Up to 18 July 1969, at exactly 1:00 p.m. each day, the 'One O'Clock Gun' overlooking the River Mersey near Morpeth Dock, Birkenhead, would be fired electrically from the Observatory.
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Germany's Crown Prince Wilhelm was so impressed with the house that in 1913 he built a similar house, the Cecilienhof in Potsdam.
The house was originally built in 1891 for the soap manufacturer Robert William Hudson on Bidston Hill, Birkenhead.
In 1888, the elder Hartnup retired and the younger succeeded him as director of the observatory, which had since been relocated to Bidston Hill.
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