A fine antique tower clock circa 1892. Formally situated on the station platform of the picturesque seaside town of Portrush, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. Due to modernisation of the station in 1971 the clock was dismantled and lay in a disused state until it was bought by myself from scrap in 1994.

Let me introduce the clock with a short abstract from a feature on former BNCR branch lines by:

W.A. McCutcheon MA.PhD.FSA.FRGS.Director, Ulster Museum, Belfast.

'At Portrush stands one of Berkeley Deane Wise's most remarkable stations, built in 1892-3. By 1891 the original station of the Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine & Portrush junction railway, erected in 1855, was proving woefully inadequate in dealing with the expanding summer holiday traffic. Wise proposed a station having three platforms, each 600ft long, and the new building - a most individual creation in red brick and half-timbered 'Stockbroker's Tudor' - was built by McLaughlin & Harvey of Belfast, and opened in the spring of 1893. The squat but well proportioned clock tower rises to a height of 50ft, with four dials each 5ft in diameter, and inside the new station the concourse or 'General Hall' was approximately 100ft long and 60ft wide, surrounded by all the usual railway offices' public rooms and travelling facilities, including a chalet-style newsagent's sales kiosk closely similar in general concept to the various buildings subsequently installed by Wise in the company's Belfast terminus, and an attractive station clock by Sharman D. Neill of Belfast.'