March 2016
Page 12

Could Anyone Mistake this for a Scratch Dial?

A short discussion hypothesizing that a blemish on an Ordnance Survey bench mark at St John’s Church, Hildenborough, might be an attempt by a ‘prankster’ to create a scratch dial. The resulting lines, however, would be highly inaccurate for tracking church services.
Dials: Mass Dials, Dials: Unusual

Derek Humphries

March 2016
Page 30

What Happened to the Calverley Sundial?

The search for a missing sundial from Calverley Grounds in Tunbridge Wells. The author confirms that a sundial was installed in 1924, but subsequent photographs from the 1960s show the pedestal broken and the dial missing, likely due to vandalism.
Dials: Horizontal, Historical Dials

Derek Humphries