History Today, April 1st, 1996
The Manor House Museum in Suffolk, England, displays the timepiece collection of Gershom Parkington, who died in 1952. The collectibles include portable sundials, replicas of medieval clocks and a replica of an 18th-century orrery.
Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk is a delightful town, so attractive that even the peevish William Cobbett liked it. He called it `the neatest place that ever was seen'. The novelist Ouida, who lived there, thought otherwise (`that slowest and dreariest of boroughs'), but Mr Pickwick ate an excellent dinner at the Angel Hotel. Within Bury St Edmunds is the Manor House Mu...
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