Putting the Clock Forward Eleven Hours at St Helen’s Church, Abingdon

Clock Forward
Here is the St Helen’s Clock at 2 minutes before 8 this morning.
Clock Forward
Here is the clock again at 2 minutes before 9 – after the hands had been moved forward eleven hours.

Putting the clock back an hour at St Helen’s Church involves moving the hands forward eleven hours. Here is the movie…

9 thoughts on “Putting the Clock Forward Eleven Hours at St Helen’s Church, Abingdon

  1. JRB

    1st photo taken at 07.58 GMT showing clock as 8.58 BST, 2nd photo taken 1 hour later showing clock changed to GMT, check out the pigeons.

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  2. ColinB

    1st photo shows 9am when it was 8am.

    Clock takes 1 hour to ‘wind back’ [forward in this case].

    So at 9am clock displays 9am….

    When I worked in the Clock House in Abingdon, used to have to flip a switch. Electric motor did the work in 10 minutes rather than an hour. Suspect mechanical mechanism, (Clockwork) at St Helens.

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  3. Steven

    Wouldn’t it have been easier to just stop the clock for an hour instead of all that work winding it forward 11 hours?

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  4. ppjs

    If the clock were stopped, someone would have to watch it for precisely one hour. As it is, the clock is re-set accurately. Fun to see on the video; probably like watching paint go dry in real time (whatever real time is: GMT; BST)…

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  5. Spike S

    No need for watching paint dry. I would expect an Horologist’s time management to be a little better than that. Stop the clock. Go away to do something useful. Back to the clock 50 minutes later. Set correct time by comparison with the nearest Atomic clock via mobile phone. Simples !

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