Mechanical clocks first appeared in northern Italy in the 13th century, following earlier methods of timekeeping like ...

Abseiling engineers remove four large timepieces from the tower at St Mary's Church.

City Hall has rarely been on time. In the 1930s and 1940s, its four iconic clock faces, just under the bronze feet of William Penn’s 37-foot statue, were, reportedly, regularly out of sync. And on Feb ...