Too Many Clockmakers
OT long ago H. V. Morton received an invitation to lunch with the Clockmakers’ Company. In a BBC broadcast he told listeners an amusing story about it. "The Clockmakers are almost mod ern-they date only from 1631 in the reign of Charles I. But, unlike the Tal low Chandlers, who don’t make candles and the Cobblers, who don’t make shoes and the Fanmakers, who don’t make fan: -unlike all these, the Clockmakers, wu many of them, are still connected witl the trade that employed them in the time of Charles I., and before I had been in the huge ante-room for fiv: minutes I was introduced to the fore most maker of chronometers in England When the great crowd of members anc’ guests assembled in the hall, I found myself standing near a screen whic! concealed two waiters. These tw: ancient gentlemen peeped round the screen and surveyed the company. Saic one: ‘Bill, are all these blokes clock makers?’ ‘Yus, of course they are,’ said Bill. ‘Blimey,’ commented his mate ‘an’ I can’t even get me blinkin’ alarm clock mended’."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 361, 24 May 1946, Page 17
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183Too Many Clockmakers New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 361, 24 May 1946, Page 17
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