As a memorial to ex.headmaster Frank Dobson, who sadly died last year, the school and community have decided to put 3 working clock faces into the clock tower. Does anyone ever remember seeing or hearing anything about the clocks being there or have an old school photo with the clocks showing? Various local enquiries have come up with a blank. The school was built in 1928 and presumably the clocks were in situ then ... were they removed during the war? were they too heavy for the tower? any ideas or knowledge welcome.

I started at Abbey Lane School in 1943 and am sure that the clocks were there in my early days perhaps they were removed beacause they did not work and were too costly to repair??

I heard from my mum that the clocks were there when the school was first built and that they were made of glass and lead. Then for some reason they disappeared, but theres not record as to why for some reason. They later managed to recover one of the original clocks, but the others could never be found. I know that the old headmaster Mr Dobson wished that the clocks could be restored to their former glory, but because it was too expensive to use the original materials, their using a special kind of plastic instead.