wood black forest cuckoo clocks

Widow Margaret Tyler, 71, is a retired telephonist who has four grown-up ...

I've even got a full-size wooden model of her, which came from an exhibition in Windsor. Funnily enough people from the Black Forest in Germany, where the cuckoo clocks we know today were originally made, still send their clocks to us for restoration....

Trekking Around Titlis: Snowshoeing in Central Switzerland

After strapping on snowshoes, our guide Catherine Fischbacher leads our group, a motely crew of varying ability levels, away from the downhill skiers into the heart of the Gerschniwald forest. The first few Shivering slightly, we enter this ...

Germany's Black Forest: a popular holiday destination

The tallest tree in the Black Forest is the silver fir, which can grow to a height of 65 meters. With the golden sunshine dancing on the treetops and the forest dotted with quaint wooden houses surrounded by flowers, the scene is like gazing upon a ...

Swiss paradise

Apart from the sight of the forests, one of the biggest draws of the place is the Cuckoo Clock. We paid a visit to the cuckoo factory and tasted the lip-smacking black forest cake. It felt a little bitter on the palate, but that I guess is because my ...

Creature Comforts: The Vermont Country Store Catalog

More importantly, they were things I actually wanted, and which I added studiously to my Christmas list: garlic shampoo, a Black Forest cuckoo clock, shortbread in a wooden box, Princess Diana's favorite Bluebell perfume, Musher's Secret paw wax for ...

A Drive Back Through Time in Germany's Black Forest

We dropped in on fifth-generation clockmaker Christoph Herr, whose workshop was filled with the smell of wood shavings, glue and varnish. I had brought pictures of my cuckoo clock, in hopes of discovering its history. Judging from the carving, Mr. Herr ...

Gasthaus gives plenty of reasons to indulge

To say that she greets guests is as much of an understatement as saying her Black Forest cake is a chocolate dessert. She welcomes and she bustles about and she makes you feel warmly at home. It's no act. She's the real thing, as is the food she, her ...

Meet Britain's most obsessive collectors

I've even got a full-size wooden model of her ... Funnily enough people from the Black Forest in Germany, where the cuckoo clocks we know today were originally made, still send their clocks to us for restoration. Now that we are both in our sixties ...

Campbell, Cora Wood

and Lola Ann Fitzgerald Wood. Cora was a retired machine operator for Hermle Black Forest Clocks and was also a member of Jonesboro Baptist Church.She is survived by her beloved husband of 58 years, Franklin Delwood Campbell, sons, Terry Campbell (Laura ...