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 : Roland Hogan at his farm near Nottingham


Roland Hogan at his farm near Nottingham

Feb. 29 The Vanishing St. Pancras clock.: 52 years old Rolland Hogan, 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 reassembling - atanores station clock. The huge clock, the face alone weghs 6 1/2 tons, will be re assembld, in all its pre-war glory - the hands re-painted gold - on the side of Roland's barn. Each day another peice of the century old clock disapears onto the lunchtime train to Nottimngham from St. Pancras - to reappe r at the farm - the hands, one lift and one 18ft are already fitted to the brn - the lcwt of mechanism as stored inside - and the face, all 4 1/2 tons of it is a giant jig-saw puzzle of the slte rubble - all to be fitted toget er within the next six months. In the living room of his Nottingham farm - Roland Hogan, with some of the many clocks which form his collection - of which the St. Pancres clock is the masterpiece

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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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