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

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

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    The Bluecoat Chambers one handed clock is interesting, might be hard to get a pic of the works though.
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    Here's a few.

    Royal Insurance.
    Municipal Building.
    Ancient Chapel.
    Turner Home.
    Vernons.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    Here's a few.

    Royal Insurance.
    Municipal Building.
    Ancient Chapel.
    Turner Home.
    Vernons.
    brilliant pics philip!

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    Workings of Municipal Buildings Clock:
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    Quote Originally Posted by MissInformed View Post
    brilliant pics philip!
    Thanks, Carrie.
    I think you know when the Chapel and Turner Home photos were taken.

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    Bloomin' Marvelous snappel Lad.

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

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    On the front face of the inner tower of Liverpool Prison [Walton jail] is a clock which is unusual in that instead of having 5 minute divisions
    between the figures on the face, [ ie:- between 12 and 1 or between 1 and 2 and so on ] it actually only has 4 divisions. Even staff who have worked there for many years have never noticed this, they are completely unaware of it and are therefor also unaware of the reason for it. This probably because the clock is situated overhead and in any case at casual glance looks like any other clock having figures 1 to 12 and two hands [minute hand and hour hand of course ]. However, the actual face of the clock is the original face of what was many years ago a ONE FINGERED CLOCK. The four divisions between each figure simply denoted `on the hour, a quarter past, half past, and a quarter to` the relevant figures. Sorry I have no photo for you, but as you may imagine prison authorities tend to frown upon people walking around their prisons with cameras hanging around their necks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trampshipman View Post
    On the front face of the inner tower of Liverpool Prison [Walton jail] is a clock which is unusual in that instead of having 5 minute divisions
    between the figures on the face, [ ie:- between 12 and 1 or between 1 and 2 and so on ] it actually only has 4 divisions. Even staff who have worked there for many years have never noticed this, they are completely unaware of it and are therefor also unaware of the reason for it. This probably because the clock is situated overhead and in any case at casual glance looks like any other clock having figures 1 to 12 and two hands [minute hand and hour hand of course ]. However, the actual face of the clock is the original face of what was many years ago a ONE FINGERED CLOCK. The four divisions between each figure simply denoted `on the hour, a quarter past, half past, and a quarter to` the relevant figures. Sorry I have no photo for you, but as you may imagine prison authorities tend to frown upon people walking around their prisons with cameras hanging around their necks.

    Ken.
    Intrigued, I went looking, but sadly all I have found thus far is this...

    http://www.kirkbytimes.co.uk/news_it...g_history.html

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    Here's the one at St Michael Huyton!
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    One I've posted already in another thread - its a clock:














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    Quote Originally Posted by scouserdave View Post
    No offence Jon, but I think you know why I'm not prepared to submit any pics. Sorry mate. Fantastic contributions folks

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

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