At the third stroke...

It will be twelve thirty nine. .... And twelve twenty eight ???  On our third and final walk of Bristol's Walking Festival we did Bristol's town Walls and passed through or by its five town gates and it's commercial centre. This clock in the centre showed local time and London time. If I heard correctly, and I think I did, approximate time was good enough until the railways connected the country. Before that each town had its own time taken and recorded on its own town clock . When the sun was at its highest then it was noon. This meant noon London was eleven minutes ahead of noon Bristol. It didn't matter until Brunel's Great Western Railway linked these two cities and then it did. I knew you would find that interesting...... or maybe not.