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Gretton: papers relating to Charles Gretton clocks and watches
EVA/04/004 · Documento · 1954–2008
Parte de EVANS, JEREMY

Includes correspondence, photocopies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, newspaper articles, cutouts of catalogue listings, photographs, notes, and a transcript of Gretton's accounts of 1694.
Hobson: correspondence with and regarding Charles Hobson
ALL/01/008 · Documento · 1979–1988
Parte de ALLIX, CHARLES

Charles Hobson (1907–88) was a clockmaker and a honorary freeman of the Clockmakers' Company. File includes C. Alix's correspondence with Hobson; correspondence with Daniel Parkes regarding Hobson's Choice, a book of sketches of English bracket clock repeating work by Hobson, Allix and Harvey (1982); published reviews of Hobson's Choice; notes; copy of certificate of registration of Hobson Bros; photocopies of Hobson's letter to Col. Quill regarding his will; and an obituary of Hobson, published in Antiquarian Horology (Spring 1988).
Jennings: correspondence with and regarding Charles Jennings
ALL/01/010 · Documento · 1973–1983
Parte de ALLIX, CHARLES

Includes Charles Allix's correspondence with C. Jennings regarding Mudge clocks and portrait; correspondence with solicitors regarding the valuation of his collection after his death in 1980; three photographs and one drawing.
Mercer St Albans: press cuttings relating to Frank Mercer and Thomas Mercer Ltd.
ALL/01/014 · Documento · 1938–1958
Parte de ALLIX, CHARLES

Frank Mercer (1882–1970) was a chronometer maker; his father was the founder of Thomas Mercer Ltd, a firm of makers of chronometers and precision equipment based in St Albans, dating back to 1858. File includes obituaries of Frank Mercer, biographical articles about Thomas junior and senior, an article about the firm's centenary, etc.
Spencer: correspondence with Lord Spencer on horological matters
ALL/01/024 · Documento · 1958–1989
Parte de ALLIX, CHARLES

Includes a photocopy of an article on "The Description and Use of a Table-Clock" by Benjamin Martin (1704–182), scientific instrument maker, and related correspondence; and Lord Spencer's correspondence with Colonel Quill regarding clocks by Thomas Mudge, with photographs.
Travers: correspondence and press cuttings relating to the life and death of John Travers
ALL/01/026 · Documento · 1899–2003
Parte de ALLIX, CHARLES

John Travers (1849–1937) was a marine chronometer escapement maker based in Ramsgate. File includes Travers' original correspondence; press cuttings relating to the Travers family; John Travers' obituary published in The Horological Journal (1938); notes and correspondence relating to his chronometer-fusee engine, and photographs.
Vulliamy: correspondence, notes and photographs relating to Justin Vulliamy's clocks
ALL/01/027 · Documento · 1984–1995
Parte de ALLIX, CHARLES

Includes correspondence, handwritten notes and photographs of various Vulliamy clocks sold at different auctions, photocopies of sales catalogue pages, a photocopy of Thomas Reid's letter to B.L. Vulliamy of 1822, and Charles Allix's article "A mid-18th century alarm by Gray and Vulliamy" (Antiquarian Horology, Spring 1994).
Watches and clocks: correspondence and photographs
ALL/01/028 · Documento · 1983–2002
Parte de ALLIX, CHARLES

Originally untitled, this file contains correspondence, photographs, postcards, notes, catalogue extracts etc. mainly relating to various clocks and watches and their sales. Includes: Delander watch no. 298; a spring balance clock and alarm in a solid rosewood case delivered to the Duke of Leinster in 1826; month–going longcase clock by David Lestourgeon; striking bracket clock by Edward East; Tompion longcase clock.
SCRAPBOOKS
FRE/01 · Série · 1955–1966
Parte de FREDERIKSEN, MILDRED

This series contains scrapbooks of press cuttings, excerpts from publications and ephemera relating to horological news and curiosities.
"Clock Miscellany" scrapbook: volume 4
FRE/01/004 · Documento · c.1958
Parte de FREDERIKSEN, MILDRED

41 pages. Includes royal palace clocks; clocks of Salzburg, Loches and Milan; the Christ (or the Twelve Apostles) clock at Goslar, Germany; clocks around the world (Ceylon, the USA, France, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Poland) and Britain; Michael Bateman's article on "Timing the Future"; watch exhibition at the Hague; Big Ben; Wells Cathedral clock; Timex Time through the ages brochure; tower clocks; notes on curious types of clocks (shadow clock, clock jacks, silent clock, Act of Parliament clock, water clock, sundial stained glass window); Alex Lloyd's article on collecting old clocks; Salisbury Cathedral clock; sundials; Jens Olsen's clock; clocks at the Nottingham Antiques Exhibition; clocks of Rothenburg and Nuremburg, etc.
"Clock Miscellany" scrapbook: volume 6
FRE/01/006 · Documento · 1955–1961
Parte de FREDERIKSEN, MILDRED

41 pages. Includes Honeybone clock at Bristol; clock collection at Belper; "From Clock-watch to Wrist Watch" and "The Rare Grandmother Clock”, articles from Country Life Annual 1955; "Sixteenth century and earlier public clocks" list by G. H. Baillie; clocks of Denmark, Holland and Germany; clocks of Coventry and Winchester; auction sale of Tompion long case clock; "A clock to time the Earth", an article on John Harrison by Alben Philips; floral clocks; copy will of Thomas Honeybone; extract from Cats in the Belfry by Doreen Tovey; Jens Olsen's world clock brochure; Guinness Festival Clock; Westminster Abbey clock overhaul; The Musselburgh Tolboth clock; Ilbert horological collection; the world' first astronomical clock at the Science Museum; extract from The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge
FAMILY HISTORY
FRE/02 · Série · 1952–1960
Parte de FREDERIKSEN, MILDRED

This series contains a typescript volume of Honeybone family history.
NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS: WATCHES AND WATCHMAKERS
EVA/01 · Série · compiled 1990s–2010s
Parte de EVANS, JEREMY

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.
WILLIAM FRANCIS DIALS
TEN/A/12 · Subsérie · 1979–2007
Parte de TENNANT, FRANCES

Images of dials made by William Francis, a Birmingham dial maker active in the 1810s–1830s.
JOSIAH HAYES DIALS
TEN/A/13 · Subsérie · 2003
Parte de TENNANT, FRANCES

Image of a dial made by Josiah Hayes, a Birmingham dial maker active in the nineteenth century.
HIPKISS & HAROLD DIALS
TEN/A/15 · Subsérie · 1980–2004
Parte de TENNANT, FRANCES

Images of dials made by Hipkiss & Harold, Birmingham dial makers active in 1780s–1800s.