‘They were raised half way about 5 minutes earlier to alert the ships, then with 2–3 minutes to go they were raised the whole way. The time was recorded when the ball began descending, not when it reached the bottom.’.
Ah ok Allowed me to cut down cranny and drive past endike Then I realised that new school is an abomination
Imagine trusting your trip around the globe on someone at corpo getting the time right. I can't remember if it's the Hull one, but some of the balls literally included a bike wheel in the mechanism.
Nah, they rang the speaking clock using the trail blazing local telephone company. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Funny, when Portsmouth installed the first one in 1829 times were different in each region.So 1pm would not have been 1 pm in Bristol, Liverpool or Hull. The GWR the first to bring in standard times across its region as with railways developing you needed a standard time to run to a timetable and for safety reasons. On one of the Micheal Portillo railway programmes he showed a clock in Bristol with 2 minute hands, one showing London time and the other Bristol time which was 11 minutes in front.
There had been GMT for decades before Hull got its ball. Can’t understand why they got one in 1915 as it was only used for 7 years. Another surprise is that it isn’t oval.
