For the 2017 Ramsgate Festival artist Theresa Smith, is celebrating that the town has its own Meridian Line - 5 minutes and 41 seconds ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

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For this year’s Ramsgate Festival creative agency Mooch, led by artist Theresa Smith, is celebrating the fact that Ramsgate has its own Meridian Line which is 5 minutes and 41 seconds ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. For the Ramsgate Meridian project a temporary line is being marked out on the pavements from the town boundary to the Maritime Museum where the line is carved into the floor. The Ramsgate Meridian Line was laid in 1819 and the clock tower inscriptions went up in 1822. In 1848 Ramsgate abandoned RMT in favour of GMT.

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Size: 5999px × 3999px
Location: Kent, England
Photo credit: © Mike Goldwater / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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