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Welcome to the Official Deal Timeball Tower Website

Timeball Tower
Timeball Tower, Deal
Museum on the Seafront, Deal, Kent

Welcome to the Timeball Tower website. The tower is located on the seafront in Deal. This website will give you an insight into the Tower, what it is and information on exhibits and opening times.
Visit the Photograph Galleries for a photographic tour of the museum.
 
The Visitor Information page provides you with our admission and opening times details. The Location page gives you directions to us and the location map is there to give you that little bit more help when finding us.
 
We hope you enjoy visiting our website and hope to see you at the Timeball Tower soon.
 
The Deal Timeball Tower Museum is owned by Dover District Council, but is leased to, and operated by the Deal Museum Trust.  It is manned solely by volunteers who gladly give of their time freely - we are indebted to them all.

We are particularly indebted to the Deal & Walmer Lions association, who staff the tower for us midweek - please support the Lions whenever you can.

Thanks are due to Deal Town Council for a generous grant towards revenue costs. 

The Deal Museum Trust is a registered charity - No. 1097132 and limited company - No. 4067768

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We are open Wed-Sun from Easter until the end of September. However we are very willing to open for group appointments at other times.
 
The museum contains exhibits related to signalling and precision electrical timekeeping.
Items on display include working examples of master clocks by
Synchronome, Gents, English Clock Systems, ITR, Magneta, and Brillie.
We also have a rare Shepherd Clock on display.
 
New Year's Eve
Maintaining the tradition we started a few years ago, the timeball was illuminated and dropped at midnight on New Years Eve to welcome in the new year.  Hundreds of people gathered at the beach opposite the Timeball Tower and later watched the fireworks on the beach provided by Graham Stiles of the Kings Arms.
 
New Years Day
In recognition of the first ever dropping of the Deal Timeball on 1st January, the museum was open to visitors between 12noon and 2pm on New Years Day. This was very well attended once again - thanks to all our visitors.  Apparently there were a couple of seals visible close to the shore opposite the Timeball Tower.
 
 
 
 

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All images and information on this page are Copyright of the T.Cleaver & the Deal Museum Trust 2004 and may not be reproduced without prior permission.
 
Created & Designed by Terry Cleaver of  Dover Soul Media at http://doversoul.tripod.com on behalf of The Deal Timeball Tower Trust. Maintained by S. Chappell and T. Cleaver
 
We are located at the following web addresses: http://dealtimeball.tripod.com
 

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Official Deal Timeball Tower Website by Terry Cleaver, Deal Timeball Tower Trust and Steve Chappell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.