At one time, an English Dial was to be found in the library and servants’ quarters of every great house, in city offices, gentlemen’s clubs, every shop of any standing, railway stations and schools. The English Dial clock is spring not weight, driven, which means the mechanism is placed entirely behind the clock ‘face’ or dial, and is housed in a wooden box surround. Their evolution during the early years (circa 1780 to 1830) seems to have been largely confined to London, the Home Counties and East Anglia. It was only with mass production in the second half of the 19th century that the typical white iron dial was to be found throughout the country, bearing the name of a local retailer rather than the actual maker. All of our clocks predate the more mass produced examples from the Victorian period.