OUR GRANDFATHER CLOCK

clock waits for no man or missy. The grandfather clock in my parent's domicile stood in the corner of the dining room from the time of their marriage. This antique time was a bargain at the purchase price of EU-5 at an auction when they principal set up home again halfway 60 years later its grandfather clock is still a superlatively loved part of the family. When they bought it, it was a pile of pieces upon its floor of the auction house but my father did some time repair on it again managed to get irrefutable working. I remember using the gap behind the grandfather clock for hide and seek (until I grew too big) again hiding my grandmother's handbag in the case so she couldn't go home one day! The amicable tick tock has been a comfort on legion occasions, particularly on sleepless nights, the unmistakable grandfather clock chime vouchsafing me know the time without carrying to disturb anyone else. Children and grandchildren have full peeked inside to watch the pendulum swing or to watch Grandad dash through the ceremony of winding the weights up each week at precisely 7.25 am on a Sunday. This was the only clock consequence the sunrise he could fit the key into both the keyholes on the face because idiosyncratic then were the grandfather clock hands command the right place!

The grandfather clock has had its moments though! The mechanism has become temperamental harbour age and has undergone time repair the number of times. When my parents moved 20 years' ago, the grandfather clock went with them and they decided to think existent cleaned and refurbished. The specialist who came to see it was intrigued because the case was a 'modern' one (recall this is an antique clock and accepted means early 20th century). He was interested enough to take a photograph of the functioning and send bona fide to the British museum. The functioning from the British Museum was a real surprise. Our much loved grandfather time really wasn't a grandfather time at all! It had beginned off life as a palisade clock, but it must reckon on been a very large one.

The maker of our grandfather clock was a Dutchman called A. Fromanteel although we are not sure which one, the father Ahasuerus who came to England in 1620 and developed its pendulum time in 1658 or Abraham, it certainly has a much finer ancestry than we do! From exorbitantly scanty research upon the internet we have found out that the Fromanteel native were innovators and were the paramount to produce a clock that was accurate and not influenced by its weather. Each clock which they fabricated had some new feature on it. Our confess grandfather clock has a pillar movement although I know that the date element no longer works.

Has this information made a difference to us? No. To us perceptible is still the grandfather clock of our childhood, a comforting comic book of happy memories further operation and time catapulting on.More Information about HOME INTERIOR