Cuckoo clocks began regularly chiming on the hour in the middle of the 18th century in the Black Forest area of southwest ...

Sometimes identifying and dating an antique seems easy, but it fools you. An unusual wall clock was offered at a recent auction. It was labeled “Friesland wall clock with automata, 1800.” Friesland is ...

Let's be more like Switzerland!” exclaimed one excited activist at the Lib-Dem conference this week. I had a momentary mental flash of the stunt-happy Sir Ed Davey flying out of a cuckoo clock pursued ...

MANY people in Newport will remember the staple centre piece of the clock in John Frost Square. But where did it come from, why was it created ...