All photos are James Espinalt except watch Salisbury and Westminster. After the unexpected success

All photos are James Espinalt except watch Salisbury and Westminster. After the unexpected success it has achieved this post and considering watch repair appropriate that this year 160 years of its installation at the Manresa bell, I thought it appropriate to revise it to include some information about the history watch repair of clocks Headquarters has over the centuries. As a documentary was mainly used the book "City Watch Headquarters or" Jaume Capdevila. The first reference to a device in the Manresa in one way or another indicate or indicate the hour, comes from the early fifteenth watch repair century, 1402, where he has removed part of the bell tower that still exist ( do work on "Pillar Pillar watch repair Headquarters"), at times there was a small covered watch repair by the "sanity hours" which was the name given to the house where he lived and watches charge. This movement led to the top of the bell a number of changes to the clock and there are still bills, watch repair amounts and names of people who took part, all this proves watch repair that His watch had since the end of 1300. A Cicerone Guide to Barcelona Antonio Bofarull, written in 1855 says in relation to the clock in the cathedral of Barcelona "... cash in 1393 at the Council espensas municipal Fundiaria be great for the clock bell, and in the very year they Subi has said tower, with the number of hours vulgar Wisdom of what it is DEDUCE dicho clock bell fué of the first ones there were in Spain, the barbed PLACEMENT of Seville, which algunos considered as first and wonderful thing to witness watch repair as the King of Castile Henry III, no tuvo lugar until three years after, in 1396: it says Capmany well ... "We do not know if the clock Manresa is the oldest of Seville, in fact Headquarters Manresa has always gone to tow the cathedral of Barcelona since the beginning of the Gothic cathedral built up when the main portal. As the second largest city of Catalonia in Barcelona when there were problems, watch repair the Government moved to Manresa and wanted Headquarters as worthy watch repair as his own cathedral, it was logical that if Barcelona clock, so keep Manresa.
In the second decade watch repair of the last century, making cleaning a warehouse Salisbury Cathedral (England) there were found abandoned watch repair an old clock. The were cleaned and restored and today is considered the oldest clock preserved in Europe, dating from 1386. It allows us to have a rough idea of how much could be the first clock documented Manresa. (Photo side bottom Wikipedia) As the clock Manresa, along the fifteenth century watch repair are keeping invoices, watch repair purchase or strings that are paid to the manager.
In the sixteenth century were doing maintenance, responsible for changing the law of life and the celebration of the "Day of the Headquarters" of 1585 is a new modification of the clock so that also touched the hours Inside the building making a hole in the back of the hood, which still does today; next picture.
At the bottom of the photo is a lattice which prevents the fall of stones and other objects watch repair within the headquarters building; watch repair the middle of the picture a bell for them and another hour for the quarter and the top few hammers activated by a solenoid but before they did with cables hanging from a cinematic clock.
At the end of the century, in 1598, Manresa City Council decided watch repair to change the old clock. The clock was a public service rather than religious, so the council paid expenses; the clock could touch the hours and quarters Sometent warn, warn of fire raids, bandits, etc.
The new century begins preparing the new space located clock and finally in April 1602 is the visura for approval. The years 1603, 1604 and 1609 are documented several bills for maintenance watch repair of the new clock. A half century, in 1652 it is necessary to silence the bells clock day of Passover, is not a simple story, the "Rationale Divinorum officiorum" the bishop of Mende DuranDuran written in Latin in the thirteenth century, we find "In three days the bells are silent, because the apostles and preachers were silenced. The sound of the bells sound means of preaching and tells us: Their sound has gone through all the land ... "possibly had been for years a conflict of interest between City Hall and Church of the fact of playing three times in those days of Easter, and finally gained the church and the locksmith had to disconnect the bell. Passing century and ca