page_title: St Albans Riverside
section_title: Local area and landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: St Albans Riverside / Local area and landmarks
caption_attribution_description: English: Tagg's Island Sundial Between Hampton Court Road and the River Thames. See separate photograph of plaque for sundial information.
context_page_description: St Albans Riverside is a park in Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is situated next to the River Thames alongside Hampton Court Road, and stretches from Thames Street, Hampton to Hampton Court Road. It is next to the bridge connecting mainland and Tagg's Island.
context_section_description: There is a local private boat house nearby as well as Hampton Court Green. Hampton Court Palace is also nearby. In the park, there is a sundial designed by David Harber in the shape of a steel globe. Below it is a plaque which reads:
  This unique sundial designed specifically for Taggs Island consists of 13 fins, a hemisphere and rings which represent the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer and the two polar circles. This dial has been made for the exact latitude and longitude of Taggs Island.
  To read Greenwich Mean Time one must find the two opposing hour fins both bathed in sunlight. The shadow cast by these fins is shown on a band engraved at 13-minute intervals and as such at half past the hour the shadow will be to the left-hand side of the fin. When there is no shadow cast by a particular fin the time is on the hour.
  David Harber Sundials
  
  Henley-on-Thames
  
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  The sundial was commissioned by the widow of Gerald George 'Gerry' Braban (1931–1993), who lobbied for and co-funded the  bridge to Tagg's Island that was built in the 1990s.
caption: The sundial
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