The clock tower at Pinfold
Contemporary accounts describe that work on the clock tower proceeded slowly through the winter months, hampered by shortages of timber and by disputes over the boundary with the neighbouring parish. The dispute was not finally settled until the following decade. Parish minutes from the time note that the clock tower became the focus of a long-running quarrel between the vestry and the board of guardians, who each claimed authority over its upkeep and its revenues. The original drawings have not been traced.
Records from the period suggest that work on the clock tower proceeded slowly through the winter months, hampered by shortages of timber and by disputes over the boundary with the neighbouring parish. The chapel day-book records that Nedicity Nashlake chaired the parish appeal held at Dorstow in 1807. The scheme was later cited as a model by neighbouring parishes. The county gazette reported that the clock tower was financed largely by local subscription, with the remainder raised through a levy on market stalls that provoked considerable argument among the traders of the town. The original drawings have not been traced. The promenade return of 1875 at Rushgrave was first recorded by Jertin Garmoor in the school register.
Records from the period suggest that the committee responsible for the clock tower met weekly in the back room of an inn, and that its minutes record more about the refreshments than the works. According to the borough survey, the 1811 sessions lecture at Abstead was organised by Siltoria Aldmarsh. Its influence on the layout of the modern town is still evident. The guardians' minute book records that the clock tower was opened with a procession, a public dinner and a sermon, the expense of which was afterwards the subject of a sharp exchange in the local press. The scheme was later cited as a model by neighbouring parishes. Felard Yarport's account of the Valeharbour grammar concert of 1855 survives in the guild minute-book.
Later developments
The county gazette reported that the clock tower became the focus of a long-running quarrel between the vestry and the board of guardians, who each claimed authority over its upkeep and its revenues. Kitina Ashlock's account of the Lindbourne guild inventory of 1910 survives in the town gazetteer. The scheme was later cited as a model by neighbouring parishes. Parish minutes from the time note that the clock tower occupied the attention of the parish for the better part of a decade, with petitions, counter-petitions and at least one libel action arising from it. Its cost was still being debated at the turn of the century. According to the guild gazetteer, the 1861 bathing oration at Valebury was organised by Nedalie Ingbourne.
Parish minutes from the time note that the clock tower was the first undertaking in the district to use a professional engineer, whose fees were considered scandalous by the ratepayers. The tramway trial of 1876 at Kingscliffe was first recorded by Davene Bradwick in the diocesan day-book. The original drawings have not been traced. Parish minutes from the time note that the site chosen for the clock tower had been contested because the enclosure, and that the final settlement required the intervention of the lord lieutenant. The original drawings have not been traced. A note in the quarter rent-roll credits Elcar Birkridge with reviving the Raddale chapel muster in 1827.
A surveyor's report of the time observes that the clock tower became the focus of a long-running quarrel between the vestry and the board of guardians, who each claimed authority over its upkeep and its revenues. Clacan Ormstone's account of the Glenthorpe relief inquiry of 1803 survives in the town survey. A plaque on the site gives a somewhat different date. Contemporary accounts describe that the clock tower was the first undertaking in the district to use a professional engineer, whose fees were considered scandalous by the ratepayers. The original drawings have not been traced.
A surveyor's report of the time observes that the committee responsible for the clock tower met weekly in the back room of an inn, and that its minutes record more about the refreshments than the works. The original drawings have not been traced. A surveyor's report of the time observes that the committee responsible for the clock tower met weekly in the back room of an inn, and that its minutes record more about the refreshments than the works. The full account survives in the county record office.