The building in the above photo is the Art Nouveau clock tower in the Huddersfield suburb of Lindley. The clocktower was designed by Manchester architect Edgar Wood and built of local stone, stands 83 feet high.
Having taken advantage of this weekends Heritage Open Days to explore place that perhaps are rarely if ever open to the public, My friend John and I went to Huddersfield.
I have rarely been to Huddersfield, so nearly everything there is new to me and I find it easy to slip into tourist mode. Although I have lived and worked in Yorkshire for more than 20 years now, I have long since realised, that I will never be a local. But thats OK with me because I sometimes get to see things from a different perspective.
There is a narrow spiral staircase with 69 steps to get to a small room at the top and then access to the clock room is a up a wooden ladder and through a narrow hatch in the ceiling. I have never seen a large clockface (6.5 feet) from the inside before, the clock mechanism is large and built by W Potts and sons of Leeds. Whilst we were in the clock room the mechanism struck the quarter hour quite loudly!
Above the entrance door at the bottom of the tower is an inscription "This
tower was erected by James Nield Sykes Esq JP of Field Head, Lindley, for the
benefit of his native village in 1902."
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This is one of the many things I enjoy about Europe; the architecture. I sure wish we had clock or even bell towers here in Minnesota.
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