News Exercise #276

1. What two efforts were made to ensure authentic Victorian design?
2. What different kinds of skilled workers have been participating?
3. What have the clock-makers done?
4. Why does the expert think the original colours had been chosen?

Answers:
1. What two efforts were made to ensure authentic Victorian design?
They took chips of paint in order to match the original colour of the clock face, and the 324 pieces of glass used were mouth-blown in the Victorian technique.
2. What different kinds of skilled workers have been participating?
Architects, surveyors, tradesmen (who carried out the work) and three clockmakers.
3. What have the clock-makers done?
They have taken the clock apart and removed it for repair.
4. Why does the expert think the original colours had been chosen?
He thinks that they wanted the deep blue of the dials to ally with the white glass and the red of the St George Cross illustration to represent the three colours of the Union Flag.