To fix this the Royal Observatory decided to set a standard time that everyone could set clocks to. This was called Greenwich Mean time(GMT). GMT became the only official time used in the UK ...

Herstmonceux Observatory, formerly owned by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, has been owned by Queen's University in Canada since the 1990s and leased to the Observatory Science Centre.

Pickering of Harvard Observatory has been received by the solar physics observatory at South Kensington. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...