Edinburgh's One o'clock
Gun
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Download or play the
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.
Tough Trawler
David Niven - actor and soldier
Scots and The Alamo
The Courteous Courier
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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
Local History with the 'Twa Eddies
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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
Further stories and some writings
Lowland Clearances
Fishermens Fright
Light in Darknes
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DREADNOUGHT
CHRONICLE
Jacobite Mist
The Di Duca Diary
Britannia - locos
Mary Celeste
Wicked Scots
Witchery
Poetry
Autumn calls
Seasonal Poem
Poetry for Burns Night
Crimes from the 'twenties'
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in a dustbin? -
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