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[Jogon]

Thanks LeoIncidentally - the cafe in there is quite decent for a sarny or coffee+cake, eat in or sit out 'in the arcade'. Roots + shoots or summat?P.34, City Lights by Keith Waterhouse(Writing of circa 1936 upon condition that his mother took him to see )..."or, preferably, the Grand Arcade where, above an inscription from Macbeth, "Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day", two knights with battleaxes would bash out the hour, whereupon the doors of Windsor Castle...would creak open, and out would whirr a saluting guardsman followed by the bowing figure of a kilted Scotsman, and Irishman with his shillelagh, a Canadian trapper, and an obsequious Indian, >>the tablea being completed by the cockerel which flapped its wings and crowed like the one in the Pathe newsreel"<< So the inscription has been dumbed down a tad and the clock doesnt work and the figures aren't moving.            

[Leodian]

Jogon wrote: Thanks LeoIncidentally - the cafe in there is quite decent for a sarny or coffee+cake, eat in or sit out 'in the arcade'. Roots + shoots or summat?P.34, City Lights by Keith Waterhouse(Writing of circa 1936 upon condition that his mother took him to see )..."or, preferably, the Grand Arcade where, above an inscription from Macbeth, "Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day", two knights with battleaxes would bash out the hour, whereupon the doors of Windsor Castle...would creak open, and out would whirr a saluting guardsman followed by the bowing figure of a kilted Scotsman, and Irishman with his shillelagh, a Canadian trapper, and an obsequious Indian, >>the tablea being completed by the cockerel which flapped its wings and crowed like the one in the Pathe newsreel"<< So the inscription has been dumbed down a tad and the clock doesnt work and the figures aren't moving.             That's very interesting Jogon about the cockerel. I cannot recall it ever moving and crowing but being high up it may have been easy to miss and possibly not hear.

[liits]

I seem to remember that the whole sequence of the clock started with the cockerel. I say this because, as kids, we would loiter in the petshop looking at the kittens, puppies, fish etc, and then running outside to watch the clock when we heard the cockerel crowing.    

[LS1]

liits wrote: I seem to remember that the whole sequence of the clock started with the cockerel. I say this because, as kids, we would loiter in the petshop looking at the kittens, puppies, fish etc, and then utside to watch the clock when we heard the cockerel crowing. I think you may be right about that. Shame it's gone to nothing now. If Eastgate get underway it may be a good access route to ling with the Merrion Centre/ Arena

[Jogon]

liits wrote: I seem to remember that the whole sequence of the clock started with the cockerel. I say this because, as kids, we would loiter in the petshop looking at the kittens, puppies, fish etc, and then utside to watch the clock when we heard the cockerel crowing. Afraid I can't recall the sequence, relying instead on Waterhouse's book (and film!) to reconstruct childhood memories.Nor can I recall when the thing stopped working?I do know the pet shop closed approx 2003.

[liits]

Jogon wrote: liits wrote: I seem to remember that the whole sequence of the clock started with the cockerel. I say this because, as kids, we would loiter in the petshop looking at the kittens, puppies, fish etc, and then utside to watch the clock when we heard the cockerel crowing. Afraid I can't recall the sequence, relying instead on Waterhouse's book (and film!) to reconstruct childhood memories.Nor can I recall when the thing stopped working?I do know the pet shop closed approx 2003. The time I'm thinking of is late 60's, early 70's. I wouldn't know when the clock stopped but I seem to think that it has been discussed elsewhere on SL.Cockerels may be a feature of animated clocks. The glockenspiel clock that was on front of the [now demolished] Swiss Centre in Leicester Square also started with a crowing cockerel and always reminded me of the Grand Arcade, and I also saw one last year in Gdansk although the Polish version was a poor attempt.    

[stutterdog]

liits wrote: I seem to remember that the whole sequence of the clock started with the cockerel. I say this because, as kids, we would loiter in the petshop looking at the kittens, puppies, fish etc, and then running outside to watch the clock when we heard the cockerel crowing.     I can remember going to town with my Mother 60 years ago and she always made sure we were near the clock at midday when it started its movement.It was something to behold in those days and there were always lots of other kids with there Mums watching it go round.Perhaps they'll get it going for when the Arena gets built!

[cnosni]

Refurb ongoing of the Grand Arcade,well a quarter of it.Link to some photos of refurbhttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151 ... &type=1and page on Skyscraper city detailing whta work is being undertaken,which includes an eventual refurb of the Potts Clock. YES!!!!!http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthrea ... t104045601

[uncle mick]

New pics here of the clock interior here http://ww2.ollievision.co.uk/wp/index.p ... otographs/

[String o' beads]

uncle mick wrote: New pics here of the clock interior here http://ww2.ollievision.co.uk/wp/index.p ... otographs/ In the picture of the loin-cloth wearing figure, what's the writing behind him?