Liverpool Clocks

[PhilipG]

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).

[drone_pilot]

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

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

[petromax]

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

[skgogosfan]

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.

[taffy]

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

[taffy]

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

[taffy]

Sundial on Old Royal Insurance Building, Dale St.

[quincyg]

Victoria St

clearly doesn't work properly as either side of it had a different time.

[taffy]

Never did work out how a pelican became associated with Guinness

[shytalk]

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.

[quincyg]

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

[taffy]

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.

[quincyg]

Paradise St Interchange


Brunswick Dock

[PhilipG]

Paradise St Interchange


Brunswick Dock

Good contrast in styles.

You can't beat a good old clock!

(Don't you dare, Ged!)

[gregs dad]

Guiness clock in New Brighton in the 1960`s from one of my old slides