We have finished assembling the Nottingham Water Clock at Millennium Point. It took us three days but the Clock is complete. All we need to do now is get her working!
Time ran out Wednesday evening with more adjustments to be made to get the clock fully functional but that will happen over the next few days. The task of getting a 7.5 metre high machine into an 8 metre high space has presented its own challenges. Thanks to Pete Dexter, Ed Copcutt, Janet Griffiths, Richard Partington, Iain Sweetnam and Alison Sweetnam for their work on the assembly. The accepted way of greeting the Clock appears to be "Wow".
I came to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in August this year and was delighted to see this exhibition of Rowland Emett's fantastic whimsical machines . I originate from Birmingham but now live in Crete. I was so enthralled by this exhibition that I have joined The Rowland Emett Society.
ReplyDeleteI came to Birmingham to see the Emett exhibition, which was delightful. However, I expected to see the Nottingham clock (I live in Nottingham and was looking forward to seeing the clock restored and alongside other Emett machines). I was disgruntled to discover that it wasn't part of the exhibition, but I trekked across Birmingham city centre to track it down in a bleak, empty location with no passersby - only to find that it had been removed two days before. Unimpressed.
ReplyDeleteYou will have seen from visiting the Gas Hall that we didn't have space to fit it in. The clock's location, Millennium Point, was made rather less 'bleak' by its presence and it attracted a great deal of positive comment. As for passers-by, Think Tank, the entrance to which was next to the clock, attracted 34,000 people in August alone, so plenty of people were able to see the clock. Just as it should be.
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