South London Branch of the BHI
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once
Bernard Novell. ‘Cylinder Musical Boxes - History, Restoration & Rejuvenation’. AMBC Secretary and Music Box Collector Bernard Novell will tell us about the history of cylinder musical boxes, how he finds, purchases, restores, and makes them. He will bring along several examples for us to see and hear. Along with news of the East Surrey …
Branch Summer Auction Current list of Lots (This is an initial list and is subject to change) Terms and Conditions
The Beresford Hutchinson Lecture. Duncan Greig. John B McLemore. The Guilmet Mystery Clock Escapement. Twenty-Five years ago, John B McLemore sent me his 71-page dissertation on the study he made off the Guilmet mystery clock escapement. until that time, I had not seen, nor have I seen since, such a detailed study. John did not …
This meeting is the annual Branch Auction
Mr Tjeerd Bakker FBHI MVO The George Daniels Memorial Lecture “The Royal Vulliamy Turret Clocks and Dials”. Tjeerd will speak about the Turret Clocks in the Royal Residences. Specifically, about the Turret clocks and dials by the Vulliamy family of clockmakers. Often there has been individual research done but Tjeerd will share his extensive research …
Tim Weeks. “Gramophone Guru”. Tim Weeks many of you will recognise as the gramophone expert from the Repair Shop. Tim on his website describes the introduction to his trade. His grandfather gave him his first gramophone, purchased from a jumble sale. He was shown how to take it apart and put it together again. Like …
Mr William Sunderland “Clockmaker and Collector Extraordinaire” I met William and Josephine on the Clockmakers outing to Holland last October, organised by The Master and his wife, Robert and Linda Wren. William was the first person to greet me, and he wanted to know my connection with Horology and I him. Not more than three …
AGM Followed by Richard Jeffcote Riding the Phantom through 7 time zones (Driving a 1930 Rolls Royce from Peking to Paris) If you had picked up a copy of Le Matin newspaper in France on January 31st 1907 you might have come across the following extraordinary challenge… “ What needs to be proved today is …
David Cottrell The George Daniels Lecture “The Double Lever Escapement” Reworking the original Daniels CO-Axial
Annual George Daniels Dinner Guest Speaker David Cotrell