Stroud, Sims' Clock, George Street c.1950
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S224013

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The clock was a bequest to the town by William Thomas Sim, a retired local grocer, civic leader and philanthropist, who died in 1917 at the age of seventy-nine. The twenty-four foot-high monument was built of Bath stone by the firm of H H Martin of Cheltenham, and was completed in 1921. It stands at the junction of five roads. Mr Sim's will also provided for the annual sum of £5 to be paid to a firm of local jewellers for the winding of the clock.
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