Complex sentence: The town's only previous clock had been blown from the top of the Local Board Offices during a gale some twenty years previously and the people of Morley were very much in favour of the new clock, which would be seen for miles around.
Split into simpler sentences: The town's only previous clock had been blown from the top of the Local Board Offices during a gale some twenty years previously. The people of Morley were very much in favor of the new clock, which would be seen for miles around.