Nottingham Post published Nigel Kirk: The 150-year-old clock which worked first time

Antique clocks were often remarkably well-made, as auctioneer Nigel Kirk discovered when selling one which was over 150 years old. Time and tide, as we know from Chaucer, do not wait. In his day, the 14th century, the making of clocks was already underway following the discovery of a working escapement with a foliot balance – the essential parts of the earliest weight-driven clock mechanism. By the 18th century most English towns, and even the villages, could boast at least one...