Shropshire Clock and Watchmakers
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- Author(s) Elliott, Douglas J
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1979
- Pages 172pp; illus
- Publisher Phillimore
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Largely comprises gazetteer of makers [pp25-136], arranged alphabetically, some very brief, some substantial. Sections include: 'Introduction'; 'Company of Smiths, Shrewsbury' [pp18-9]; 'Company of Hammermen, Ludlow' [pp20-2]; 'Story of J B Joyce & Co Ltd of Whitchurch' [pp137-57]; 'Thomas Vickery, clockmaker extraordinary, 1882-1945'; 'Appendix - letters of John Briant, clockmaker, 1812' [pp161-3 x four letters] relating to clocks he made for Shrewsbury while located at Hertford. Indexed by location