This stone sundial, erected in 1890 in the new Inverleith Park in Edinburgh, was presented by Councillor Kinloch Anderson. [Photo: Dennis Cowan]
It was a well attended and lively meeting. The Inverleith sundial and its background history interested everyone. The sundial was presented by Councillor Kinloch Anderson to stand in what was then a new public park in 1890. This was an imaginative gesture for its day. The people enjoying the park did not look at a wristwatch to tell the time, because these commonplace devices were not invented until much later after the First World War. Instead, the sundial, which is like a four-faced clock tower, stood in place of a public clock. Now, after a century and a quarter since it was built the sundial is showing its age. There are timely plans for conservation work to extend its life, encouraged by the present day Kinloch Anderson family, starting in 2018.