THE lifetime achievements of John Harrison, Lincolnshire’s Greatest Clockmaker was the title of an illustrated talk by Andrew King, a horologist, clock maker and restorer of wooden clocks.

John Harrison was born in Foulby in Yorkshire in 1693.

His father was a joiner to Sir Roland Winn of Nostell Priory and when John was seven years old the family moved to Barrow-on-Humber where Sir Roland had an estate.

John Harrison, who was a brilliant craftsman and inventor, went on to become famous as the man who invented and built timepieces to be used at sea and thus to measure longitude as an aid to navigation.

He eventually won the prize - £20,000 a fabulous sum for those days - offered by the Government in 1713 to the first person to produce such a chronometer.

But Andrew King also talked about the wooden clock which Harrison made for the Pelham family who later became the Earls of Yarborough and had estates bordering those of the Winn family.

The clock which Andrew King recently renovated is in the entrance to what was the stable block of Brocklesby Hall, having been built in 1722 it is still working!

On Tuesday, the society will hold its annual meeting and presidential address on being a History Detective - the writing of ‘Adam Eve and Louth Carpets.’

The meeting will be at the Conoco Room, Louth Library. Admission is £3 for visitors and free to members.