A City of Clocks
Liverpool contains more public clocks than any other city I know. And most seem to tell the right time to! Even the clock on St. Luke’s church was showing the correct time. Obviously, the Nazis couldn’t make time stand still!
C never wore a watch and perhaps in her four years or so in Liverpool, she learned how to manage without one!
The Clock Gets its Seventh Wall
I said in an earlier post, that I was missing the clock.
Well, I’m not anymore, as it is now on its seventh wall.
The Brass Clock
As you can see it is a typical Kelvin and Hughes ship’s clock, that C bought for me in probably 1969 as a birthday present. She bought it in a junk shop in Liverpool and was assured that it had come from the SS Great Eastern, when it was broken up. A very unlikely story, although the ship was broken up in Liverpool and it probably had thousands of clocks. But Kelvin and Hughes did not merge until the 1940s!
It has proved very reliable over the years and except for a major repair in about 1995, it hasn’t needed any attention.
Our home has never been complete without this clock on the wall.
A Clock at Tooting Bec Station
Tooting Bec station on the London Underground has two of these clocks.
Tooting Bec Station Clock
It would appear that someone has the good sense to keep them working. Whether it is still the original movement I do not know.
They are labeled Self Winding Clock Co of New York. You will find quite a few references to these clocks on the Internet, but only a short article about the actual company on Wikipedia.
I’ve travelled extensively on the London Underground, but I’ve only seen these two clocks. There may be others.
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