1 o'clock Gun and Timeball - a famous attraction
for Edinburgh visitors
plus writing and poetry
with some
military, maritime and local history from the 'Twa Eddies |
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'Twa Eddies India, time and precision Wild Bill Hickock A Scot at Bunker Hill |
The video clip
below explains the link between Edinburgh's famous one o'clock Gun and
timeball on Calton Hill which remains visible to those on the Forth
Estuary and at the Port of Leith. It features the late Staff-Sergeant
Tam McKay better known as Tam the Gun |
World's
timeguns Latest additions German George |
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Malta's
Time Gun
The Armstrong 100-ton 17.25-inch gun at Fort Rinella, Kalkara is pictured below on a test firing using a 5kg charge ![]() |
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Poetry
Autumn callsSeasonal Poem Poetry for Burns Night Crimes from the '20s' |
• Lowland Clearances • Fishermens Fright • Light in Darkness • Dreadnought Chronicle • Jacobite Mist • Britannia - locos • Mary Celeste • Wicked Scots Witchery • Fate of SS Persia |
French miniature timegun Madras Observatory Blackburn's timeball Singapore timegun Wild Bill Hickock German George A Scot at Bunker Hill |
Why
was this photo found
in
a dustbin? - click picture
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