Mike Finch’s widow, Wendy, with Toby Spence and the clock. Photo: Sibford School.
Quaker clock donated to school
A Quaker clock has been donated to Sibford School
A traditional Quaker clock manufactured in Sibford Ferris in the 1870s has been donated to Sibford School near Banbury in memory of a former scholar.
Mike Finch was a pupil at the school from 1949 to 1954 and returned in adult life to take on the role of estates manager and then school archivist.
A year after his death, and to coincide with the school’s 175th anniversary, ‘old scholars’ have purchased the clock in his name.
The brass-faced thirty-hour longcase clock was made by John Wells (1749-1809). It has an unusual hammer action not found in other mechanisms of the time.
Toby Spence, the head of Sibford, said: ‘This type of clock was only made at Sibford and so it is fitting that it should return close to its point of origin some 250 years later.’
