The Quaker clockmakers of north Oxfordshire
Tim Marshall takes time to tell all
This June an exhibition in Adderbury, Oxfordshire, celebrates the work of a highly original group of Quaker clockmakers in the county. Friends arrived in Puritan Banbury during the 1650s and, during the second half of the seventeenth century, established themselves in the rural area to the west and south of the town. Adderbury Quaker Meeting House was opened by George Fox in 1675 and the first Sibford Gower Meeting House followed in 1681.
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