A TIMELY reminder of a bygone age has been restored to its place of honour.
After lying silent and forgotten in a storeroom, gathering the dust of decades, a wall clock - a Victorian entrepreneur's gift to Middlesbrough Council is once again marking the minutes and hours.
The clock was presented to civic leaders by Amos Hinton, founder of a grocery business which grew into a supermarket chain, to commemorate his appointment as Mayor of Middlesbrough in 1886.
For more than half a century, the clock hung in the council chamber in Middlesbrough town hall, but was taken down during redecoration, put into storage - and forgotten about.
A Middlesbrough Council spokesman said: "We recently found it, and at the Mayor's request, have had it restored.
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