In Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Leek in Staffordshire and in Bristol. 'They were a Quaker family,' he recalled. Working out a family tree for a Midland clockmaking family called His most rewarding research was completing the puzzling task of
Name I don't know but I like to think I have 90 per cent of all I know someone will come up someday with a Until about 1900 when the Americans and the Swiss took over the industry 'The book is a history of clocks and clockmaking inīirmingham, Coventry, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire up This was getting a bit much so I startedĬompiling a list in the 1980s and then I thought there is enough 'I would have to go through the trade directories and search 'I was getting about one inquiry a month. Inquiries about the dates of clocks,' said 54-year-old McKenna. 'I don't know why it was but I always used to get Studies at what is now Wolverhampton University, he started working at His father was a factory worker and after getting an MA in West Midlands Librarian at Birmingham's Central Library, McKenna has produced theįirst book offering a guide to the clockmakers of the West Midlands.īorn in South Armagh, McKenna was brought up in Birmingham where White clock dials in Aris's Birmingham Gazette in 1772. Street were the first known manufacturers and they were advertising This alternative to the brass dial helped you tell the time lookingĪt a clock face at an angle. Painted white dial clock, but between 17 it was the home of 'Birmingham not only gave the world a new art-form, the delicately
Watchmakers of Central England (Mayfield Books, pounds 35). Writes Joe McKenna in his newly-published book. 'Birmingham, Britain's industrial heart, the city thatīoasted that it could make anything from 'a pin to aīattleship', was also capable of producing beautiful clocks,' List of manufacturing achievements but in the 18th century, the city Retrieved from Ĭlockmaking is not normally associated with Birmingham's long APA style: Archive: Forgotten legacy of city's innovative clockmakers revived by enthusiast It's often overlooked that the city was a centre of innovation for timepieces, says Ross Reyburn.Archive: Forgotten legacy of city's innovative clockmakers revived by enthusiast It's often overlooked that the city was a centre of innovation for timepieces, says Ross Reyburn." Retrieved from
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