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Please don't answer the maths questions, thanks.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.09.23 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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At noon yesterday there was also a 21-gun salute at Edinburgh Castle. Just the 21 rounds fired.
Word for the day. Bascules. Thank you.
Rod | 09.09.23 - 6:54 a.m. | #
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Ian thinks the 20 and the 21 are the other way around.
dg writes: as did I yesterday. Switched, thanks.
Messiah | 09.09.23 - 7:38 a.m. | #
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Rod - I was just wondering whether they'd have combined it with the One O'clock Gun and made it 22.
I once saw that one marking the untimely end of a passing pigeon who was very much in the wrong place at the wrong time.
martin | 09.09.23 - 7:45 a.m. | #
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As a Wapping resident, I have often had a good, close-up view of the proceedings from the side. But for the late Queen's Jubilee when she had the big flotilla, my wife and I joined a deal where one could be within the flotilla, on a Thames Clipper, having a champagne tea. At the end, having passed under Tower Bridge, the Clipper took us back under the bridge and positioned us right in front of (and of course a little below) the guns for the duration of the salute - which was a bit disconcerting.
MartinG | 09.09.23 - 7:55 a.m. | #
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i worked out the answers to the maths questions but, following instructions, will not post them
Al__S | 09.09.23 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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Witnessed a 62 gun salute last year in April for the Queen's birthday, from more or less the same vantage point as you. I didn't wait until the end and wasn't counting them. Impressive performance and seemed to be quite a lot of interest from the adjacent tourists.
I was somewhere along the Darent at the time yesterday walking the Loop and heard nothing of it.
davews | 09.09.23 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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I wonder if they rotate the guns to get even wear on them, so that gun A this time is gun B next time, and so on.
Trevor S | 09.09.23 - 10:18 a.m. | #
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Another potential maths question: is it possible to be in a position where you can see and hear the guns firing, but the distance is such that the sound of the first gun reaches you at the same time as the sight of the second gun firing, and so on?
dg writes: not at this location, no.
Trevor S | 09.09.23 - 10:25 a.m. | #
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I have actually been there - just like you, seeing it both from at the Tower and from Potters Fields - a few years ago, but the prevailing memory goes back to an earlier salute which began while I was walking over London Bridge: the bit that made it memorable was that, at this distance, there was a distinct gap between seeing each muzzle flash and hearing the bangs.
RogerW | 09.09.23 - 11:12 a.m. | #
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I was surprised that no mention was made about yesterday being the anniversary of the late Queen's death. In fact if you hadn't mentioned it I'd have been none the wiser!
Obviously when it comes to Monarchs, gone IS forgotten!
dg writes: It was on all the BBC news broadcasts - TV and radio. It was on the front cover of at least three national newspapers. They also fired lots of guns to remind people.
I hope you will eventually post the answer to the maths questions, because it's far too hot for my little brain to even begin to figure them out, even if I could, and I'm curious!
Cornish Cockney | 09.09.23 - 5:28 p.m. | #
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Better view of the gunnery action if you’re in Hyde Park, I wonder? Never been, but news footage usually shows cordoned-off people watching the King’s Troop from a safe distance.
Labourer | 10.09.23 - 10:48 a.m. | #
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If I had known, would have invited you up to my office: after nearly 10yrs working next to Potters Field, I was finally actually in the office for a gun salute, and got a fabulous view.
The blast wave from the guns is quite something - putting my hand to the office glass windows you could 'feel' the pulse as it passed.
Am just pleased they loaded blank rounds ....!
Jordan D | 12.09.23 - 8:45 a.m. | #
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