Ernest Bickham Sweet Escott was sworn in as the colony’s first Governor the same year.įAQ – Victoria Clock Tower What was the significance of the Victoria clock tower?
On August 13, only four months after it was built, Seychelles was detached from Mauritius and became an independent crown colony. At the intersection of Francis Rachel Street, State House Avenue, Albert Street, and Independence Avenue, the monument was erected. The clock tower was an identical copy of one that was built in 1892 to honor Queen Victoria‘s diamond jubilee at the Victoria Station on Vauxhall Bridge Road in London. Because of their resemblance to the clock tower of London’s Houses of Parliament, these were dubbed “Little Big Ben.” Gillet & Johnson, a clockmaker and bell foundry headquartered in Croydon, England, created the clock tower out of cast iron for roughly $468 - about $12,300 in today’s currencies. “The opening of the Victoria clock tower in our modest capital on Wednesday the 1st of April in 1903 was a precursory event that began a new chapter in the history of our islands,” according to Seychellois historian Tony Mathiot.
During events to mark King George V’s Jubilee in 1935, the clock tower, which was originally black, was painted a dazzling silver. The King George V’s Jubilee in 1935 clock tower, which dates from the colonial era, was built in commemoration of Queen Victoria, who died in 1901. The clock tower was installed in the center of Victoria, the island nation’s capital, on April 1, 1903.
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