A timely visit to Greenwich

My other half is a clock and watch maker and engineer and is very interested in all aspects of the history of time so a visit to Greenwich was well overdue, also there is an Ansel Adams exhibition at the Maritime Museum so a perfect time to go!

I could not decide which picture to blip so I have cheated and created a little collage! The Nicholas Hawksmoor Church, St Alfage, is the Parish Church of Greenwich and a couple of year ago Matt had removed the dials of the clock for restoration and re-installed them, they are some 7ft in diameter!

We visited The observatory and Flamsteed House where there are some beautiful timepieces and I loved the John Harrison H4 Marine timekeeper which, to my simple eye looks like a very large pocket watch, and is arguably the most important timepiece made as it solved the problem of longitude.

There is much to see and do around Greenwich but I am essentially a country bumpkin and I find the whole London thing quite draining! However we had a good day, walked miles, got frustrated with the DLR (nothing new there) and arrived home weary but happy.