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Nearly a year to the day since we were last in Palmerston North, we were here again.
This time for my Nan's 80th Birthday celebration with the wider family.
One of the landmarks of downtown Staunton, Virginia, is the clock tower. The building was completed around 1890 and later remodeled by architect T.J. Collins. The building housed the YMCA for many years. Information from Staunton's tourist website and the book Staunton by Sergei Troubetzkoy.
Igreja de Santa Maria do Castelo. The church was built in the 13th C but was badly damaged and largely rebuilt in 1755. Much of the clock tower is considered to be original however. The oversized clocks date from the 19th Century.
Now an office building, the Chelsea clocktower in Chelsea, Michigan, was built as a water tower for the Glazier Stove Company. It was erected after the company twice suffered damaging fires to its manufacturing complex. The stove company is more than a century gone, but the clocktower still stands.
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As was the nature of our trip to Tuscany, we never had very long in any one place. Siena was no different as we arrived at about 5pm and spent about two hours there. Whilst it was a great time to wander round the city and the light was great unfortunately the famous tower and most churches etc were already closed. I'd definitely like to go back some time and spend a few days there.
More photos from Tuscany here : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157714689304067
From Wikipedia : "The Torre del Mangia is a tower in Siena, in the Tuscany region of Italy. Built in 1338-1348, it is located in the Piazza del Campo, Siena's premier square, adjacent to the Palazzo Pubblico (Town Hall). When built it was one of the tallest secular towers in medieval Italy. At 102 m, it is second tallest after Cremona's Torrazzo (112 m (367 ft)), the Asinelli tower in Bologna at 97 m being third.
The tower was built to be exactly the same height as the Siena Cathedral as a sign that the church and the state had equal amounts of power. Literally meaning "Tower of the Eater", the name refers to its first bellringer, Giovanni di Balduccio, nicknamed Mangiaguadagni ("Eat-the-profits", that is "Profit eater") either for his spendthrift tendency, idleness or gluttony."
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Sun setting on the belltower atop the Daniels & Fisher Clocktower, Denver.... yes, it's VERY windy up there...
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House: Everybody's happy until they unwrap the pretty present and find they got a wall clock in the shape of Africa...
--"House" (FOX)
(...that's it on the left of the picture). I actually climbed the darn thing -- the narrowest staircase I've ever been on!
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blue clockface at the Daniels & Fisher Clocktower, Denver...
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Sookie: Okay, here we go. Low fat, whole wheat blueberry pancakes.
Michel: Are there 12?
Sookie: 12 what?
Michel: Blueberries. I can only have 12 blueberries for breakfast.
Sookie: Or what?
Michel: What do you mean, or what?
Sookie: What happens if you eat 13 blueberries?
Michel: This is a silly conversation.
Sookie: Would you die?
Michel: Just hand me the plate.
--"Gilmore Girls" (WB)
'Ye Olde Clocktower', Whitehorse Road. Formerly 'The Coach & Horses' and 'The Mailcoach'. For sale, with planning permission for flats to be built on the site.
Back in the 1880s, the Mail Coach was still running along Whitehorse Road; no doubt from London to major points south. The horses were changed at this pub, and the stable building still exists in the back yard.
I clicked this photo last week, and it struck me that it might well be out of a 19th century postcard. (ended up giving it a bit of color toning in Gimp to complement the feel)
Lockerbie, July, 2018. Le Clic 170 with expired ('17) Agfaphoto Vista 400. C-41 processed and scanned by Digital Photo Express Carlisle
Clocktower in the former Eastney Marine Barracks, Eastney
Now part of a housing development called " Marine Gate "
Grade 11 Listed
The machinery inside the clock is a recent replacement of the original workings and is quite a complicated affair described below.
The heart of the Clock is a complicated system of gear wheels
located within a large cruciform metal framework at the center
of the Tower. The true ‘engine’ of the entire timepiece, this can be
broadly divided into 4 distinct sections; along with these there is
the machinery for the astronomical clock face and the workings
of the clock barrels. Also known as ‘clock trains’, these 4 sections
are similar in appearance and basically comprise: a barrel around
which is wound a chain (formerly a rope) to which is attached the
motor weight (100 kgs); an intermediate wheel; a rotating fan that
serves as an aerodynamic brake to regulate the weight’s speed of
descent and thus the interval between clock strokes.
The fans are equipped with a ratchet that makes a very
recognisable sound; this is activated at the end of each series of
strokes and serves to disperse the accumulated kinetic energy
when the rotating mechanism comes to an abrupt halt.
The clock train transmits the impulses which enable the pendulum
to continue its isochronic oscillations. It also comes into play at
fixed intervals to trigger the other trains of wheels and pins.
By means of thin vertical rods, it activates the barrel machinery
every 5 minutes; as a result the minute barrel rotates through 30°
(1/12 of a turn). Every 60 minutes, the hour barrel does the same.
Upon each hour, the train mechanism for the Two Moors is
activated. Two minutes before the hour, the Moor on the right
strikes the bell; two minute after the hour, it is the turn of the
Moor on the left.
This is why the mechanism is described as a ‘re-striking’ one. With
the hammers they hold, each Moor strikes the bell on the top of
the tower a total of from one to twelve blows, depending upon the
hour. Finally, every 12 hours, the 132-stroke train is set in motion.
These 132 ‘meridian’ strokes occur at midday and midnight before
the Moors strike the bell. They are rung by 2 supplementary
hammers placed around the circumference of the bell; the number
of strokes corresponds to that of the strokes hit by the two Moors
in the previous 11 hours. The barrel mechanism also operates the
astronomical machinery via the Moors wheel, which goes through
a complete rotation every two hours, and a 22-tooth pinion. This
latter goes through 12 rotations a day, turning all 264 teeth (22×12)
on the large wheel, which turns the sun clock-hand through one
entire circuit per day.
Finally, via a return mechanism and a long axle under the clock
machinery, the Barrel Mechanism also operates the hour hand on
the clock face giving onto the Mercerie.
The whole thing is driven by means of 5 train mechanisms,
periodically recharged by the raising of the weights.
The pendulum and the anchor escapement regulate the perfect
release of energy, so that the mechanism works in a constant, even
manner. Still perfectly functional, the entire structure dates back
to 1753-57, when Bartolomeo Ferracina significantly modified the
original machinery built at the end of the 15th century by G. Carlo
Ranieri.
It's not the Empire State Building or anything, but being out on the 23rd floor of this clocktower and having the bell go off with your ears 9 feet away... it's like being inside the engines of the space shuttle during takeoff...
Oh, this is the belltower of the D&F Clocktower, Denver...
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NASA Flight Director Chris Kraft: Rendezvous: two spacecraft meeting up in orbit. Want to have fun? Come over to my house. You stand in the back yard, I'll stand in the front, you throw a tennis ball over my roof and I'll try to hit it with a rock as it comes sailing over. That's what we're going to have to do...
--"From the Earth to the Moon" (HBO)
Refurbishment by Allan Murray Architects, 2003-5; project architect: Mark Cousins. Planning Permission & Building Warrant for the Clocktower was granted May 2003; started on site August 2003. The distinctive south elevation of the Clocktower employs large stone crenellations in faux mediaeval style which are grafted on to a red brick industrial box. The proposals respect the fundamental symmetry of the original building and helps reinforce its role as an urban marker with streetscape presence.
Transformation of the former yeast house on the former Scottish and Newcastle brewery site.