Does anyone know where I might find a high quality photo or even (slimmer chance!) any footage of the Market Hall and the Percy Shurmer clock in operation?
It was a huge mechanical clock, where two (or four?) characters would move and strike a bell. My Grandad was telling us about this a few months ago. It was made in 1883, then transferred to the Bull Ring Market Hall in about 1936 (where Grandad remembers it being as a lad - he would have been 10 years old) then, very sadly in 1940 a WW2 bomb took the Market Hall and the clock out. I think he loved to watch that clock when he visited the centre, and he randomly brought it up when he was talking about his childhood. He would probably like to see a photo or video of it again.
It was mentioned on a thread on this website about 7 years ago - here - but I am hoping that the clock is interesting enough to have its own thread.
https://www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=4688.66
It was a huge mechanical clock, where two (or four?) characters would move and strike a bell. My Grandad was telling us about this a few months ago. It was made in 1883, then transferred to the Bull Ring Market Hall in about 1936 (where Grandad remembers it being as a lad - he would have been 10 years old) then, very sadly in 1940 a WW2 bomb took the Market Hall and the clock out. I think he loved to watch that clock when he visited the centre, and he randomly brought it up when he was talking about his childhood. He would probably like to see a photo or video of it again.
It was mentioned on a thread on this website about 7 years ago - here - but I am hoping that the clock is interesting enough to have its own thread.
https://www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=4688.66
