Hollywood Studio Florida USA

What a silly place to plant a tree!

Universal Studio Florida USA

St Paul's Cathedral - London

The Giant Clock at Stephen's Green Mal, Dublin

Photo Courtesy of Simon Gilham

The Garrison Savannah, Bridgtown, Barbados

Main Guard Clock Tower at The Garrison Savannah, Bridgetown, St Michael, Barbados

Thanks to John Clarke our First Member.

This shot taken at 10:30am on the 4th December 2010

Built in 1804 and located at what is approximately the center of the Garrison Historic Area, the Main Guard has a lovely clock tower and looks out over the original parade ground (Savannah). The clock was made by Dwerrihouse and Carter of London in 1803 and the coat of arms was added sometime between 1816 and 1837. The coat of arms is made of coade stone. Named after Mary Coade, who perfected its formula, this vitrified ceramic is more durable than stone and was poplar in Georgian times. The small guardhouse behind (to the north) was used to house prisoners during the courts martial carried out at the Main Guard. The building passed into private hands in 1906, to become the exclusive ‘Savannah Club’, during which time the gallery was added. It was purchased by the government in 1989 who undertook its renovation in 2000, where the original mechanism for the clock was replaced by a modern system and has provided quarter-hour chimes for the Garrison area ever since. 

Canary Wharf - London

Spot On 10:30am

Canary Wharf London

A design competition was set up for proposals for Nash Court.

Six Public Clocks by Konstantin Grcic was the winning design.

This is based on the iconic Swiss railway clock, however each face only has one numeral and they are all set to the same time. German designer Grcic is better known for his furniture and product design, which is both modernist and elegant.

The Clock Tower - Broadstairs Kent

Broadstairs Clock Tower

Off Eastern Esplanade, Broadstairs, Kent CT10

One of the most interesting features of Broadstairs wide Victorian promenade is the very ornately decorated clock tower. The clock tower is positioned right on the cliff overlooking the wide sandy beach below and is also near to the lifts down to the beach. The clock tower in addition to telling the time accurately for over one hundred and fifty years also provides a circle of seats for tired tourists or those wishing to shade themselves from summer sunshine. 

Foss Street Clock - Dartmouth

Snodland Clock Tower

Liverpool Street Station Clock Tower

Liverpool Street Station Clock Tower

Bishopsgate London

155 Bishopsgate London

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.

West Malling Kent - Town Clocks

Above Andrew Smiths Jewellers in the High Street

With the Jewellers Clock just a little fast and the Church clock a little slow, I was able to run down the high street to the Church of St Mary and capture two clocks in one day, both showing 10:30am.

Waterloo Station Clock - London

The Clock at Waterloo Station London.

The most famous meeting place in the world.

In the Only Fools and Horses episode, "Dates", Del meets Raquel at Waterloo station for the first time.

Meeting "under the clock at Waterloo" is a traditional rendezvous.

Westminster Clock - London

My first photo is of the Clock at Westminster often known as 'Big Ben' which is actually the bell and not the clock.

I took this photo whilst on a weekend in London on Sunday 11th April 2010 at 10:30 and it was this photo that decided the time and therefore the name of the club.

The four faces of the clock are 23 feet square; the minute hand is 14 feet long and the figures are 2 feet tall. Minutely regulated with a stack of coins placed on the huge pendulum, the clock is an excellent timekeeper and has has rarely stopped.

The 13.5 ton bell known as 'Big Ben' was cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

The clock faces on the north tower were the world's largest when built.
The passage of a time, aided by recent excavations, has resulted in the clock tower leaning some 35 millimeters (1.4 inches).
The four clock faces are made of cast iron with glass panels as infill and are illuminated from behind.
The Houses of Parliament, and the clock tower especially, is one of the world's most famous and instantly recognisable buildings.

The nickname "Big Ben" actually refers to the 13.5 ton bell at the top of the clock tower which is accessed by 292 steps. The tower clock was originally wound by hand up to three times a week until the installation of an electrical mechanism in 1913.