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February 1844

Blackboy Clock is relocated to a school on Castle Street

The Blackboy Clock is bought by public subscription (similar to what might now be called crowdfunding) and relocated to Castle Street, where it is placed in a specially constructed alcove on the front of the newly built Castle Street National School. The building quickly gains the nickname of ‘the Black Boy School’, as referred to in the Stroud News, and is further abbreviated to ‘The Black Boy’ by students, local residents, and governing authorities.

Blackboy Clock

Notes and Recollections, PH Fisher, 1874

Fisher, Paul Hawkins. “Freebury’s Orchard – John Miles and the Black-boy – Chandler, the artist.” In Notes and Recollections of Stroud, Gloucestershire, 41. London: Trübner and Co, Paternoster Row, 1871.

Blackboy Clock is sold by Henry Thornton Blackboy Clock mechanism breaks

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