Talk:List of clock towers

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This is not a definitive list but a sample or a project work-in-progress[edit]

I live in the UK and there must be hundreds, if not thousands, of clock towers in the UK. Most medium-sized Towns will have at least one and Cities will have many. The UK has 68 Cities[1] and 700 Towns over 14,000 population [2] so this gives a guess of at least 1,300 clock towers if we say 10 per City and one per larger Town. Then if you added the tower clocks for churches, although not all their turret clocks will be towers, then there must be thousands. This Wiki entry's list has just 26 towers in the UK so is just a random selection. If one types "Scotland clock tower" into Google UK and go to Images and scroll down I can see many more than 26 unique towers here alone. Clock Towers have been built in the UK for hundreds of years[3] and there will be many hundreds still surviving. Mr Chris Moore is an expert[4] in clock towers and in one of his books he states that one UK manufacturer alone built 1,000 turret clocks[5]. The Antiquarian Horological Society even have a Turret Clock Database Manager and a Turret Clock Group[6].

One source reference for the list in the article[7] has only 9 entries for the UK Andrew ranfurly (talk) 15:08, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the_United_Kingdom
  2. ^ http://www.lovemytown.co.uk/populations/TownsTable1.asp
  3. ^ http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/heritage/high-street-history-clock-towers
  4. ^ http://www.turretclock.force9.co.uk/
  5. ^ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Church-Turret-Musical-Clocks-Manufactured/dp/1514858967/ref=sr_1_66?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1497188635&sr=1-66&keywords=clock+tower
  6. ^ http://www.ahsoc.org/groups/turret-clock-group/
  7. ^ http://www.towerclocks.org/

The pictures are too much, as is the template used for Asia[edit]

PICTURES: It only works with countries with few examples, and not even there to be honest. The page has the ambition (as "work in progress") to cover the entire world: it won't work with so many pictures.

TEMPLATE: the complicated one used for Asia is restricting access to editors with endless time & patience on their hands. This is and should remain little more than a list, from which countries with lots of clock towers like Turkey can break off their own articles, with history, photos, etc.

Right now, it's neither here nor there. And the idea as such is excellent, so let's remove the extra weight! A happy new year to you all, Arminden (talk) 21:49, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Turkey is in Asia by a large margin[edit]

Turkey has a tiny foothold in Europe. 3% of its land area & 14% of its population, in less than 4 of its 81 provinces. Check out if you wish: the European part or East Thrace consists of 3 provinces (Edirne, Kırklareli, and Tekirdağ) + part of another 2 (Çanakkale and Istanbul). The source for the 3% and 14% figures is some 5 years old (Zdanowski, Jerzy. "Middle Eastern Societies in the 20th Century". Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014, p. 11, ISBN 978-1443869591). By any logic, Turkey belongs on the Asia list. At least until somebody decides to create a Near/Middle East or MENA category, which might make a lot of sense, since it was mostly Ottoman until WWI, and probably most historical clock towers there are Ottoman, plus some Europen (mainly French) colonial and Persian ones and a few other exceptions. Arminden (talk) 22:06, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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