The Dial House, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol
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The Dial House, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 29 Oct 2012
Viewed across Trym Road. The Dial House used to be a toll house. Channells Hill on the left was the road leading to the ferry across the Bristol Channel. The About Bristol website states that a woman who lived in the house was courted by one of the young men of the village, who had second thoughts and jilted her. She was devastated but decided to put on a brave front. She had the dial of a clock painted on the house, with the hands set at the time he left her, to humiliate him and remind the village of his ungentlemanly behaviour.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.494382
Longitude
-2.614157