company's ambitions extended further South to London, the MS&LR became the Great Central Railway Company in 1897.
This clock, which I'd personally love to have ticking away on my office wall, would probably be worth only a couple of hundred pounds at most if it was not for it's railway connection, and in particular, those magic letters M S & L.
© Museum Europäischer Kulturen – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, photo: Ute-Franz-Scarciglia, 2010
Donated by: Ali Özsoy, managing director of “Lebenswelt” (non-profit limited liability company for the promotion of family, youth, work and health), his comment:
“For me, ’time’ means trying to keep up with the times, living at the height of the times, doing everything at the same time, everything in its own time, a sense of time. People have different perceptions of time, which can lead to intercultural conflicts.”
Personal background of Ali Özsoy:
The company established in 1999 with the managing directors Ali Özsoy and Mehmet Asci offers social services for all the family and organizes the deployment of social and childcare workers. Its ethnic minority target groups receive counselling and support in 40 languages.
Ali’s and Mehmet’s business idea had originally concerned the provision and further development of “educational assistance” services in their neighbourhood. Following demand and market analyses, as well as some additional educational training of their own, they then established the company, initially operating it from their homes. They steered clear of borrowing, but took some professional advice. By now their company employs approximately 200 people.
Background: Ali Özsoy followed his parents to Germany at the age of 18 and immediately started learning German. Aged 19 he was already earning his own money as a translator and got involved with integration projects. His training as a childcare worker was followed by a degree course in social work, as well as a family therapy training course, undertaken in tandem with work.
(www.lebenswelt-berlin.de)
The Prague astronomical clock, or Prague orloj, is a medieval astronomical clock installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still working. The astronomical dial has a background that represents the standing Earth and sky, and surrounding it operates four main moving components: the zodiacal ring, an outer rotating ring, an icon representing the Sun, and an icon representing the Moon.
Another view of the iconic clock tower at the West Side Market. What a landmark in the bustling Ohio City neighborhood.
Cleveland, OH USA
This clock hung in the school where my father used to work. When the school moved my father took me there and we picked out this lovely clock for me. I love it. It has this moody movement, which runs backward if the power is lost and starts again. A clock with a personality.
You can see a bit of our fjord-view reflected in the glass.
I was lucky to be able to get access to the clock tower at Darlington indoor market last week for further research into my current project on the market. This image shows details of the mechanism of the clock in inside the clock tower.
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This is a Junghans ATO clock, which dates back to the early 1950's or so. It is an electro-mechanical clock. There is a curved magnetized rod attached to the bottom of the pendulum. A solenoid coil, on the left, is briefly energized when the escapement closes a switch. The energized coil generates a magnetic field, which pulls the pendulum to the left.
The clock has a glass case, which is removed for this photo.