John Cossins, a dedicated volunteer with the York Clock Group, is one of eight individuals entrusted with maintaining York's clocks.
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00:00My name's John, I'm from the York Clock Group, and we're located at Terry's Chocolate Factory.
00:05And here we've got a quite an unusual electric clock, 100 years old, drives four 8-foot dials,
00:15very similar to a church clock that you've probably seen before, but this one's
00:20rare because it's electric. It's made in 1920s, built by Gents of Leicester, a long
00:27disappeared company that made many electrical things over the years. Occasionally you still
00:31see their name on fire alarms. And we're approaching the end of the month, so I'll
00:37be here again in about a week's time to retard the clock by an hour, and of course we'll be
00:43back on to GMT, and that's winter time. Yes, it's open three days in the year,
00:50and that's organised by some volunteers in a group called York Unlocked, and they open
00:56various buildings throughout the city twice a year, and this is one of them. You have to
01:01have a ticket, and there's always quite a demand, and we are limited a little bit because of the
01:05number of people allowed in the lift, and because it's a residential building.
01:10So the next time it'll be open will be June 2025.