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it would be great if they could get the clock working again and place it somewhere in the town but i think it would cost to much money and to get it going again.

Great video enjoyable to watch thanks

Takes ME back to the 60s... wonderful atmosphere you've preserved/created. I really like the double decker buses!

I was 2 days old when this was recorded. I was in one of the front windows of the Gwent when this was filmed

Very nice layout John. Some classic Tri-ang items included. Very cool. Great stuff. Happy Modelling

Wasn’t the clock from the garden festival in Ebbw Vale ?

Ah man the memories! Went to Newport for the first time in years and was dumbfounded how different this area was

Disable husband took me to see this clock once why was it removed from te Therthe city center

Me

Triang is tough as nails

looks nicer back then than it does now

The clock was THE BEST part of my visits into the town centre with my family. I used to find it extremely eerie and spooky, at times it scared me too. I miss the old Newport. At the time of this video recording, I would have been just under 3 months old. My mum was really young when she had me at the age of 16. Unfortunately, my mum lost her life to a cruel illness called Motor Neurone Disease at the young age of 42. My mum is the one who makes me most proud of where I come from I wouldn't have it any other way. Sorry for the long winded comment. 😊

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i think i was about six, the one time i saw this in person. we were living in Cardiff at the time, but i assume my parents had decided to go into Newport for shopping or something. the clock freaked me out so much i refused to go to Newport again for several years =P

Created in 1991, "In the Nick of Time" had a mechanical display of skeletons, steel and angels and cost £100,000. Councillors have accepted an offer to rebuild the artwork on a roundabout at a regeneration development in Llanwern. The move is set to save taxpayers £7,000 a year but will not see the clock's mechanism restored. The 30ft (9m) tall arch-shaped clock began life representing Newport at the 1992 Garden Festival in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, held on the site of a former steelworks. Its creator, urban architectural sculptor Andy Plant, described it as a "cross between a cuckoo clock and an espresso machine", blowing steam and parading model figures when it opened on the hour. When the exhibition closed the clock was reassembled in Newport's John Frost Square where it became a visitor attraction. But its mechanical display was only designed to last for the six months of the exhibition and repair and maintenance costs mounted over the years. The clock was packed away in 2008 ahead of a planned development of the city centre but the recession scuppered the plans leaving the structure homeless. By the time it was dismantled, the mechanisms had begun to fail and a report in November 2011 suggested it would cost £59,000 to restore the clock to full working order. The city's street scene overview and scrutiny forum has been given permission to accept an offer of £10,000 from developers St Modwen to put the clock's basic structure at its 600-acre (240 hectare) Glan Llyn development. It will be rebuilt on the roundabout at the gateway to development of 4,000 homes and a business park on part of the former Llanwern steelworks site. The forum said the moved would return the clock to "its most natural home, a steel regeneration project in Newport, after it was originally commissioned to enhance a steel-related regeneration project in Ebbw Vale". The developers will meet the cost of setting up the clock on the roundabout. In a statement, Newport council said: "Many options for the future of the clock have since been considered by the council and there has been much public support to reinstate it within the city. "This would not only return the clock to public display and secure its future, but would also provide an iconic landmark at the entrance to the city's newest community. " The council estimates it will cost £925 per year to maintain the clock at the site, compared to the £8,000 it pays each year to keep it in storage.

Newport ...my beating heart of growing up ... Thank you for this ... 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

Anyone else come here after listening to Mark Steel's in Town?

Amazing! I really hope the clock can put back in Newport city centre!

Have awesome memories of the clock in John frost square I meet my old first there I said meet me buy the clock why the take it man love NEWPORT awesome to see again d 👍

It's excellent and as I know from experience nothing better than using your old childhood stock...Great seeing it all come to life

I really miss the clock.

very nice John i am a big fan

About 2 weeks after I was born. So interesting to see

Great stuff and wonderful layout

what is the size of your layout

Why does it have a devil and skeletons?

I remember that clock, it was amazing! Lovely to see Newport as it was, so sad to see Marks and Spencer gone.....

Fantastic layout

Great video with loads of detail .Hope there more to come.

I've been looking for a clip of this clock for almost 30 years at this point. Thank you so much.

I'm so excited to see videos like this! Brings back a LOT of great memories! Thank you!!

So grateful to God for the ministry of Rev Dr Selwyn Hughes. I have been reading, still do, Every Day With Jesus devotional notes for over 30 years. Praise God!

Why are the trains running wrong road. Signals are also sighted incorrectly.

Fantastic brings back memories. I'm also building a small (lack of room) Triang layout again using series 3 track so I can run my solid wheel deep flanges Triang stock. What size is your layout?

Pointless brought me here

Fantastic! Your hoarding and perseverance has been well rewarded. Great collection, thanks for sharing John and keep collecting, theres lots more you haven't got yet!!!!

A friend has challenged me to find a picture of a record shop called hitman record n Newport I have until midnight to complete this task lol can anyone help ?

Where is it

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You fuckin knows it son

Clocks broken mate

I also have a fair amount of series 3 track and find it odd that Triang only produced a double track level crossing for Series 2 Standard track, but did produce a Series 3 single track level crossing.

It's funny how much of the old Triang Railways stuff modern Hornby Railways still produces and has in their 2019 catalogue!! One can look in a 2019 catalogue and old Triang Railways catalogues, from the 1950's and 1960's, and still spot the same items. Electricity Pylons (1964). Lineside huts (1956). Gradient markers (1956). Whistle sign (1956). Water crane (1956). Black points switch lever (1955). Green isolation switch lever (1958). Lineside fencing (1958). Station platform components (1962).

Toy like mot prototypical. BUT BUT full of nostalgia and SO MUCH FUN. I got a triang teain set for Christmas 59, I was 6 I woke up and opened it in the dark. Went down and set it up in the lounge room. Lit.the gas fire because it was FREEZING. THANKS for the wonderful nostalgia

eddy from devon again Hi there at 11-40 i loved the 100 mph jinty with the smoke going must be the fastest jinty in the west wonderful stuff john all the very best EDDY

Toy like yes but how much fun was it.

eddy from devon uk truly wonderfull marvellous sound all the best EDDY

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