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Gillett & Bland Arts Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand Clock Restoration

March 26, 2015 / Sophie / Bells, Clock Making, Clock Restoration, History
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Gillett & Bland Arts Center, Christchurch, New Zealand Clock Restoration In 1877 Gillett & Bland received an order from a H. Kohn and Co of 93 Leadenhall Street, London to supply a clock & Bell to be packaged up and delivered to any of the docks in London for transportation to New Zealand.  The count wheel […]

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Gillett & Johnston Clock at Yalumba Winery, Adelaide, Australia

March 26, 2015 / Sophie / Clock Making, History
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Gillett & Johnston Clock Yalumba Winery

Gillett & Johnston Clock at Yalumba Winery, Adelaide, Australia It is easy to forget how much work Gillett & Johnston have completed overseas and it is only when we receive communication from people who have come into contact with our clocks on their travels that we are reminded how magnificent it is to have ties around […]

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Gillett & Johnston will be attending the Ringing Roadshow 2014

July 15, 2014 / Sophie / Bells, Clock Making
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Gillett & Johnston will be attending the Ringing Roadshow 2014 We are pleased to annouce that we will be in attendance on 6th September 2014 at Newbury Racecourse for the Ringing Roadshow.  We look forward to seeing everyone there and please feel free to come along to our stand and meet some of the team […]

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Gillett & Johnston Selfridge’s Bow Bell

August 22, 2013 / Sophie / Bells, Clock Making, Clock Restoration, History, Uncategorized
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Gillett & Johnston Selfridge’s Bow Bell In 1909 Selfridge’s opened its doors for the first time and by the 1930’s Selfridges was the largest retail group in Europe.  To celebrate its 21st birthday a new clock was commissioned.  The Queen of Time was installed in 1931 along with 5 Gillett bells. What is not so […]

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Gillett & Johnston (Croydon) Ltd Our Freedom Bell

June 19, 2013 / Sophie / Bells, Clock Making, History, Uncategorized
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    Gillett & Johnston (Croydon) Ltd Our Freedom Bell The 24th October 2013 is United Nations Day and will see the 63rd anniversary of the Freedom Bell being installed in the Rathaus Tower, Schoneberg, Berlin as a gift from America to Berlin. The 10 ton Freedom Bell was cast by world renowned Clock & […]

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Gillett & Bland Railway Guard Pocket Watch

March 25, 2013 / Sophie / Clock Making, History
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Gillett & Bland Railway Guard Pocket Watch A beautiful Gillett & Bland Railway Guard Pocket Watch recently sold at auction and has brought to light how rare these pocket watches were.  Charles Bland joined William Gillett in 1854 as a sales man and set about building up the relationship of the company with overseas buyers […]

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Gillett & Johnston 160th Anniversary Celebrations

October 30, 2012 / Sophie / Bells, Clock Making, History
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Gillett & Johnston 160thAnniversary Celebrations It is hard to believe that it is nearly 10 years ago that Gillett & Johnston celebrated its 160th Anniversary in 2004. Thinking about the date of 1844 when Gillett’s first started made me realise how special and remarkable the firm was to still be thriving after all that time.  […]

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Gillett & Johnston attend The Worshipful Company of Clockmaker’s Masters outing

September 10, 2012 / Sophie / Clock Making
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Squerry’s Court Master Outing On a sunny day in May Mr Stephen Coombes Managing Director of Gillett & Johnston Clockmaker’s attending the Maters outing to Squerry’s Court & Titsey Place.  Mr Coombes was joined by his wife Jennifer ( Financial Director of Gillett’s) and Mr Gaylor a fellow member of The Worshipful Company of Clockmaker’s. […]

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Clockmakers at Gillett’s countdown to Tea Time

September 7, 2012 / Sophie / case-studies, Clock Making, dial clocks
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Time for Tea Gillett & Johnston have always been great advocates of tea time so when we were asked to work on a recent restaurant clock located just off Piccadilly Circus our engineers jumped at the chance.  There was a very short time frame but we rose to the challenge despite it being our busiest […]

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Potts of Leeds Clockmakers still Ticking at Gillett’s

September 5, 2012 / Sophie / Clock Making, History
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A Potted History Potts of Leeds were a major British manufacturing company of public clocks, based in Leeds.  It is thought that there are 1600 Potts clocks in existence in England. William Potts was born in 1809 and together with his 3 sons he established a business making turret clocks and dial clocks which can […]

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