Comments on: Edward Burd, Horologist

By: Achim

Achim — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:04:32 +0000

Only mechanical watches and clocks are the real ones …

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: pauline taylor

pauline taylor — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:03:34 +0000

Thank you. I am sitting here listening to my long case clock ticking and I agree there is nothing like it, ‘he’, he has to be he as his name is Joseph having been made very early in the 18th century by Joseph Jackman of London Bridge. I often talk to him and wish that he could tell me about all the fascinating history that he must have seen during his 300 years plus.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:11:28 +0000

As I write, I am aware—more than usual, not surprisingly—of the soul-soothing ticking of our little wall clock. Although it is battery-powered (no pendulum required) it keeps very good time—and keeps even better company…

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 13:18:46 +0000

Lovely to look at these clocks.

By: Marino Marino

Marino Marino — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:40:08 +0000

Wonderful clocks. I’m going to wind up my little clock just to hear it tick-tock, tick-tock.
Thank you, Mr Burd.

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:08:45 +0000

Greetings from Spring-like Boston,

GA, another great human interest story – thanks so much. I love old schoolhouse clocks myself.
Funny thing (I still substitute teach) when students go to write a “pass” and have to put down the time, many can’t read the wall clock. They have to sneak out their cell phone and write it digitally.

Love this passage:

“The sound is very important too. If you have had a hard day and it is raining and it has all been bit much, and you come in and there is this ticking, and you have a cup of tea and put your feet for a few minutes, then you are all right – it is looking after you, it has its own spirit.”

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:52:47 +0000

Ticking old clocks are wonderful “companions” in a room. And to be surrounded by so MANY! –
How grand. I love the close-ups of each clock “face” — functional beauty at its best.
Thanks for ushering us into another specialized world each morning.

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:03:44 +0000

Any distant relative of Lord Cut-Glass ( “Under Milk Wood” ) ??

By: Caroline Bottomley

Caroline Bottomley — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 06:14:20 +0000

They’re so lovely to look at, I can imagine the sound!
How interesting about shops / markets