Trixie Baker inherited the hour hand upon the death of her father, Gonville and Caius College graduate Geoffrey Hunter Baker, in 1999 aged 83. Mr Baker and an unnamed fellow undergraduate had ...

The hour hand of a chapel clock taken in a student prank and replaced with a cardboard copy is back at a Cambridge University college after nearly 90 years. Trixie Baker inherited it upon the ...

"These worked very well until it rained," said his daughter Trixie Baker who inherited the hour hand from her father when he died in 1999. Late last year she returned it and the hand now sits in ...

When the minute hand of a clock (the longer hand) moves from 12 and travels a quarter of the way around the clock to point at the 3, it means it’s quarter past the hour. The hour hand (the ...

A century-old prank involving a Cambridge University chapel clock has reached its conclusion with the return of a pilfered hour hand. The hand, originally taken sometime around 1923, found its way ...

Baker kept the hour hand, while his accomplice held onto the minute hand. Baker’s daughter, Trixie Baker, inherited the hour hand from her father when he died in 1999. “These worked very well until it ...