Very interesting. Thanks, snappel!
Chris
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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/...9fb585dc_o.jpg
Nice work, Philip!
Chris
Nice church clock on St Mary Church of England Church, West Derby:
http://www.stmarywestderby.org/
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.
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!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
The photo's fine, but the clock is definitely lop-sided.Quote:
Originally Posted by taffy
Completely different subject, but does anybody know who Mrs Lop-Sided was?
(Think British films).
Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by taffy
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/e2...icture1983.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...icture1984.jpg
Never did work out how a pelican became associated with Guinness
It isn't a pelican taffy it is a Toucan.Great picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by taffy
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/acat...lcmHmAnmls.jpghttp://www.irishinspiration.com/acat...MyGdnsKang.jpg
Of course it's a Toucan !!! Clearly I had had one too many pints of Guinness before I wrote that.Quote:
Originally Posted by shytalk
Paradise St Interchange
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...icture2225.jpg
Brunswick Dock
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ture2280-1.jpg
Good contrast in styles.Quote:
Originally Posted by quincyg
You can't beat a good old clock!
(Don't you dare, Ged!)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/4...b9cc6568_o.jpg
Guiness clock in New Brighton in the 1960`s from one of my old slides
Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
Toucan do that ;)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3171/...c5e01775_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/e2...Picture409.jpg
Lark Lane
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...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/149/4...221c3c92_o.jpg
great pics all, cheers :PDT11
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
2 very different styles
Sefton St
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...Picture434.jpg
St Anne's Church, Aigburth Rd
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...Picture438.jpg
Re: T.Brown, Jewellers, London Rd:
This empty building and its' famous clock are now surrounded by scaffolding.
2 clocks in Crosby
'Carnegie' Library
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...Picture897.jpg
Crosby village
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...Picture932.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...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.