The Bridport town hall clock strikes thirteen times to ring in the New Year?! The towns chief horologist Roger Snook explains "Due to the ozone layer above the northern hemisphere being thinner during the winter months causing barometric anomalies which pass over Bridport on the 31st of December, which in turn cause the delicate mechanism within the clock to jump a cog and therefore strike a thirteenth time". So if you're taking part in the New Years festivities or you are a busy sniper in the bell tower, remember you are not hearing things, it's just science.
Being a newbe I have still yet a lot to learn. How do you use this blooming thingy!! Maybe I have to put in the code yeh!
Posted by Carlito, on 02-01-2007 12:13,
I've seen them! Two blokes and a woman - the poor woman has to pedal hers and the blokes have got electric motors! They all pull up outside the Co-Op to buy their Skol Super and Baked Beans.
Posted by miss kitty fantastico, on 29-12-2007 14:41,
Fabulous party ! Thank you very much everyone at Bridport Radio and especially Lord Skilling for his first speech ...
The Bridport town hall clock strikes thirteen times to ring in the New Year?! The towns chief horologist Roger Snook explains "Due to the ozone layer above the northern hemisphere being thinner during the winter months causing barometric anomalies which pass over Bridport on the 31st of December, which in turn cause the delicate mechanism within the clock to jump a cog and therefore strike a thirteenth time". So if you're taking part in the New Years festivities or you are a busy sniper in the bell tower, remember you are not hearing things, it's just science.
