I remember hearing the gun as a child, both when I lived in Speke and Allerton. Also, when I was at school in Garston.
Inhabitants of the Wirral firing a gun towards Liverpool - why didn't we invade?
I remember hearing the gun as a child, both when I lived in Speke and Allerton. Also, when I was at school in Garston.
Inhabitants of the Wirral firing a gun towards Liverpool - why didn't we invade?
After it went off it was habitual to ask adults the time dont ask me why
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
Dylan Thomas
I remember the one o'clock gun very well. I was only a child in the 60s and lived in Liverpool 8 - where the sound was very loud and clear (or so I remember). What a shame it's gone - it should be revived.
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The dingle is still there
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
Dylan Thomas
Very cool. We had to be back in school after lunch at 1.30pm so when the gun went off we knew it was time to get ready to walk back there.
Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.
I remember the One Oclock Gun. I am 55 but when I was a kid I remember hearing it (in Fazakerley). Like so many people, memories are tied up with noises, smells and sights. I associate it with the smell and sight of Cherry blossoms from Formosa Drive School in Fazakerley. There used to be a carpet of blossoms on the ground during the Summer and my Brother and I loved to tramp through them. Even now, that intoxicating scent of the blossoms brings my childhood Summers right back to me.......... Being thick, we never caught on to what the faint but audible "bang" was whenever we were walking back to school from home. I wonder how far the sound carried? We could definitely hear it in Fazakerley, although faintly. It was only years later we understood it. I was quite sad. I thought it was something only we heard. I was quite disappointed when my Dad told me what it was!
According to my book of Liverpool Oddities, it was a gun to tell the clock makers the exact time each day to check their clocks and watches after they all became scattered. Seems at one point they were all together.
Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.
When the smoke has cleared and the bullets cease.another soldier rests in peace. The politicians who caused the fight, rest at home no danger in sight
Edinburgh still has it's one o' clock gun, fired from the castle.
[they now use a field gun rather than canon]
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