Antique Grandfather Clocks
The John Shone collection
A tradition of excellence
Specialist in buying, selling and renovation of fine antique grandfather clocks for over 30 years
Specialist in buying, selling and renovation of fine antique grandfather clocks for over 30 years
(About GRANDFATHER CLOCKS) As I walked on a sea of grass, I met a passing cloud, We blew smoke though a looking glass, whispers shouting loud I climbed up cardboard flowers, which loomed so high above. I swam in nature’s showers, met a snowdrop and fell in love. We made love in a tea-towel bed [...]
(But not my GRANDFATHER CLOCKS) These are the words to another one of my songs. ”It’s coming over me,this gentle feeling I feel It’s coming over me, can this really be real? I’ve been in love before,but never quite this way, you came into my life,and now that’s where you’re going to stay. It’s coming [...]
(she loved grandfather clocks) When I was very small, even smaller than I am today, my parents often took me to my Grandma’s house. Every time we went,I would ask my grandma for a sugar butty and on each occasion she would sing out melodically “Every Matchbox to its own egg” I remember it distinctly,”Every [...]
(I bought him two grandfather clocks) Oh great and yellow globe, with heat so fierce, so bright, remember this day, for you marry the moon to give her light. A golden chariot will be drawn by seven fiery horses,whose nostrils flare with power, whose mighty hoofs, crash fearfully down,shaking the very sky with awesome might, [...]
(kept their antique grandfather clocks) Slowly turning, delicately poised, rumbling softly before the crucial moment. Now pull the lever hard. One crisp action, deftly executed is all that is needed. Press the button firmly and wait for the red light. Whirring, ticking, prevails over the loud silence as precision instruments slot gogs into position. The [...]
Walking in fields I had known as a child, the wavering corn growing graceful and wild. Thinking of friends, of childrens games the joyful feeling of childhood names. The old battered barn where we played in the loft, Jennifer Andrews so cuddly and soft. Cowboys, commandos, kiss and then run, all of the gang dashing [...]
(AND GRANDFATHER CLOCKS) How Songs Originate. Some time ago, Bob, the manager of the local Lunatic Asylum phoned Alex Ferguson and asked if he might bring eight inmates to visit the Old Trafford Football Ground? Graciously, Alex agreed to Bob’s request and a couple of hours later, he arrived at the ground with his eight [...]
(GRANDFATHER CLOCKS ARE US) ”OUR HOUSE,OUR HOUSE, OUR HOUSE, OUR HOUSE.” I cried and cried and cried ”OUR HOUSE,OUR HOUSE, OUR HOUSE, OUR HOUSE” I would not be denied. And so I phoned the southern lass, I hoped to make my bride ”WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME ROUND TO HOUR ‘OUSE ?” She laughed until [...]
(left his grandfather clocks behind) There was a lovely budgie, we all called him Joey, One day in the middle of winter, he went out in the snowey. He only travelled 50 yards then fell down frozen stiff, and thank goodness,for this poem, his name was Joey Smith. People came from miles around for they [...]
(everything about grandfather clocks) I’ve only just begun, you see and I need to know everything. I have to keep moving, I do not want to step out of the shadows and find that the world has left me behind.I want to be useful, I want the shadows to step out of me,I want people [...]