1st July 2021
Keith Scobie-Youngs FBHI ACR
The Remarkable City Career of Aynsworth Thwaites
Due to the government’s plan to remove all legal limits on meetings and social gatherings being changed from the 21st of June to the 19th of July, Peter Gosnell’s talk which was scheduled for this meeting has been temporarily postponed. We are incredibly grateful to Keith Scobie-Youngs, director of the Cumbia Clock Company, who has agreed at the last minute to stand in on the Zoom platform for what we sincerely hope will be our last talk in Lockdown.
Many of you will remember Keith’s talk, at the Beresford Hutchinson Lecture 2019, on the Tower clocks of Hampton Court. Who can forget that double remontoire Gillet and Bland movement?
For the 1st July Zoom lecture he has agreed to enlighten us on The Remarkable City Career of Aynsworth Thwaites. Using the archive of the Clockmakers Library and personal experience working with turret clocks from the 1980s, Keith has pieced together the history of Aynsworth (1719 – 1794) father of John Thwaites who partnered with Jeremiah Reed to become Thwaites and Reed one of the most prolific makers of domestic and tower clocks in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Meeting held on line via Zoom.