https://huguenotjo.co.uk/the-huguenots/making-musical-clocks-in-blackfriars/ Exploring the secrets of family history Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:43:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://huguenotjo.co.uk/the-huguenots/making-musical-clocks-in-blackfriars/#comment-133 Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:43:23 +0000 https://huguenotjo.co.uk/?p=50993#comment-133 Intriguing, quite controversial, but definitely not tosh!

]]> https://huguenotjo.co.uk/the-huguenots/making-musical-clocks-in-blackfriars/#comment-129 Mon, 27 May 2019 19:42:43 +0000 https://huguenotjo.co.uk/?p=50993#comment-129 Jo, Such fascinating information, and so vividly brought to life in your writing as well as the pictures. What a good and timely reminder of Britain’s immigrant and refugee history, and the important contributions that accompanied it..

]]> https://huguenotjo.co.uk/the-huguenots/making-musical-clocks-in-blackfriars/#comment-128 Mon, 27 May 2019 16:39:25 +0000 https://huguenotjo.co.uk/?p=50993#comment-128 Thank you, Jo, that’s fascinating, and I love your beautiful photos. It’s so strange to slowly scroll down that photo of a lovely old church to see people sitting in a pub! I once ate a pizza in what had been a Georgian church in York – very strange to be eating surrounded by that lovely architecture. And the plague, and poor Nicholas Vallin’s family – how did anyone survive at all? is a mystery. I suppose some people must have natural immunity. It’s hard to comprehend what it must have been like to live through that, and come out the other side with so few people around you.

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