Potts of Leeds

[1] Initially the business was primarily concerned with domestic timepieces, however this gradually expanded into the manufacture and repair of public clocks.

This heralded the most productive and profitable years of the business with large numbers of public clocks being installed both home and abroad for cathedrals, churches, town halls, schools, engineering works and railways.

[3] Potts' clocks were installed in public buildings, churches, railway stations, workplaces and other premises.

It was planned to install the Potts clock as a piece of contemporary art, encased in glass, in Cardiff city centre.

[9] Five clocks were exported to India but their locations are not known, two went to Russia and there is an example on the post office in Lyttelton, New Zealand.

Characteristic hands and face of a Potts clock (Newcastle Cathedral)
William Potts Memorial Clock erected by his sons in 1901 in Darlington (his birthplace)
Potts clock in East Keswick
A Potts clock juts out from the main frontage of the Old Town Hall, Richmond , now in London, which was opened in 1893.