Introduction (and the first post)

This is the first post of a new blog mybenchview

I am Conservation Clockmaker working mainly for private clients and the  National Trust  in England and Wales UK.

I have recently been awarded a 2015 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust  Travelling Fellowship to study the conservation of wooden clocks and related items. I will be travelling in USA Canada  in the earlier part of the year and Austria Germany France and Switzerland in the latter part of the year.

This blog will act as a record of the build up to the travel and also be a place where I will record my thoughts and pictures during the actual travelling, also it will be a place where I can post some pictures of  the museums, collection and people who I hope to be visiting.

I will be also posting on twitter @mybenchview and on Facebook  Wood Wheeled Clocks

www.wcmt.org.uk  for information on the winston churchill memorial trust