NEWBURY — When the First Parish Church steeple clock strikes 12 today, July 4, it will herald its 150th birthday. Boston attorney Stephen W. Marston Jr. donated the clock – an E. Howard & Co. Model 2 ...

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The belfry clock of the Qrendi parish church – like other big clocks that are found in churches – works by means of wheels that revolve at the pull of ropes that in turn are pulled by pendulums. In ...

As Miss Marple knew only too well, some of the biggest dramas happen in the smallest places. 'Human nature is much the same everywhere, and, of course, one has opportunities of observing it at close ...

ON a building where Bolton steeplejack Fred Dibnah made a name for himself a £15,000 project is well underway. The project at Bolton Parish Church will see the restoration of the clock's 12ft dial and ...

Residents of a town in Ayrshire are coming together in a bid to bring back a near 200-year-old tradition. For the best part of two centuries, Beith's parish church clock has chimed out the hours, ...

A church clock that has sat in darkness for almost two years has been returned to the light thanks to a community campaign Bathgate's High Church clock will be lit up once again after an investigation ...

It has a history of service which dates back more than 180 years. And now the Alyth Parish Church clock has been given a new lease of life thanks, in part, to grant funding from the east Perthshire ...