Dave Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Britain told the world what time it is. 🇬🇧 Not by asking. In 1884, 25 nations sat down in Washington to pick 1 line for the world's clocks. France wanted Paris. Germany wanted Berlin. Some wanted the middle of the Pacific. But the sailors had already voted. 2 thirds of the ships on earth steered by British charts, because for 200 years the Observatory at Greenwich had kept the navy's time, and for 50 of them a red ball had dropped from its roof at 1 o'clock so every captain on the Thames could set his watch. The world's shipping already ran on our time. The vote just admitted it. 22 to 1. That's how Britain does things. Not by asking. By being the thing everyone already relies on. So every time zone on earth is still counted from a brass strip in a London park. You can stand on it, 1 foot east and 1 foot west. Most of London doesn't know it's there. They teach you it's called Greenwich Mean Time. Not that the world had a vote and chose us. That's what Proud Of Us is for. Britain didn't ask the world to choose it. It earned it. That's the way we work too. No sponsors. No ads. No agenda. It runs on people like you. Every film comes with a free lesson for any school that wants one. The world set its watch by Britain once.... Let's give it a reason to look again. 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 👈 Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧