Good Directions

 Good Directions Traditional style clock hand finished with gold leaf  Time certainly does seem to go by faster these days as once again we see the end of the ‘Great’ British Summer Time, winter drawing closer and the arguments for when to change the clocks and by how many hours rears its ugly head again. But for the time being anyway come Sunday 31st October we will have to turn the clocks back one hour, trying to synchronise them all from the kitchen cooker, to the DVD player, but at least it gains us an extra hour in bed, so don’t forget your alarm clocks too. For clocks that are more important than whether we record our favourite TV show, we offer a choice of clock control systems at Good Directions that takes the hassle out of changing the time twice a year and after power failures for those hard to reach clocks. Not forgetting that these can be retro fitted to any of our clocks, so if you are tired of climbing that ladder, give us a call and ask about our ran...

This year has seen many changes at Good Directions Ltd as we strive to move forward in these challenging economic times but with turnover actually increasing this year, we were pleased to be able to search for a new member of staff to join us at our factory in Botley, to help cope with the increasing demand for our products and improve our despatch times to customers.     Sam highlighting details on our large Rooster copper weathervane in gold leaf. We were pleased to take on Sam Whitehead who has proved to be a very bright young spark, full of enthusiasm and zest. Sam has fitted in extremely well and is enjoying learning the new skills of the job, his training not only includes warehouse control, fork lift truck driving and despatch but also more unusual tasks such as hand gilding three dimensional copper weathervanes and clock faces. A large Rooster weathervane finished with gold leaf highlights. Working for a company in a niche market such as ours, manufacturing and produci...

  Good Directions 2.5m skeleton dial clocks   Not just your normal Grandfather clock – this one is 15.1m high, has 2.5m diameter clocks and weighs ten tons.  In twenty two years of manufacturing large exterior clocks we have never been involved with Grandfather clocks but this enquiry was different. The Mayor of the Sabunchi District in Azerbaijan wanted a large clock feature by the side of the road for all to see going to and from the airport and came up with a large scale Grandfather clock design.   The clock case was to be made in limestone 15.1m high and weighing in at ten tons, with the pendulum bob itself being 6m in length plus a 915mm diameter bob at the end. The clocks themselves were 2.5m diameter skeleton style clocks chosen from our standard range fitted in spun bezels and illuminated at night.  This colossal structure is now, we believe, the tallest Grandfather clock in the world. Visit our website to see this and other custom made and s...