I thought I'd start a new thread seeing as I'm seeing loads at the moment!

Clock faces in Liverpool, there are loads of em! Usually found on a Church Tower and I can cover 99% of them in Liverpool but the more unusual ones please!!!! A close up and a picture of the whole building please!

And bonus points for getting to take a picture of the 'works'!

ooohhh great idea for a thread, i bet there are some really great ones!

Read in the Daily Post recently that the new Grosvenor Development is going to include a number of new clock faces around it.

The Bluecoat Chambers one handed clock is interesting, might be hard to get a pic of the works though. :202 (1):

Here's the one at St Michael Huyton!

Here's a few.

Royal Insurance.
Municipal Building.
Ancient Chapel.
Turner Home.
Vernons.

Here's a few.

Royal Insurance.
Municipal Building.
Ancient Chapel.
Turner Home.
Vernons.

brilliant pics philip!

Workings of Municipal Buildings Clock:

One I've posted already in another thread - its a clock:


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/391098386_45e1b50560.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/391098386/)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/251288924_102621ba16.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/251288924/)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/59/251290165_495a57654e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/251290165/)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/72/201809690_0b9c408429.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/201809690/)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/305950052_a3ff5ff5bc.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/305950052/)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/114/296442535_69dd8d3125.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/296442535)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/69/195705091_45fff118a0.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/195705091/)

No offence Jon, but I think you know why I'm not prepared to submit any pics. Sorry mate. Fantastic contributions folks:PDT11

brilliant pics philip!

Thanks, Carrie.
I think you know when the Chapel and Turner Home photos were taken. :)

Victoria Building clock tower...

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/victoria/Dscf5191.jpg

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/victoria/Dscf5194.jpg

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/victoria/Dscf8354.jpg

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/victoria/Dscf8374.jpg


And the similarly named Victoria Clock Tower on Salisbury Pierhead...

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/salisbury/Dsc_0030.jpg

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/salisbury/Dsc_0152.jpg

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/salisbury/Dsc_0070.jpg

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/salisbury/Dsc_0074.jpg

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/salisbury/Dsc_0077.jpg

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/salisbury/Dsc_0085.jpg

http://www.level-two.co.uk/reports/images/salisbury/Dsc_0131.jpg

Bloomin' Marvelous snappel Lad.

More fantastic pics! Snappel mate, PM heading your way.

No offence Jon, but I think you know why I'm not prepared to submit any pics. Sorry mate. Fantastic contributions folks:PDT11


I've no idea why you wouldn't put photo's on this forum, perhaps you'd like to tell us?

I've no idea why you wouldn't put photo's on this forum, perhaps you'd like to tell us?
I was still in a sulk about you nicking my pics for your site, but I'm alright now:PDT11

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/clock/image001.jpg

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/clock/image002.jpg

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/clock/image003.jpg

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/clock/image004.jpg

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/clock/image005.jpg

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/clock/image006.jpg

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/clock/image007.jpg

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/clock/image008.jpg

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/clock/image009.jpg

Brilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllliant...
F***** Brilliannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnt..

Give that Man a Chocolate Frog !!!:handclap: :handclap: :handclap:

[QUOTE=scouserdave;41223]I was still in a sulk about you nicking my pics for your site, but I'm alright now:PDT11 QUOTE]


But I haven't nicked any pictures from you or anyone for any of my websites. That's a bit of a strong allegation to make.

I initially wanted pictures of one of the churches on Princes Road and asked the chap from Toxteth.net if I could use a selection for my website. He agreed and told me to contact you, which I did. You agreed to this and I set to work. Down the line, you asked me if I could include a link to your website - this I did at the weekend, as well as this forum and Snappel's excellent site. However this didn't please you at all and even though I told you that I was in the middle of a credits page, you demanded that all photo's that were yours should be removed - which I did straight away.

Apologies for this Kev, it is a matter for PM's but I thought I would set the record straight about 'nicking pictures' for my own publications.

I have no recollection of you ever contacting me for permission to use my images. Or ever contacting me for any reason at all.

Sorry Kev. That's my last comment on the matter.

Give that Man a Chocolate Frog !!!:handclap: :handclap: :handclap:
LOL! Cheers Gerard!

I have no recollection of you ever contacting me for permission to use my images. Or ever contacting me for any reason at all.

Sorry Kev. That's my last comment on the matter.

Blimy, someone else must have an alias for your Liverpool Pictorial Website then. The guy in question must be stopped as he's posing as you.
The last time I had contact with you before I joined this forum was asking permission to use one of the images from Liverpool Pictorial (A shot of St Nicks if I'm not mistaken) and asked your permission - you then decided that my www.liverpoolbells.moonfruit.com page was a 'business' page and that I should be charged £153 for the copyright of this picture - I still have the original E-mail which I can provide to say that we have had contact before as well as E-mail's between us both about the Princes Road church. I keep all copyright e-mail's incase of any problems like this arise.

I have no problem with you spitting your dummy out and suddenly changing your mind about the pictures (as per a previous posting you were more than happy for me to use them) but don't go giving out allergations of 'picture theft' when this clearly isn't the case.

Hoping we can now get back on topic...

Blimy, someone else must have an alias for your Liverpool Pictorial Website then. The guy in question must be stopped as he's posing as you.
The last time I had contact with you before I joined this forum was asking permission to use one of the images from Liverpool Pictorial (A shot of St Nicks if I'm not mistaken) and asked your permission - you then decided that my www.liverpoolbells.moonfruit.com page was a 'business' page and that I should be charged £153 for the copyright of this picture - I still have the original E-mail which I can provide to say that we have had contact before as well as E-mail's between us both about the Princes Road church. I keep all copyright e-mail's incase of any problems like this arise.

I have no problem with you spitting your dummy out and suddenly changing your mind about the pictures (as per a previous posting you were more than happy for me to use them) but don't go giving out allergations of 'picture theft' when this clearly isn't the case.

Hoping we can now get back on topic...

Oh it's you is it? How long ago was that? You're the guy who said it was for a non profit website, but when I checked you were offering website design services on your page which has since been taken off. I never realised you where that person.

Shall we move on?

A few more folks, then I'm off to make the teahttp://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/ernaehrung/food-smiley-018.gif

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/clock/image010.jpg

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/clock/image011.jpg

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/clock/image012.jpg

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/clock/image013.jpg

Sitting around the face of the Liver Buildings Clock face.

Source - Liverpool City Council/Records Office.

Christ Church - Bootle

That's an awesome picture...

Interior of All Saints Church, Childwall - I will get a photo of the workings when I'm next there!

St Cyprian's church - Edge Lane

Even the Town Hall has a clock - and a bell, though not seen it yet!

Source - http://www.stpeters-woolton.org.uk/

The clock chamber inside the tower at St Peter's Woolton.

Just out of view on the right hand side is the weight shaft which run to the base of the tower! The clock is manually wound twice a week and you have to haul a total of three seperate weights up to the level of the clock itself. I'll find out the exact weight of em but I've done this many a friday night to build up a thirst before the pub :)

Sitting around the face of the Liver Buildings Clock face.

Source - Liverpool City Council/Records Office.

I love that pic of all of them sitting around the clock...a great idea!

Really good - marvellous pics. :)

excellent photos Gerard. I didn't know there was a sun dial there. :)

the Vines (the Big House)

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/robbo176/vines.jpg

excellent photos Gerard. I didn't know there was a sun dial there. :)

Thanks Lindylou.I've been through there Hundreds of times and never noticed it before,No doubt its been there about 30 years !!

That's the great thing about this forum .. we are discovering new things in our own city.

Spotted this one today in the ambulatory near the Lady Chapel

This one is on a property developers on Queens Drive Stoneycroft.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/131/406899509_ebed050e90.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/406899509/)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/406899364_756dea9be8.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/406899364/)

London Road Area (http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2375&page=2)

Spotted this one today on Allerton Rd, Mossley Hill.

Cracking clock pics chaps. Kev, that building is where I get my money from when I buy my kids' Meat & Potato pasties and Ring Doughnuts from the nearby Sayers.

Gerard mate, that clock is a corker. Walked past it thousands of times and never thought about it. Looking forward to those other pics you were talking about. Been offline for a bit so apologies if you've already posted them.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Spotted this interesting, probably unique clock in Toxteth today. It's in Sefton St.

Is that the old 7 steps pub on the south dock road then?

Interesting Dock clock survival in the south Liverpool Dock system.

Interesting Dock clock survival in the south Liverpool Dock system.


Takes me back to 1994 - that was the site of the old Psygnosis building!

There are also ones at Beaverbrooks,H Samuels [stopped for ages] and the famous "under the clock" clock at Lime St. station. ;)

Dave.

I take pictures for lunch.(If no get joke look at the time of the clock.:PDT10 ):PDT10

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/121/421511532_88729756af_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxmolyneux/421511532/)

Interesting clock outside a funeral director's premises in the Dingle

The North facing Liver Bldg clock

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/lbclock.jpg

In the 1980s, Architects went through a phase of adding clocks to their buildings to enhance their new domestic style of architecture. This one is on a pub at Otterspool

Lodge Lane Library

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/432355893_4f6ae49ccd.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/432355893/)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/152/436718026_784d85d98e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/436718026/)
^^Mossley Hill Church^^

Another one, I have walked past this many times but only just noticed it
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v51/billo/IMG_0303.jpg

the rest of the building
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v51/billo/IMG_0306.jpg

Interesting design. Might even have an old worn out Liverbird on the stonework above the clock. Hard to tell.

Junction of Lower Breck rd.
A bit dark this photo - but you can make out LFC Supporters Club (former Cabbage Hall cinema) in the background - red car in front.

Spotted this one in my archives. No hands left but still a clock I suppose. This building was once a Lloyd's Bank. Adolf Hilter's relatives once lived nearby on Upper Stanhope St.

Fine piccie taff.

Ship's clock with a difference. Spotted at Canning Dock, Liverpool

As part of my Bells Symphony Post - here are some seperate one's:

2393

Liver Buildings

2394

St Luke's Bold Place

2395

St Nicholas Pier Head one side

2396

St Nicholas Pier Head other side.

great photos Jona :handclap:

In the 1980s, Architects went through a phase of adding clocks to their buildings to enhance their new domestic style of architecture. This one is on a pub at Otterspool

There is a similair one on the top of the Stag and Rainbow restaurant on queens drive, at the junction with west derby road. Anyone got a pick?

I can think of a couple more: There is one on the front of Lloyds TSB on west derby road, tue brook.
There is also one on the top of the the merseytravel info centre in queens square bus station.

The clock face on the University Victoria Tower.

The only time I want a photo and it's covered in scaffolding :PDT_Xtremez_42:

2766

And the clock face on St Mary's Edge Hill :PDT11

2767

Thanks, Jona, two great clocks. I especially like the University Victoria Tower.

Chris

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/485510523_decec08808_o.jpg
Godlike or what?

Godlike or what?

Very good what ever it is.:PDT11

Very nice Phil..:handclap:


My Liver clock piccie


http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/ANY%20PHOTOS/DSC00120-4.jpg



Aigburth cricket club clock


http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/ANY%20PHOTOS/DSC02185-1.jpg


Lime St station clock


http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/ANY%20PHOTOS/L1060489-1.jpg

Lime St station clock
Like that it's very good.:PDT11

What's happened to the surround on the station clock?

Here's Boodles.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/192/486103717_d83cddf9dd_o.jpg

University of Liverpool clock tower...

http://tk41.powweb.com/photos/vicb/Dsc_0020.jpg

Like that it's very good.:PDT11


Thank's dp.

Interesting clock on an equally interesting building on Lark Lane, Sefton Park, Liverpool

Pier Head.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1038/526698845_af54984c0f_o.jpg

Spotted above entrance to what is now Garston's only bank. In its heyday, St Mary's Rd, Garston was adorned with several banks but all have now closed. A sign of the times.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1179/538422609_7b71c008fc_o.jpg

Spotted above entrance to what is now Garston's only bank. In its heyday, St Mary's Rd, Garston was adorned with several banks but all have now closed. A sign of the times.

Hello Taffy

I think what you are showing might be what used to be the Trustee Savings Bank where I won a prize for getting a hundred years of pennies in the Sixties. Could that be? The bank was opposite to the baths.

Thanks

Chris

Hello Taffy

I think what you are showing might be what used to be the Trustee Savings Bank where I won a prize for getting a hundred years of pennies in the Sixties. Could that be? The bank was opposite to the baths.

Thanks

Chris

Yes that's right. Lloyd's Bank took over the Trustee Savings Bank some years ago. Hence the new name Lloyd's TSB. Being the only bank in Garston these days, it gets very busy.

Yes that's right Lloyd's Bank took over the Trustee Savings Bank some years ago. Hence the new name Lloyd's TSB. Being the only bank in Garston these days, it gets very busy.

Thanks, Taffy. Glad you confirmed my memory of which bank it is.

Chris

Spotted on old coach house on Beaconsfield Rd

I'd forgotten about this thread. Took these a few months back...

The mechanism of the University clock tower. Funded by William Hartley who owned the jam factory in Aintree. Clock constructed by WM Potts of Leeds. Note the maintenance record and spare cable, supplied by Potts. Also shown are the bells, which were sponsored by various local figures.

http://tk41.powweb.com/photos/vicb/Dsc_0011.jpg

http://tk41.powweb.com/photos/vicb/Dsc_0009.jpg

http://tk41.powweb.com/photos/vicb/Dsc_0048.jpg

http://tk41.powweb.com/photos/vb2/Dsc_0081.jpg

http://tk41.powweb.com/photos/vb2/Dsc_0071.jpg

http://tk41.powweb.com/photos/vb2/Dsc_0074.jpg

Very interesting. Thanks, snappel!

Chris

The station was so busy with 'bizzies' today, but I was determined to get a snap.
I couldn't get it face-on as there was one of the station police standing in the way, so I had to get it from the side.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1178/729085757_449fb585dc_o.jpg

Nice work, Philip!

Chris

Nice church clock on St Mary Church of England Church, West Derby:

http://www.stmarywestderby.org/

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1047/613261937_09f1c11ca7_o.jpg

The large clock at Harry Ramsdens (Sefton Street), has been removed and the hole bricked-up. The building is to become a My Spa health club.

Well not quite but on the Marie Celeste 5th floor of Lewis's Department store in Liverpool. The top few floors of this enormous store have been closed for some time. The 5th floor housed the restaurants and ladies' hairdressers. Not sure what the coloured warning lights, or the public address system attached to the clock, were for.

Interesting clock on the renamed Grand Central Hall in Renshaw St

Hey taffy, didn't the workmen have a spirit level with them? Nice pic.

Hey taffy, didn't the workmen have a spirit level with them? Nice pic.

Yes it does look at bit off true. My only excuse is that the photo was taken at the extreme 15X zoom range on my Sony H9. I suspect my hand wobbled a bit!!

Yes it does look at bit off true. My only excuse is that the photo was taken at the extreme 15X zoom range on my Sony H9. I suspect my hand wobbled a bit!!

The photo's fine, but the clock is definitely lop-sided.

Completely different subject, but does anybody know who Mrs Lop-Sided was?
(Think British films).

does anybody know who Mrs Lop-Sided was?
(Think British films).


Mrs Wilberforce in the Ladykillers, one of the best british comedy's.

it's a kind of clock...

The Liverpool Time Ball and one o'clock gun


The Liverpool Time Ball and one o'clock gun was built at Waterloo Dock, Liverpool in 1845 and one of its objectives was to establish Greenwich time and to indicate it each day to the citizens of the Port of Liverpool. Eventually many towns and cities developed their own time ball systems, but it was particularly important for maritime ports to have a precise time signal. Chronometers on board ship had to be exact in order for the ships position to be accurately known.

John Hartnup at the Liverpool Observatory determined sidereal time from the stars by means of the transit telescope situated in one of the domes on the Observatory roof.

A sidereal clock at the Observatory kept sidereal time, and solar time was calculated from it. A time ball was fitted to the outside wall of the Observatory and was dropped each day at exactly one o'clock so that the citizens and mariners could check their timepieces. A time ball is a sphere, which slides up and down a vertical mast and can be abruptly dropped at an appointed hour. It was similar in all respects to that used at Greenwich and also at Portsmouth, which were also dropped at one o'clock.

more information from here: http://www.pol.ac.uk/home/insight/timeball.html

Well not quite but on the Marie Celeste 5th floor of Lewis's Department store in Liverpool. The top few floors of this enormous store have been closed for some time. The 5th floor housed the restaurants and ladies' hairdressers. Not sure what the coloured warning lights, or the public address system attached to the clock, were for.

Those lights always make me think of the film "War Games" in which the state of alert board used colours. There are many of those clock/PA things around the store but I don't know what the lights were for either.

Dave.

Here's one at Edge Hill by the famous Potts Company of Leeds.

The old Exchange Railway Station facade on Tithebarn Street, Liverpool, has been superbly restored.

Sundial on Old Royal Insurance Building, Dale St.

Victoria St

clearly doesn't work properly as either side of it had a different time.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/urban%20misc/Picture1983.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/urban%20misc/Picture1984.jpg

Never did work out how a pelican became associated with Guinness

Never did work out how a pelican became associated with Guinness

It isn't a pelican taffy it is a Toucan.Great picture.
P.S. I know more useless information than most people.

there were a few animals used by the artist who designed the posters. the toucan is the one most people remember as they were used in the pubs on the bar as decoration.

here's few from a site that sells the posters etc
http://www.irishinspiration.com/acatalog/GPfrmr.jpghttp://www.irishinspiration.com/acatalog/GPflyTcns.jpghttp://www.irishinspiration.com/acatalog/GPtrdPnt.jpg
http://www.irishinspiration.com/acatalog/GuinWlcmHmAnmls.jpghttp://www.irishinspiration.com/acatalog/GuinMyGdnsKang.jpg

It isn't a pelican taffy it is a Toucan.Great picture.
P.S. I know more useless information than most people.

Of course it's a Toucan !!! Clearly I had had one too many pints of Guinness before I wrote that.

Paradise St Interchange
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/urban%20misc/Picture2225.jpg

Brunswick Dock
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/urban%20misc/Picture2280-1.jpg

Paradise St Interchange
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/urban%20misc/Picture2225.jpg

Brunswick Dock
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/urban%20misc/Picture2280-1.jpg

Good contrast in styles.

You can't beat a good old clock!

(Don't you dare, Ged!)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/438641127_7bb9cc6568_o.jpg
Guiness clock in New Brighton in the 1960`s from one of my old slides

Good contrast in styles.

You can't beat a good old clock!

(Don't you dare, Ged!)


Toucan do that ;)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3171/2379360299_2bc5e01775_o.jpg
And now for something completely different the sundial on the side of the royal insurance building in dale st.

Bootle Town Hall
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/urban%20misc/Picture409.jpg

Lark Lane
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/urban%20misc/Picture276.jpg

Just had a look through all of this thread, and can't see a photo of this clock.
Sorry it's a bit dark, but at least the neon is on.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/428025224_eb221c3c92_o.jpg

great pics all, cheers :PDT11

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2164/2056463938_1d0ef1c9a6_o.jpg

Just had a look through all of this thread, and can't see a photo of this clock.
Sorry it's a bit dark, but at least the neon is on.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/428025224_eb221c3c92_o.jpg

it's been there some years that clock. my mum got her original wedding ring at that shop. she had to have it cut off when she was having me.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1111/632667158_ef501da736_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1111/632667158_ef501da736_o.jpg

thank you. I tried to get a pic of that the other week but have a decent enough zoom. I was wondering what what on it.

2 very different styles

Sefton St
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/urban%20misc/Picture434.jpg

St Anne's Church, Aigburth Rd
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/urban%20misc/Picture438.jpg

Re: T.Brown, Jewellers, London Rd:
This empty building and its' famous clock are now surrounded by scaffolding.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/urban%20misc/Picture798.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/urban%20misc/Picture799.jpg

2 clocks in Crosby
'Carnegie' Library
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/urban%20misc/Picture897.jpg

Crosby village
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/urban%20misc/Picture932.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/urban%20misc/Picture933.jpg

Interesting find. Clock attached to the old Welsh Chapel House in Palmerston Rd, Garston. Nice to see the old Victorian polychrome brickwork has not been painted over the ubiquitous brick red, or worse.

Sadly this post modern clock feature does not work any more.

I remember when that place was called Cascades. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

I remember when that place was called Cascades. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Yes and it was Gladstone's after that. Originally it was a garage.

Sited on the Aviary Cafe, soon to be refurbished I understand.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2017/2475087479_95e4febcbb_o.jpg

Seen through the trees from St Michael's Church Road.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2316/2485384673_bd870e6b7e_o.jpg
Clocktower House in Trueman Street

took a couple on way to return hubbys faulty shaver at Aintree retail.

Walton Vale
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/blogging3/Picture019.jpg

Aintree Racecourse
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/blogging3/Picture033.jpg