Longcase Clocks (Shire Colour Book) (Shire Colour Book)

Publishers price £4.50 Author Greenlaw, Joanna Publisher Shire Publications Ltd ISBN 9780747804178 Year 2005 Book Format Paperback Pages 40

This book provides a concise survey of the development of the longcase clock in Britain. It explains how time is measured, how a pendulum regulates a clock and what keeps it swinging. The manufacture and characteristics of clock dials, hands and cases are described in a manner designed to help the reader to identify and date clocks. The book concludes with useful advice on the care of clocks, transporting them, and buying and selling. Joanna Greenlaw's interest in antiquarian horology began in the late 1950s when she acquired her first grandfather clock. An early member of the Antiquarian Horological Society, Joanna is a chartered engineer and spent twelve years in the Merchant Navy. Later she progressed through various shore appointments with the marine company that employed her to become a Senior Divisional Manager. Since retiring in 1984 she has devoted her time to antiquarian horology and her other interests, which include writing, painting and extensive foreign travel. In her comprehensively equipped workshops Joanna restores clocks, including their cases, and also restores dials. In March 1997 she was invited to Orlando, Florida, to lecture on South Wales clockmakers, and since then she has frequently lectured in the area around Swansea, where she lives. Her autobiography, Multiple Lives, has been published by Dinefwr Publishers.