Watch: Huge and historic church clock gets a fresh new look to wind back the years
An historic church clock has been restored to its former glory.
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The clock on the tower at St Michael's Church in Brierley Hill has undergone a substantial renovation, with work being done to weld and re-gild the 8ft clock faces and install new workings inside the tower.
The original clocks were paid for in the 1800s by industrialist John Corbett and have been a feature of the church since.
Around £19,000 was raised by the church to pay for the repairs, which came after local retired businessman Tony Whittaker, a patron of the church, discovered the poor state of the clock while checking a leak in the roof.
He said: "I was looking at a leak in the roof as some people had put a lightning conductor up there and caused a little bit of damage to some of the roof tiles, so I climbed the 60 feet up to the top to determine where the leak was coming from.
