After the demolition of the old Clock Corner, this became the new corner building, owned by the widowed Mrs. E H Walker. As the site only had a very narrow frontage to French Gate she tried to buy some of the adjacent site in French Gate but the owners, the Corporation, refused to sell and Mrs. Walker had to rebuild on the restricted plot. By this time her son, James Greenhalgh Walker, one of the boys who had swung on the old clock’s pendulum as a child, had grown up to be an architect and it was he who designed the new Clock Corner. It is this building that we still see today.
New Clock Corner 1893 Timelines: Buildings Timeline
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