It was taller by half than the old man himself, Though it weighed not a pennyweight more. My grandfather’s clock was too large for the shelf, So it stood ninety years on the floor The song was called “My Grandfather’s Clock”, released in 1876.ġ. Being a song writer, he then wrote a song about the incident. Whatever the case, the bemused Work thought it was a great story. Now, of course, what probably actually happened was the clock died and was prohibitively expensive to fix, but looked nice, so the new owners of the hotel came up with a great story for the clock to hide the fact that they maybe just didn’t want to pay to get it fixed nor have it hauled off.
Despite the best efforts of a host of repairmen supposedly hired by the new owners of the inn, they couldn’t get the clock going again. Maybe because it was his job to wind it and nobody else wanted the task, you say? 😉 According to the story Work was told, it was actually because it broke. It seems the clock had kept perfect time during their lives, but when the first Jenkins brother died, the clock started becoming less accurate.Īfter this, the story went that the clock stopped completely dead- to the minute and second Jenkins brother had died. The story was that the clock had belonged to the inn’s previous two owners, the Jenkins brothers, both deceased. He was told a story by the proprietors, whether true or not (probably not) isn’t important to how grandfather clocks got their name. This unmoving clock fascinated Work and he asked about its history. The clock had stopped long ago and just sat in the lobby, serving no apparent purpose. In the hotel’s lobby was a large pendulum clock. While there, he checked in to the George Hotel in North Yorkshire. In 1875, an American songwriter named Henry Clay Work was visiting England.
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