The Timeball Tower
by Margaret Hormann Bfa
Title
The Timeball Tower
Artist
Margaret Hormann Bfa
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Fine Art
Description
The Timeball Tower, Williamstown.
"The Lighthouse was erected in 1852, and replaced earlier navigational aids established from the time of the first settlement in 1835. A Timeball apparatus mounted on top of the bluestone tower operated regularly until 1926.
The Timeball Tower is situated at Point Gellibrand, Williamstown. Its original use was as a signalling device to ships. From 1858 until 1926 the large ball on the top was dropped each afternoon at one o'clock to allow shipmasters moored offshore to correct their chronometers.
In 1932 it was adapted for use as a lighthouse by the addition of a 30ft circular brick tower and it operated as such until 1987. The Williamstown Historical Society has recently had the brickwork removed and the tower restored to its original design. ":http://www.justimagine.com.au/au/vic/williamstown.asp?fState=vic
Canon EOS 500D
Edited in Photoshop CS5 using texture layers by "Princess of Shadows":http://princess-of-shadows.deviantart.com/ and one of my own.
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July 22nd, 2011
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