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Edinburgh’s landmark clock tower has been responsible for keeping commuters and travellers on time for more than a century – and yet it is never correct. Arrive in Edinburgh on any given day ...
The Balmoral is the first and last word in Scotland’s luxury hotels and is an Edinburgh institution – the Balmoral clock tower features on nearly every guidebook cover of the Scottish capital.
As people across the UK roll their clocks back to GMT on Sunday, there's one well-loved Scottish clock that will remain at the wrong time. Ever since the Balmoral Hotel clock tower was built in ...
This neo-Renaissance building with its massive clock tower has been an Edinburgh landmark for more than a century. With elegant bedrooms and over-the-top marble bathrooms, a spa, gym and swimming ...
The Balmoral Clock, which sits in a clock tower above the Balmoral Hotel, is stopped running after pictures sent to the Evening News this morning captured the clock showing 6.25 at around 7.45am ...
Edinburgh’s Lord Provost Robert Aldridge has officially unveiled this year’s floral clock in West Princes Street Gardens. The colourful timepiece is a vibrant tribute marking 200 years of ...
The clock’s creation was a collaboration between John McHattie, Edinburgh’s park superintendent at the time, and James Ritchie & Son, a local clock maker founded in 1809.
Lord of the Rings star Ian McKellen launches quest over Edinburgh Festival Fringe venue's ‘iconic’ clock tower He is known to millions as the wizard Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings fantasy films.
The clock tower, which was designed by William Hamilton Beattie, rises 190ft (58m) into the capital's skyline. The original mechanism, although not used any more, is still in the clock tower.