2010
SO8428 : Tirley Church, John Carter's Clock
taken 14 years ago, near to Tirley, Gloucestershire, England
Tirley Church, John Carter's Clock
Brian Waters, author of Severn Tide described John Carter of Tirley as a deaf and toothless individual who built the church clock from the discarded parts of a chaff-cutter, a roasting jack, a bean drill, a separator, a winnowing machine, a bicycle pedal, the brake rods of a cycle, a scythe, a cannon ball, a pistol barrel and old farmyard weights on a hundred year old lathe that he inherited from his great-uncle .
Brian Waters also describes how John Carter remembered the great flood of May 1905, and how John Carter told him how he had marked the high point of the flood water, by carving two small holes and the word ‘May’ on the east corner of the church tower.
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