Greenwich Meridian - 100 Years - Louth, UK
Posted by: dtrebilc
N 53° 22.052 W 000° 00.098
30U E 699482 N 5917346
This modest plaque celebrates the centenary of the recommendation of the Greenwich Meridian as the international standard for zero degrees longitude.
Waymark Code: WM101T6
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/09/2019
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The plaque is on the main shopping street in Louth between a poultry shop and a pork butcher's shop. As well as celebrating the centenary it also marks the location of the meridian as it passes through Louth.
"The International Meridian Conference was a conference held in October 1884 in Washington, D.C., in the United States, to determine a prime meridian for international use. The conference was held at the request of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur. The subject to discuss was the choice of "a meridian to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning throughout the world". It resulted in the recommendation of the Greenwich Meridian as the international standard for zero degrees longitude."
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The text on the plaque is as follows.
THIS PLAQUE WAS UNVEILED
BY THE MAYOR OF LOUTH
TO COMMEMORATE THE CENTENARY
OF THE GREENWICJ MERIDIAN
ON THE 26th JUNE 1984
COUN. A.S. WARD
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L. RIDDICK ESQ.
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TOWN MAYOR |
TOWN CLERK
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