BITTERNE Park Triangle clock tower in Southampton was once again illuminated with four lights after a gap of more than 60 years when they were switched on over the weekend as part of the Triangle Traders' Hallowe'en street party.
The lights - replicas of the four Victorian fittings which were removed and lost at the beginning of the Second World War - were made by students from Southampton's Engineering Training Association, working from drawings held at the city's archives department.
City sheriff Peter Wakeford, watched by traders, the residents' association, and some of the trainees involved in the project, switched on the illuminations and also judged the pumpkin competition.
The monument, designed by Kelway-Pope, was bequeathed to the city by Henrietta Bellenden Sayers and erected in 1889 as a tower with a clock and water trough for animals.
It was originally located in Above Bar but was moved to its present site in 1934 when roadworks were being carried out in the city centre.
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