THIRTY-TON TOWER
REMOVAL TO NEW SITE. A clock tower 35ft. high and weighing nearly 30 tons was removed bodily from Mile End to a new site at Stepney Green. It was a remarkably ingenious engineering feat. " There was always a possibility that the whole thing might crumple up or topple over," Mr. Bernard J. Belsher, the borough engineer, stated. The tower was erected in 1913 at the junction of five roads, but owing to the enormous increase in traffic it had become a serious inconvenience. It took three hours to fix a " cradle " for the tower. Then, an eighth of an inch at a time, the structure was jacked up and fixed in position in the cradle. All along the route to Stepney the overhead tramway cables and telephone lines were taken down to allow the tower to pass.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21758, 24 March 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)
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139THIRTY-TON TOWER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21758, 24 March 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)
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