The world’s oldest working mechanical clock is to be fitted with an electric motor for the first time after being wound by hand every week for more than 600 years.
20th August 2010
The mechanism on the Clock, at Wells Cathedral in Somerset, will be set manually for the last time next week, following the retirement of the last member of a family who has maintained it for almost a century.
Wells Cathedral officials said the mechanical clock was being replaced because they were unable to find a suitable replacement for Mr Fisher.