Cleaning the Clock Tower, mid 1970s to mid 1980s

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Title: Cleaning the Clock Tower, mid 1970s to mid 1980s
Depiction: Men hanging from ropes attached to a clock-tower clad in Virginia creeper.
Description: This picture, taken from outside the Quadrangle, looking north-west, shows the iconic Clock Tower undergoing maintenance. Taken In the days before stringent health and safety rules were introduced, it shows the agility and bravery needed by Buildings & Grounds staff in order to keep the Virginia creeper from obscuring the College clock. The height of the Tower is 108 feet.; Cleaning the Clock Tower, mid 1970s to mid 1980s
Contributor: Bernard Finan
Bibliographic Citation: B. Finan, J. Conroy ‘Cleaning the Clock Tower, mid 1970s to mid 1980s’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14868, Archival Record Id VHRS
Temporal Coverage: Mid 1970s to mid 1980s
Period: 1970s; 1980s
Category: colour; group; on-campus; outdoors
Subject: University of Galway; Buildings & Estates; Maintenance; The Quadrangle
Language: English
Publisher: University of Galway Library
Rights: This image may be used for non-commercial purposes under CC BY-NC-SA see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/