Story: Timekeeping
In 1930, 33 years after the clock and tower were first installed, they were moved a little way out of the urban centre to Victoria Street. By then, presumably, most people were wearing watches and a public clock was not quite so necessary in the city’s commercial heart. It had become a civic embellishment.
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