Ganta Ghar School

the clock here his very historic it was desgined my same person who desgined the big ben in london.

300 year old clock tower........

Government using this building as a government school. The clock in that tower is of Benson. Which is amazing.

Clock tower

Like the one at the London tower, the clock here bears a plate saying, ‘Clockmaker to HRH (His Royal Highness) The Prince of Wales’.

It is 117 years old, and a cousin, in essence, of London’s Big Ben. The clock made by Benson London on the clock tower here was got installed by Maharaja Jagatjit Singh in the heart of the then princely state of Kapurthala, and it gongs every hour.

Like the one at the London tower, the clock here bears a plate saying, ‘Clockmaker to HRH (His Royal Highness) The Prince of Wales’. It was ordered from London in 1893 by the maharaja and eventually installed in 1901. It is now located on the premises of Government Senior Secondary School (Girls) near the local bus stand, and was repaired most recently by experts from ITC company in May 2015, after it remained non-functional since 2007.

The tower has stairs that take you to the four-face clock that are set in wooden frames. A massive bell is installed inside the tower. A guard appointed by the city administration keeps watch at all hours. Jai Parkash, who has been on the job since 2001, said the clock functions after rolling its key every five days.

An unconfirmed story is that the clock stopped chiming in 1949 when Maharaja Jagatjit died. It remained ignored for decades by the state government and was repaired only after it got heritage status in 2001. It stopped working again in 2007 after which the administration took eight years to repair it.
But I'm happy as it stands tall and working fine 🙂

I love this school 😘

Ghanta ghar school kab khulega koi plzzz batao