Dealer offers bracket clock by Lewes’ finest Richard Comber
Remarkably, of the approximately 110 clockmakers recorded working in Lewes from the mid-17th to the early 19th centuries, as many as 10 were operating almost side-by-side at this town on the River Ouse in the late 18th century.
Commerce was the reason. Fortunes were being made in iron, brewing and ship building and the comfo…