Deal, From The Pier 1899
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More about this scene
Somewhere along this steeply-sloping, shingle beach the armoured legionaries from Julius Caesar's invading army waded ashore in 55BC. In the days when sail reigned supreme, this was once the main harbour town in south-east England, servicing ships moored in the shallow waters of the Downs, between the treacherous Goodwin Sands and the shore. In the centre of this picture is the Time Ball Tower, used for supplying the correct time to the anchored vessels. Originally built as a semaphore station at the end of the 18th century, relaying messages from the Downs to London in two minutes, the time ball was added in 1855. A replica of the one at the Greenwich Observatory, and electrically connected to it, the dark ball started to rise up its mast at 12.55, and was dropped at exactly 1 p.m.
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