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.
Richardsons Funeral Directors
Jutting about 1m (3ft) from a red sandstone building in Penrith, Cumbria is our latest clock.
Richardsons Funeral Directors, Penrith, Cumbria
Looking up and down Victoria Road in Penrith is this clock on the Richardsons Funeral Directors building.
This is the first time we have seen a clock on a funeral directors and in some ways is quite apt. Let us know what you think via the comments section below.
Written just below the centre of the clock is the text ‘Established 1852′.
Richardsons Funeral Directors
For over 150 years the family owned business in Penrith has been arranging funerals for the local populous.
Historically many funeral directors have connections to timber or wood. Often joiners or carpenters were also the local funeral directors. In the case of Richardsons they also operate a timber merchants on Roper Street in the town.