The Northern Section meetings offer a variety of formal lectures and club nights at their meeting hall together with staging exhibitions at local museums, demonstrations of horological conservation and visits to horological places of interest.
The Club Nights and Lectures usually alternate each month with a guest lecturer being invited to give a presentation to the meeting, often with visual aids and exhibits. For the club night a theme is chosen, and members are encouraged to bring items for display, and possibly to say a few words about them.
The meetings are friendly, relaxed and give the opportunity to meet new friends with similar interests, exchange views, ideas, and get help with solving your horological problems. As well as this you relax with refreshments whist your discussions take place.
Our meetings are held on the second Friday of each month at 7:30 for 8:00 pm and carry on until everyone leaves, usually between 10:30 and 11:00 pm. The venue is in the church hall behind the old Trinity Chapel off Northenden Road, Sale Moor, where there is ample parking around the hall. This is located on the south side of Manchester within half a mile of Sale Railway station and close to the M60 junctions 6 and 7.
Visitors and new members are always most welcome.
Northern Section
To be held at Trinity Methodist Church, Trinity Road, Sale, Cheshire, M33 3ED at 7.30pm, unless otherwise stated
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Meetings - 2021
Due to Covid restrictions the only meetings held by the Northern Section were in October and November 2021
A Project in Progress (November 2021)
Jim Arnfield told members about two seemingly identical anonymous electric wall clocks he has recently restored. On closer inspection the two differed in many subtle ways. Jim believes they were made by PA Bentley in the early years of the twentieth century before his patent of 1910/11. He described all the many jobs involved in the restoration. The clocks were run by an earth battery but the current owner will have the option of running each from a modern battery.
Horology of the Arts and Crafts Period (October 2021)
A group of members showed a variety of clocks and watches made between 1880 and 1920. These included a sketch of a dial by Charles Rennie MacIntosh for a mantel clock; an electric clock in the form of a copper cased robot; a silver French or Swiss pocket cricket alarm clock, another silver pocket watch signed ‘Turner’s Patent, Bury’, which had puzzling numbering on its dial; a French brass pillar clock and also a Triumph alarm clock made by the Ansonia Clock Company from 1883. This was our first face-to-face meeting since March 2020.
