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    Default Six-Sided or Eight-Sided?

    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

    Last edited by ChrisGeorge; 11-05-2006 at 01:21 PM.
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