{"id":434646,"date":"2025-09-18T22:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/434646\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:46:10","slug":"portobellos-broken-clock-to-return-after-more-than-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/434646\/","title":{"rendered":"Portobello&#8217;s broken clock to return after more than 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Once the clock is fully repaired it will be reinstalled on the outside of the building &#8211; a former town hall and cinema.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Due the property&#8217;s category B listing, consultation with Historic Environment Scotland will be required to ensure any works have the necessary consents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At least one side of the street will need to be shut for a number of days while the clock is put back in place which is expected to cause traffic delays in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mandy Watt, the council&#8217;s finance and resources convener, said: &#8220;The return of Porty&#8217;s historic burgh clock will be welcome news to many.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It has been in storage for many years and it&#8217;s time we got on with restoring it and putting it back in its rightful place.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once the clock is fully repaired it will be reinstalled on the outside of the building &#8211; a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-434646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115227733830307444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}