File:St Pancras Station - Dent clock 2024-04-22.jpg
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Dent clock, St Pancras station
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English: In 1978, British Rail attempted to raise funds with the sale of the impressive 18 foot diameter station clock to a wealthy American collector. Custom made for St Pancras station by the world renown Dent (clocks and watches) the unique time-piece was valued at £250,000, but during removal it was somehow dropped, shattering on the floor below. Now worth far less money, it was sold to Roland Hoggard, a train driver nearing retirement, for £25. It took over a week for Hoggard to transport the giant broken clock, a few parts at a time, to his Nottinghamshire home, where he carefully pieced it all back together, to hang on the wall of his barn. Decades later during the station's renewal as 'St Pancras International', Dent of London were able to create an exact replica of the clock by using the original as a template. Hoggard was invited to the 2007 grand re-opening of St Pancras, and able to see the new clock installed exactly where the original had been. |
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| Author | Amanda Slater |
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