About time? Hour hand returned to Cambridge University after 1930s prank
Source: The Guardian | Published: March 29, 2025, 11:35 a.m.
Daughter of deceased graduate gives clock part back to Gonville & Caius College – but minute hand still missing
The hour hand of a university chapel clock that was taken in a student prank and replaced with a cardboard copy has been returned almost a century later.
Trixie Baker inherited the hour hand on the death of her father, Geoffrey Hunter Baker, a Cambridge graduate who died in 1999 aged 83.
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