Time machine

  One of only two clocks in the world with six faces this time machine has little known aspects in that each clock records a different time to match different aspects of Liverpool life.

Clock face 1:

Opening times of the dock road pubs.

Clock face 2:

  Recorded the time that a docker has been working the welt. The welt was a quaint working practice whereby dockers sensibly decided that if one man did the work of two then the other could nip off for a pint. The welt-face clock ensured that there were no disputes concerning the length of time the drinking half of the stevadoring Stahkonovites had been absent as a system of mirrors relayed the time to every pub, cafe and knocking shop on the dock road.

Clock face 3:

  Was set to coincide with the start of race meetings, an invaluable aid to those dockers wishing to keep abreast of the starting tape. Rather than mirrors being employed to inform gentlemen punters of the race times a series of mechanical runners were set up.

Clock face 4 :

   Informed dockers when the football match was about to start. So as to reflect reality, Everton's time was usually lagging behind that of Liverpool's, although according to legends this was not always the case. Some dockers argue that there was a golden age when Everton were the best team in England, and so by extension the world. I imagine it was so long ago that the match was kicked off by a church bell or semaphore from the top of Everton Brow as clocks probably hadn't been invented.

Clock face 5:

  Every day at Liskard, across the river from Liverpool, a cannon was fired at one o'clock . The accuracy of the time that the cannon was fired was assured as it was taken from the fifth face of the clock across the river in Liverpool.

Clock face 6:

  The time on this face never alters as it is set permanently at the time John Lennon was murdered.