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-London

Seven Dials

Seven Dials, London, September 2024 In Covent Garden, seven streets converge at a junction known as Seven Dials, named for the monument standing in the centre of the roundabout. The […]
Seven Dials

-London

Time

Replica of a Thomas Tompion sundial outside Kew Palace, London,  April 2021 – Welcome to One Word Sunday, and over to all of you to join the challenge with your own time(s) post.To […]
Time

Shadow Shot Sunday

Shadows of time

  Jubilee sundial, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, January 2020 A lot of gravel had been washed onto the Central Parade to make reading the time more difficult. Not helped by the […]

Wednesday Quotations

Time flies

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Sundial in front of De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, January 2020 It’s time for a weekly quotation-inspired […]
Time flies

-London

Blue time but not the blue hour

This gilt metal and enamel sundial, with Roman numerals, months of the year and signs of the zodiac, graces the former offices of the Financial Times. If you look closely […]

-Andalucia

Timelessness

Seville Cathedral (Catedral de Santa María de la Sede), is the largest cathedral and the third-largest church in the world.  Construction began in 1402 and finished in 1506, when it won the […]
Timelessness

-Austria

Solar Time

Sundials, both old and new, pop up over the world, but Austria seems to be particularly fond of them.  They have a Sundial Data Bank and the 2000 figures report 3009 […]

-London

What Time Is It?

This bronze sundial stands in Trinity Square Gardens, just outside Tower Hill underground station. It was commissioned by the London Underground and designed by John Chitty (Architect) and Edwin Russell […]

-London

History in the Round

There is bronze sundial in Trinity Square Gardens, just outside Tower Hill underground station.  It tells the time, obviously, but it also tells history; around the base are engravings of […]