Went to Nottm. Ethel bought my birthday present clock £1.
Notes
A Clock from Nottingham
Grandad noted that he went to Nottingham (Nottm). He went with my grandmother, Ethel Cirket. At this point, they were “courting” and would marry in 1930, see Chapter 16. Grandad noted that grandma bought him a birthday present, a clock for £1, see Chapter 27. His birthday was on 1 December and he would have been turning 29 that year having been born in 1897, see Chapter 1.
Lifelong Interest
Grandad had a lifelong interest in watches and clocks and he mentions them frequently in his diaries, see Chapter 27. In June 1914, he bought a one shilling watch chain from a watchmaker called William Henry Simmons. The following year, in June 1915, he had a glass put in his watch at Cupits. That same year, in December 1915, he bought an alarm clock from Wightmans for 4/11.
Joe Dovey’s Watch
In May 1918, he started wearing his deceased brother-in-law’s gold pocket watch which he had bough from his sister for £3, see Chapter 10. In April 1920, he bought a gold Albert chain for £6 15 0 and, in June of the same year, he bought a watch case for a shilling.
Alarm Clock
In December 1921, grandad bought an alarm clock from Gamages presumably by mail order. We then come to this clock which grandma bought him for his birthday. Although he was there when she bought it, she took it back the following week and bought another for a further 17 shillings. I am not sure he was happy with this as, in December 1926, he bought a 400 day clock for 52 shillings.
Electric Clocks
Between 1936 and 1938, grandad bought three different electric clocks. He gave the prices for each of them including the final one for 12/11 from Hobdays.
