The Gershom Parkington Collection
Richard Cavendish explores the Gershom Parkington collection of Time Measurement Instruments.
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 Museum and within the Manor House Museum is the Gershom Parkington Collection of Time Measurement Instruments.
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