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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>This looks like a Thwaites & Reed to m=
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evidently supplied through another maker (local) who put his own name on th=
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setting dial. The Bromham clock isn't listed in the Thwaites & Reed=20
catalogues, but that doesn'yt mean they didn't make it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Dennis could try asking Chris McKay of the=
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Clock Group (Antiquarian Horological Society) who is very at identifying ma=
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and may have seen the Bomham clock himself anyway. He's at <A=20
href=3D"mailto:chris.mckay@t...">chris.mckay@t...</A></FONT></DIV=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Chris P</FONT></DIV>
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title=3Ddennis.powney@l...>Dennis Powney</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 02, 2003 =
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Turret=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Please can anyone identify the maker of =
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turret clock that is in the ringing chamber of St. Nicholas Church, Bromh=
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Wiltshire, (6 bells, 15 1/2 cwt.) Picture attached. The clock was=20
installed in 1871; it bears no makers name, or mark. Local records =
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no help as It was 'paid for by public subscription'. I am hoping th=
at a=20
'Bell historian' may also be a 'Clock historian', or perhaps someone can =
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me to a Clock Historian Egroup?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks, </FONT></DIV>
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