Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 44, DeMotte, Jasper County, 16 March 1933 — England's Oldest Clock [ARTICLE]

England's Oldest Clock

The very oldest clock in Enland is believed to be that of Peterborough cathedral, which was erected 611 years ago. This has no dial. It has to be wound up daily by means of a great wooden wheel, which raises a threehundredweight leaden weight 300 feet. The “gong” en which it strikes the hours is the thirty-two hundredweight tenor bell of the cathedral, which is smitten every hour by an hammer.