A Large Cast Iron Painted & Mirrored Architectural Skeleton Clock Face; Gatehouse, Leicester c.1870 sub-Architectural & Garden Convicts were made to do

Convicts were made to do tedious and pointless tasks like turning a handle over and over again

25 inches (the whole) or 12 inches (the blades)

There be a stirrin’

Often he would chat with strangers down on their luck

A Large Cast Iron Painted & Mirrored Architectural Skeleton Clock Face; Gatehouse, Leicester c.1870 sub-Architectural & Garden Convicts were made to doOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Gatehouse, Aylestone Road Gas Works, Leicester Date: c. 1870 Diameter: 72 Depth: 2 The large and decorative black and white painted cast iron architectural clock face, having a distressed mirrored glass backing and at six feet in diameter, of skeleton configuration with Roman numeral indicator marks, to a central six segment star, the whole salvaged from the Gatehouse, Aylestone Road Gas Works,