Clock Update

By The Revd Jeremy Dussek

In February’s B13 magazine, there’s an article all about St Mary’s Clock. Did you know it is the second lock on the Tower? Thanks to Anne Bold, we know the current clock by J B Joyce of Whitchurch cost £250 … in 1937.

Seventy years on, this clock has temporarily come to the end of its life and in the next couple of months it will be dismantled and taken apart for restoration. Thanks to everyone who gave over the Christmas weekend. We have been able to raise the sum to pay for the work to be carried out. Internally, the clock movement will be totally overhauled and an automatic winder added so John Dowell won’t have to go up and down the Tower every three days to get it going. The striking mechanism will be re-instated and an automatic silencer added so that the clock will not strike during the night. You’ll have to go to the pub if you want to hear the hour marked at eleven o’clock. Externally the two faces and hands will be re-gilded and so will be fresh for everyone to see. Hopefully, it will be all back working in the late Spring. Look out in Moseley Chimes for the clock’s ‘re-launch’.

Thank you to everyone who has given generous donations, any further ones are welcome for the maintenance of the clock in the future years.

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