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Greenwich

Greenwich
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About Greenwich

Greenwich is an affluent area in south-east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the ceremonial county of Greater London, 5.5 miles (8.9 km) east-south-east of Charing Cross. It contains the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Maritime Greenwich.

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This is this woman called Ruth Belleville and her parents, and her father started the company in 1836. They worked in Greenwich, and so he'd set his watch to Greenwich time at the start of the day, then he'd drive around London, and he'd have people on contracts who would pay him in exchange for him telling them the time.

from No Such Thing As Dinner On A Spider, 2016-06-16 at 00:35:14 · read transcript

Other times Greenwich came up

  1. I think it would have been, that's where the official time keeping device for the country was kept. That's where it started. I think the Paris Observatory was where it was. Yeah. More like the way that Greenwich were the official stewards of, you know, official time. Because there was huge rivalry time wise between Britain and France. It's the main beef between us almost to this day. I would say it wasn't there.

    432: No Such Thing As Sexygesimal Time, 2022-06-24 · listen

  2. Fair enough. This is a better one. Cutty Sark? In Greenwich. Cutty Sark in Greenwich has a figure head. at the front, and I'm sure it's an Andy Peters thing. I think I read a thing about... It is. He did the... Basically, there was a restoration that was done, and then they found some old pictures and realized that what they'd restored looked nothing like what it originally looked like, so they asked him to make a new one.

    608: No Such Thing As A Chocolate Sausage, 2025-11-06 · listen

  3. They've had this huge skyscraper now sort of leans one way. Wow. Isn't that ridiculous? There are 13 of the main protected view laws from one park to another landmark, which you can't put anything in front of. Anna and I went to Greenwich very recently to the museums there. We saw Greenwich Mean Time, the Meridian line and the laser. There's this big green laser that shoots out. So at night, that's what you see.

    69: No Such Thing As The Pamplona Guinea Pig Run, 2015-07-10 · listen

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