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The last picture of London for a while, although the LONDON 2010 set has not been finished, there will be more uploads to come later in the month.
For tomorrow and the next week: Bristol Balloon Fiesta, 15.08.10.
Watch the Bristol Balloon Fiesta 2010 set for uploads at the fiesta.
For London, see set: London 2010
(A close-up on my telephoto lens of the clock on Big Ben, The Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London UK.
The ormolu Louis XV style cartel clock from the First Class Lounge of the RMS Olympic. It was originally located at the aft end of the room, on the port side of the curved wall that concealed the No. 3 Funnel casing. On the opposite (starboard) side of the 18' mahogany book case that stood across the centre of the wall, was located a second cartel timepiece in similar Louis XV style. This second timepiece was not a clock but a date indicator.
To the best of current knowledge, it is thought that this area on "Titanic" would have been identical.
24th November 2016.
The staircase that inspired JK Rowling. In Livraria Lello bookshop in Porto, Portugal, where she was working teaching English.
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At Rio's harbor.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Standing majestically close to the city centre of Chester on Eastgate Street, is the Eastgate clock. Chester's best known land mark and the second most photographed clock in the world after Big Ben. The clock was placed on the Eastgate in 1899 and commemorates Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1897. The wrought-iron was made by John Douglas's cousin James Swindley of Handbridge. This clock is by J. B. Joyce of Whitchurch. Until 1974 it was hand wound once a week.
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SHOEBURY GARRISON 1. 5219 Clock Tower TQ 98 SW 5/85 II 2. A monumental arched gateway surmounted by a clock tower and arched cupola. Built in 1856, in yellow brick. It comprises a central tall semi-circular archway with rusticated brick voussoirs which breaks forward from smaller flanking arches also with rusticated voussoirs. The centre part has a brick cornice with blocking courses and is surmounted by a square clock tower with an open arched cupola above, with a pyramid slate roof with shaped eaves brackets. The archways are flanked by single storeyed buildings in similar style. The brickwork is laid with recessed horizontal courses simulating ashlar.
Source: Historic England
Overlooks Great Yarmouth Market Place from the Lloyds TSB Bank building.
In ABCs and 123s: T is for time
The Clock
Y Cloc
Well-meaning, and right-mindedly
I sing. Fate is kind to me:
My soul takes flight to the fair town
With round tower at crag’s crown,
Finds a girl, of former fame:
My unforgotten old flame.
Through my Dream, moonlight fleeting
Beams on her a Dream of greeting.
Nightly now, her fetch shall fly
To tryst with me and linger nigh,
Or when, as in exhausted sleep,
My soul, unfettered, comes to creep
Within her chamber, I’ll appear
And speak with her till day is near
Like an angel, though my head
Lies pillowed in a distant bed.
Thus my otherworldly thought
Finds the lover I have sought
For age on age. The spell will break
The very moment I awake.
Damn the clock beside the dyke
That awoke me with one strike
Of the tongue between its teeth!
Curse the ropes and wheels beneath,
The stupid balls that dangle,
The hammer, the iron rectangle
Of its frame! Curse its quacking
And its endless mill-wheels clacking!
Churlish clock with canting clatter,
Clodhopping cobbler’s chatter,
Lies and treachery in your guts!
Hound-whelp’s maw that chews and gluts
On garbage, clapping jaws of spite!
Owl’s mill grinding through the night!
No saddler, crupper caked with crap
Could withstand the endless tap-
Tap-tapping of your ticker!
The very angels bark and bicker!
I had enjoyed – until this –
A dream of Heaven, untold bliss,
Wrapped within this woman’s arms
My head between her breasts. Charms
Of Eigr, beyond all cost.
Dong! Dong! Dong! And all are lost!
Come, my Dream, and seek once more
The airy highway to her door
And set my golden girl aglow
With slumbering love. My soul! Flow
To meet her! Moth! Take flight
And plunge into her orb of light!
Source material: Poem by Dafydd ap Gwilym, paraphrased by Giles Watson. Mechanical clocks of the kind derided in the poem were a newfangled technology in the fourteenth century, and are also mentioned by Chaucer and Jean Froissart. Once again, this poem draws on the llatai tradition, but in this case, the love-messenger is not the clock, but the poet’s Dream, which confers upon him the ability to fly by night to his beloved Eigr. As with Dafydd’s other beautiful dream poem, ‘Y Breuddwyd’, there are strong affinities with ‘The Dream of Maxen’ in the Mabinogion. It has been suggested that the town with the round tower on a hill is Brecon, which, with its marvellous setting, surrounded by the Black Mountains and the Brecon Hills, would seem to be an ideal place for souls to take flight. The poem implies that his soul can only make contact with that of his beloved when both of them are asleep and dreaming, and at the end of the paraphrase, I have introduced the soul-moth motif, which is a common feature of Celtic folklore. Cathedral cities such as Wells, Salisbury and St Albans did possess clocks of the type described by Dafydd, with chimes to mark the hours for the monastic offices, but it is impossible to know with which clock Dafydd was acquainted, and in the context of this poem, it appears that the clock was far removed from Brecon. For a more detailed examination of the historical background to this poem, see the notes to Rachel Bromwich’s prose translation, Dafydd ap Gwilym: Poems, Ceredigion, 1982, pp. 123-4.
Image derived from a photograph of the works of a mediaeval clock at Astbury church, Gloucestershire.
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