Flashback to September 1999
On September 18, 1999, Broseley's historic town hall clock returned in triumph to the town after an intense hunt to find where it had gone.
Hundreds of townsfolk took part in a gala day of festivities to welcome the timepiece back after an enthusiastically supported "Bring The Clock Back" campaign.
The day of celebrations even had a celebrity in the form of television presenter Simon Keeling.
There were grand plans to erect it on an impressive 45ft tower in the centre of Broseley to mark the millennium. Various fundraising efforts were held locally to meet the cost.
You can go to Broseley now to admire it – but you will be wasting your time.
Because it isn't there. Where is it? Well, put it this way. Has anyone seen a big, big, clock?
It's not something you would miss, being early 19th century or late 18th century, with a stone face six inches thick, and so heavy that on that gala day it was brought to the town on a dray towed by a Shire horse.
Amazingly, having disappeared once in its life after the demolition of Broseley Town Hall in the early 1960s, the clock, the subject of so much town interest only a little over 20 years ago, has disappeared again.
