If you had trouble remembering to turn back your clocks today, spare a thought for Pauline West.
The 60-year-old housewife has more than 4,000 crammed into her flat.
And while the rest of the country was making the most of an extra hour in bed, she was embarking on a three-day mission to reset them all.
The clock lady: Pauline West has more than 4,000 clocks, she said they make a 'hell of a racket' when they chime
The collection, believed to be the biggest in the world, covers every wall in the two-bedroom flat and is worth £15,000. It began 24 years ago.
Pauline’s husband Roy, 67, has even had to put more than 60 clocks in the bathroom of their home in Eastleigh, Hampshire.
The only room to escape is her 22-year-old son Kevin’s bedroom. He has a single alarm clock.
Roy, who is retired, is so in tune with the collection he can hear if one clock is not ticking.
Perfect timing: Pauline West knows if any one of her 4,000 clocks is out of time
Don't forget one! Pauline West won't be enjoying the extra hour in bed but starting a three day chore of turning back all her clocks
Tea tock: Even Pauline West's tea pot is a clock which will need turning back
He said: ‘Kevin really does hate them. He curses the clocks if they happen to chime when he’s trying to watch television.’
The couple also spend up to an hour every evening tending to the wind-up clocks. They buy batteries in bulk every month for the modern ones.
The most valuable piece is a £1,000 150-year-old grandmother clock. It cost £20 from a car boot sale.
Pauline said: 'Everyone knows me locally as the clock woman and they have been coming up to me all week reminding me to put them back an hour.
Wall to wall: The collection, believed to be the biggest in the world, covers every wall in the two-bedroom flat is worth £15,000
'They do make one hell of a racket when they chime - it's like someone is dropping pennies into a tin can. The rest of the time it's fine - we're all used to the ticking.
Pauline added: ‘I have a wristwatch but I don’t bother wearing it.’
Roy, a retired delivery driver, has become a dab hand at taking the clocks apart and mending them despite receiving no extra training.
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