{"id":208,"date":"2012-07-16T13:07:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T12:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=208"},"modified":"2019-04-24T19:09:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:09:37","slug":"previous-meeting-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"2012 July meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Peter Watkinson<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Tail of\u00a0Two Cities &amp; The Rode to Ruin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join the distinguished turret clock specialist, Peter Watkinson FBHI, to hear about the making of two extraordinary exhibition tower clocks and the challenging restoration, automatic winding and re-siting of a third.<br \/>\nPeter studied horology at Hackney technical college in the early seventies and for a number of years was foreman at Gillett and Johnston.\u00a0 Today he works\u00a0 as an independent\u00a0 maker and conservator of turret clocks.<br \/>\nPeter will be discussing the challenges that he faced making these two clocks, the methods that he used in to overcome the difficulties of clock making on a larger scale and the perils of letting one&#8217;s enthusiasm get the upper hand! Peter will also be discussing work on a third clock and will be revealing whether or not the &#8216;Rode&#8217; led to ruin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slbbhi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Indiana-movemnet11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Indiana movemnet1\" src=\"http:\/\/slbbhi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Indiana-movemnet11-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Watkinson The Tail of\u00a0Two Cities &amp; The Rode to Ruin Join the distinguished turret clock specialist, Peter Watkinson FBHI, to hear about the making of two extraordinary exhibition tower &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=208\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2012 July meeting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings-2012-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}