carriage clocks with spinning balls in the bottom

[Trickyvee]

These seemed to be very popular in the 80s. I know because watching the balls spinning backwards and forwards was may main source of entertainment when stuck in the middle of boring adult conversation between my mam and her friends at their various houses. Do they still make them? I 'd secretly quite like one

[Heather74]

Re: carriage clocks with spinning balls in the bottom

We had one of those ball clocks, but you just triggered another memory off.....
I'm sure we had a dome shaped one with little people inside (?? )weather man and woman maybe but I dont really remember them coming in and out of a building like the big weather clocks! maybe they just danced together, anyone??

[Richard1978]

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I remember my Grandad had one, & it got given to one of my cousins when he moved.

My Aunt might have it now, but the glass dome went missing along the way.

[sandie76]

Re: carriage clocks with spinning balls in the bottom

We had one of those ball clocks, but you just triggered another memory off.....
I'm sure we had a dome shaped one with little people inside (?? )weather man and woman maybe but I dont really remember them coming in and out of a building like the big weather clocks! maybe they just danced together, anyone??

My Grandad had the one with the little people inside, might have been 4 of them (?). I think I remember the glass dome lifted off. He had a couple of the ball clocks too - all the rage back then.

[Heather74]

Re: carriage clocks with spinning balls in the bottom

My Grandad had the one with the little people inside, might have been 4 of them (?). I think I remember the glass dome lifted off. He had a couple of the ball clocks too - all the rage back then.

Yes I do remember the dome lifting off and I think you are right it did have four people, very much like the ball clocks just had people instead of balls!

[sixtyten]

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Here's a load of old Balls

[Heather74]

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no people clocks Sixty? :cry:

[sixtyten]

Re: carriage clocks with spinning balls in the bottom

Everyone seems to have had one of these at some point. ours was Number Three, although Number Ten is quite classy

[Heather74]

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We had a ball one too, IIRC the people one may have been white around the base rather than brass or silver and I also think the white base may have had painted flowers on.

[sixtyten]

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no people clocks Sixty? :cry:

Good God! No..Even the Argos catalogue isn't that tacky!

[Heather74]

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It wasn't tacky, it was beautiful, very ornate. I remember we were allowed to look but not touch or even breath to hard around it.

[joybee]

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ROFL ! Just been on the Bradford Exchange site - sells all sorts of collectables and based near us in Stoke. They have carriage clocks with aeroplanes, robins, the Flying Scotsman and ...... ELVIS

[sixtyten]

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How on Earth do you get the Flying Scotsman (or a mini version) on a carriage clock??

[joybee]

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It's a tiny minature in the clock between signpost for London to Edinburgh

http://www.bradford.co.uk/product_in...52c91263513938

http://www.bradford.co.uk/product_in...2d4f1263547202

[sixtyten]

Re: carriage clocks with spinning balls in the bottom

Dear God! that's Franklin Mintastic!