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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Hayden Vernon

About time? Hour hand returned to Cambridge University after 1930s prank

Close-up of hour hand with college building out of focus in background
The original chapel clock hour-hand stolen in a student prank almost a century ago. Photograph: Gonville and Caius College/PA

The hour hand of a university chapel clock that was taken in a student prank and replaced with a cardboard copy has been returned almost a century later.

Trixie Baker inherited the hour hand on the death of her father, Geoffrey Hunter Baker, a Cambridge graduate who died in 1999 aged 83.

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