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Keith studied Horology on the College of Jewelry and Silversmithing in 1981, and following commencement in 1984, he labored for six years at Public Clocks in London. In 1990, he established the Cumbria Clock Firm Ltd along with his spouse Lynn, which is located within the small village of Dacre within the Lake District Nationwide Park. Keith has grown Cumbria Clock Firm right into a sizeable enterprise, using 22 members of employees, consisting of the workplace workforce, the workshop conservators, and exterior horological engineers.
The Firm is answerable for the annual upkeep of over 1,400 church and public clocks located all through the UK and has undertaken conservation tasks to a few of the nation’s most prestigious church and public clocks. Keith’s expertise consists of engaged on the nation’s oldest clock at Salisbury Cathedral, the Astronomical Clock at Hampton Courtroom Palace, in addition to main tasks at Canterbury, Durham, Hereford, Gloucester, Worcester, Truro, and Manchester Cathedrals, and the Royal Liver Constructing, Liverpool.
Different commissions embody the Westminster Clock, higher often called “Large Ben”, the place he has been overseeing the most important conservation works undertaken on the world’s most well-known clock. The corporate additionally designed, manufactured, and put in the world’s largest inner bell hammer, which struck the Olympic Bell and began the London 2012 Video games, and the conservation of the Authorities Buildings clock in Fiji.
Different purchasers embody the Royal Family, Historic Royal Palaces, English Heritage, and the Nationwide Belief. Keith was the Grasp of the Worshipful Firm of Clockmakers, London in 2024, is a Director of the Antiquarian Horological Society, Director of the British Watch and Clockmakers Guild, a Fellow of the British Horological Institute, and an ICON Accredited Conservator Restorer and ICON Mentor.
