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

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

Daughter of deceased graduate gives clock part back to Gonville & Caius College – but minute hand still missing

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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