[Bell Historians] Re: Fwd: bellfounder/clockmakers

[Susan Dalton]

>From: "Richard Offen" <richard.offen at o...>
>To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [Bell Historians] Re: Fwd: bellfounder/clockmakers
>Date: Wed, Mar 3, 2004, 10:51 pm
>

> --- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, Carl S Zimmerman
> <csz_stl at s...> wrote:
>> The following inquiry came to me today, and I don't have a good
>> answer. The inquirer is aware that G&J was a maker of both tower
>> clocks and tower bells. Is that dual capability unique to them?
>
> John Harrison, of 'Longitude' fame, is one who immediately springs to
> mind; other members of this list will, no doubt, think of many others.
>

The Bilbie family of Chewstoke and Cullompton, as Anne Willis said, and also
the Bridgwater 18th century founders (Thomas Bayley, Thomas Pyke, etc.).

C D