Shades of Grey

April 5, 2008

Stopped Clocks

Filed under: Memes — Shades @ 5:00 pm

(This post was meant to pop up yesterday but I munged the dates, to the where in the world posting was a stop-gap as it was late and I was jet-lagged. It’ll do for now though.)

I spotted this in Leeds recently on the back of a building in Vicar Lane.30s building in Vicar Lane

The building is very 30s judging from the style and it probably had Crittall metal framed windows originally.

Close-up of clock

That is a very substantial metal-framed ladder cemented into the wall for the purposes of correcting it twice a year. (Maybe it needed winding once a week).

2 Comments »

  1. That used to be a bus station. The red buses started from there, as opposed to the green ones (Leeds City Transport).
    I remember getting a bus from there to Scarborough as a young kid.

    Comment by pj — April 6, 2008 @ 12:19 am

  2. That explains it, time is important for buses, although sometimes you wouldn’t think so when you are waiting for one…

    Comment by Shades — April 6, 2008 @ 8:55 am

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