A Brief Time in History: Stephen Hawking and the Corpus Christi Clock, Cambridge - 19th September 2008
World-famous brain-box Stephen Hawking makes an appearance in the centre of Cambridge to officially open a new clock. The clock was built by kettle thermostat inventor John Taylor, and sits on a corner of Corpus Christi on Benet Street in Cambridge. After an introduction by Taylor (who frequently referred to The Prof as "Hawkin" or "Hawkins", like he might have been a long-lost brother of the guys out of the band "The Darkness"), Hawking gets his robot voice out for a large crowd clustering around the covered clock. Even TV's Adam Hart-Davis is amongst the invited group of the great and the good.
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The setting sun glints through Kings College |
Gathering crowds and a press pack |
Some press dude has a laff about something |
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An 1867 sign for the ong-defunct London & County Bank |
There's even a brass band on the go |
Some college dude peers out from his study window over the proceedings below |
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University types stream in from stage left |
John Taylor (in the white tux) and Prof. Hawking |
The crowds are aghast |
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The kettle-thermostat-guy reads his speech |
Stephen Hawking |
The "Chronophage" clock is unveiled |
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The assembled masses |
The press steam in for a close-up. Nosher is reluctant to try his "I've had photos in the Diss Express" line |
Fred Astaire gets ready to do a turn |
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Adam Hart-Davis off of "What the [Tudors|Romans|Victorians] did for us" resplendent in checked trousers |
An adult and small boy creep up, curiously, to the chronophage |
A frenzy of amateur photographers pile in after the cordons are removed |
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A close-up of the clock, with the towers of Kings College reflected in the glass |
Fred Astaire poses for tourist photos |
Kings Parade: cycles ahoy |
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The next day, on Mill Road, someone has perched a cone on the roof of a bus shelter |
Back in Brome, Maurice Hammond's new Mustang tears arounf the Suffolk sky. Nosher's camera's CCD needs some cleaning... | |
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