There is nothing like the tick tock of old grandfather clocks to set the ambiance of a classical home environment.

Well the good news is they are not extinct yet! You can still buy Grandfather Clocks and they are not as expensive an addition to the family home as what you might imagine.

The ironic thing for me is that I only ever saw clocks like these in my grandparents houses as a young child, so thought that they were called grandfather clocks because my grandfather had one. However after research on the Internet it appears they are actually called that after a song called "My Grandfather's Clock"!