Greetings fellow dialists,
So the present position regarding the Hawkshead dial appears to be that
it has a longitude reference of close to 36 deg. Hawkshead is almost
exactly 3 deg. west of Greenwich. So we are looking for a longitude
baseline from Greenwich of either 39 deg. west or 33 deg.
John Carmichael wrote Now here's a thought- All over England I saw
the clock faces on all the churches have only TWO colors (either black
and gold or blue and gold). This leads me to believe that these clock
faces might be made of low temp baked paint enamels and not porcelain.
Does anybody know
Message text written by Patrick Powers
I shall ask Chris Daniel (who is not a member of this list as far as I
know) about what he thinks the finish was on St Margaret's.
Well, I did ask Chris Daniel about the St Margaret of Antioch dials and he
confirms that they were stove-enamelled - like my
Message text written by Tony Moss
What do we know about Ferguson?
James Ferguson (1710 1776)
James Ferguson was born in the parish of Rothiemay,
in Banffshire, the son of a peasant farmer. Its an
interesting comment on the value that we in the NE
have placed on education over the centuries
Well that settles it Patrick!
Thanks for clarifying that point.
Now hopefully, some of the dialists who have followed this discussion will
make some colored metal sundials in the future, either using powder coat or
porcelain.
John
p.s. But I still love the hand painted wall sundials found in
Nice try, but the Ferguson in question was surely much later. The dial
illustrated in Cousins looks twentieth century. More Massey Ferguson than
James Ferguson. In fact, it looks like the prototype, minus the dolphins,
for Chris Daniel's dial at Greenwich.
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