Blackboy Clock is assembled and displayed on a shopfront on Kendrick Street

1774

The Blackboy Clock, which incorporates a childlike blackamoor figure, is assembled by watchmaker John Miles for the shopfront he lives above in Stroud’s town centre. It is not known if Miles creates the Blackboy figure for his clock or if he adapts a pre-existing figure into its mechanism. Given that Miles is not trained as a woodcarver, the latter is likely.

Blackboy Clock

Notes and Recollections, PH Fisher, 1874

Fisher, Paul Hawkins. “Freebury’s Orchard – John Miles and the Black-boy – Chandler, the artist.” In Notes and Recollections of Stroud, Gloucestershire, 41. London: Trübner and Co, Paternoster Row, 1871.

Blackboy Clock is relocated to a pub on Nelson Street

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