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This collection comprises material created and collected by the Bristol clockmaker Henry Draisey. It contains notebooks, drawings, plans, correspondence, photographs, glass plate negatives and printed material (books, newspaper cuttings, catalogues, price lists, etc.).

107 double-sided pages. Topics include: cosmography and horology, brief history of timepieces and clocks, and descriptions of clepsydra, verges, different types of escapements, wheels and pinions, laws governing the pendulum, etc. With diagrams.

Unnumbered and unpaginated. Topics include various striking movements and g.f. clock trains. Also includes loose notes with prices of clock repairs. With diagrams,

Unnumbered and unpaginated. Topics include turret striking movements, g.f. clock trains, church clock dials and hands, prices of turret repairs, etc. Also includes loose notes on related topics. With diagrams.

66 double-sided pages. Topics include: balance / hair spring, balance staff, remontoire movement, music as applied to horology, the best bells to use when fitting chime clock's hammers, accepting orders for large turret clocks, carillions, pendulum lengths, silvering clock dials, recipe for cleaning solution, sidereal and solar days, meridian dial, early clocks, etc. Also includes loose notes on related topics. With diagrams.

121 pages. Topics include: turret clocks, new chime machinery (by Gillett & Bland and Lund & Blockley), clock hammers, public clock specifications, train remontoires, bells, etc. Also includes a list of great belles pasted in at the end, and loose notes on related topics. With diagrams.

2 pages only, written on the insides of hardback covers removed from a notebook (notebook not present)

These notebooks contain definitions, descriptions, notes and comments on various types and examples of clocks, movements, technical matters etc., with diagrams. Written in neat, almost calligraphic handwriting in black and red ink, they may have initially been compiled as part of a clockmaker's training, as some paragraphs in notebook no. 1 are marked 'very good'. They are captioned 'H. Draisey Esq., clockmaker, 216 Bath Road, Bristol'

140 pages. Topics include: early clocks, pendulum springs, pendulum regulation, compensation of pendulums, heaviest pendulums, wooden rods, mercurial compensation, half-dead escapement, pin wheel escapement, pin pallets, the four-legged escapement, the double three-legged escapement, electrical clocks, tell-tale clocks, church / turret clocks, etc. With diagrams.

120 pages. Topics include: bells, composition of bell metal, tolling levers, bell ropes, Ellacombe's chiming hammers, stays and sliders,gudgeons, iron stocks and frames, clappering, bell towers, etc. With diagrams.

108 pages. Topics include: quarter chime movement, recoil escapement, watch and clock trains, weights and sizes of bells of St Philip's and St Jacob's church in Bristol, pendulum bobs, metals, turret clocks done by H. Draisey, compensated balance, dead-beat escapement, pinor jewel pallets, Americal pallets, hour and quarter chime snails, rack work, turret clock dial work, the Universe, the Solar System, the Year, turret clocks locking plate. warning and stop work, electric clocks balance type, the gravity escapement, enameled iron dials, hard soldering, electric gilding, batteries, dial clock train, recipe for French polish, the Wells Clock, the Big Ben, etc. With diagrams.

Gives customer's name, type of clock, work carried out, price, and in a few cases date. Also includes loose notes.