Another Clock Silenced

There is another clock tower in the Taiping Lake Gardens which was once the pride of the town because it was donated by the Japanese Electric Company - Sanyo, and was supposed to be one of the few clocks that ran on solar energy during its time.  Again, was it due to neglect, mismanagement or whatever reason?  The clock died after ten years or so.  It was very much alive during the 1980's up till the early 1990's.

 This was what the Sanyo solar clock looked like in 1990.  The face of the clock was still there and the surrounding was beautifully landscaped with flowers.

 

Located at the centre of the Lake Gardens, this clock used to chime too.  People who were at the garden will be able to know the time from the chime of this clock.  Today, it remains silent.

 

Actually, there is not much of a clock left, only the tower remains,  The place where the face of the clock used to be has been replaced by a sign-board - MPT or Majlis Perbandaran Taiping (The Taiping Municipal Council).  New and younger visitors to the Lake Gardens will think that this is a sign-board to tell the people that the garden is being managed by the MPT, which is true,  Unless, told by older residents of the town, they will never know about the solar clock that has disappeared from the face of our local history.