Brynboru

By Brynboru

Time Is An Illusion

So said Albert Einstein, but then he didn't live in Crumlin, Co Antrim, where the good citizens have always known that.
They have a choice of four faces on their town clock tower, each displaying a different time.
There used to be a railway station here, but when that closed and someone invented the mobile phone, presumably the need to display time to the population at large disappeared.
The clock tower was built in the late nineteenth century in honour of the local landed land-grabbers, the Pakenham family. It is twice the height shown in this image because the bridge for the railway came later. This hump-back bridge meant a steep rise in the road height, thereby covering the bottom half of the tower on one side.

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