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
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