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Archival descriptions
NOR/02/001 · File · 1961–1965
Part of NORTHCOTE, LEWIS

Also includes eight photographs, typescripts of "Further notes on some Westmoreland Clock and Watch Makers" (1962) and "Former Clock- and Watch-makers of North Lonsdale" by J.L. Hobbs; handwritten notes on clocks, handwritten draft of L. Northcote's review of Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400–1850 by C.F.C. Beeson (1962) with a cover letter, and a copy of Cake and Cockhorse: the magazine of the Banbury Historical Society vol. 1 no. 2 (1961/62).

NOR/01/005 · File · 1970
Part of NORTHCOTE, LEWIS

Includes copy correspondence and typescript copies of Electrical Horology Group minutes of 9th October 1970; "List of Works on Electrical Horology" compiled by Charles K. Aked; a list of articles on electrical horology compiled by Anthony Prasil; and a list of members interested in electrical horology, with addresses.

NOR/01/006 · File · 1960s–1970s
Part of NORTHCOTE, LEWIS

Includes annotated typescript of "The Tompion Clocks at Greenwich and the Dead-beat Escapement" by Derek Howse, an article published in Antiquarian Horology (December 1970); pages from the Horological Journal (October 1962) on Tompion pallets; and Northcote's correspondence with Howse, with notes and sketches.

NOR/02/005 · File · n.d. [20th century]
Part of NORTHCOTE, LEWIS

Photocopies of annotated typewritten notes on aspects of the clock: chiming, striking to the nearest second, winding by electric motor, summertime. Includes diagram.

NOR/02/002 · File · 1962–1971
Part of NORTHCOTE, LEWIS

Includes signed typescript of L. Northcote's review of Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400-1850 by C.F.C. Beeson (1962); typescript of "Electronics in Timekeeping", a lecture given to the Electrical Horology Group by J.D. Weaver at the Science Museum (6 Dec 1975); typescript of an article on "The Watchmaker's Guild of Copenhagen" (n.d.), and handwritten notes and comments on the Flamsteed / Towneley correspondence and Towneley's pallets as revised by Tompion.

NORTHCOTE, LEWIS
NOR · Collection · 1949–1976

This collection contains horological correspondence, research notes, photographs and printed material created and compiled by Lewis S. Northcote.

Northcote, Lewis
NOTES AND ARTICLES
NOR/02 · Series · 1961–1976
Part of NORTHCOTE, LEWIS

This series contains notes, typescripts and publications compiled by Lewis S. Northcote, authored both by himself and others.

PRINTED MATERIAL
NOR/03 · Series · 1962–1968
Part of NORTHCOTE, LEWIS

This series contains prints of Northcote's map of Oxfordshire and an auction catalogue.