Post Office Clock, Lethbridge, AB Canada
Posted by: 
smartee
N 49° 41.660 W 112° 50.203
12U E 367538 N 5506265
One of a series of old Canada Post clock towers.
Waymark Code: WM6GW1
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 06/02/2009
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The clock, manufactured in Birmingham England by W.D. Evans and Sons arrived 2 years after the post office was completed in 1914. The clock tower is 6 stories high while the main building is four stories. There are four 3 metre-high white clock faces. For years a large hand crank was used every 48 to 60 hours to wind the mechanism but nowadays the winding is done electrically.
Like Big Ben there were chimes but when a fancy hotel grew up across the street in the 1920s there was a human cry for silence and they have now disappeared.