Senghenydd Clock Towere
The news report that accompanied this January 26, 1973 photograph in the South Wales Echo read as follows:
"Senghenydd's "Big Ben" is set to work again. For more than 45 years the mining community set the time to the war memorial clock in the centre of the village, but then it stopped. Since then there has been mounting pressure to repair it and at last the Caerphilly Urban Council have allocated 500 pounds for the job".
The article continued. "A Midlands firm will shortly strip the clock and begin the task of re-building. It needs new bearings, pendulum and weights and four new faces. Said a council spokesman, "Parts of the clock were broken by vandals and some pieces were stolen but it will soon be restored."
Photograph by Murray, courtesy of Media Wales Archives