Edinburgh's One o'clock Gun



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One O'Clock Gun Galop

performed by James Bayer (midi file)



Click the image to view a short flash video (broadband required)  which shows the relationship between the Timeball at Calton Hill and the firing of the One o'clock Gun at Edinburgh Castle.

Send for Bobs

Updated 11-08-08
One o'Clock Gun Association
under police and lottery investigation



Nelson and some Sea Stories

Tough Trawler

David Niven - actor and soldier

Scots and The Alamo

The Courteous Courier - updated May 2008

Five further Timeguns and a Time Ball

The Titanic disaster - who was to blame?

The Knights Templar

Women's role in the US Civil War

Passchendaele and a race to the sea

Scotland's Florence Nightingale - Elsie Inglis

'Bunga Bunga'

The Royal George - a ship of the line

Some memories of  Tam the Gun

A chase and tragedy

Case of the clock without hands

Resistance - Fear in the Night

David's boyhood diary

A Pingat Jasa Medal



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Timeguns and Timeballs from around Europe
and from around
the World


Five more timeguns
Marine from Mandalay

A Gentleman's Fashion

Mary De Courci and Newbatte Abbey

Battleship G. Averof


The Great Lafayette
Last Battle on Mainland British Soil

Walk like an Egyptian

All Passion Spent

The Five O'Clock Cocktail

Rome Timegun

Halifax Noon Day Gun

Liverpool's timegun

Whitehaven Timegun

Fremantle Timegun

Gorton House
St Petersburg Timeguns

European Timeguns

Help to save Edinburgh's Old Town

James Findlay - Time Gunner
Medieval Mirrors

Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar
 
Amazing Haddington Linquist

Johnnie Moat's stone


The Scalinger railings

A letter from 1705
Mystic Sycamores

Tragic Trelawny


Fighting Mac


Jingoism and propaganda

Tale of Two Ships

The Five O'Clock Cocktail
The Laird of Matjiesfontein Indian Peter
and white slaves
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

Picture showing the test firing of a 100 ton gun in Malta

Further stories and some writings

Lowland Clearances

Fishermens Fright

Light in Darkness

DREADNOUGHT
CHRONICLE



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