The 10:30 Club





The 10:30 Club is aiming to be the largest photographic collection of Clock Faces from Timepieces on Public Buildings around the world at only two points in any day, when the clock shows 10:30. You can help the club enter the Guinness World Records with the largest collection of Public Clock Faces set at 10:30.

Join The 10:30 Club by submitting a photograph of any Clock Face on any public building when it shows the time as exactly 10:30 am or pm.

Please send your photo as a jpeg to: john@johnsworld.co.uk
along with a little detail about what the clock is and where it is located along with confirmation that you own the photograph and your permission to publish it.

If you also send your name and email address we will send you a 10:30 Club Membership Certificate as a thank you.

If you are a keen photographer you may have more opportunity to take that extra photograph for a bit of fun. Please tell your friends and if you are a member of a photographic society or camera club or photographic forum please mention the website for a fun photo opportunity.

Lets see how quickly we can develop this collection and where it takes us.

Thanks for stopping by and please come back occasionally and if possible remember us at 10:30

Kind Regards

John

The Ten Thirty Club
email me: john@johnsworld.co.uk


Wednesday 5 May 2010

Christ's Church Spitalfields London





CHRIST'S CHURCH SPITALFIELDS

Looks splendid as you approach it from Brushfield Street, alongside Spitalfield market. One of Hawksmoor's masterpieces,  it has an octagonal tower and magnificent columns on the front, but the interior is spartan and the crypt used to treat alcoholics.

The mechanism of this clock runs so efficiently that it only has to be wound a couple of times each year.
The clock has witnessed some of Londons evil history
During the autumn of terror, the unfortunate ladies of the evening, the terrified inhabitants of the parish, the policemen in pursuit and the Ripper himself, had but to raise their eyes to see Christ Church’s steeple above. That is perhaps the last thing Martha Tabram saw, as she walked to her death in George’s Yard.
Since 1867, the Church had offered to would-be timekeepers its illuminated clock besides the peal of its bells. When witnesses came forward to talk to the police or the press or to testify at the inquests of the Ripper’s victims, they often established the time of events in their narratives by the Church clock. Thus, Albert Cadosch. Early in the morning of 8 September, he overheard Annie Chapman talking to the Ripper in the backyard of the house next door, 29 Hanbury Street. As he passed the Church on his way to work, he looked up at the clock. It was 5:32. At 5:45, the clock woke up John Davis, the carman who would find Annie’s body a few minutes later.
Sarah Lewis knew that she had turned into Dorset Street at exactly 2:30 in the morning of 9 November because she had looked at the Church clock as she walked past. At that time, George Hutchinson was waiting at the corner of Miller’s Court for Mary Kelly’s visitor to come out. As he finally gave up and left, the clock struck three. Within half an hour, the clock woke up Sarah Lewis, who remained awake in the dark long enough to hear a faint cry of ‘Murder!’ coming from somewhere outside.
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