George Green School Clock - 100 years - East India Dock Road, London, UK - Commercial Commemorations on Waymarking.com

The bronze plaque, around the corner from the clock reads:

The George Green Association

This clock was presented
by members of the Association
pupils and other friends
of the school as a
Centennial Memorial
and in remembrance of the founder
George Green

4th October 1928

The Exploring East London website [visit link] tells us:

On a building in East India Dock Road. This was originally George Green School, and the clock was made in 1928 to mark the centenary of the school. George Green was a shipbuilder who used much of the money he made for communal purposes.

The Dijitalimaj website [visit link] adds:

The school was founded by George Green, a successful ship builder from Poplar, who became a wealthy man, but he spent the bulk of his wealth on charitable works. He founded almshouses, sailors? homes, a chapel and, in particular, schools. In 1828 the first George Green?s School was founded at the corner of Chrisp Street and East India Dock Road. This building was replaced in 1884 by one at the corner of Kirby Street and East India Dock Road. Finally, in January 1976 the present George Green?s came into being at the southern tip of the Isle of Dogs, facing the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. This, the second building is still in use as part of Tower Hamlets College, the Financial Skills Academy.

The clock has two faces: one facing east and the other west along East India Dock Road. The clock is in a case that is mounted to the wall of a tower and overhangs the footpath below. The case is painted a pale blue as is the wrought iron work that attaches the case to the tower. The scroll work of the bracket extends to a smaller piece sitting on top of the clock. The case is embellished with some gold coloured medallions: four around each clock face and one of the edge of the case between the clock faces.

The clock faces are approximately four feet in diameter. Around the perimeter of the clock face is a black ring that holds the black minute marks. These are connected to a second, gold coloured ring. A third ring sits inside the second ring and is also gold in colour. The black, hour marks are held between the two gold coloured rings. The hour marks are traditional Roman numerals for a clock face with 'IIII' used instead of 'IV' for four.

The hands, also black in colour, are chunky and each has a tail. The hour hand extends to the inner gold rind and the minute hand extends to the black outer ring.