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1844, Relocation of the Blackboy Clock to Castle Street
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Paul Hawkins Fisher described the relocation of the clock in Notes and Recollections of Stroud (1871):
"But, on the erection of the National School at the entrance of Castle-Street, in the year 1844, the clock and Black Boy, with his club and bell, were bought by subscription, and set up against the building. There the Boy has stood ever since, doing the duty of turning his head, lifting his club, and striking the hours of day and night as often as they come round; and there, it is hoped, he will for many years continue to perform his automatic exercises, to the wonder of strangers passing by, as he did to the admiration of boys and girls of old. But it has thereby come to pass that the identity, if not the very existence of the school, has been well-nigh lost in that of the Black Boy himself; inasmuch as a little girl being asked, “What school do you go to?” replied, “Please ma’am, I go to the Black Boy”; and this is the answer that all the children would give to the same question – “Please ma’am, I go to the Black Boy.” Indeed, it has been whispered that some high and grave authorities, whose duties often lead them to the Black Boy, call the school by the same name, to the great dismay of the purists in nomenclature, who prefer its less equivocal and , not doubt more accurate appellation of The School, (or the National School,) in Castle-street." - has type | est de type
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- Internet Archive - Paul Hawkins Fisher, Notes and Recollections of Stroud, Gloucestershire (1871)