British Clocks 1600 - 1850 with Dan Parkes

[@mercoid]

This is just the sort of content I wish there was more of on KZbin.

[@kenthepen4857]

Thank you. Made in the days when documentaries were well made, educational, and worth watching.

[@Samstrainss]

Pleasure to listen to this man. Probably a great teacher if he took on apprentices over his time

[@gaeleus]

A very academic account of very interesting movements. Thank you for sharing

[@cook5381]

How very gentle and civilised. Like going back in time! Thank you.

[@TommyJobson]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ianwilliams2632]

HUGE thanks. BBC took a downturn in the Blair era and never recovered. Great find, this.

[@snappycatchy]

There is something magical about old educational films right down to the rounded corners and dirt on the gate.

[@javierbiaggi3072]

Wow! Great documentary, magnificently produced and directed and how wonderful chance to hear Mr. Parkes explaining all the mechanisms of these great jewels of humanity. Keep looking for these dust collecting masterpieces.

[@maryridout2443]

thank you for sharing i adore Alan Dobie's narrations such a unique voice

[@jazzman1626]

Fascinating stuff! The narrator’s voice is so relaxing and pleasant to listen to, I could listen to him all day. Sounds like it was recorded in the late 70s or early 80s. I’m saving this and will be watching it multiple times. Thanks so much for uploading it.

[@shadowraith1]

Thank you for sharing a history of clockworks from Britain.⏲⏲⏲.

[@QMac-i6h]

Very enjoyable, thankyou👍🏻🇦🇺

[@FloridaClay]

Really enjoyed it and learned some things.

[@neilscragg2148]

Thanks for taking the time to upload this Tommy, enjoyed watching it 👍

[@brianross9926]

I really enjoyed this! I had been searching around for history or mechanical clocks. This was way more informative than most of the modern youtube content I ran across. Wish I could see some of these old time pieces and demonstrations in high res!

[@julien23lastchristmas2]

Bravo tommy 👏👏👏 a good reportage 👍

[@briandugan4171]

This clocks is so great

[@jimboyer5382]

MANY THANKS, ENJOYED IT TREMENDOUSLY!

[@TommyJobson]

Glad you enjoyed it. It is a fantastic film.

[@rinzegewoon]

Thanks for uploading this. Very informative!

[@georgesbasementshop1240]

Great British History and Craftsmanship at its BEST

[@allanegleston4931]

for some reason i started watching various vids relating to the subject. love it. tick tock . at the tone the time will be, beep. dun , dun , dun. lovely vid . thanks for digitizing it. :):):):)

[@grottonisred6541]

This is so informative and goes some way to explaining how Britain truly turned into Great Britain. Accurate Navigation was such a n important step forwards. Clearly there were many clever guys around

[@RobertWren1]

The great man talking about horology. Many thanks for sharing this Tommy.

[@trishmorris259]

Thank you! From The Clockmaker, July 2010 "The evening was officially hosted by The Guild of Arts Scholars, Dealers and Collectors. Ronald A Lee was the family business of the family of Georgina Gough, the current Arts Scholars Clerk, and in 1981 they made this 45-minute film to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the granting of the Charter to the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers on 22nd August 1631 by King Charles I. The technical adviser, Charles Lee and the director and producer James Archibald"

[@TommyJobson]

Thank you that’s fantastic information. I’ll add it to the description.

[@gmendes1831]

Great upload!

[@blakelowe9079]

Dan Parkes has his name on Watchmaker Court in Clerkenwell, the building where he and the other guild members worked. Of course it's now refurbished office space for creative consulting agencies.

[@oddevents8395]

Thanks!

[@reb5393]

I went looking for this having seen a mention, by a contributor, to having just been to the "premier" showing. The reference was in "Antiquarian Horology", Winter 1980. I guess that dates it pretty accurately.

[@Lemma01]

A wonderful save - thank you! The section @14' demonstrating the recoil escapement also incidentally illustrates that eccentric 'beat' from the slightly unequal teeth you can find in this age of mechanism - I have often wondered if it's due to age, or a characteristic of lesser efforts in this era of horology - my 'blacksmithed' lantern clock from the late c.17th has a unique sequence of ticks that could be identified blindfold, and fills the room with an rhythm that is at least as organic as mechanical.

[@biscuitbum1482]

This video is so old that he has Tompion movements on his bench! The narrator sounds like Alan Dobie.

[@joanneweiss6905]

Indeed the narrator is Alan Dobie. Such a beautiful voice.

[@markfulmer8501]

fantastic job ! keep up the great videos

[@sooth15]

Wonderful video!

[@ActiveAtom]

Thanking you this is going to be a good watch we mean clock, watching this from start to finish beginning right now. Lance @ Patrick. What a great history Greenwich time learned here via a small search during this viewing. A real detailed clock functionality. We sure love mechanical tools and time keeping devices clearly set the bar our watch movements are so in need to be very precise and spot on every single time. 36:35 we begin to get excited seeing the aboard ship clock, followed by 38:53 pocket-watch wow wee.

[@jeffreywhicker8947]

It amazes me, as an entry level novice clock repairman wannabe, how in ancent times they had the skill to do such accurate and precise machining making such crucial components to clock accuracy and function continuity like the teeth on the wheels, perfectly round shafts and bushings, etc. Everything had to be so accurate and precise! Not like just die casting a pendulum bob! Im thinking so much must have been done by hand with a keen eye for accuracy, they didn't have accurate machine tools back then like we do now. And how could they machine the fine machine screw threads way back then? With some scientific speculation,such as is there life on other planets, there is no proof at all. But with my personal mystery of accurate and precision technology in ancient times, the proof is real and abundant!

[@conspiracyscholor7866]

Does anybody know what music is playing at 24 min?

[@emilieellard1286]

Should I revise for my alevels next week? Nah. Should I fuel my obsession with history? Absolutely

[@BillySugger1965]

Lovely video. Shame that not one pendulum clock sounds like it’s in beat though!

[@johnthefox8740]

Nice documentary, beautiful clocks, pertinent context of development for navigation. On the flip side, except Huygens in Holland, everything was invented in the British Isles, right?😉☹️French and Swiss clock makers? Thanks for posting, I enjoyed. Cheers from Paris!

[@davidpayne6307]

I thought Galileo proved that the pendulum, as long as it remained the same length, took the same amount of time to swing, regardless of amplitude. He’s saying the opposite, that once the clocks wound down, the amplitude decreases and the frequency decreases also.

[@darkgreenambulance]

I assume the H4 shown was actually one of the replicas - but whose? Was it another made back then or a recent construct? I know it was decided not to run the H4 to preserve it - unless this was a rare exception.

[@TommyJobson]

This is the real one. I think this film was made before the decision to stop running it.

[@SmokingJoe62]

Hi I have inherited an old longcase clock by the maker ‘John Shepley Stockton’ made circa 1700. Could you recommend someone to refurbish it for me? Regards Stephen

[@rogers531]

Amazing and so well explained. You have enlightened me on the different escapement methods. Tompion and Harrison etc the heroes of time keeping. Is your son carrying on the tradition? Many thanks.

[@colsanjaybajpai5747]

Wish the quality and resolution of video was better so that the old timepieces could be seen in detail. Such a great documentary but relevance nullified as it Seems the video was made from television.

[@TommyJobson]

The quality will never have been much better than this, but it has definitely suffered being transferred from Betamax to DVD to KZbin!

[@MK-ge2mh]

@@TommyJobson It's suffered more than that. Everything was recorded onto film, then edited and spliced together. It was next copied to another film by projecting the spliced film and recording to the second by filming it with a camera again. In order to put it onto magnetic tape (i.e. Betamax), the second film would then be projected and recorded with an electronic video camera recording it onto magnetic tape at very low resolution by today's standards. This tape was then played, digitized, and recorded onto DVD. The DVD was then copied into memory and uploaded to KZbin; both of these processes use lossy compression algorithms. And this is also assuming the video wasn't recorded from a television broadcast! It's amazingly clear given all of the conversions and that it doesn't look like mud.

[@theselectiveluddite]

G'day Tommy, What's the George Graham escapement at 32:00? Cheers

[@flaviothepage]

Touching such rare clocks with bare hands nowadays would be unthinkable...

[@Chungustav]

Put me to sleep in 5 minutes

[@TommyJobson]

It is certainly a very pleasant and relaxing video!

[@Vandal_Savage]

Did the bells at the end wake you up again? 😁

[@trafalgar22a8]

180622

[@hrxy1]

all this invention was protestant, not Catholic much to the chagrin of the pope, even today never forge guy fawkes, or the inquisition.

[@ryangianan1439]

Lol there were clocks already before you prots popped from lucifers ass😂