Festival of Britain clock recreated in Pershore back garden

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Peter Wagner has worked for six years on a working model of the original 1950s Guinness clock.

Reporter, BBC Midlands Today

Peter Wagner from Worcestershire has made a fully-working, smaller version of the original 25ft Festival Clock commissioned by Guinness for Battersea Pleasure Gardens.He had visited the original clock as a child, the Pershore resident explained. A more recent visit to the Guinness factory in Dublin, where there is a scale model of the original, "took me back to my childhood," he added.

The original mechanical clock struck every 15 minutes, bringing a frenzied burst of activity around a central revolving stage, including a zoo keeper and animals advertising Guinness.

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