Memorial

Clock 1914-18 Council Building

Hetton le Hole

Memorial Name: Clock 1914-18 Council Building (H125.02)

NEWMP Ref No.: H125.02

Parish: Hetton le Hole

Original Location:

On front of Old Council Building, Pemberton Street, in centre of Hetton.

Present Location:

Hetton Centre, with part of the old clock mechanism in a display cabinet.
See Note below.

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

August 1922

Materials Used:

Metal, glass.

Inscription:

Township of
Hetton le Hole

Great War 1914-1918

This clock is erected
to the memory of the fallen
sailors and soldiers
in the above war

August 1922

Memorial Description:

Clock of two faces suspended on a wrought iron bracket beneath a balcony.

The numbers are in Roman numerals on a green metal face.

Beneath it is a board giving the details, the letters painted onto wood using Roman capitals.

Names:

None

Notes:

1. This building used to be the Town Hall. Now it is a shop.

2. “The Hetton Ladies’ Working Committee have offered to Hetton Urban Council the sum of £182 for the purpose of providing a public clock, which it is suggested should be erected at the Council offices as a memorial to fallen soldiers, and a thankoffering for the safe return of the survivors. The Council has accepted the offer”.

3. A notice in Hetton Centre reads:
Hetton Town Memorial Clock.
The Hetton Town Clock was erected on the former Hetton Urban District Council Offices in Front Street, to commemorate those who gave their lives in The Great War 1914-1918, and is classed as an Official War Memorial. The Clock was manufactured in 1922 by J.F. Newey of York for J.F. Marshall the Jeweller of Hetton Downs and has been maintained & restored by Potts of Derby (Clockmakers established 1833). In order to preserve and acknowledge the heritage of the community, Hetton Town Council funded the complete restoration of the clock workings, provision of a new face drum and relocation to the Hetton Centre in June 2004. The clock is now electrically powered, but until moved, was still wound by hand twice a week. A replica clock also electrically powered, has been installed on the original site in Front Street.