Clock tower - arch. Features •
Clock towers are structures that may have clocks or clock faces attached to them and some structures have had clocks added to the existing structures.
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Although clock towers are today mostly admired for their aesthetics, they once served an important purpose. Before the middle of the twentieth century, most people did not have watches, and before the 18th century, even home clocks were rare.
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A firman issued by Nizam Sikandar Jah established the city of Secunderabad after his name in 1806. To honor the progress achieved by the British officers stationed at Secunderabad Cantonment in Hyderabad, the erstwhile British government established 10 acres (4.0 ha) of land for this purpose in 1860.
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A 120-ft high clock tower was constructed in a park of 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) in 1896.
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the tower was inaugurated by Resident Sir Trevor John Chichele Plowden on 1 February 1897. The clock on the tower was donated by Dewan Bahadur Seth Lachmi Narayan Ramgopal, a businessman.
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Urban morphology
Fig: Tower top Fig: Clock
Fig: Opening Fig: Masonry
In 2003, the tower was placed on a demolition list drawn up by the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad to accommodate the increasing traffic. A senior official at this civic agency of the Government of Andhra Pradesh said that they were trying their best not to demolish this structure. Two of the tower’s four clocks experienced technical problems and stopped working. Fig: Illustration of Secunderabad clock tower
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