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....attached to the Hôtel de Ville, Calais.
The EXIF data shows that this photo was taken at 11:01am. Given that my camera was probably set at BST rather than Central European Time, it was probably around 12:01 CET - meaning that the clock was about 6 minutes slow.
Another 600 pager...Written in 92, this is a bit like a book version of The Wire - though a decade before that series existed. It looks at a lot of the same issues of drugs in US cities and the impact it has on those in the communities. Its very much plot and character driven and looks at the dynamics between drug dealers, the community and the police in a fictional part of New Jersey. A well worked plot and pacy story, bearing in mind the length of it, this is well written stuff and very much recommended.
It has made me very intrigued about the film. I really like a lot of Spike Lee's stuff, but never got round to watching Clockers....a cheap DVD purchase coming up I think. A couple of the actors from Clockers also appeared in The Wire...which should be suitably confusing.
I've had this thing for a while, but I can't make out the cursive writing on it. If anyone can type up the characters it shows there, I'd be very grateful.
I think I posted this under my account as hobielover, but then I forgot the password at one point, so I've never been able to log back in to that account. So, if you've seen it there before, I'm the same person. I just can't remember the password I used for that account at all!
Staré Město, Prague, Czech Republic.
The clock consists of this face which is an astronomical dial; a clockwork hourly show of moving sculptures, and a calendar dial with medallions representing the months.
Clock tower shelter, Promenade, Cleveleys. Saturday 12 May 2012
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Camera: Canon EOS 550D.
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In the garden at Hauser & Wirth gallery in Bruton, Somerset. The sculpture was designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radić. The garden was designed by Piet Oudolf, an internationally-renowned landscape designer.. The sculpture was designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radić. The garden was designed by Piet Oudolf, an internationally-renowned landscape designer.. The garden was designed by Piet Oudolf, an internationally-renowned landscape designer.
Common name: Bengal Clock Vine, Bengal Trumpet Vine, Tumakhlung (Gujarati)
Botanical name: Thunbergia grandiflora
- [ (thun-BER-jee-uh) named after Carl Peter Thunberg, 19th century Swedish botanist; (gran-dih-FLOR-uh) with large flowers ]
Family: Acanthaceae (acanthus or ruellia family)
- [ (ah-kanth-AY-see-ay) from the Greek Ãikantha, meaning thorn, spine, or spike ]
Origin: India
The Blue Skyflower has been called by some "the most beautiful vine in the world". From a distance, this twining, flowering vine looks like a morning glory and even up close the flowers are quite similar. It is a vigorous evergreen vine that comes from northern India.
From the rope-like stems, that can reach to the top of large structure or even cover a good sized tree, emerge the dark green leaves that are leathery and have a distinctive elongated heart shape, 4-5 inches long and often have a slightly toothed margin. The beautiful 3 inch wide pale blue flowers are cup-like with pale yellow to cream blue striped centers.
This plant can be in bloom at nearly any time of year but will sulk during cold months. Plant in full sun or in a shaded location (this vine will find the sun!) The rampant growth of this vine can be somewhat controlled by giving or withholding irrigation - once established it needs only be watered occasionally.
World clocks at our hotel in Delhi. Note that it is 10:27 in Delhi and 1:07 in New York. We arrived home at about 1am which was 24 hours later. Our travel from Delhi to Jaipur door to door with a 2 hour layover in London took 24 hours. It took me a week to recover from the jet lag. One mystery of our trip was why is India on the half hour from the rest of the world. You may also note that the clocks are a little off.
Yorkies will recognize this clock near the City Screen on Coney Street in York. The face was broken a few years ago...and stayed broken until relatively recently.
Newton Abbot, Devon
Erected in 1904 to the memory of Passmore Edwards' mother, a native of Newton Abbot, this was perhaps, the finest of the buildings that he was associated with.
"Formerly known as: Passmore Edwards Public Library, Science, Art and Technical School Teignbridge. Includes: Adult Education Centre and Library Market Street. Library and Science, Art and Technical School, now Adult Education Centre and Library. 1901-1904. By Silvanus Trevail, a Cornish architect. MATERIALS: squared Devon limestone rubble with yellow ceramic dressings to Bank Street and Market Street facades, cream English-bond brick to rear and left return, crested slate roofs with moulded stacks to ends and rear, and some incorporated into the pilasters on the facade. PLAN: L-plan on corner site with a canted corner bay. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 16-window range with 10 windows to the left and 5 to the right of the main entrance in a canted corner bay. Ground, first and second-floor cornices, the lower ones and a plinth are continuous. The upper floors are articulated by panelled pilasters with finials corbelled out above the lower cornice. Semi-elliptical heads to the panes of mullioned and transomed windows, mostly cross-windows. The second floor is elaborate with a variety of cross windows, triangular and curved pediments, Gibbs surrounds, swags and finials. The majority of first-floor windows are paired or triple cross windows below an ornamental frieze and cornice, ceramic panels with the name of the building forming aprons. Similar windows to the ground floor; to the inside-left is a pedimented doorcase over a segmental arch and panelled double doors. The main corner entrance has a semicircular-arched window with timber mullions and transom to the second floor set in a Gibbs surround under a pediment with highly ornamented carving with figures representing Art and Learning. A 3-light first-floor window is over a semicircular fanlight with radial glazing bars and double panelled doors flanked by paired pilasters with blocking extending to form a Gibbs surround to the doorcase. INTERIOR: mosaic hall floor, some panelled oak doors, panelling below a Jacobean-style open-well closed-string staircase with moulded square balusters and newels with pendants, ornamental leaded stair window and half-glazed double inner doors with a large semicircular fanlight remain. HISTORY: the building was a gift to Newton Abbot from Passmore Edwards, a noted public benefactor, in memory of his mother. The site known as Harvey's Corner had been acquired by the County for road improvements. The cost of building the free library was £2,290. The gift of £2,500 possibly included fixtures, fittings and books. Public subscriptions and a grant from the County Council paid for the Technical School. A typical but flamboyant example of the style adopted by Trevail for the Passmore Edwards libraries. One of this distinguished Cornish architect's last commissions and completed after his death in 1903 by his assistant Alfred Cornelius. Only the clock turret was omitted from Trevail's original design. (BoE: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 591; Jones R: A Book of Newton Abbot: Callington: 1979-: 131; Eddy K: The Beginnings of the Public Library Service in Newton Abbot: 1970-).
Listing NGR: SX8577371317" Historic England
The Clock Mill
Taken during London Open House 2018
Clock tower of 1753; mill adjoining to the east of 1817. Mill brown brick with slate pitched roof to eaves. Four and a half storeys. Eight bays wide with segmental headed sash windows, sixteen paned with sashes renewed. Weatherboarded gabled hoist housing to left hand side of south facade. To the right two three storey drying kilns with conical slated roofs (cowls recently added). In front of these, at corner, clock tower, yellow brick of two square stages, one octagonal, surmounted by two stage wooden octagonal clock tower with cupola and clock. Pointed windows with Gothic glazing bars to lower stages. Three tidal water wheels and driving gear to ground floor of mill range.
[Historic England]
The area known as Three Mills Island is a stretch of land surrounded by three channels of the ancient River Lea. There have been mills in this area for many centuries – according to the Domesday Survey, there were at least eight mills here at that point in time. Over time, wind power was used to drive mills with the addition of windmills. But, this area remains, perhaps, best known for its tidal mills. It was to become the home of the biggest tidal mill in the world.
The mills on this site were historically able to take advantage of the tidal flow of the river up to the Thames Estuary and the local Bow Creek. During its heyday, the mills here could work for up to eight hours in each tide, allowing them to become major producers in London.
In medieval times, Three Mills was the main producer of flour for local bakers who baked bread for the city. The mills here also had other uses, however, and at least one was a gunpowder mill. The site was largely developed in the 1720s when it was purchased by a group of local residents, including Peter Lefevre, a Huguenot refugee from France.
In the 1770s, the owners built the current House Mill building. Its name was derived from its location between two houses for staff who worked on the site as millers. The second of the mills, the Clock Mill, was constructed in 1817 and the third was a windmill. This site was a thriving concern in the 18th century. As well as the mills that worked on site, the owners also ran a distillery and piggery and employed many local people.
The House Mill was damaged by a fire in 1802 and needed to be partly rebuilt. Bombing during the Second World War effectively closed the site down in terms of milling production. The last of the mills to be in operation was the House Mill itself, which was ultimately shut down in 1941. This building now has a Grade I listing.
[EastLondonHistory website]