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Set Your Clocks #1070837 15th Jul 2019 10:43pm 15th Jul 2019 10:43pm
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 13,218 Birkenhead diggingdeeper OP Wiki Master
diggingdeeper OP Wiki Master Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 13,218 Birkenhead	A one o'clock gun will be fired on Thursday 18th July 2019 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the previous firing. Please don't ask what time it will go off It will be a field gun at Woodside ferry performing the event. The further you are down the pay scale, the more 'essential' you are when the shit hits the fan... Sue Farbysmith 2020 Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill - Charles Caleb Colton We don't do charity in Germany, We pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn

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Re: Set Your Clocks [Re: diggingdeeper] #1070851 17th Jul 2019 5:44pm 17th Jul 2019 5:44pm
Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 16,954 Wirral granny Wiki Master
granny Wiki Master Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 16,954 Wirral	Could it be One O'clock ? Funny sort of nostalgic commemoration . Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle

Re: Set Your Clocks [Re: diggingdeeper] #1070853 17th Jul 2019 5:59pm 17th Jul 2019 5:59pm
Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 16,954 Wirral granny Wiki Master
granny Wiki Master Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 16,954 Wirral	Are you going DD ? Don't think I will be going to this one, maybe the next ! Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle

Re: Set Your Clocks [Re: diggingdeeper] #1070856 17th Jul 2019 6:12pm 17th Jul 2019 6:12pm
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 13,218 Birkenhead diggingdeeper OP Wiki Master
diggingdeeper OP Wiki Master Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 13,218 Birkenhead	I'll try and make a point of listening for it if I'm in Merseyside, used to hear it when I was young as well as the Cammel Laird siren and a few others. See ya at the centenary The further you are down the pay scale, the more 'essential' you are when the shit hits the fan... Sue Farbysmith 2020 Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill - Charles Caleb Colton We don't do charity in Germany, We pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn

Re: Set Your Clocks [Re: diggingdeeper] #1070860 18th Jul 2019 2:58pm 18th Jul 2019 2:58pm
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oldpm01 Enthusiast O Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 148 Wirral	The gun was fired early!

Re: Set Your Clocks [Re: oldpm01] #1070861 18th Jul 2019 4:42pm 18th Jul 2019 4:42pm
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 13,218 Birkenhead diggingdeeper OP Wiki Master
diggingdeeper OP Wiki Master Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 13,218 Birkenhead	Originally Posted by oldpm01 The gun was fired early! Only around here can something like that happen. I completely forgot about, in any case I driving around the Bolton area at that time so wouldn't have heard. The further you are down the pay scale, the more 'essential' you are when the shit hits the fan... Sue Farbysmith 2020 Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill - Charles Caleb Colton We don't do charity in Germany, We pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn

Re: Set Your Clocks [Re: diggingdeeper] #1070871 18th Jul 2019 7:49pm 18th Jul 2019 7:49pm
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 13,218 Birkenhead diggingdeeper OP Wiki Master
diggingdeeper OP Wiki Master Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 13,218 Birkenhead	Unfortunately there was also the 46th anniversary where a One O'Clock was fired every day for a week from Fort Perch Rock, so this is really the 4th anniversary of the 46th anniversary. The further you are down the pay scale, the more 'essential' you are when the shit hits the fan... Sue Farbysmith 2020 Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill - Charles Caleb Colton We don't do charity in Germany, We pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn

Re: Set Your Clocks [Re: diggingdeeper] #1070872 19th Jul 2019 11:08am 19th Jul 2019 11:08am
Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 1,348 Wirral Moonstar Forum Addict
Moonstar Forum Addict Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 1,348 Wirral	Why can't we have it back permanently.

Re: Set Your Clocks [Re: Moonstar] #1070874 19th Jul 2019 5:16pm 19th Jul 2019 5:16pm
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 13,218 Birkenhead diggingdeeper OP Wiki Master
diggingdeeper OP Wiki Master Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 13,218 Birkenhead	Originally Posted by Moonstar Why can't we have it back permanently. Too many people whinge. Edinburgh still has theirs. The further you are down the pay scale, the more 'essential' you are when the shit hits the fan... Sue Farbysmith 2020 Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill - Charles Caleb Colton We don't do charity in Germany, We pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn

Re: Set Your Clocks [Re: oldpm01] #1070876 20th Jul 2019 10:56am 20th Jul 2019 10:56am
Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 16,954 Wirral granny Wiki Master
granny Wiki Master Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 16,954 Wirral	Originally Posted by oldpm01 The gun was fired early! Ha ! You couldn't make it up .. Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle