Owen Sound to loan old city hall clock to Grey Roots for exhibit

A Grey Roots museum exhibit will display the old Owen Sound city hall four-sided face, clockworks and bells salvaged from a fire which destroyed old city hall in 1961. Article content

These parts will be displayed in mid-January, together with a J. James photograph, which includes the square brick clock tower and clock, which was erected a year after Owen Sound became a city in 1920 to mark the occasion. Article content

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Before the clock and clock tower, there had been a cupola with a fire bell and a dummy clock that always read 9:03, which was part of the old city hall, built in 1868-69, a report to council said.

On Monday, council approved staff’s recommendation to loan the bells, clock face and clock mechanism to Grey Roots from this December unt