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This series contains a notebook and a bound typescript of John W. Castle's planned publications.

This series contains horological articles collected by Francis Wadsworth. Written by various authors on horological and related topics, they are the original articles cut out of various publications, mainly collectors' journals and magazines. Many of them have been purchased from antiquarian book dealers.

This series contains the index cards compiled by Frances Tennant, which were the original finding aids for her slides collection, and which have been used in creating this catalogue. They contain some extra information about the dials, such as their graphics and condition when received.

This series contains cutouts and photocopies of twentieth-and early twenty-first-century catalogue entries and advertisements describing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century longcase clocks, annotated by Jeremy Evans. The files also include photographs and some related correspondence and reports.

This series contains cutouts and photocopies of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century catalogue entries and advertisements describing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century bracket clocks, annotated by Jeremy Evans. Some files also include photographs, journal articles and related correspondence and reports.

This series contains Roger Carrington's research papers and presentation scripts relating mainly to clockmaking and watchmaking in the north of England.

This series comprises research notes on clockmaking in regions of England (Surrey, Middlesex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight) and the Black Forest, possibly assembled by E. John Tyler.

This series contains prints from microfilms and photocopies of British newspaper extracts mentioning seventeenth- and eighteenth-century watches and watchmakers, compiled and annotated by Jeremy Evans. The newspapers include mainly the Daily Advertiser and other contemporary local papers such as The London Gazette, but twentienth-century catalogues and other publications are also present. Topics include mainly losses or thefts of watches, but also sales of goods, debts, bankruptcies, marriages, deaths, wills, appointments, absconsions, elopements, criminal charges, etc. The files also include some photographs of watches and clocks. Please note that some of the microfilm prints are not easily legible and in a few cases Jeremy Evans' attempts to decipher or identify the surnames were tentative, and alterative spellings of surnames are often provided.

This series comprises photographs and papers relating to the British Horological Institute’s trips and the “British Clockmaker’s Heritage” exhibition, as well as some later material.

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

This collection comprises Philip Thornton’s reports, notes, sketches and tracings which document the repairs and restorations of mainly bracket clocks, carried out by him primarily in the 1930s and 1940s, with a few later instances. Most papers record the date of restoration and the name of the client. The files vary in size and content from single pieces of scrap paper to more comprehensive bundles containing condition reports and detailed large-format drawings. Many of the papers are in very fragile condition.

This series contains scrapbooks of press cuttings, excerpts from publications and ephemera relating to horological news and curiosities.

This series contains a typescript volume of Honeybone family history.

This series comprises images of clock dials made by known Birmingham makers.

The dials have been categorised by Frances Tennant into the following dial types:
12 o'clock moon, Arched with moon, Automata, Birds in arch, Brass arched, Brass arched moon, Brass square, Gesso in arch, High oval in arch, Low oval in arch, Moon dial, Other arch, Other dial type, Oval dial, Picture in arch, Round dial, Square dial.

This series contains files of correspondence and cutouts from catalogues, newspapers, journals and other publications, relating to the work of individual clockmakers and engravers.

The subject files contain correspondence, publications, notes and photographs

This series contains extracts from eighteenth and nineteenth-century fire insurance policies relating to clockmaking businesses. They were compiled from manuscripts held at the Guildhall Library (now part of The London Archives).

This series contains alphabetically arranged subject files of correspondence, photographs, drawings, press cuttings and publications relating mainly to remarkable European clocks.

This series comprises notes and transcripts of fourteenth to eighteenth-century sources relating to clockmaking and watchmaking.

This series contains Lewis S. Northcote's correspondence on horological matters.

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