Thread: Do You Remember the One O'Clock Gun?

Quote: Originally Posted by Paddy After it went off it was habitual to ask adults the time dont ask me why Did they tell you??

Here's a couple of pics of the first One O'Clock Gun.

Quote: Originally Posted by skgogosfan Thanks for those pix-what's also interesting is that the plinth it's on is not solid,it's clearly hollow,as there is a door in the pics. I wonder what's inside? Cannonballs? lol. Dave. Maybe the guy who fires the gun!

The dingle is still there

Quote: Originally Posted by marky This One O'Clock Gun is located at the waterfront, at the Northern end of Morpeth Dock. It is surrounded by fencing, but when I passed, the gate was open. After travelling a little bit North, I had to move inland to avoid Twelve Quays. I think normally, you have to turn inland just before this fence and follow the edge of the Morpeth Dock. Thanks for those pix-what's also interesting is that the...

I remember the One Oclock Gun. I am 55 but when I was a kid I remember hearing it (in Fazakerley). Like so many people, memories are tied up with noises, smells and sights. I associate it with the smell and sight of Cherry blossoms from Formosa Drive School in Fazakerley. There used to be a carpet of blossoms on the ground during the Summer and my Brother and I loved to tramp through them. Even now, that intoxicating scent of the blossoms...

Thanks, Steven. It's kind of sad such an old tradition would go by the wayside. And thanks to drone_pilot for posting the photograph of the plaque about the gun at the Maritime Museum, that I had missed before now. Chris

Quote: Originally Posted by Ronijayne According to my book of Liverpool Oddities, it was a gun to tell the clock makers the exact time each day to check their clocks and watches after they all became scattered. Seems at one point they were all together. I don't know if it was the original purpose but ships used it to check the accuracy of their chronometers for navigation purposes.

Quote: Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge Hi all Does anyone remember -- or does it still occur -- the one o'clock gun? Chris I remember the one o' clock gun. At the time I thought it was set off to let the people in the factories in Birkenhead know it was time to get back to work. Later, I found out that the gun was set off to allow ships in the mersey to set their chronometers. We don't have the one 0' clock gun anymore...

Edinburgh still has it's one o' clock gun, fired from the castle. [they now use a field gun rather than canon]