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Victorian Clock Mechanism in the Caledonian Park Clocktower

Caledonian Road, Islington, was opened in 1855, by the late Prince Consort. It was designed by Mr. Bunning, the City architect; cost nearly 500,000l., and occupies seventy- - four acres within the walls. The average weekly sale of beasts in this monster live-stock emporium is 25,000 sheep and 5000 oxen, besides calves, pigs, &c. There are "pens" here for 34,890 sheep; bullock-posts for 6616 beasts; two taverns on the north side of the market, public- houses at each corner, twelve banking-houses, and en electric telegraph office, open only on market-days, ranged around the clock-tower. All sales are for cash.

Cruchley's London in 1865 : A Handbook for Strangers, 1865

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[Phalos17]

It should be cleaned very soon...

[DAKOTA56777]

big clock lol

[venx86]

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