There is at least one clock known to be signed ‘Knowles and Bridge, Bolton’, and this 18th Century clock is believed to be a collaboration between Thomas Bridge and Andrew Knowles.
Thomas Bridge is known to have collaborated with Andrew Knowles, on clocks signed Knowles and Bridge, some time before his death in 1717.
A clock by Bridge & Knowles made sometime before 1715.
Instead of using fecit meaning ‘made’, it this says feccrunt which is apparently the plural meaning ‘they made it’, a nice touch.
A beautiful cast arch which is also on another Bridge clock and as usual brass hands.
A similar Bridge and Knowles clock is shown below
An oak longcase clock, the square brass 28cm dial with crown and sprawling boys spandrels, Roman chapter ring, the matted centre with leaf framed calendar aperture, inscribed ‘Tho. Bridge & Andrew Knowles’, eight day movement, striking on a bell, the square hood with vine carved frieze and freestanding pillars, arched door with lenticle to trunk, 200cm high.
A beautiful dial by Knowles and Bridge, Bolton
An oak cased 8 day clock by Knowles and Bridge case with a caddy turned columns, long trunk door and plain base, with integral bracket feet.
The engraved brass dial comprising both Terrestrial and Celestial calendars that are silvered, as well as having a painted penny moon. Typically fitted with brass hands, as per their norm, the dial has only limited divisions and isn’t as complex as some of their other work.
The 11-inch square brass dial with silver chapter ring having Roman hours, Arabic minutes, half hour divisions and inner quarter hour track, signed “Tho. Bridge A. Knowles fecit”. It is fitted with ‘Urn’ spandrels.
This particular clock seems to have been fitted with a later eight day movement, striking on a spiral gong, dating to circa 1890’s, and the seat board is of conspicuous modern timber, suggesting a marriage of a non-original case.
