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Please send your own submissions of your favourite sundials to the webmaster. This is your chance to show your favourite (public) dial (perhaps one near where you live, or one you have found on your travels) to other dialling enthusiasts around the world.
Latest News
Newsflash: Three important dials have recently been reported stolen. Please see the link under 'Stolen Sundials' below and look for makers Charles Voysey and Richard Whitehead, on pages 8 and 9 of the pdf listing, and the dial at the top of page 13 ('circular bronze dial on a short mushroom pedestal')
International Sundial Trail Competition
Why not put together a sundial trail in an area of interest known to you?
In order to increase interest in sundials generally, The "British Sundial Society" and "Sundials on the Internet" have come together jointly to promote a prize for the best sundial trail to be developed in 2009.
This competition is open to all but the closing date is 31st January 2010, and two prizes, of £250 and £100 are offered for the best entries submitted. Full details of the rules and regulations etc are to be found at http://www.sundials.co.uk/competition2009.htm and these will shortly also be placed on the BSS website.
Have your camera with you this summer and let us have details of your trails...
Patrick Powers & Piers Nicholson For and on behalf of BSS & Internetworks Ltd, who are the webmasters of www.sundials.co.uk
The BSS Sundial Design Competition 2010
The aims of the British Sundial
Society include that of 'Promoting the Science and Art
of Gnomonics'. To that aim the Society started what was
then called the Open Awards Scheme (now the Sundial
Design Competition) in 1995. In 2009 the Society
announced the fourth such competition to judge dial
designs made and erected in the five years since the end
of 2005. Dials in the following categories
Professional, Amateur, Restoration and Junior were
eligible. The closing date was 28th. February 2010.
Judging will take place during 2010, and the results
will be announced at the BSS Conference in 2011. One
major award of £500 and up to six further awards of £150
each may be made in the first three categories according
to the judges decisions. Of course, the judges reserve
the right to make fewer or even no awards in any class
if the standard is judged to be insufficient. The
Society looks forward to an interesting competition.
Stolen Sundials
Click here to see a list of dials which have been reported as stolen (PDF
417KB). If you spot a dial in an auction catalogue, on eBay, or in an antique shop or salvage yard, that looks at all suspicious, just check out if it is on our list, and let John Foad know if something looks worth following up.
Publications
The Society's main publication, the Bulletin,
is published four times a year and sent to all members.
The contents of all issues up to September 2009 are listed here.
(MS Word .doc file)
With The Bulletin we send out an informal
Newsletter. All past issues are available on-line here. The June 2008 issue is available on-line here
Other
Sundial Web Sites
While
there is a wealth of pictures and information on this site, rather
than duplicate efforts, we have a large number of links
to other sites, created by other sundial societies around the
world and individual companies and enthusiasts. Many specialise in
one aspect or another of sundials. A notable
recent site has hundreds of photographs of painted wall
sundials; rare in this country but very common in some parts of
the world and often very beautiful.
Some of
our own members design and/or make sundials and have Web sites.
They are listed here
We're
grateful to our member Piers Nicholson for setting up this Web
site. His own site, 'Sundials
on the Internet' contains much information including projects
you can do, books and sundial trails all over the world.
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