Quote Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge View Post
Hi all

I wrote a poem about this clock

as shown below. I have to admit though that when I worked at the docks, for a summer job as a clerk in 1966, I never actually saw the clock because I was

working in the southern docks, at Wapping Dock. There seems to be some confusion as to whether the clock has six sides or eight sides, with at least two

websites at variance.

The Docker's Clock

Tick tock. The Dockers' Clock
-- with its six clock faces that faced
the points of the

compass, the drunken
sailors' rolling gait, their brawling wake
-- plotted my time during the summer hols,
a few quid in a paypacket, my first job,


clocking me in and out as I plotted
the comings and goings of the ships
in and out of the Liverpool docks:
stalwart-named docks like the strong


Assam tea I sipped as I munched
on my greasy Dock Road bacon butties:
King's and Queen's, Wapping, Salthouse,
Albert, Waterloo, Huskisson,

Princes,
Nelson, Trafalgar, Wellington. . .

Christopher T. George

The

Liverpool Pictorial site on the Jesse Hartley - Victoria Tower 1848, a.k.a. The Dockers' Clock definitely says the clock has eight sides but on



the Liverpool monuments site it says six sides. Which is it? Eight sides would more

naturally match the points of the compass.

Chris
Fantastic poem Chris