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This is the Clock Tower of Newmarket's old Post Office building. It is now a retirement home called the Clock Tower Inn.
From Market Square - Newmarket, ON Canada [?]
I bought a cheap tape recorder made by this company around 50 years ago. It had the same smell that this clock had which I purchased recently.
sometimes i feel like all i do is wait - without patience, this life would be difficult to survive...
I like consecutive numbers. Also clocks. Little dials too. So I'm posting this to celebrate.
From the hall o' grandfather clocks in the metropolitan museum of art, new york ny
Today's word is Shrewsbury clock, after Shrewsbury, a town in west UK. Earliest documented use: 1598.
NOTES: In Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part 1" John Falstaff claims that he and Hotspur "fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock" in the Battle of Shrewsbury. The term "Shrewsbury clock" here refers to a public clock as most people didn't have clocks at the time. The term "by a Shrewsbury clock" has come to imply exactly or precisely, sometimes with a hint of exaggeration or irony.
Learn more about today's word at: wordsmith.org/words/Shrewsbury_clock.html
A variation of an old photo that was lost when our computer was stolen a few years ago. I think I prefer the angle of this photo more as well as the variations in the grey scale.
The mechanism to produce the cuckoo call was installed in almost every kind of cuckoo clock since the middle of the eighteenth century and has remained almost without variation until the present.
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The cabin we rented in Door County was decorated with nautical antiques. This clock came from the old Coast Guard Station in Sturgeon Bay, WI
In the lobby of 55 Broadway
Taken during a tour of 55 Broadway, the headquarters of London Underground and London's first skyscraper.
The building was designed by Charles Holden (1875-1960), and constructed between 1927-29. The building was the tallest in London until 1932 (when it was superseded by Senate House, another of Holden's sites).
55 Broadway was the headquarters for the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL), and later London Transport, although operations are now planned to move to other sites.
The art deco building is a cruciform design, ten storeys high, and faced with Portland stone.
Clock at the east end of the Main Hall of Union Station (1908, Daniel Burnham). The statues are Roman centurions by Louis St. Gaudens, 26 of which line the walls of the Main Hall.
Another junk store buy, $30. needed key and pendulum. Works great, keeps good time, sounds beautiful. Missing glass bezel. German I think.