Council Chamber Clock

In our Council Chamber, we have this lovely clock hanging on the wall, together with a framed explanation of how it came to be there.

The clock was presented to Witham Town Council in 1998 by the committee of Abbeyfield Witham Society Ltd when the Society dissolved.

Abbeyfield Society was established to provide relief for 'aged, impotent and poor people of all classes, for the advancement of religion and education and for other charitable purposes beneficial to the society'. The clock, made by E. King & Son of Witham, had been presented to the Abbeyfield Society in 1969 by Leslie King, who was the first chairman of the Society. The clock was to be used in Poplar Hall, a property owned by the Society in Hatfield Road, Witham. The property was considered unsuitable for continued use for the increasingly frail residents in 1997. Poplar Hall is now a private residence and still stands on the corner of Hatfield Road and Spinks Lane. Residents were moved to other modernised Abbeyfield properties in the locality.