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The Bulletin
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Fix this text“The Bulletin,” Vol. 76 —No. 3936
Fix this textWednesday, July 20, 1955
Fix this textPrice 9d.
Fix this textRegistered at the General Post Offiee, Sydney, N.S.W- Australia, tor transmission by Post as a Newspaper
Fix this textTHE WONDERFUL CLOCK
Fix this textAT WELLS
Fix this textPLAY-ACTS THE PASSING HOURS
Fix this textAMONG the many outstanding
Fix this textfeatures of Wells Cathedral in
Fix this textSomerset is the famous clock in the
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Fix this textattraction for visitors from many parts
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Fix this textevery year.
Fix this textThe clock is six hundred years -old,
Fix this textand was invented by Peter Lightfoot,
Fix this texta monk of Glastonbury (c, 1335). In
Fix this textaddition to telling the time it records
Fix this textthe phases of the moon and the position
Fix this textof the planets, and at first sight it looks
Fix this textlike man’s first attempt at making an
Fix this textautomatic calculating machine. The
Fix this textoriginal works, still in working order,
Fix this textcan be seen in the Science Museum in
Fix this textLondon. The dial is a mass of lines
Fix this textand numbers and is six and a half feet
Fix this textin diameter. It consists of a large outer
Fix this textcircle which is divided into the twenty-
Fix this textfour hours of the day, and around
Fix this textwhich moves a star; the minutes are
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Fix this textThe quarters are struck by a seated
Fix this textfigure in the costume of the time of
Fix this textCharles I, which sits high up on the
Fix this textwest wall to the left of the clock dial.
Fix this textThis figure is known locally as Jack
Fix this textBlandiver* and he heelkicks two bells.
Fix this textSimultaneously outside the cathedral
Fix this texttwo figures in 15th-century armour and
Fix this textknown as “Quarter Jacks” strike two
Fix this textbells with their halberds. The hours
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Fix this textmounted knights revolve in a tourna-
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Fix this textthe right and two from the left, and at
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Fix this texthis horse by the sword of his adversary.
Fix this textThe tournament spins round to a
Fix this textstandstill until Jack Blandiver starts
Fix this textthe whole mechanism in motion again
Fix this textan hour later.
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