The Bellringer’s Clock
MADE FROM ODDS AND ENDS
Eldersfield Church near Gloucester has a new clock, for which it has to thank one of its bellringers.
Mr J. Carter is only a bellringer on Sundays and special occasions. On week days he is a wheelwright, and he has made this clock out of the odds and ends of his trade.He took three wheels from an ancient winnowing machine, two drivingwheels from bicycles, an iron-rimmed skittle ball for the pendulum, the steel from a blacksmith’s bellows for two discs, and he hammered some old brass into a skeleton pattern for the face and the hands. These and a few other oddments now make a fine clock for the village, a clock which strikes the hours on one of the bells its maker rings on Sundays,
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Northern Advocate, 1 December 1936, Page 2
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134The Bellringer’s Clock Northern Advocate, 1 December 1936, Page 2
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