Ilminster clock to commemorate Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee

The clock has been put up on Silver Street ahead of it's official turning on ceremony

A clock commemorating Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee has been unveiled.

The Ilminster Rotary Club has put the new clock up on Silver Street in tribute to the late queen, who died aged 96, in 2022.

The Somerset club said it will "celebrate our late queen's hard work, dedication and service".

Ex-Rotary club member John Wood said it will also become the town's only public clock.

"We had a little bit of money from two legacies in the club and looked at it and decided we would go ahead and do it," he said.

"We had many hurdles to overcome, things like finding the right place to put it, getting planning permission, getting electricians to connect it and people to assemble it, so it's taken a long time. But at last it's now up.

The clock was paid for by Ilminster Rotary Club

"Our oldest founding member of the club, who is 103 years of age, called Bill Morsen, will unveil the plaque before the clock is started."

In a message on the club's Facebook page it said the clock will become "a new landmark in the middle of Ilminster".

"Just stand in Silver Street and look east or in East Street looking the other way and you will see a new town clock with its plaque recording Queen Victoria's stop-over as a baby and a board commemorating Ilminster's part in the attempt of the Duke of Monmouth to seize the throne," it said.

The Rotary Club said the clock will become a "new landmark" for the town

"Ilminster Rotary Club decided that she should be honoured and, thanks to legacies from two former members, John Storey and Peter Smith, it had some money to buy a suitable clock.

"Whilst nothing to compare with the queen's service, the Rotary Club has also recently celebrated an anniversary of service to the community.

"The clock is only the latest in a long history of projects to support a very remarkable town."

The commemorative clock will be switched on at 12:00 GMT on Saturday.