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CLOCK STILL TICKING ON AFTER 184 YEARS Keen observers in Tewkesbury will notice that the big clock, high up on the west end of Holy Trinity Church, facing Trinity Street, is working again. It had stopped a year ago, after two sprockets on the main cog snapped off. In May, church member Allen Snow (a former Project Engineer at GCHQ) hired CCL Service and a cherrypicker to mend it, clean the face and numerals and regild the hands. Now it’s looking as good as new. But how old is it? It actually dates back to 1837, the year that Holy Trinity was built. (The same year that 18-yearold Victoria became Queen and Charles Dickens started on ‘Oliver Twist’). The ‘Tewkesbury Yearly Register’ of 183049 provides us with all the details of the construction and cost. It was a ’turret clock’, built by a Mr Thomas Pew, who worked as a clockmaker in the town for three decades, and came in at £37. The oak carved dial frame was made in London for
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£17. Together with the bolts, screws, timber, labour, deliveries and the original drawings, the total was £70 4s 6d, which would have equated to a years wages of a skilled workman of the time. That purchasing power now would be roughly £4,200.00. Like the church itself, the clock was paid for by the congregation and it would have been of real service for the towns-
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people, in an age where personal clocks and watches were only for the well-off. The original mechanism, powered by a weight, worked well for over a century, but by the early 1960s it was wearing out and would only run 5 days at a time. Allen converted it to run off an electric motor in 1966 and has maintained it ever since. In 1990 the original Victorian mechanism, by then long redundant, was finally removed. Talking of time-keeping, Reverend Stephen Walker, Vicar of Holy Trinity says that as well as providing online worship each week, the church is now open again for people of all ages to attend Sunday worship at 10am, but at the moment pre-booking is necessary. Just visit www.trinitytewkesbury.org.uk or call 01684 292797 to book your place.
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