Clock Tower: restored

A fundraising campaign started by former Lambeth mayor, Rudy Daley and the Friends of Brockwell Park, raised over £20,000 to restore the neglected Tritton Clock in Brockwell Park to its former state. It was given to the public by the MP for Norwood, Charles Ernest Tritton in 1897 to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee but for a long time was in a poor condition and not working.

Following conservation work by the original manufacturers of the clock, Gillett and Johnston, it is now working again, fully restored and decorated in green and gold, as it was described in the South London Press on 3rd July 1897. The restoration has preserved the original mechanism of the clock, which will need to be wound by hand every few days.