Aberdeen Town House clock an hour early for more than a week...

The Aberdeen Town House clock has finally been set to the correct time – almost a week after the clocks went back.

Towering over the east end of Union Street at its junction with Broad Street, the bells were ringing an hour ahead of time until Friday.

Britain made the switch back to Greenwich Mean Time on the morning of Sunday October 27.

But it appears the city council forgot to wind back its most prominent timepiece – with a spokeswoman telling us it was “missed”.

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The Town House is prominent in the Aberdeen city centre skyline and tourists can often be seen taking snaps of the impressive grey granite building, which spans along to Castle Street.

Councillor Barney Crockettt, when Lord Provost, on the Aberdeen Town House balcony beneath the clock tower. Image: Paul Glendell/DC Thomson

And former lord provost, now independent councillor, Barney Crockett is worried about the impression they would have left Aberdeen with had they visited in the last week.

He told The P&J: “It gives a very poor reflection of Aberdeen.

“The council has a lot of things to live down just now, having let down the people of this city.

“Any visitor to Aberdeen will come to see the Town House and they would expect it to be looked after.

“I already regret that we no longer fly the city’s flag from the Town House and this amateur hour approach to the clock just adds to that.”

Steeplejacks were rushed in to look at the Town House roof after pieces of it fell onto the street below in 2013. Image: Kenny Elrick/DC Thomson

Flags used to fly from the pole above the Town House balcony, four storeys above the Granite Mile.

But the precariously placed flagpole was replaced with another on the grass in front of Marischal College due to safety concerns for the council workers when changing the standards.