You’ve sent me off down more fascinating rabbit holes Miranda 😀 . I found a little YouTube video of the clock in action: https://youtu.be/s8It2O1RdG8, but then an even more wonderful 1962 (surely “bee bee cee” from the diction!) black and white newsreel of the opening of the centre itself, with the clock being started at the end (revealing it as being much bigger than I’d imagined): https://youtu.be/maeZndy7g8c
OMG! That moon is leering!
You’ve sent me off down more fascinating rabbit holes Miranda 😀 . I found a little YouTube video of the clock in action: https://youtu.be/s8It2O1RdG8, but then an even more wonderful 1962 (surely “bee bee cee” from the diction!) black and white newsreel of the opening of the centre itself, with the clock being started at the end (revealing it as being much bigger than I’d imagined): https://youtu.be/maeZndy7g8c
Oh that’s a lovely old bit of film! Well found.