St James’ 150-year-old clock finally ticks again after work
AFTER decades of being out of action, the clock at St James has been repaired, with the bell in the tower once again ringing out across St Peter Port.
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The 150-year-old timepiece stopped working after a number of renovation works on the building.
Work was carried out by church and public clock specialists the Cumbria Clock Company.
David Clarke, southwest regional engineer for the company, said he was ‘really pleased with how it’s all gone’.
‘We completely reassembled it, which is where we find little problems with it, so we sorted those problems out and once that was done we put it on a test bed, ticking away for three weeks.’
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