About time? Hour hand returned to Cambridge University after 1930s prank

Daughter of deceased graduate gives clock part back to Gonville & Caius College – but minute hand still missingThe hour hand of a university chapel clock that was taken in a student prank and replaced with a cardboard copy has been returned almost a century later.Trixie Baker inherited the hour hand on the death of her father, Geoffrey Hunter Baker, a Cambridge graduate who died in 1999 aged 83. Continue reading...

Mar 29, 2025 - 14:32
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About time? Hour hand returned to Cambridge University after 1930s prank

Daughter of deceased graduate gives clock part back to Gonville & Caius College – but minute hand still missing

The hour hand of a university chapel clock that was taken in a student prank and replaced with a cardboard copy has been returned almost a century later.

Trixie Baker inherited the hour hand on the death of her father, Geoffrey Hunter Baker, a Cambridge graduate who died in 1999 aged 83. Continue reading...