A new landmark is set to be officially unveiled in the centre of Keynsham. This is great news and it was one of the final deliverables from the large town centre regeneration project built under my leadership over the last 4 years. It is a late part as the committee that was tasked with commissioning an art piece for the scheme originally selected something that was out of tune with the residents. I had to cancel it and start again with a brief that it must be based on a clock motive. The second time the Keynsham Art Advisory group came up trumps.

For many years people in the town used the old clock tower in the town as a landmark and meeting place, but it disappeared as part of the re-development of Keynsham town centre in 2014. Now though Keynsham will once again be up-to-the minute, with the un-veiling of a new specially-commissioned clock tower in Market Walk, the open area in front of the new Civic Centre. Funded by Bath & North East Somerset Council as part of the Keynsham regeneration project, the new clock tower, designed by artist Sebastien Boyesen, is being installed in early September and will be officially un-veiled on Saturday September 19, at 12 noon.