Theme of the Month

May 2005 - Timepieces

The clock tower at Walton Hall, Cheshire, May 29th.

A novelty clock that purrs along.

A sundial on the side of a building in Cheapside in the City of London, May 26th.

Church clock and the Gherkin, City of London, May 26th.

St Paul's Cathedral and some buses.

The east end of Fleet Street, once the newspaper centre of England.

Three clocks and some tolling bells, Fleet Street, London.

Outside the Old Bailey where justice is sometimes dispensed.

Harrogate bus station.

A clock at Harrogate railway station, an execrable, style-free pile of concrete.

This time machine in the station forecourt at Kidderminster was probably for the use of bus inspectors.

The waiting room at Highley Station on the Severn Valley Railway, a clock and the leaf of an aspidistra.

From under this clock on Platform 1, Paddington Station, London, thousands and thousands of holiday makers headed for the West Country in the days before the oppressive rise of the motor car.

Tewkesbury High Street

Clocks for sale, Droitwich

The multi-faceted sundial in the churchyard at Elmley Castle, Worcestershire

A close-up view of the Elmley sundial - do I see an uncanny resemblance to Marvin the Robot from the television adaptation of 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"? I wonder if it's got a pain in the gnomons all the way down its left side (incidentally the gnomons are not the originals)

Clocks attached to solicitors' offices - Great Malvern & Pershore

An unreliable and irritating time indicator, Wyre Mill, near Pershore

Marks & Spencer, Cheltenham

This month's theme is a fairly loose interpretation of what constitutes a timepiece. It's taken me a while to get going in May as I was photographed out on my return from Oz and it's been a struggle picking up the camera again.

Present day photographs for 'Theme of the Month' are taken with either a Sony DSC-V1 or a Nikon D70 digital camera. Pictures prior to 2004 were shot with a variety of Canon and Nikon 35mm cameras and lenses.