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First update of the week is a little bit of Twitter oddity. Following on the heels of Downing Street and Tower Bridge (Sample update: I am opening for the SB Lady Daphne, which is passing downstream), is a new Twitter account, Stopped Clocks.

It’s dedicated to locating and documenting all examples of public clocks which have ground to a halt in the UK as the first stage in getting funding to fix them.

And the reasoning behind it?

“We don’t like seeing stopped clocks, so we hope that one day we can get them fixed. More than that, stopped clocks are immensely sad things, they represent a disconnect with our past and our heritage so by drawing attention to them we hope that it makes people think about this, and pitch in to help.”

One of their earlier Tweets show they’re embracing new media to help bring the past back online:

“the whole project depends entirely on crowd sourcing, so twitter is perfect“

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