Turret clock, and one dial from Basingstoke town hall, Hampshiire, made by John Atkins, Lichfield, Staffordshire 1760, modernised together with the addition of a five bell chiming movement by J W Benson, Ludgate Hill, London 1887installed in the town h

Turret clock, and one dial from Basingstoke town hall, Hampshiire, made by John Atkins, Lichfield, Staffordshire 1760, modernised together with the addition of a five bell chiming movement by J W Benson, Ludgate Hill, London 1887
installed in the town hall when built in 1832; moved to a higher tower erected 1887, the gift of Col John May to celebrate the golden jubilee of Victoria, 'a handsome clocktower in place of the hideous structure which formerly did duty'; described in 1930 'the market plae with its curious Town Hall and cast iron clock'; removed when the unsafe tower was demolished 1961
Turret clock, and one dial from Basingstoke town hall, Hampshiire, made by John Atkins, Lichfield, Staffordshire 1760, modernised together with the addition of a five bell chiming movement by J W Benson, Ludgate Hill, London 1887installed in the town h