Passers -by and local residents are pleased. “You only realize how often you look at that clock when it is no longer there,” says a resident. Another adds smiling: “I think I will watch what time it is ten times a day.”
A place of coming home
Even alderman Ali Bal came, in the middle of his vacation, a look. “That clock means a lot for Beverwijk. The Wijkertoren is a place of coming home. And I noticed how often I looked for nothing. Now he hangs there again and that feels good.”