Sundial On A Cloudy Day.

I saw this lone pillar in the West Meadows as I cycled past earlier; I don't think I ever really noticed it was there before despite an interest in sundials, so I decided to find out more about it.

The Prince Albert Sundial is a commemorative monument in The Meadows celebrating the opening of the International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art, held there in 1886.

A timely inscription on the base reads:

"Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound."

- William Cowper.