Clock This

ONE does not have to be particularly insightful to guess the clock tower (pictured below) in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, is a war memorial.

On time ... despite being blitzed

Except I knew that was unlikely to be true as I had seen a Great War memorial elsewhere in town, so unless the clock tower was for World War Two it had to be for something else.

In fact it is a memorial, and does have WW2 connections, but not in the most-obvious ways.

It was built with money from local businessman George Turner as a memorial to his wife, and was officially unveiled in 1907.

Surrounding buildings, including a hotel, were destroyed in the German blitz of November 1941. The clock tower was badly damaged and was not fully repaired until the 1970s, according to Visit Kenilworth.