Somerset Clockmakers
Details:
- Author(s) Bellchambers, Jack K
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1968
- Pages 79pp; illus
- Publisher Antiquarian Horological Society
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Reprinted 1986. Includes Bristol on which there is substantial coverage. Has sections: 'Bristol - the city and its church clocks'; Bristol - the freedom of John Stretch'; 'Bristol - outstanding makers'; 'Somerset - church wardens' accounts'; 'Dr Claver-Morris's diary and accounts'; 'Somerset clockmaking by town'; 'The Cockey family'; 'The Bilbie family'; 'The Wells Cathedral Clock'. Major components are lists of makers with brief details such as name, location, time span, etc, for Bristol [pp55-66] and Somerset [pp67-75]