Clock Tower Memorial, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles - Philatelic Photographs on Waymarking.com

The 25cts Victoria Memorial Clock Tower postage stamp was issued on an official First Day cover of 21st February 1962. This is indisputably the most popular historical landmark of Seychelles, and definitely the most cherished of our colonial souvenirs and among the very few that remains. It was inaugurated on the 1st of April 1903, by the first Governor of Seychelles, Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott (1857-1941) as a memorial to Queen Victoria who had passed away in 1901 at 82 years old. Seychelles, which onced formed part of the vast British Empire was ruled as a dependency of Mauritius and it was in 1903, the year that the Clock tower was erected that the archipelago became a separate colony under the administration of a Governor and a Legislative Council. The population was then 19,237 inhabitants, most of whom earned their livelihood as plantation workers on coconut estates and cinnamon and vanilla plantations, or as fishermen.

The erection of the clock tower was paid for partly by Public Subscription and the total sum collected from donations from Mahé, Praslin and La Digue amounted to Rs. 3,233.81cts. An additional sum of Rs 6,447.62cts was voted in order to have sufficient funds for the clock tower. Interestingly enough, it is a replica of the one that was placed at the entrance of Victoria Station on Vauxhall Bridge road in London in 1892 to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. It still stands there in its original black cast iron whereas in 1935, ours was painted with an aluminum coating of silver for the silver jubilee of King George V (1865-1936). Measuring 25 feet in height, and 3 feet by 3 feet in width with each dial being 2½ feet in diameter, the Victoria Clock tower is a sublime and majestic monument that stands as a proud punctuation mark in the history of Seychelles. On that Wednesday afternoon of 1st April 1903, when it was solemnly unveiled, for many inhabitants then, it was the first chronometer, they had ever seen.
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Stamp Issuing Country: Seychelles Date of Issue: 21st February 1962 Denomination: 25cts Victoria Memorial Clock Tower Color: blue, green and light brown Stamp Type: Single Stamp Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]

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