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Yet another crazy sky over Dundee. View from my flat. This was taken on Sunday 12th July 2009 at about 23.30.
10-20mm lens
f13, 30s exposure
The clock tower in the centre of Ormskirk, Lancashire, UK. Now surrounded by a pedestriansised area but when I were a lad the crowed streets of Ormskirk, especially on Thursday and Saturday Market days were crammed with traffic and Ribble buses. It seems hard to comprehend that now.
At the narrow entrance to the Alfred Basin, on the Berties Landing side, is the original Clock Tower, built in 1882 to house the port captain's office. This is in the form of a red octagonal Gothic-style tower and stands just in front of the Clock Tower Centre, a modern mall with a collection of shops, offices and restaurants.
The Clock Tower Centre houses the Nelson Mandela Gateway to Robben Island, from where you catch the main ferry to the island. This side of the Waterfront is connected the bulk of the area by a swing bridge, which swings open every 10 minutes to allow boats to pass underneath.
Daniels & Fisher Clocktower Bell at sunset in December....
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It's not uncommon for the lights on Hoboken's clock tower to burn out. It's also not uncommon for them not to be replaced for months.
The clock tower in the village of Jausiers, in the French alps. I took pretty much the exact same picture the next time I was there, 6 years later.
“Sex Workers use the park and accost people on Market Road,” warns the bulletin put out by The Friends of Caledonian Park. The whores have been pushed north by the development of Kings Cross. It’s a different kind of meat market now. Pimps, prostitutes, kerb crawlers, undercover police surveillance twitching in the bushes, men reading their papers on the park benches get approached for business. The girls have the faces of ghosts, the spirit having departed the body for protection. The Gazette carries the gruesome story of a prostitute picked up in Market Road then pushed out of the seven and a half tonne lorry after rowing about the cost of oral sex and crushed to death under its back wheels.
When HV Morton visited the market in 1926 he was offered a skeleton for sale. Down the road a woman’s mutilated body was fished out of the Regent’s Canal by a group of kids. “Ripper Killing Horror” screams the Islington Gazette. She was a prostitute, probably from the Market Road meat-rack, chopped up in a crack den round the corner on Conistone Way, an area that once housed abattoirs and horse slaughterers. Some believe that Walter Sickert was the real Jack The Ripper, his paintings depicting his victims’ anguished faces. The girls I see working the park gates have something of the Victorian about them. Dr Crippin murdered his wife not far away in Hilldrop Crescent and was hung in Pentonville Prison down the road. Is this another case of historic symmetry.
The old Rockford Clock Tower Resort has been demolished. It was cool walking around and seeing this abandoned resort. The water park might be saved but I doubt it.
Event: Reel London: Bexley in Archive Film
Using archive films from the Bexley Local Studies & Archive Centre, footage will include the opening of the clock-tower in Bexleyheath town centre (1912), Bexley Civil Defence during World War II and films showing civic events including: Bexley Royal Charter Celebrations (1935), May Queen Celebration in Sidcup Green (1935/36), Communist Party rally (1947).
Date: Tuesday 21 February 1 – 4 pm
Cost: FREE - drop in
Image Above:
Description: Bexley Clocktower
Date of Execution: 1964
Medium: Photograph
Collection: LCC photo collection
Reference No: SC/PHL/01/581/74/637
Find out more about Bexley on our online catalogue and our image library.
A view of the Majestic Clock Tower. The 230 feet tall tower claimed to be tallest in India and considered next only to London's Big Ben. It was constructed by nawabs of Awadh between 1882-1887 to mark arrival of George Couper, the first lieutant governer of United Province of Awadh and North West.-TOI dated 29.10.2010