![]() The property, a large house with extensive wooded grounds, could house over 100 children, although the funds available restricted the initial intake to twenty. The School's first premises on George Lane (now Eastern Avenue and Nutter Lane), Wanstead, were opened in August 1847. The charity was managed by a board, consisting of three permanent trustees, a treasurer, and 36 members annually elected by subscribers. Second, that the object of the School was to be 'the Clothing, Maintaining, and Educating of Orphans and Children of necessitous Commercial Travellers'. First, that the institution should be called 'The Commercial Travellers' School'. A year later, the sum of £6,000 had been raised, and a general meeting of subscribers was held on June 29th, 1846. After a meeting with some fellow travellers in July 1845, Cuffley set about raising funds for the scheme. The Royal Commercial Travellers' Schools were founded by John Robert Cuffley, himself a commercial traveller, to house and educate the children of those in his profession who met an untimely death or became unable to earn their living. The mix of other clocks for sale is limited only by what Ian finds interesting and/or beautiful, aesthetically or mechanically.Royal Commercial Travellers' Schools, Pinner, Middlesex You will see from our Electric Clocks catalogue that we also manufacture and supply a small range of parts for Bulle, Eureka and Brillie electric clocks. He has a particular interest in early electric clocks. Ian has years of experience in restoring and maintaining clocks. Carlton Clocks is also a business partner of the British Horological Institute. We are proud to be members of LAPADA, the Association of Art and Antique Dealers. The workshops have recently relocated to Somerset and we continue to stock a large range of antique clocks and new clocks at very competitive prices. We are also delighted to have a number of overseas customers. We are based in Somerset, but also serve the rest of the UK. We are proud to be one of the UK’s finest suppliers of high quality Antique Clocks. Here he has bought in a movement from Charles Edwin Price, listed as a clockmaker in Goswell Road, London in 1882. Morse's decendants to the current day in central Watford. In the 1891 census the family had moved to 8 Queens Road, Watford, which later passed to his grand-daughter and became Jackson's Jewellers, which is still run by B.S. Haylock (22) assistant watchmaker and Mary Johns (20) general servant. Morse (27) Watch & Clock Maker, wife Fanny (31), John S. Benjamin Samuel Morse was born in about 1854 in Bradenstoke Lyncham, Wiltshire, son of John Morse (1790–1864) and Elizabeth Watts (1814–1882).The 1881 census has him trading as a watchmaker at High Street, Pinner, Middlesex Benjamin S. Height 25 inches To be overhauled and guaranteed for 3 years. It has a cast brass bezel with latch behind the dial, and flat glass. The flat painted 12-inch dial is in excellent condition and signed MORSE. The chisel-shaped base has a locking pendulum access door, and the side has a further door. The oak case has a turned dial surround, affixed to the back box with four wooden pegs. We are delighted to have for sale a good quality drop dial wall antique clock by Morse of Pinner, dated 1880s. ![]()
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