produced in the St. Leonards Gazette which rather astonished some of the persons who saw under what difficulties it was managed, Mr. Jacob, a St. Leonards organist, being among the number. Sitting as they did in front of the reporter, they did not realise the fact that he had discovered by accident acoustical properties peculiar to that part of the building.
An Improved Clock
To Mr. Aaron Sellman, of St. Leonards, was confided the work of giving to the old-town clock, in High Street, illuminated dials, and after the clock had been replaced there appeared in the Hastings News of May 13th, 1859, two effusions, to the authors of which apologies are here tendered for the present new versions.
“A New Song to an Old Tune”
“Hickory, dickory dock!
Sellman has put up the clock;
The faces are white and the figures are bright,
Hickory, dickory dock!
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“Hickory, dickory dock!
It’s now such a good looking clock;
So people all say, as they pass on their way
Hickory, dickory dock!
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“Hickory, dickory dock!
We’re glad we’ve got back the old clock;
With quite a new face it is back in its place;
Hickory, dickory dock!”
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Another Ditty
“Hurrah for our old friend, the Town Clock!
That which to St. Leonards has been;
All hail to our friend, the Town Clock!
In High Street again to be seen.
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“Twas thought that it Sellman had sold,
Or put the old thing up the spout;
But now it no longer looks old;
Its clapper too, clearly, speaks out.
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“Some thought we all were done brown-
That the works had been sold for old brass;
But back is the clock in the town,
Quite plain to all persons who pass
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“We know that ourselves, when as boys,
How loved we its jolly old face;
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