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Situated on Well Lane in Stanwix, Carlisle is the building now known as Barn Close Nursing Home.
Sundial on Barn Close, Carlisle
It appears that some lettering is engraved across the top of the dial. However, this can not be read from this photograph.
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The latest in a series of churches on this site for over 1000 years.
Stanwix Church – St. Michael’s, Carlisle
Erected in 1841 the present church tower has three clock faces. The clock was presented by Richard Ferguson Esq the former Chancellor of Carlisle
Interesting items of stonemasonry are to be found in the churchyard.
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Perched above the main doorway to St. Mary’s Church in Gilcrux, north Cumbria is this well worn sundial.
Gilcrux Church sundial
Carved below the clock face in now faded text possibly the characters LAT 54 32 which could be reference to the map reference of the church which checked on an Ordnance Survey map would be around the same.
The sundial has taken a beating over the years and is held together by a number of metal clamps and pins.
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A simple white faced clock with black numerals indicates the time for residents of Allonby, a coastal town in Cumbria.
Allonby Village Hall clock, Cumbria
Allonby Hall was built in the early 1900′s.
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Pargolla funeral Home, Newquay
‘Lest we forget for your tomorrow we gave our today’ is the phrase around the face of this clock on a funeral home in Newquay.
The phrase is from the inscription on the Kohima British 2nd Division Memorial. However, the lines pre-date this usage it seems.
Pargolla Funeral Home, Newquay
Kohima is on the Indian/ Burmese border.
The words are attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds (1875 -1958), an English Classicist, who had put them together among a collection of 12 epitaphs for World War One, in 1916.
Below the clock is a poppy so possibly this building had something to do with the Royal British Legion at some point in it’s past.
Further information
Imperial War Museum - What is the Kohima Epitaph?
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This clock above the Henri LLoyd store in Falmouth maybe hiding a past heritage.
Henri LLoyd store Falmouth
Although now labelled with the words Henri Lloyd the clock mount and shape look very similar to the clocks installed above many of the H Samuel Jewellery stores.
Could this store have been a jewellers at some point?
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