History of the One o'clock Gun
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1861 - Riggers setting up cable |
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| The time ball and the One o' Clock Gun were connected by an overhead wire over 4,000 feet long which hung over the city. As the wire kept breaking it was attached to the General Post Office, St. Giles and the steeple on Victoria Hall in 1873. Illustration by John Thomson. |
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