Not long before the clock was removed I showed it to my now wife, and she was impressed. It was working, fine. Also, I am an engineer and that clock would not take much repairing to make it work IF it did fail. I do not believe it failed. Our council cannot be trusted on things like this... Cafe offers money, council say YAY! End of story. Make story up that stupid public accept and believe! As usual public accept and forget... Maybe this website is doing something good and helping people come together where things like the observer fail miserably..? Even though this thread is old and there is another thread somewhere where people offered to help/fix clock but it was all to late because on the day the observer announced it may be going, it had already gone - thats how much the council like to keep us informed... tsk.. spit... etc..
(offtopic, no chance of a link now eh?
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