Turret Clock Group - Bundock McKay lecture 2025 & AGM

We hope you will be able to join us for our inaugural Bundock McKay lecture, along with the AHS TCG AGM, which will be at St Mary at Hill, in Lovat Lane.

For those unable to attend, we are delighted to announce that the event will also be viewable online.
Please sign up for your free place below so that we know how many people to expect on the day and also who to contact with a Zoom link.

We will have our AGM followed by -

‘From genesis to revelations: St Paul’s first clocks reconsidered’, by James Nye

For around 270 years, it was generally believed the clock removed from St Paul’s Cathedral in 1893 was the work of Langley Bradley, dating back to 1707. But in 1979 ground-breaking archival research by Heather and Mervyn Hobden unearthed evidence to the contrary. Indeed, their work highlighted the role of clockmakers Richard Street and William Wright rather than Bradley in supplying the clock—and their revisionist account was accepted and taken further by Charles Aked in 1987, and then incorporated by Brynn Hodgson in his superb account of Bradley’s work, published in Antiquarian Horology in 2002, which provided transcripts of much of the important documentation as appendices to his three-part article. In this lecture, James offers a new and different perspective, and suggests an alternative interpretation of the evidence.