THIS clock will be familiar to thousands of elderly Glaswegians and millions of film lovers - but it is now hidden from sight and its future again unknown.
It was the timepiece that once hung in the St Enoch Station. When the station was closed in June 1966 and then demolished in the 1970s the only thing that remained was the clock that was once suspended from the roof.
It was bought by Raymond Gillies, owner of the House of Hearing in Bath Street, and he donated it to Cumbernauld as the new town celebrated its 21st birthday in 1977.
The Queen was celebrating her Silver Jubilee that year and she unveiled a commemorative plaque documenting the gift of the clock.
It was originally in a walkway between the Woolco superstore on one side and Presto and Mackays on the other and in 1981 it featured in the film Gregory's Girl, starring John Gordon Sinclair and Dee Hepburn.
When Cumbernauld town centre was redeveloped a few years ago the clock was moved to a corridor linking Phase 1 with the new Antonine Centre.
It is still there - but the area is now closed off as new works are proposed for the area, although not yet agreed.
What the clock's future will be only time can tell.
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