Single Handed...........

...............I tell the time!!

This is the Parish Church in Coningsby, Lincolnshire and the home to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (since March 1976 when it arrived from RAF Coltishall) and their Visitor Centre. The BBMF operate one of two remaining airworthy Avro Lancaster bombers in the world besides five Spitfires of various types, two Hurricanes, a Dakota and two Chipmunks, the latter type being used for pilot training.
The BBMF is accessed via a separate side entrance, with a car park, to the west of the airfield. The memorabilia display is free but there is a small charge for the hour-long guided tour around the hangar.

The village itself is overseen by the tower of this 15th-century parish church, St Michael's, with its one-handed clock face. One of the few in the country (there is another at St Andrew's in Holt, Norfolk), and is stated by Coningsby Parish Council to be the largest of its kind in the world. The face is painted directly onto the wall of the tower and was probably installed in the 17th century. It is 16.5 feet in diameter and its hand is nearly 9 feet long. - (it doesn't look that big!) - The driving weights are large stones and its pendulum swings once every two seconds. The pendulum is not attached to the clock but some distance away, linked by a connecting rod. There are three wheels in the timekeeping mechanism which needs winding once a day. The tower on which the clock face is painted is on the outside of the building. and there is an arched passage under the tower which is part of a public footpath from the High Street to the School on School lane, through the churchyard. (Which I should have investigated but didn't!)

A rather different day - heavy cloud and no sun at all - Temperature around 52 Deg.F. and I'm not sorry to get home!

Hope the weather is a little better where you are.