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CLOCK IN THE STEEPLE: A SQUARE FOR BECKYB #4 – Marilyn Armstrong

By Marilyn Armstrong on 12/05/2018 • ( 16 )

The Clock in the Steeple –
A New Square for Becky B

The Steeple Clock

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Covert Novelist
12/05/2018 • 1:22 pm

Amazing how often something so timeless is left to rot.

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  12/05/2018 • 9:39 pm
  
  I think if it had heat, it would have long since been sold.
  
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  - Covert Novelist
    12/06/2018 • 12:17 am
    
    Yes I expect so
    
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    - Marilyn Armstrong
      12/06/2018 • 12:21 am
      
      And parking.
      
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      - Covert Novelist
        12/06/2018 • 6:34 pm
        
        That too
        
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swo8
12/05/2018 • 12:29 pm

In most of the countries we have visited there were two basic conventions..a clock tower and a bell tower (to warn of fire or invasion). It’s a beautiful old clock.
Leslie

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  12/05/2018 • 9:40 pm
  
  It’s a beautiful church. It just would cost so much to reconstruct it, no church has that kind of money lying around. I hoped they’d maybe make it a museum or something, but it is so small and there’s no parking either.
  
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  - swo8
    12/06/2018 • 10:34 am
    
    They need to repurpose it…
    
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    - Marilyn Armstrong
      12/06/2018 • 12:49 pm
      
      But they won’t. There’s no spare money in this town. So if someone doesn’t buy it, they will eventually take it down which will be a terrible shame, but that’s the way it is. Small towns don’t get the “big bucks” that real cities and suburbs get.
      
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      - swo8
        12/06/2018 • 9:07 pm
        
        You need some investors to develop it. It would make a great restaurant.
        
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loisajay
12/05/2018 • 9:34 am

I like this whole weathered look.

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  12/05/2018 • 12:04 pm
  
  Unfortunately, I think that church is going to fall down or be knocked down soon. No one has bought it and no one is taking care of it … and in all this rain, wood rots fast. It’s a beautiful little church — a classic. But I don’t see a future for it.
  
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  - loisajay
    12/05/2018 • 9:09 pm
    
    Oh, this is the church you wrote about in another post. I remember that. Such a shame…..
    
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    - Marilyn Armstrong
      12/05/2018 • 9:39 pm
      
      It is. I think the problem is that it is small AND unheated in a climate which makes it pretty inhospitable in the winter. I think it holds maybe 200 people maximum, but the lack of heat and insulation is huge in this climate. The amount of money they would have to invest in the building would be monumental.
      
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  - BeckyB
    12/07/2018 • 5:56 am
    
    So very sad, it is such a beautiful steeple.
    
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