Berry’s Allied Hardware - The Clock Ticks On

Today's blog post is lifted right from the pages of the 1965 Reston Recorder. A post here from almost 2 years ago tells the story of that corner in Reston where Reston Drugs now sits. Edward Hanlon Berry, his father Anson and brothers Fred, Harcourt, Lewis D. and Lawrence made huge contributions to early businesses and life in Reston and Cromer. The next generation, John Berry was in charge of the store in 1965 when renovations took place. Berry Hardware was a dependable advertiser in the Reston Recorder and a few from 1965 are copied and pasted below. This article - The Clock Ticks On -  is so was well written, I can just picture the scene!  See if you can too.

It’s a completely renovated interior that visitors to the Berry Hardware here will view on the official opening next Thursday, Friday and Saturday, except for one item – the large pendulum wall clock which has been ticking off the seconds, minutes and hours for over 50 years.
Customers will tread on the new newly laid tile floor, view the wares displayed on new gondolas on the floor and on new shelving on the walls, all ultra modern under the new lighting system while the old clock keeps ticking off the time.
The clock on the north wall towards the front of the store has a massive pendulum suspended from several rods of different kinds of metal, designed so the temperature changes do not affect its accuracy. The design works, for it has been keeping time for all these years.
It was purchased many years ago by the late E. H. Berry, founder of the firm, when he was in the jewelry business here and was the official watchmaker for this C.P.R. He use the clock to test the accuracy of the railroad watches he repaired.
It is fitting that this one link with the past should be retained and it looks right at home in the ultra modern store, hanging in the place it has occupied for so many years.

The clock ticked on in this building that was constructed in 1922 until the mid seventies when the remaining goods were sold by auction and the building was torn down in 1975. I do wonder if that magnificent clock ticks on somewhere?  Perhaps one of my readers will have the rest of the story.