Turret Clock, an exhibit in the Museum in the Park

We had a very filling early lunch at The Fleece in Rooksmoor with my sister, Rosie, who was visiting us from Wiltshire. We had planned that tomorrow we'd all go to the GWSR (Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway) which has just extended their line a few miles as far north as Broadway. Unfortunately there is very poor weather forecast so Rosie decided to go home today and we'll do that trip another time.

After lunch we all went to Stroud's 'Museum in the Park' which is a favourite haunt of Helena and I, which Rosie hadn't visited before. On the way out I tried to photograph this amazing clock which is a permanent exhibit just inside the main entrance. The clock's dial faces visitors in the new extension of the museum, as they approach through the courtyard of the old Stratford Court built in 1644.

The information sheet describes it thus:
Turret Clock
Made by Wasborough and Duggan, Bristol 1821

The clock mechanism was installed at the south end of Dunkirk Mill, Woodchester. The clock has three winding barrels. The middle one drives the hands. The two outer ones operate the bell hammers that strike each hour, half and quarter.

Two of the bells are original. An inscription on the larger bell reads "RUDHALL FECT 1818 GLOUCESTER" (The Rudhall family were bellfounders. 'Fect' is a latin abbreviation meaning 'made by').'

Many mills had their own clocks and hooters as time-keepers for the workers.

Dial, hands and motion gear
From the clock of St George's Church, Nailsworth.

The church was rebuilt in 1896, but the tower was never complete. A turret with wooden legs was built to house the clock, which became known as 'The clock on Stilts'.

Restored in 2007 by the Cumbria Clock Company.