Showcasing public and civic clocks around the world.
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The Sizzle In is based at 30 Market Street, Carnforth, Lancashire LA5 9JX.
Sizzle In
Unusually for a take away restaurant it has a clock as part of it’s exterior advertising.
Possibly the clock is a remnant from a previous occupier of this building and the take away has had it rebadged.
Let us know if you know the history?
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St. Lawrence’s church in Appleby Cumbria is a grade 1 listed building.
The church is said to be of late 12th century foundation and rebuilt late in the 13th after a raid by the Scots
Lady Anne Clifford restored the church in the 16th century .
During the 19th Century some internal redesign took place.
Nothing is known about the clock.
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Positioned alongside the main road running through the village of Beckermet is St John’s Church.
St John’s Church, Beckermet, Cumbria
Beckermet is situated north west of the Sellafield nuclear facility on the west coast of Cumbria.
The bell turret contains two bells.
The church was built in 1878-9 using red sandstone.
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Installed just below the bell cote of St Mary’s Church in Gosforth is this clock.
Gosforth is situated just inland on the west coast of Cumbria south of Egremont.
Gosforth church clock
Hand wound by two people on a weekly rota the clock was officially started at 10.30 on the 6 October 1897.
An inscription near the the clock mechanism reads ‘ This clock is the gift of Ellen Jane Gordon of Ingleden Kent in memory of her brother Col. Winsor Parker’.
A card inside the clock door shows that the clock is maintained by Wm. Potts & Sons Ltd of Leeds.
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High above the centre of Whitehaven on the west coast of Cumbria is this clock on the former market hall.
Old Market Hall, Whitehaven
Erected in 1880 it was designed by Thomas Lewis Banks.
This building replaced one designed by Robert Smirke who also designed a number of other local buildings. However, is more known the Royal Mint, Tower Hill and the main block and facade of the British Museum.
Currently the building is used as the Tourist Information Centre
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St Mary’s Church, Whitby overlooks the fishing town and is used as a navigational aid for sailors due to it’s location and prominence.
St Mary’s Church, Whitby
It was here, at the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD, that the Saxon Christians decided to adopt the customs of the Roman Catholic church instead of the Celtic Church.
Whitby is also connected to William Scoresby (a whaler featured in Moby Dick), Bram Stoker (who set much of Dracula in Whitby) and Captain James Cook
199 steps lead up to the parish church of St. Mary
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