The Sundial
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Sundial by Andy Potter as part of the Geograph project.
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The Sundial
Image: © Andy Potter Taken: 24 Mar 2009
Built in 1903 on the site of two ancient cottages to a design by Arnold Dunbar Smith for Mr and Mrs Pethick Lawrence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pethick_Lawrence as a country home for Emmeline Pethick Lawrence’s Esperance club for working class London girls. It was subsequently owned/occupied by author and journalist John Langdon-Davies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Langdon-Davies , founder of PLAN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_(aid_organisation). A sundial reading the motto, ‘Let others tell of storms and showers, I tell of sunny morning hours’ is on the south-east facing wall.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.194825
Longitude
-0.326282