This is a photograph that has always fascinated me. Set behind an impressive shop front in Stoke Road, Gosport, it features my grandfather, Cyril Norman Aubrey Ruff (the bespectacled gentleman looking at the camera), sitting at the bench with three other clockmakers. It is difficult to say whether he was actually working at the bench or simply sitting there for the purposes of the photograph, which I understand was subsequently used for promotional purposes. From the perspective of our digital age, it is surprising to note just how many clocks can be counted in the picture!
