Showcasing public and civic clocks around the world.
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Work to restore a Gillett and Brand clock at to Lowther Castle near Penrith, Cumbria has started.
Installed in 1877 by Gillett and Brand,the Lowther Clock kept time in the stable courtyard for generations. Pic Val Corbett/Lowther Gardens
Installed in 1877 by famous clock makers Gillett and Brand, it has kept time in the stable courtyard for generations of grooms and stable hands.
Read more about the restoration at Heritageandhistory.com
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This very large clock is mounted on to the front of the market hall in Ormskirk, Lancashire.
Ormskirk Market Hall, Lancashire
A stallholder tells of a story where a bird, like a cuckoo, used to pop out from above the clock to tell of the new hour.
Sadly this clock has not worked for many years.
Update – 11 May 2011
Clive has been in touch, he said: - The clock used to work and I was asked by the proprietors to make the Cuckoo bit (including the doors) work. This was probably in the 80′s. The mechanics were OK and it was a matter of making microswitches and relays to control the mechanism. It was very successful for years.
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Oxford Rd railway station - Manchester - Platform 2
Made by Gent this small double sided clock tells the time for passengers at a train station in Manchester.
Hanging from the roof above platform 2, Oxford Road Manchester, is a reminder of how analogue time has been replace by bright digital clocks.
The face is starting to become cream in colour and does not appear to be working.
Oxford Road railway station opened in 1849 and was rebuilt in the 1960′s.
It has five platforms
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The Stopped Clocks Foundation is a public collaborative project which exists to first document all the stopped clocks in the UK, with the aim being to restore those they can to working order.
The overall aim is to try and provide the information and organisational tools for people to have clocks in their neighbourhood fixed, by collaborating in fund raising activities, and in general raising awareness of stopped clocks around the country.
Stopped clock
Using MoBlogging technology images and details of many stopped clocks around the country are exhibited on the website . These are posted by the users and general public from a mobile phone or via email.
The website is a little hard to navigate and you seem to get a large number of new windows being created however, if you persevere you can find a clock map, a gallery wall and details about events and further details about the project.
Partnership
Good Directions Ltd of Southampton have recently become a partner with the Stopped Clocks Foundation. They design, manufacture and install exterior clocks and clock towers as well as repair them.
Les Kirk, leading clock restoration expert of Good Directions Ltd, has over 35 years of experience of working with all types of public, tower and turret clocks and has always been passionate about his trade.
His accumulated knowledge of clock making has been used to service, repair and restore many hundreds of public clocks throughout the UK.
“Public clocks are so much more than simply time keeping devices,” says Les Kirk of Good Directions Ltd.
“We are often contacted by people who not only want to see their neighbourhood clock telling the correct time but also renovated as a marker for the regeneration in their community and care for their surroundings and local heritage.
Clocks are also, in their own right, remarkable, interesting and vital pieces of civic architecture, often indicative of historical changes to the layout of towns and cities and have to be worth restoring for future generations to enjoy.”
Get involved
Even if you’re not a member of the site yet you can still post easily via email, just send your pictures in with as much detail as possible to:
stopped(at)moblog(dot)(net)
You can also send posts in via MMS (texting pictures from your cameraphone) while you’re out and about. Just send in to 07786201241 with the letters stpd at the start of the message.
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The Ulverston Savings Bank clock in Ulverston, South Cumbria was built in 1845. It has also been known as the TSB clock and the Lloyds clock
TSB Clock - Ulverston
It was made by Roberts, Fothergill and Dobinson of the Globe Works Manchester.
An electric drive was fitted in 1977
The clock has three bells.
In June 2010 the clock stopped due to a problem with the electrical supply to the mechanisms. This it seems was as a result to works carried out in the bank below.
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