Jubilee Clock Tower, Margate, UK
Posted by: Team Sieni
N 51° 23.219 E 001° 22.696
31U E 387156 N 5694108
A clock tower built to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee
Waymark Code: WMEKBR
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/08/2012
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This clock was erected to commemorate the golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. The clock itself was not, however, complete until 1889.
There are four white clock faces, with Roman Numerals. Beneath these are inbscribed the words "Victoria Jubilate". On our visit the time was accurate.
For more info, see Margate Handbook an excerpt from which follows:
The building is of a highly ornamental character in the French Renaissance style. The external facing is of white Portland stone, except the ground floor level which is of grey Kentish Ragstone. The roof is of fretted iron work which lets out the sound of the peal of bells, and the cupola is also of iron, this time solid. The ball at the base of the mast on top of the cupola used to travel up the mast just before 1pm; then drop on the hour as a time signal. This has not worked since the mechanism broke in the early part of the last century, and it was deemed too expensive to repair.