Clock making requires several different skills, so the trade would have also supported several related businesses. Related specialist skills included manufacture of the hands, dials, bells and cabinets. In fact the "clockmaker" was directly responsible for the manufacture of parts that were normally hidden from view. The hands and dials would have been manufactured elsewhere, but some of the cabinets were made in Nantwich.

Some of my ancestors were involved in the manufacture of clock mechanisms and cabinets.

My 4g-grandfather had at least nine children. One of these children James Topham worked as a clockmaker and watchmaker from at least 1834 to 1860. There is one of his long case clocks in Nantwich museum. Other examples of his clocks and watches are known, including a watch hallmarked Birmingham 1836/7 which is in Grosvenor Museum Chester

James Topham's sister, Hannah, was my 3g-grandmother. She married John Bebbington, a cabinet maker about 1843. Perhaps John made cases for clocks? - I don't know. Whatever, he did not stay a cabinetmaker, but became a butcher by 1846.

One of my other ancestors from Nantwich was certainly a joiner and cabinetmaker, making cabinets for clocks among other things. This was Henry Kitchen, born 1753.