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Title
Queen's Park Clock Tower
Date
1892
Medium
stone
Accession number
ST3_KG_S015
Work type
Clock tower
Owner
Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Custodian
Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
6th June 1892
Access
time restrictions apply
Inscription description
Inscription 1 reads: 'THE LAND FOR THIS PARK / WAS GENEROUSLY GIVEN BY / HIS GRACE THE / DUKE OF SUTHERLAND K.G. / AND OWING TO THE / LIBERALITY AND UNTIRING ENERGY OF / JOHN AYNSLEY ESQ. JP. / (DURING HIS MAYORALITY) / IT WAS LAID OUT AND HANDED OVER / TO THE PEOPLE OF LONGTON / FREE FROM DEBT / ON THE / 25TH DAY OF JULY 1888 / UNVEILED 6TH JUNE 1892' Inscription 2 reads: 'THIS INSCRIPTION / ACKNOWLEDGES / THE WORK OF / JOHN M. GARRETT / AGENT TO THE / DUKE OF SUTHERLAND / IN THE DESIGNING AND / LAYING OUT OF THIS PARK / BETWEEN / MARCH 1887 AND JULY 1888 / PRESENTED BY S. R. WOODGETT' Inscription 3 reads: 'CENTENARY / 24TH JULY 1988 / QUEEN'S PARK LONGTON / THE OCCASION WAS MARKED / BY THE RENOVATION OF THIS / CLOCK TOWER / UNVEILED BY / THE LORD MAYOR OF / STOKE-ON-TRENT / COUNCILLOR / ALAN EDWARDS B.Ed.'
Queen's Park, Trentham Road, Dresden, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent
ST3 4AZ
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