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Godiva Clock

Godiva Clock

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    April 22, 2022

    Godiva clock was relocated to Broadgate in 1953 after it original location in the market hall became unsafe due to damage to the tower from WWII bombing.
    A bell strikes on the hour and Lady Godiva appears from a door on the right riding a horse to a door on the left. During this a window above opens and Peeping Tom pops his head out, takes a quick look at Lady Godiva, covers his eyes and quickly pops back inside. It is said Peeping Tom was struck blind after looking at Lady Godiva.

      August 13, 2025

      The clock itself originated in Coventry’s old Market Hall Clock Tower. The tower became unsafe after the bombing in the War and its Edward Thomas Loseby clock mechanism and bell were dismantled and incorporated into the new Broadgate clock in 1953.

      Edward Thomas Loseby was a well-known Victorian clock and watchmaker. He was born in Leicester in 1817 and was apprenticed to Rotherham’s in Coventry from 1831 to 1838. In 1870, he designed Coventry’s Market Hall clock. In the contract for the clock, he had agreed to forfeit £1 for every second it varied each day, but although the clock eventually cost twice the original estimate of £308, Loseby never had to pay a forfeit. Trials in 1888 showed it to be accurate to within 0.2 second, making it far superior to the rival Westminster clock. Its time was set by a Greenwich time signal supplied by Rotherham’s, who provided this service in the 1870s and 1880s.

      (cov-soc.skizzar.site/public-art-in-coventry/godiva-clock/)

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