Clocking off!
Reporter: JANICE BARKER
Date published: 02 July 2009
FLASHBACK to November, 2002, and the clock is unveiled by (from the left) Liam Curtin, Wendy Jones and Michael Trainor, from the Art Group in Manchester, Councillor Richard Knowles and chief engineer Mike Thompson
Council calls time on innovative timepiece
One of Oldham’s less successful artworks — the pavement clock — has disappeared beneath a new garden, in time for a visit by North-West in Bloom judges.
Parks department staff are busy installing the timber baulks which will contain the soil in Market Place, in front of Spindles Town Square shopping centre.
The clock was part of a £470,000 town centre improvement in 2002, and used a series of lights to indicate the hours and minutes. But time has stood still for the clock, which has not worked for years. Now the new garden will mark the changing seasons instead.
