The clock tower was built by the Ottoman Turks in an Islamic style and with simply a bell from Venice to be rung every hour. The Tufina's took care of the clock from 1822 until 1973 when forcefully removed by the communist regime. The installation of the clock was done by the renowned Tufina watchmakers.
Since the restoration of 2016, 9,833 visitors were counted, who have visited the tower. It is 35 metres (115 ft) tall and was the tallest building in the city at the time. The stairs have 90 steps that go in a spiral fashion. It is a monument of culture of first category, approved on. Watchmaster Ismail Tufina was the first to assemble the Tirana clock mechanism in 1822. The clock is undergoing extensive refurbishment before its expected restoration to Southern Cross Station next month.The Clock Tower of Tirana ( Albanian: Kulla e Sahatit të Tiranës), was built in 1822 in Tirana, Albania by Et'hem bey Mollaj, a Bejtexhinj poet who also finished the Et'hem Bey Mosque next to the clock tower. “It has been a pleasure to serve as custodians for this great piece of Melbourne history for the past 14 years and it’s great to see heritage objects reincorporated into contemporary buildings,” Mr Churchward said. Luckily, it was later rescued by private collectors and for the past 14 years has sat at Scienceworks, in Spotswood. The clock’s mechanism was given to Museum Victoria, but the iconic turret that sat on top of the tower was literally sent to the scrap heap, having been sold to a scrap metal merchant. The clock was then sent off to Spencer St Station (now known at Southern Cross Station) in 1910, where it stood for 57 years, before being decommissioned in 1967.
The clock has been moved around quite a bit, starting off at Flinders St, before being moved to the eastern side of Princes Bridge (the current Federation Square site) in 1902 in order to make way for the new Flinders St Station building. “It was Melbourne’s first landmark clock and stood over 18m high, towering over surrounding buildings and providing the reference time piece for thousands of people in what was then a rapidly-expanding city centre,” he said. A piece of history will return to Docklands next month, with the iconic Water Tower Clock to be installed at Southern Cross Station.īuilt in 1882, the clock is the last relic of the original Flinders St Station.Īccording to Museum Victoria’s senior curator Matthew Churchward, the Water Tower Clock was significant to early Melbourne.
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