Take a Minute: Local Heritage - The Singer Clock

Do you remember the Singer clock?
For nearly 80 years, this iconic landmark towered over Clydebank, helping Bankies to keep time until it was demolished in 1963. Join Paul Murdoch in this episode of our Take a Minute series to explore the history behind this long-lost monument to Clydebank's industrial heritage.

[@colinriley123]

Amazing. I knew nothing about this clock.

[@johnnyseagull29]

Were the clocks works not housed in the library? I remember being fascinated every time i went in for a new book on railways or model areoplanes back in the sixties.

[@richiec9077]

The farmers and residents of erskine and inchinnan across the Clyde from there used to use it to tell the time or set their wayches by it

[@clydesidercreative]

Wow, its hard to imagine how big it must have been!

[@WeeShoeyDugless]

It's disgraceful that items such as that wonderful clock have just been scrapped.
A huge part of Scottish history simply smashed up.
Shame on them.