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Deal Timeball Tower

Sat 20 Sep 25
Sat 20 Sep:11:30 - 16:30; Free Entry. Victoria Parade, Deal CT14 7BP Heritage Open Day: Discover an iconic Grade II listed building on the seafront, which is a reminder of the importance of the town to the navy in Georgian times. It contains a museum which features exhibits about the history of the tower, its use for navigation, signalling and precision electrical timekeeping, and the mechanics of the operating timeball. The current tower stands on the site of an earlier shutter telegraph, one of a chain of 10 stations between the Admiralty telegraph in Southwark and the Naval Yard at Deal. The telegraph line, which opened in 1796, allowed rapid communication between the naval anchorage in the Downs and the Admiralty in London. From 1821 to 1831, the Tower carried a semaphore mast, which was used by the navy's coast blockade against smugglers... READ MORE>

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