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The main aspects of the street clock section are;
1) The club: This is free to join and will interlink with the other clocktrust clubs. Its a great resource that gets stronger by your involvement.
2) Installations: An important part of the clock trust is to find a re-use policy, so that if clocks have to be removed they get a re-use within society. Installations offer a way forward, this might be at the local museum, train station (great for queue calming) to within hospital areas, where there therapeutic value is immense.
If we can get them in prominent places then they are seen by society and this add value to the ones still doing service in clock towers and the such.
3) Clock Watch: At the grass route level, within the club, its to build up a picture of what clocks still exist. The ‘did you see’ section in the group is the foundation of this. This then leads to further investigation and the clock watch program. The Devon Clock Trust is the pilot study, where experts visit turret clocks and appraise, document and record unique feature. Then a long term maintenance plan is defined so the clocks don’t go beyond simple maintenance and fall into decline. We then look at a strategic plan for clocks in the area and establish funding for the clock watch program. This is where we use novel ideas to allow visible access to the clock via the internet and long term diagnostic monitoring. This allows the clocks to be maintained by experts, by the actions of the clock winder. The high visibility of the clock and bell system then promotes public interest and awareness. This can lead to funding routes.
We can only be as good as the members of the clubs an d the owners of the turret clocks allow us. The place would be very bland without large dial commercial clocks!
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