Royal Mail has released images of 10 stamps being issued to celebrate the Royal Observatory’s foundation in 1675.

Royal Mail has unveiled 10 stamps being issued to celebrate the history and scientific developments achieved at the Royal ...

The main set of six stamps include the Great Equatorial Telescope, the largest refracting telescope in the UK. (Image: PA) ...

Royal Mail has released images of ten stamps being issued to Royal Observatory’s foundation in 1675. Featured on the main set ...

A set of 10 stamps to mark the history and achievements of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, has been released by Royal Mail.

Starting in 1836, a former Royal Observatory employee named John Belville charged people an annual fee to use his pocket watch. Once a week, he’d come by and visit them and share the time on his watch ...

From sundials to atomic clocks, our understanding of time has become a lot more accurate as technological developments allowed us to measure it more precisely. Much more than helping us arrive on time ...

Greenwich is a large south London borough covering around 47.35 km 2 of land ... specialist Purcell won a competition for a £4.5 million revamp of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich in 2022. Bids for ...

To see where it all started, head to the Royal Observatory. It sits on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames. Here you can marvel at the Great Equatorial ...

Since an international conference in 1884, the world’s time zones have been measured from a line at the Royal Observatory. GMT means Greenwich Mean Time, and putting one foot either side of the ...