Comments on: Changing times: factory clocks http://yorkstories.co.uk/changing-times-factory-clocks/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: YorkStories http://yorkstories.co.uk/changing-times-factory-clocks/#comment-171 Mon, 13 May 2013 21:00:42 +0000 #comment-171 Nice to read your thoughts on this, the greater value/symbolic value of those public clocks. The other thing that came to mind was that old thing, if you needed to know the time, ask a policeman? I’ve no idea why. Presumably they always had a watch, and most people didn’t? Or maybe the ordinary folk didn’t understand clocks, and needed a policeman to tell them what the public clocks said?

There are many clocks around, I’m noticing. Another page perhaps needed, to appreciate these now generally unappreciated details of the city street.

]]> By: H.Asakainen http://yorkstories.co.uk/changing-times-factory-clocks/#comment-170 Sat, 11 May 2013 08:28:45 +0000 #comment-170 Very good article. I enjoy how you’ve highlighted the relevance of what owning and sharing the time meant to society. It was a marvel to have invented devices for accurately holding the time and showed civility and stature to own one. The public time pieces were of a sevice and high value to the population. The value of time and it’s capture was clearly so important that it became a spiteful insult to not give someone the time of day. I think a good summary of this is Chester town hall which only has three faces, as to not give the Welsh the time of day.

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