Letter of the week
Time’s up
E enjoyed the article about London’s Victorian train stations and the threat to Liverpool Street Station (). The image included the large square station clock () that was made by my great-great-grandfather, J. J. Stockall of Stockall & Sons, Clerkenwell, in about 1900. It was so large that four men could have lunch inside it, including Stockall on the day of its inauguration. It was the largest electric clock at the time and weighed three tons. It was removed at some stage many years later and the family rumour is that it ended up in a restaurant in New York, but we have no details about this.
