page_title: Potts of Leeds
section_title: Examples
hierarchical_section_title: Potts of Leeds / Examples
caption_attribution_description: English: Old Town Hall, Richmond, London
context_page_description: Potts of Leeds was a major British manufacturer of public clocks, based in Leeds, Yorkshire, England.
context_section_description: Potts' clocks were installed in public buildings, churches, railway stations, workplaces and other premises. According to Potts' register, 1,568 new clocks were installed and 54 of them subsequently transferred to new locations by the company. The total included, 363 quarter-chiming clocks and 510 hour-striking clocks. Many were installed at locations in Yorkshire, and Leeds had the most,  including examples on Leeds Town Hall and Leeds Corn Exchange.
  The clock on the  Pierhead Building at Cardiff Docks was installed in 1897, but was removed and sold in 1973. The mechanism was taken to Alabama, USA and returned to Cardiff in 2005. It was planned to install the Potts clock as a piece of contemporary art, encased in glass, in Cardiff city centre.
  Other clocks were installed further afield, Lerwick Town Hall's clock was installed in 1887, and one on the Roman Catholic Church Hall in Melbourne, Australia dates from 1930. Five clocks were exported to India but their locations are not known, two went to Russia and there is an example on the post office in Lyttleton, New Zealand. Potts provided the mechanism for a floral clock at Belle Vue Zoological Gardens in 1936.
caption: A Potts clock juts out from the main frontage of the Old Town Hall, Richmond, now in London, which was opened in 1893.
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