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image captionScott Davis has returned to help restore the John Summers Clock Tower at Shotton steelworks, where he was an apprentice in the 1990s
A businessman has returned to the place he was a teenage apprentice to help restore a dilapidated landmark.
The Grade II-listed John Summers Clock Tower in Deeside was home to Shotton Steelworks general office from 1907.
After the Flintshire building was sold by Tata Steel in 2009, it was vandalised and fell into disrepair.
Now, 20 years after he started an apprenticeship at the steelworks, Scott Davis has returned to help restore the building.
The project, which has received lottery funding, has been supported by more than 50 volunteers who have helped clear the way for major structural repairs.
A LEADING businessman has returned to the place he was a teenage apprentice to help a team of volunteers bring a North Wales landmark back to life. Scott Davis, CEO of The Ethikos Group, is supporting the ‘Guardians’ working to preserve the Grade II-listed John Summers Clock Tower site in Deeside. The building opened in 1907 and was home to the general office of Shotton Steelworks – now Tata Steel - on the banks of the River Dee, before closing in 2009 and falling into serious disrepair after being sold by the company. However, memories of its former glories are very much alive; it was here Scott arrived as a 16 year-old to begin his tenure as an apprentice electrician.