Happy New Year!

This is the Waterloo Tower at Quex Park in Kent. It is a bell tower, built in 1819 for John Powell Powell, an eccentric whose interests included bell ringing, yachting and collecting cannon. The spire on the top was considered a very daring design for the date and looks a bit like the Eiffel Tower, which was not built until 1889.

At midnight on New Years Eve the twelve bells ring out to welcome the New Year.

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,

The flying cloud, the frosty light;

The year is dying in the night;

Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,

Ring, happy bells, across the snow:

The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

 Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Wishing you a very Happy New Year!

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