Room for the clock to return? - Page 2

accymel · 24-10-2006, 14:58

I will do tommorow afternoon if you want to see the blank space lol

SPUGGIE J · 24-10-2006, 15:02

I can remember when it first went in and thecrowds that gathered just to see it rise to the occasion.

WillowTheWhisp · 24-10-2006, 15:04

Here's the clock as featured on the website of the guy who created it. It's going on for 3 years now since it was removed I think.

Neil · 24-10-2006, 15:07

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the crowds that gathered just to see it rise to the occasion.

Do you have a problem getting it to rise?

SPUGGIE J · 24-10-2006, 15:07

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Here's the clock as featured on the website of the guy who created it. It's going on for 3 years now since it was removed I think.

That brings back a lot of memories.

SPUGGIE J · 24-10-2006, 15:08

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Do you have a problem getting it to rise?

Only when getting up for dayshift. Even the clock is better at that than me.

AccyJay · 24-10-2006, 15:16

Thanks Willow. I've seen that, but never realised it was a clock.

SPUGGIE J · 24-10-2006, 15:18

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Thanks Willow. I've seen that, but never realised it was a clock.

What did you think it was then???? Bill Halley and the Comets.

jimmi5bellies · 24-10-2006, 15:19

Yip, i noticed that too. Makes you wonder if they are asking too much for the rent for the smaller buisnesses to continue.

AccyJay · 24-10-2006, 15:21

hehe, i've just noticed that there used to a "Dixon's" electrical store in town also. I really need to start paying more attention.

Gayle · 24-10-2006, 17:21

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I suppose you could say that we already had a panopticon with that clock.

Sorry but absolutely no way could that be described as a panopticon. It's not outdoors, it's not on top of a hill, it's not encouraging people to look at the scenery and the final point that makes it most unlike a panopticon is that everyone seems to want it.

lindsay ormerod · 24-10-2006, 17:30

The clock was an absolute eyesore and made the worst din imaginable when it "chimed". I don't miss it at all and certainly won't be signing any petition to get it back! Think the Cafe has gone because of lack of trade;who wants to sit in a draughty shopping centre drinking over priced coffee ? ?

garinda · 24-10-2006, 17:31

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Sorry but absolutely no way could that be described as a panopticon. It's not outdoors, it's not on top of a hill, it's not encouraging people to look at the scenery and the final point that makes it most unlike a panopticon is that everyone seems to want it.

Noun1.panopticon - an area where everything is visible area - a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"

saleroom, salesroom, showroom - an area where merchandise (such as cars) can be displayed; "in England a showroom is called a salesroom"
2.panopticon - a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791 prison, prison house - a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment

It's definition is fairly wide ranging, and open to interpretation.

Tick-tock.

WillowTheWhisp · 24-10-2006, 17:43

If the purpose of a panopticon was to encourage people to come to Accy then the clock certainly did that. In it's heyday there were crowds round it waiting for it to open up and old father time peddalling like the clappers up his pole.

The word 'panopticon' actually irritates me because people have either no idea what the heck it means or they know the prison meaning where one warden could see into all the cells which were arranged round him/her in an almost circular fashion.

WillowTheWhisp · 24-10-2006, 17:45

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Originally Posted by Gayle

Sorry but absolutely no way could that be described as a panopticon. It's not outdoors, it's not on top of a hill, it's not encouraging people to look at the scenery and the final point that makes it most unlike a panopticon is that everyone seems to want it.

Why does a blessed panopticon have to be on top of a hill? That one in Blackburn isn't.