TIME AND TIME AGAIN –
A New Square for Becky B
All the old mills had clock towers and this is an old mill valley. You can’t always read the faces clearly. Some are too high up and sometimes, my eyes aren’t all that great.
I assume it was to remind people to show up to work on time. Or they just liked clocks.
None of the mills are mills anymore. Some are senior centers. A few are mini-shopping malls. The wooden ones have mostly burned to the ground. The prettier ones have become Senior Residences.
The brick one is now the Senior Center in Northbridge. It used to be a place for hobbyists to display their wares. There’s a dam directly behind it and adjacent to it is Whitin’s pond, where the swans live.
The stone one is a senior housing area and it is absolutely beautiful!
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SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
It signifies our historical link to time, Marilyn. Those old clock towers are so majestic.
Leslie
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In the older towns, you really can’t NOT see the clocks. They are in the highest parapet of every building. Even now, almost every bank and business has a clock parapet or tower. Tempus is fugitting.
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but they often chime….
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Love your #timesquare today: history, clocks, architecture and blue sky 🙂
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That’s today’s valley. Colder than the dickens, but clear as a bell!
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They are beautiful old buildings!
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Built remarkably designed, too. Lots of old carved wood inside, high ceilings, big windows. Lots of light and air. Not like more recent factories at all.
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Not sure I’d like to have worked in them though. Tough times!
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I think the people who worked there were very glad they had work. And — irony? — these are the people who are now the family leaders in the towns. Their grand or great-grandfathers and mothers came for the mills, but they stayed and built a life.
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Very different to British mills then!
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There are clock towers in a lot of old cities. Some reminder of times gone by
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I think the clock tower was symbolic, but I’m not entirely sure of what. Tempus fugit?
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