Deal Seafront from the pier, showing the Time-Ball Tower and The Regent, a former bingo hall.
Deal Timeball is a Victorian maritime Greenwich Mean Time signal located on the roof of a waterfront four-storey tower in the coastal town of Deal, in Kent, England. It was established in 1855 by the Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy in collaboration with Charles V. Walker, superintendent of telegraphs for the South Eastern Railway Company. It was built by the Lambeth firm of engineers Maudslay and Field. The timeball, which, like the Greenwich timeball, fell at 1 pm precisely, was triggered by an electric signal directly from the Royal Observatory. Before it became a timeball tower, the tower was a semaphore tower used to signal to ships at anchor in the Downs or passing in the English Channel. The Regent, a former bingo hall on the Deal seafront, has been empty for a number of years. During 2011, Dover District Council sold the building to Silver Screen Cinemas and in July 2013 a planning application was submitted for the refurbishment of the building into a three screen cinema with cafe/restaurant and snack bar.
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Location: Deal Pier, Deal, Kent,
Photo credit: © John Gaffen 2 / Alamy / Afripics
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