RE: [BSS] New Sundials in Britain
[Quick resend - Sorry don't; know what went wrong on formatting of last email, Gone to more plain text] Hi In the BSS Newsletter just published there is a section about finding new sundials in Britain by looking at#sundial on Twitter and Instagram. This email is just to save BSS members having to retype links from the printed page. www.twitter.com/search?q=%23sundial www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sundial/ I found these nine dials, none of which are in the BSS Register, in just a few hours looking through images posted over the last few weeks. 1)Sexby Gardens, Peckham Rye Park, London, SE15 3UA A nice new horizontal installed in 2005 when the gardens were refurbished. EoT graph included 2)Ada Salter Rose Garden, Southwark Park, London, SE16 2ET A largish dial in a public park , built into the paving of a formal garden, Dated 1936 3)Rose Garden, Saughton Park, Edinburgh, EH11 3HP A frankly rather large column dial with at least three dial faces. This defiantly comes into the category of “How did we miss it?” 4)St Conan’s Kirk, Loch Awe, On A85, on the way to Oban, PA33 1AL A horizontal dial with lovely sun design in the gnomon, Overlooks Loch Awe 5)Sundial Cafe, Main St, Limekilns, Dumfirmline, KY11 3HG A vertical dial marked as 1689, On the Main Street Late breaking news - I’ve subsequently seen another photo on the web showing this is two dials - the South facing dial I had seen + an East facing dial around the corner which I missed 6)St Mary Magdalene Church, Winsford, Somerset, TA24 7JQ Magnificent horizontal with lots of detail, sadly covered in moss making reading details very tricky 7)Gawsworth Hall , near Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9RN Gawsworth Hall seems to have an old horizontal as well as the vertical already recorded. The Register is also missing a photo of the vertical dial 3095 if anyone is visiting this location 8)Flower Garden, Kennington Park, Kennington, Lambeth, SE11 4BE Great new slate dial with domed appearance. Gnomon is made of slate too but it’s very thick. Now that’s what I call a noon-gap! 9)Mapperton House, Mapperton , Dorset, DT8 3NR So-so looking dial. Appears to have no noon gap so unsure of rest of delineation. Don’t go out of your way for this one I have an electronic (pdf) document of all the dials above but with the Instagram/Twitter/Google photos included. For each dial there is also a link to Google or StreetMap to guide you as best as I can manage. It is available from my Google drive at http://bit.ly/2b5p32J I’ve also created a Google Map with them on http://bit.ly/2aXDLq5 Of course BSS doesn’t have the rights to any of the photographs I scrape off the internet. We can keep a copy as a record but shouldn’t be including them in the Register. Also the technical details are just whatever you can see and deduce from the photos, not real measurements. Please i can encourage BSS members to get out to see these dials, take photos, record dimensions then send in a report. The Newsletter says “If you are a BSS Recorder in the vicinity of any of the locations please can you check the dials and put in a proper report for the Register” but of course I should have said “Any BSS members in the vicinity of any of the locations ”. Reports from new recorders are always welcome. If you haven’t put a report in before then there a few guidelines on the BSS website at http://sundialsoc.org.uk/dials_menu/the-sundial-register/guidelines-completing-form/ The recording form is available from the members only area of the BSS website or from John Foad, the Registrar. Spotting new dials this way seems a great source of new sightings! Ian Maddocks Chester, UK N 53:11:50 W 2:52:41 frog.happy.froze I had compiled the list above when text for the newsletter was submitted a few weeks ago. Since then I have found many more dials mainly on Instagram and I’ve stopped looking at Twitter. As abve they have all been checked as new to the Register by John so I’ve created two more documents with photos and map links (10 to 24 , 25 to 46) http://bit.ly/2c0qs6D http://bit.ly/2cbDnZF The Google map link above already has all the dials in as new layers. I hope by putting this complete list out now we might get some visit reports in whilst it is still summer 10)Thurnham Country House B&B, Castle Hill, Thurnham, nr Bearsted, ME14 3LE Horizontal set in formal gardens, Classic country house dial 11)The Rookery, Streatham Common Park, Covington Way, Streatham , London SW16 3BY A perfectly reasonable standard public park horizontal 12)Cleeve House Country House B&B, Trowbridge Rd, Seend, SN12 6PG Large wall declining dial built high on wall. It declines and is canted out from the wall - I wonder if has been moved? 13)Emmanuel Church , Upper Olland St (B1435), Bungay , Suffolk NR35 1BE Dial in a churchyard. T
[BSS] New Sundials in Britain
Hi In the BSS Newsletter just published there is a section about finding new sundials in Britain by looking at#sundial on Twitter and Instagram. This email is just to save BSS members having to retype links from the printed page. www.twitter.com/search?q=%23sundial www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sundial/ I found these nine dials, none of which are in the BSS Register, in just a few hours looking through images posted over the last few weeks. 1) Sexby Gardens, Peckham Rye Park, London, SE15 3UA A nice new horizontal installed in 2005 when the gardens were refurbished. EoT graph included 2) Ada Salter Rose Garden, Southwark Park, London, SE16 2ET A largish dial in a public park , built into the paving of a formal garden, Dated 1936 3) Rose Garden, Saughton Park, Edinburgh, EH11 3HP A frankly rather large column dial with at least three dial faces. This defiantly comes into the category of “How did we miss it?” 4) St Conan’s Kirk, Loch Awe, On A85, on the way to Oban, PA33 1AL A horizontal dial with lovely sun design in the gnomon, Overlooks Loch Awe 5) Sundial Cafe, Main St, Limekilns, Dumfirmline, KY11 3HG A vertical dial marked as 1689, On the Main Street Late breaking news - I’ve subsequently seen another photo on the web showing this is two dials - the South facing dial I had seen + an East facing dial around the corner which I missed 6) St Mary Magdalene Church, Winsford, Somerset, TA24 7JQ Magnificent horizontal with lots of detail, sadly covered in moss making reading details very tricky 7) Gawsworth Hall , near Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9RN Gawsworth Hall seems to have an old horizontal as well as the vertical already recorded. The Register is also missing a photo of the vertical dial 3095 if anyone is visiting this location 8) Flower Garden, Kennington Park, Kennington, Lambeth, SE11 4BE Great new slate dial with domed appearance. Gnomon is made of slate too but it’s very thick. Now that’s what I call a noon-gap! 9) Mapperton House, Mapperton , Dorset, DT8 3NR So-so looking dial. Appears to have no noon gap so unsure of rest of delineation. Don’t go out of your way for this one I have an electronic (pdf) document of all the dials above but with the Instagram/Twitter/Google photos included. For each dial there is also a link to Google or StreetMap to guide you as best as I can manage. It is available from my Google drive at http://bit.ly/2b5p32J I’ve also created a Google Map with them on http://bit.ly/2aXDLq5 Of course BSS doesn’t have the rights to any of the photographs I scrape off the internet. We can keep a copy as a record but shouldn’t be including them in the Register. Also the technical details are just whatever you can see and deduce from the photos, not real measurements. Please i can encourage BSS members to get out to see these dials, take photos, record dimensions then send in a report. The Newsletter says “If you are a BSS Recorder in the vicinity of any of the locations please can you check the dials and put in a proper report for the Register” but of course I should have said “Any BSS members in the vicinity of any of the locations ”. Reports from new recorders are always welcome. If you haven’t put a report in before then there a few guidelines on the BSS website at http://sundialsoc.org.uk/dials_menu/the-sundial-register/guidelines-completing-form/ The recording form is available from the members only area of the BSS website or from John Foad, the Registrar. Spotting new dials this way seems a great source of new sightings! Ian Maddocks Chester, UK N 53:11:50 W 2:52:41 frog.happy.froze I had compiled the list above when text for the newsletter was submitted a few weeks ago. Since then I have found many more dials mainly on Instagram and I’ve stopped looking at Twitter. As abve they have all been checked as new to the Register by John so I’ve created two more documents with photos and map links (10 to 24 , 25 to 46) http://bit.ly/2c0qs6D http://bit.ly/2cbDnZF The Google map link above already has all the dials in as new layers. I hope by putting this complete list out now we might get some visit reports in whilst it is still summer 10)Thurnham Country House B&B, Castle Hill, Thurnham, nr Bearsted, ME14 3LE Horizontal set in formal gardens, Classic country house dial 11)The Rookery, Streatham Common Park, Covington Way, Streatham , London SW16 3BY A perfectly reasonable standard public park horizontal 12)Cleeve House Country House B&B, Trowbridge Rd, Seend, SN12 6PG Large wall declining dial built high on wall. It declines and is canted out from the wall - I wonder if has been moved? 13)Emmanuel Church , Upper Olland St (B1435), Bungay , Suffolk NR35 1BE Dial in a churchyard. The style of the dial plate corners seems old, but the gnomon looks more modern, The dial is visible in StreetView 14)The Rose Gar
