Collection BRO - BROOKS, GRAHAME

Zone d'identification

Cote

BRO

Titre

BROOKS, GRAHAME

Date(s)

  • 1983–2008 (Création/Production)

Niveau de description

Collection

Étendue matérielle et support

252 files in 11 boxes (1.85 linear metres)

Zone du contexte

Nom du producteur

(fl.1990s–2000s)

Notice biographique

Grahame Brooks is a Freeman of the Goldsmiths Company, Liveryman of the Clockmakers Company, and a freelance contributor to the Horological Journal. He attended evening classes in watch and clock making together with George Daniels at Northampton Polytechnic in Clerkenwell, which later became the National College of Horology.

Histoire archivistique

The material was donated by Grahame Brooks to David Rooney c.2008 for research purposes. In 2023, at David’s suggestion, Grahame agreed to donate it to the AHS to make it available to the wider public.

Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

Deposited at the AHS Lovat Lane in June 2023, with an additional deposit made in August 2025.

Zone du contenu et de la structure

Portée et contenu

This collection comprises mostly fine wristwatch trade publications sent to and collected by Grahame Brooks over an approximately ten-year period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. It includes press releases, product brochures, photographs, slides and CD-Roms, as well as some correspondence. It also contains other horologucal publications, such as journals and exhibition catalogues.

Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation

Accroissements

The Graham Brooks archive has been fully catalogued but further records may be deposited in the future.

Mode de classement

The collection is arranged alphabetically by company name, reflecting the original order at the time of deposit.

Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation

Conditions d'accès

The records are available for public access by prior appointment.

Conditions de reproduction

Langue des documents

    Écriture des documents

      Notes de langue et graphie

      Mostly English, some German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese

      Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques

      Instruments de recherche

      Générer l'instrument de recherche

      Zone des sources complémentaires

      Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux

      Existence et lieu de conservation des copies

      Unités de description associées

      Descriptions associées

      Zone des notes

      Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)

      Mots-clés

      Mots-clés - Sujets

      Mots-clés - Lieux

      Mots-clés - Noms

      Mots-clés - Genre

      Zone du contrôle de la description

      Identifiant de la description

      Identifiant du service d'archives

      Règles et/ou conventions utilisées

      Statut

      Niveau de détail

      Dates de production, de révision, de suppression

      Langue(s)

        Écriture(s)

          Sources

          Note de l'archiviste

          Catalogued in March 2026 by the AHS Archivist.

          Zone des entrées