LINDLEY folk have been disorientated ... and it’s all due to a glitch on its famous clock tower.
For the clock has somehow become three hours out of time, showing 7.15 when it was actually 4.15pm yesterday.
It means people living nearby have heard the wrong chimes at the wrong time of the day ... and have probably had to keep double-checking their alarm clocks to make sure they were actually hearing things!
The clock had another problem last October after it was changed a week early when the clocks went back.
Lindley’s clock – along with clocks at Huddersfield railway station and Marsden Mechanics’ Hall – went back an hour a week before the official end of British summer time.
The problem then was due to a mechanical fault.
A Kirklees Council spokesman said: “The clocks are programmed to change automatically when clocks go forward an hour in spring and back an hour in the autumn.
“Obviously there was a glitch with the programming on this particular occasion, but we will reset them so that the problem is ironed out.’’
No-one was available from Kirklees to talk about the latest problem.
Lindley Clock Tower is the most prominent landmark in Lindley, standing at the junction between Lidget Street and Daisy Lea Lane.
The Art Nouveau clock tower was designed by the Manchester architect Edgar Wood in 1900 and built by local JP James Nield Sykes two years later.
The tower also features four buttress figures, four gargoyles and four friezes.
