Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich is the historic home of the Prime Meridian Line – Longitude 0º. It has served as the reference line for Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) since 1884.  GMT became the worldwide time-standard a century later.

So it was quite a surprise to find this on a road in Northern Spain:

There we were on the Greenwich Meridian line, whilst incontrovertibly some 1000 miles south of London. And the bull shown in my featured photo, which is a common roadside sight in those parts, proved us to be incontrovertibly in Spain. We must have been moving forward.

For Becky’s #SquaresRenew Challenge, she’s inviting us to post square – only square – photos on the themes of Burgeoning; Moving Forward; Reconstruction; or Renewal

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

37 thoughts on “Greenwich Mean Time”

  2. Yup you got me too, I saw your header and having seen your url thought how can that be in Greenwich . . but of course the line goes all the way from the North Pole to the South Pole.

    Spain technically is in the same time zone as the UK and Portugal, but has chosen to go with France, Germany and most of Europe.

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  5. The bull reminded me of the children’s book, Ferdinand the Bull a gentle bull who’d rather sniff flowers than bullfight. Had to look up the Osborne reference. And on the other side of the earth – GMT is International Date Line. Safe travels.

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