Owen Sound to loan old city hall clock to Grey Roots for exhibit

A Grey Roots museum exhibit will display the old Owen Sound city hall four-sided face, clockworks and bells salvaged from a fire which destroyed old city hall in 1961.

These parts will be displayed in mid-January, together with a J. James photograph, which includes the square brick clock tower and clock, which was erected a year after Owen Sound became a city in 1920 to mark the occasion.

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Before the clock and clock tower, there had been a cupola with a fire bell and a dummy clock that always read 9:03, which was part of the old city hall, built in 1868-69, a report to council said.

On Monday, council approved staff’s recommendation to loan the bells, clock face and clock mechanism to Grey Roots from this December until January 2027.

The exhibit is planned to run fro