Exhibition

'TIME & PLACE – English Country Clocks 1600-1840'

An Antiquarian Horological Society exhibition held at
The Museum of The History of Science, Broad Street, Oxford,

25 November 2006 – 15 April 2007

'Time & Place' Exhibition Catalogue front cover

Although the Exhibition has closed, the superbly illustrated Catalogue is still available
and is now the only record of the event.

The exhibition was accompanied by a full colour catalogue of 284 pages with soft covers, matt laminated.
Page size 275 mm high x 232 mm wide. Top quality silk finish coated paper.
About 300+ colour illustrations.

AHS members - £25 + £6 UK p&p.
Non-members - £30 + £6 UK p&p.
Please note that the member’s price is only available when purchased direct from the Society.
Contact the AHS office at Ticehurst to order and obtain details of the postage and packing cost outside the UK.

The Exhibition catalogue includes clocks by the following makers:-

Nicholas Snow

T Brown (attrib)

Jnth Chambers

Rich Greenhill (two examples)

Law. Debnham

John London (2 examples)

Geo Newton

Wm Raynes

Richard How

Sam Stretch

John Knibb

Arthur Davis

Thomas Boulton

John Watts

John Williamson

Thos. Veale

Ed Bilbie

James Worthington

Thos Power

Ambrose Hawkins

Rich Savage

Edward Webb

William Tipling

Walter Archer

J Smorthwaite

William Noke

Joseph Cooper

John Taylor

Joseph Green

John Wrench

James Woolley (two examples)

Glazebrook /Hutchinson

Richard Marshal

Samuel Day

Thomas Ogden

John Beech

John Hocker

John Gilkes

Joseph Smith

Henry Hindley (two examples)

John Greaves

Bart Delacourt

John Coates

Thos Lister Snr,

Thos Cox

John Huggin

James Wilson

Jonas Barber

Thos Ranger

Wm Snow

Sam Deacon

John Walker

John Whitehurst

Porthouse

Thomas Lister jnr

Rob. Apps

John Whitehurst1/2

Benj.Booth

Henry Ward

Caleb Boney

 

Benjamin Harlow

John Whitehurst III

 

There are also several unsigned clocks included.

The variety of exhibit includes, lantern clock, longcase clock, wall clock, table clock, regulators, astronomical.

In the catalogue, all sixty-eight exhibits are lavishly illustrated, plus there is an introduction and supporting articles on specific makers:

Jeff Darken on James Woolley of Codnor
Michael Lee on John and Robert Watts of Stamford
Michael Pearson on the Greenhills of Kent
John Thornton on Samuel Deacon
Chris Watson on Henry Hindley
Sir George White on John London of Bristol

John Robey and Tom Spittler have contributed a comprehensive bibliography relating to provincial and country clocks.
David Thompson, Curator of Horology, British Museum has compiled a list of museums with horological content.

Foreword by Dr Jim Bennett, Director, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.

 

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