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Adams Clock Tower - Tunstall Park

  • Erected in 1907 near the main entrance of Tunstall Park.

  

 

NIL DESPERANDUM "Do not despair"
NIL DESPERANDUM "Do not despair"
the Adams family motto

the coat of arms, with a shield surmounted by a boar's head and a knight's helm and mantling. The shield is bisected vertically, and bears three cats on the left hand side and three tridents on the right. These are the arms of William Adams (1833-1905), impaled with those of his wife, Laura Eliza nee Worthington.

 

THE ADAMS CLOCK TOWER, TUNSTALL PARK, STAFFORDSHIRE
THE ADAMS CLOCK TOWER, TUNSTALL PARK, STAFFORDSHIRE

Erected in the year 1907 
By the workpeople and firm of William Adams & Co., of Greenfield, Greengates, and Newfield, to the memory of 
WILLIAM ADAMS, OF GREENFIELD, ESQUIRE 
Born June 13th, 1833. Died March 5th, 1905.

A well known manufacturer of this Town.

- inscription on the tower - 

 

also see..

The Adams family of Potters

The Adams Clock Tower

'Parklife' - Tunstall Park and Victoria Park Road 

 

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