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This index contains the names; locations and type of watch and clock makers.

www.worcestershire.gov.uk/records Complied by Francis Buckley, F.S.A. and George B. Buckley, M.C. from old newspapers and directories. Supplied by Worcester City Museum. January 1984

Surname First Name Established Place Watch/Clockmaker Newspaper Date Reason Other Information

Bagnell Before 1770 Dudley Watchmaker Birmingham Gazette 26.02.70 Lost Watch Beavington William 1795 Stourbridge Watchmaker Universal British Directory 1795 Not mentioned Bowler James 1772 Stourbridge Clockmaker Birmingham Gazette 5.10.72 Advertised for John Chance his runaway apprentice Bradley Worcester Not mentioned A well known family of goldsmiths and horologists. An early 18th century watch marked "Bradley, Worcester" is in a Manchester collection.

Bradley Samuel 1749-1761 Worcester Watchmaker & Goldsmith Weekly Worcester Journal 27.7.49 - 13.9.50 Bankrupt Berrows Worcester Journal 31.12.61 & 21.2.60 Not mentioned Birmingham Gazette London 6.4.55 Lost watches Evening Post 4.9.53 Not mentioned Birmingham Gazette 18.12.49, 21.1.51 & Not mentioned Bradley Mrs. 1774-1783 Worcester Goldsmith Birmingham Gazette 15.08.74 & 1.9.83 Died 23rd August 1783 High Street Possibly identical with (or related to) Samuel Bradley Bradley Joseph 1749 Worcester Watchmaker Weekly Worcester Journal 2.2.49 Not mentioned Brown Joseph 1767-1796 Worcester Clockmaker & Watchmaker & Berrows Worcester Journal 18.6.67 Mentioned at St. John's end of Severn Bridge Goldsmith Directories 1790 Not mentioned . 1792-96 Newport street Berrows Worcester Journal 27.5.71 St. Clements lost watches public advertises No. 1467 Berrows Worcester Journal 24.10.71 Lost watches public advertises No. 12617 Deakin Henry 1751 Worcester Clockmaker & Watchmaker Weekly Worcester Journal 16.5.51 Advertised his own clocks and watches Daily Advertises 14.7.55 & 30.8.62 Lost watches Berrows Worcester Journal 29.9.68 "Silver skeleton watch" Done William 1795 Worcester Clockmaker Universal British Directory Not mentioned Broad Street Fitzer Benjamin 1771 Worcester Clockmaker & Watchmaker Berrows Worcester Journal 14.3.71 At the "Dial" Broad Street came from London, "Makers of clocks and watches" Glover William (I) 1751-1758 (retired) Worcester Clockmaker & Watchmaker Weekly Worcester Journal 24.1.51 & 14.3.51 Corn Market etc., Berrows Worcester Journal 28.9.58 Mrs. Glover, Hop Market, declines business in favour of his nephew William Glover (from London) Broad Street Glover William (II) 1758-1767 Worcester Clockmaker & Watchmaker Berrows Worcester Journal 23.9.62, 19.5.63 & Broad Street. See Glover William (I) . 5.7.64 18.4.65, At the Cross Gloucester Journal 11.12.66 & 19.3.67 Opened a shop in Tewkesbury also Birmingham Gazette 27.2.64 Lost watch Goodere Ephraim 1782-96 Worcester Watchmaker & Goldsmith Birmingham Gazette 26.8.82 A quaker married 1782 High Street Directories Green Samuel 1796 Tenbury Clockmaker Universal British Directory 1796 Not mentioned Haden William 1754 Stourbridge Watchmaker Berrows Worcester Journal 26.12.54 Not mentioned Hassell James Before 1771 Bewdley Watchmaker Berrows Worcester Journal 21.02.71 Lost Watch "No. 1296" Head Joseph Before 1756 Evesham Watchmaker Birmingham Gazette 15.11.56 Lost Watch Head Joseph Died 1774 Evesham Watchmaker Bath Chronicle 24.03.74 Died Jeffries John 1758-1760 Worcester Clockmaker & Watchmaker Berrows Worcester Journal 28.9.58 & 14.9.60 From London, late of Cirencester, opened shop in High Street Ibid 26.10.69 Worcester 1758 Johnson Joseph 1770 Dudley Clockmaker Birmingham Gazette 12.02.70 & 29.10.70 Not mentioned Jones Samuel 1769 Worcester Clockmaker, Watchmaker & Berrows Worcester Journal 10.8.69 Opened shop in 1769 Broad Street Goldsmith Kent John 1776-1778 Dudley Watchmaker Birmingham & Stafford Chronicle 14.11.76 Not mentioned Birmingham Gazette 27.07.78 Not mentioned Lowe Thomas Before 1761 Worcester Watchmaker London Gazette 7.4.61 Left Worcester for Gloucester before 1761 Complied by Francis Buckley, F.S.A. and George B. Buckley, M.C. from old newspapers and directories. Supplied by Worcester City Museum. January 1984

Lutwyche Thomas William 1774-1796 Worcester Watchmaker Bath Chronicle 17.3.74 Forgate Street shop robbed Adam's Weekly Courant 15.3.74 Not mentioned Directories Not mentioned Miles William Before 1778 Dudley Watchmaker Birmingham Gazette 13.04.78 Lost Watch Miles Stephen Junr. 1753-1772 High Street, Clockmaker & Watchmaker Birmingham Gazette 08.10.53, 1.6.72 & Stephen Miles the Elder of Kidderminster Berrows Worcester Journal 7.9.72 Lost Watch "almost new" Kidderminster was "goldsmith, 13.6.54 grocer and potter" bankrupt 1780. London Gazette 15.4.80

Palmer c1760 Worcester Watchmaker & Clockmaker "Star" Worcester Long-case clock Parsons Thomas 1768 Worcester Watchmaker & Clockmaker Berrows Worcester Journal 25.2.68 Advertised for an apprentice and a joinery man Perkins Thomas 1757 Evesham Watchmaker Birmingham Gazette 18.04.57 Robbed of an old silver watch of his own make, and four . . other silver watches made by him. Ibid. 9.9.65 Lost Watch Scandrett John 1782-1796 Worcester Watchmaker Birmingham Gazette 21.1.82 Broad Street. Married. Directories Shackwell Richard 1795 Pershore Watchmaker Universal British Directory Not mentioned Skarrett Charles Carleton 1793 Worcester Watchmaker Manchester Chronicle 9.11.93 Bankrupt Skarrett John 1794-1796 Worcester Watchmaker Directories Goose Lane Stevenson R.S. 1795-1796 Worcester Watchmaker Directories including Universal High Street British Directory Stokes John Before 1768 Bewdley Watchmaker Berrows Worcester Journal 10.11.63 Lost Watch Thomas John 1790-1796 Worcester Watchmaker Directories Goose Lane. Watch movement in Worcester Museum Thommings D 1777 Hales-Owen Clockmaker Birmingham Gazette 21.04.77 Not Mentioned Trevis 1755 Worcester Watchmaker Berrows Worcester Journal 9.1.55 "A journeyman watchmaker" Yeadon William 1755-1767 Stourbridge Watchmaker Birmingham Gazette 14.04.55 & 7.12.67 Also lost watches, Ibid.