Roland Hogan at his farm near Nottingham

Feb. 29 The Vanishing St.Pancras Clock: 52 year old Roland Hogan, who is a rail guard, has found the clock which will make him the undisputed king of clock collectors. For he is taking, bit by bit to his farm near Nottingham, and re-assembling St. Pancras station clock. The huge clock, the face along weighs 4 1/2 tons, will be re-assembled, in all its pre-war glory the hands re-painted gold on the side of Roland's barn. Each day another piece of the century old clock disappears onto the lunchtime train to Nottingham from St.Pancras to reappear at the farm - the hands, one lift and one 18ft are already fitted to the barn the l 1/2 cwt of mechanism is stored inside and the face, all 4 1/2 tons of it is a giant jig-saw puzzle of slate rubble all to be fitted together within the next six months. Photo shows Working on his farm in Nottinghamshire - Roland Hogan, king of clock collectors is never out of sight of a clock of one kind or another

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