The One o’clock Gun is fired at 13:00 hours every day except Sunday – you can join the crowds to experience its roar.
The tradition began in 1861 to provide ships in the Firth of Forth with an audible time signal to accompany the visual signal of the time-ball dropping at the top of the Nelson Monument. This helped shipping set the maritime clocks needed to navigate the globe long before satellite navigation was available. You can hear the gun clearly from our classrooms at Edinburgh Language Academy.
You can hear daily news about Edinburgh Castle on Edinburgh Castle’s Blog
Questions true or false?
1) The gun is fired every Sunday at 1pm.
2) The gun used to be fired from Nelson’s Monument.
3) GPS wasn’t available in 1861.
4) You can’t hear the gun from our classrooms.
Pssst!……TEACHERS
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