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Tealeaf · 14-07-2004, 16:22

Well, I’ll be serious for a change.

Wherever the Arndale Clock is to go, it makes sense that it has to work as it was designed to work; otherwise, it’s just a shiny round thing stuck on top of a pole with no use and of limited artistic merit. For this to happen, it needs to stay in a protective environment, either indoors or outside with a closed protective canopy to exclude the elements. Rain would probably shut the clock mechanism down within a few hours. A closed canopy would destroy the effect, however, so that leaves placing it indoors.

So what place is suitable? The Market Hall is firm favourite….but remember this is a Grade II Listed building….it is highly unlikely that English Heritage would allow a late 20c piece of mechanical pop-art to be re-sited within the environs of this rare surviving, classic Victorian Market Hall…..ditto, the Town Hall.

There’s not much left, is there? The Sports Centre, possibly? Can anyone think of a spot within there that would be suitable? The Globe Centre? No, not after the council has just blown 30 grand on a monument to it’s own stupidity right outside the building.

One place I can think of…..unfortunately, at the moment there’s a pretty horrible, tatty, overpriced café on the spot, charging 2 quid a brew. Would you believe it? And would you believe that some people are daft enough to pay that price as well…all for some brown muck served in a paper cup. Well, maybe if people come to their senses they’ll stop chucking their money away (after all, we’ve got the council to do that for us)…the café will shut….what a perfect place to put a clock!. It’s as though that little dome above was almost designed for the job.

14-07-2004, 16:22	#57
Tealeaf God Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Paradise Lost Posts: 7,220 Liked: 11 times Rep Power: 4266	Re: Campaign To Keep The Arndale Clock Well, I’ll be serious for a change. Wherever the Arndale Clock is to go, it makes sense that it has to work as it was designed to work; otherwise, it’s just a shiny round thing stuck on top of a pole with no use and of limited artistic merit. For this to happen, it needs to stay in a protective environment, either indoors or outside with a closed protective canopy to exclude the elements. Rain would probably shut the clock mechanism down within a few hours. A closed canopy would destroy the effect, however, so that leaves placing it indoors. So what place is suitable? The Market Hall is firm favourite….but remember this is a Grade II Listed building….it is highly unlikely that English Heritage would allow a late 20c piece of mechanical pop-art to be re-sited within the environs of this rare surviving, classic Victorian Market Hall…..ditto, the Town Hall. There’s not much left, is there? The Sports Centre, possibly? Can anyone think of a spot within there that would be suitable? The Globe Centre? No, not after the council has just blown 30 grand on a monument to it’s own stupidity right outside the building. One place I can think of…..unfortunately, at the moment there’s a pretty horrible, tatty, overpriced café on the spot, charging 2 quid a brew. Would you believe it? And would you believe that some people are daft enough to pay that price as well…all for some brown muck served in a paper cup. Well, maybe if people come to their senses they’ll stop chucking their money away (after all, we’ve got the council to do that for us)…the café will shut….what a perfect place to put a clock!. It’s as though that little dome above was almost designed for the job.