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- mostly 20th century (Creation)
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12 boxes (6 linear metres)
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Biographical history
Alan Treherne is a Vice-President of the Antiquarian Horological Society and its former Council member. He is an author of several horological exhibition catalogues, including Nantwich Clockmakers: Catalogue of Clocks and Watches exhibited at Nantwich Museum (1970) and The Massey Family: Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Museum, Newcastle-under-Lyme (1977).
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Transferred to the AHS in November 2024 by Susannah Treherne on behalf of Alan, and deposited at 4 Lovat Lane in May 2025.
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Scope and content
This collection comprises research papers, ephemera, original material, digital files, catalogues and images gathered and created by Alan Treherne in the course of his long-term research into the families and inventions of Peter Stubs and Edward Massey. It also contains cards indexes relating to Alan’s research into clockmakers, watchmakers and workers in allied trades and industries in Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and nearby locations. The records date mostly from the twentieth and early twenty-first century, but also contain photocopies of earlier material.
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Accruals
No further deposits are expected.
System of arrangement
Alan Treherne’s papers are arranged into 12 boxes of labelled box files and index cards.
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The Alan Treherne archive is sorted but uncatalogued, so it is not available for access at the moment.
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English
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Archivist's note
The collection awaits cataloguing.