A SKILLED clock-maker and artist has died.

Leonard Rangeley passed away at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, aged 94.

Mr Rangeley was an apprentice of the Swiss watchmaker Ulrick Fiechter and worked as a clock-repairer in Kirkgate.

He specialised in producing Victorian reproduction skeleton clocks.

Mr Rangeley was born in Thornton Lodge in 1913. He married his wife Joyce in 1950. The couple had two children and three grandchildren.

Mr Rangeley, who lived in Marsh, was a long-standing member of Huddersfield Art Society, joining in 1954.

He was its president from 1985 to 1990. Mr Rangeley arranged for the society to meet at his church, St Thomas’s on Manchester Road, Thornton Lodge.

He also established regular pastel classes and outdoor painting trips.

Several society members, including current president Olwen Kitson, attended Mr Rangeley’s funeral at St Thomas’s on June 16.