THE iconic Barrow Town Hall clock, which has been stuck at the wrong time because of a blocked rainwater outlet, will finally be fixed. 

Barrow Borough Council (BBC) has hired the services of Cumbria Clock Company (CCC), who worked on Big Ben when it was being repaired from 2017 until last year. 

The team, which is based in Dacre, near Penrith, was part of the largest conservation project in the history of Big Ben and Elizabeth Tower. 

The Mail: The Cumbria Clock Company workshopThe Cumbria Clock Company workshop (Image: Parliament UK)

Barrow Borough Councillor Derek Brook said: "The clock is a very important feature of our beautiful Grade II*-listed Town Hall and we know it's a popular Barrow landmark.

"Recently a blocked rainwater outlet caused a leak from the top of the Clock Tower which caused some damage to the clock itself.

The Mail: A close view of the clock towerA close view of the clock tower (Image: Barrow Council)

"The outlet has been cleared now but the water damage will need to be fixed. 

"CCC who carry out the servicing of the Town Hall clock has carried out an inspection and will return in the coming weeks to carry out the repair." 

The Mail: Keith Scobie-Youngs, the director of Cumbria Clock Company Keith Scobie-Youngs, the director of Cumbria Clock Company (Image: Parliament UK)

CCC was established in 1990 and its base is in a workshop near Penrith but it covers projects across the country as it has an engineer that lives outside of the county. 

During the Big Ben project, the company had to clean, repair and restore more than 1000 components including wheels, pinions, bell hammers and bearings at the workshop. 

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Because the original designers and engineers who worked on Big Ben during the Victorian period did not keep detailed records, their work produced the first-ever full user manual for how the clock mechanism works.

The Mail: The view from the roof of Barrow Town HallThe view from the roof of Barrow Town Hall (Image: Barrow Council)

Outside of Big Ben, CCC has also maintained the country's oldest clock in Salisbury Cathedral, the astronomical clock at Hampton Court Palace and major restorations at Leeds Town Hall, Manchester Town Hall, Manchester, Durham, Hereford and Worcester cathedrals. 

Other recent work on the town hall has involved slate repairs, cleaning out rainwater goods and clearing vegetation from the clock towers.

Barrow Borough Council's (BBC) building surveyor Andy Hartley took some pictures while scaling the historic structure with Paul Farish, who works on behalf of BBC's contractors Hughes Brothers.