sun clock tower dec 2012

my first report so go easy please!!!

after failing to find frog manor we headed to our back up in watford to find other people already there so we left and came across this little one just down the road from royal mail not much history on this place though

It was built in 1934 and is an ornately decorated Art Deco style building from the inter-war period, somewhat unusual in terms of form and composition. The clock tower of this single storey building rises to three storey height, was of multicoloured bricks and concrete walls with Italian green-glazed tile hipped roof.*This pump house was built over an artesian well by the Sun Engraving Company who had a very large printing works opposite (the site now redeveloped) and was for the purpose of extracting water for industrial purposes.





thanks for looking people also a massive thanks to urbex-sw for info on how to upload my photos

my apologies about image quality we wasent there long before we was disturbed and made a speedy exit!!

Looks good.

I've been meaning to pop in there for a while, cheers for doing it for me

its worth it if your in the area its tiny though so not very much to photograph

A visit we made together, rather spontaneous but interesting and fun all the same, just a tad small!

Sweet Pea looking for the missing clock from the tower.




A restoration work in progress.




She's flying the flag!

yours are better mate!!

just up the road from me,the clock was removed several years ago apparently to be restored but no work appears to be going on at the site and hasnt for some time,I pass right by most days and have yet to see anyone working on site so would never be surprised to see it mysteriously fall down sometime clearing the way for more development
Nigel

Short history here

http://www.westwatfordhistorygroup.org/sunclocktower.htm

there is a small extension being built for an office there so i guess its staying nothing there in way of materials tools etc really and it does look like work has stopped on it