Dear Martina, The new Bexhill sundial is further along the same promenade but about 200m closer to the pavilion that you can see in the background of your photo. I am not surprised that there were problems with the sundial as illustrated. Very clear tripping possibilities. The 'new' sundial has some very questionable features - wrong alignment? wrong positioning of numerals etc. I visited it fairly recently but didn't have sufficient kit with me to check it out. I plan to do so in due course. I installed an analemmatic at Bede's prep school, at the far western end of the promenade at Eastbourne earlier this year. You may care to take a look. Best wishes, David Brown
Martina Addiscott > In message <001601cdbf53$9388f6b0$ba9ae410$@com> > "Jackie Jones" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Diallists, >> >> I have been asked by a friend of mine about this dial which is at >> Bexhill on >> Sea, south coast of England. It is new; made to commemorate the >> Queens >> jubilee. But does anyone know who made it and why it is round, not oval >> which one would expect? >> >> >> >> <https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=585feaea9e333f3e&page=play&resid=5 >> 85FEAEA9E333F3E!770&parid=585FEAEA9E333F3E!769&type=1&Bsrc=Photomail&Bpub=SD >> X.Photos&authkey=!AGuEO8ad_t-_aJc> View album >> >> With best wishes, >> >> Jackie >> >> Jackie Jones >> >> 50° 50 09 N. 0° 07 40 W. >> >> www.sundialglass.wordpress.com >> >> > > > Dear Jackie, > > Where exactly is this new 'Human Sundial' located, within Bexhill-on-Sea ? > > If it is circular (not elliptical), then that layout is definitely wrong ! > > > The only "Bexhill" layout that I was aware of, was the original one on the > sea-front there (which was installed on a raised area near the Pavilion on > the esplanade) - but as this caused many problems (fights, injuries, etc), > the local council had removed it because they were continually being sued. > > I have 'attached' a photograph of that one designed by "Modern Sunclocks", > which was accurate and automatically changed-over for British Summer Time. > > However, it was simply too popular for its own good - and was taken away ! > > > In fact, if you refer to the previous correspondence on this Mailing List, > it was the reason that East Sussex would not let me have any 'analemmatic' > sundial on our school playground - because they said it would be dangerous > for the children, (based on their experience, with that esplanade layout). > > It seems that similar difficulties have happened with other layouts in any > public areas - see the website page at: www.sunclocks.com/pics/fs-015.htm > > > I am sorry that I cannot help you with information on this new layout, but > maybe other members of this list might be able to provide further details. > > > Sincerely, > > Martina Addiscott. > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
