Category:Queens Park Clock Tower
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1935: Lake and Clock Tower [image info]
The Queens Park Clock Tower had its inauguration ceremony in 1915.
The Clock Tower was paid for by William Godley (or "Godleye", as it says on the tower's inscription), who died unmarried (and presumably without heirs) in 1912 and left over twelve thousand pounds. A thousand pounds of this was to build a clock for Queens Park, and the money he left also set up "The William Godley Charity".
The architect for the tower was New-Zealand-born Llewellyn E. Williams.
Plaque text, 1915:
THIS CLOCK TOWER WAS PROVIDED OUT OF MONEYS BEQUEATHED FOR THE PURPOSE TO THE CORPORATION OF BRIGHTON BY THE LATE WILLIAM GODLEY ESQ OF THIS TOWN & WAS DEDICATED TO THE PUBLIC USE ON THE 24th DAY OF JUNE 1915
PARKS COMMITTEE 1913-14-15
ALDERMAN J.L. OTTER MAYOR
- ALDERMAN E.J. BUTT-THOMPSON
- ALDERMAN J. STRINGER
- ALDERMAN H. TESTER
- COUNCILLOR T.J. BRAYBON
- COUNCILLOR W. BROADBRIDGE
- COUNCILLOR H.E. HARDY
- COUNCILLOR R. MAJOR
- COUNCILLOR A. MARTIN
- COUNCILLOR J.W. PENFOLD CHAIRMAN 1914-15
- COUNCILLOR A.J.SMITH
- COUNCILLOR J. SMITH
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- COUNCILLOR B.N. SOUTHALL
- COUNCILLOR A.L.B. TINDALL
- COUNCILLOR W. TINDALE
- LLEWELLYN E. WILLIAMS A.R.I.B.A. / ARCHITECT
- HUGO TALBOT / TOWN CLERK
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Lake and Clocktower, Queens Park (BrightonHbk 1935).jpg 2,200 × 1,517; 2.77 MB
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