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Curator Kitty Ross with some of the clocks in the Leeds Museums and Galleries collection. The carefully curated collection of historic timepieces will be going on show at the Leeds Discovery Centre during a special family workshop exploring the art of clockmaking while looking at some of the museum’s objects.

Curator Kitty Ross with some of the clocks in the Leeds Museums and Galleries collection. The carefully curated collection of historic timepieces will be going on show at the Leeds Discovery Centre during a special family workshop exploring the art of clockmaking while looking at some of the museum’s objects.

Curator Kitty Ross with some of the clocks in the Leeds Museums and Galleries collection. The carefully curated collection of historic timepieces will be going on show at the Leeds Discovery Centre during a special family workshop exploring the art of clockmaking while looking at some of the museum’s objects.

Curator Kitty Ross with some of the clocks in the Leeds Museums and Galleries collection. The carefully curated collection of historic timepieces will be going on show at the Leeds Discovery Centre during a special family workshop exploring the art of clockmaking while looking at some of the museum’s objects.

Curator Kitty Ross with a 1970s Minitman digital bedside alarm clock from the Leeds collection. It will be featured alongside a number of historic Leeds-made clocks during next week's workshop.

Curator Kitty Ross with a 1970s Minitman digital bedside alarm clock from the Leeds collection. It will be featured alongside a number of historic Leeds-made clocks during next week's workshop.

Among the pieces featured in the event will be an elaborate painted clockfaces by Leeds artisans J C Elliott and G Winter, who both had local workshops in the late 19th Century, when many such small, family-run workshops would have been located in big cities like Leeds. An intricate early 20th Century Swiss-made wooden cuckoo clock and some classic examples of 19th and 20th Century carriage clocks are also included. They will be shown alongside a more modern, 1970s Minitman digital bedside alarm clock.

Curator Kitty Ross with a 19th century carriage clock. Among the pieces featured in the event will be an elaborate painted clock faces by Leeds artisans J C Elliott and G Winter, who both had local workshops in the late 19th Century, when many such small, family-run workshops would have been located in big cities like Leeds. An intricate early 20th Century Swiss-made wooden cuckoo clock and some classic examples of 19th and 20th Century carriage clocks are also included. They will be shown alongside a more modern, 1970s Minitman digital bedside alarm clock.

Curator Kitty Ross with a beautiful French-made skeleton clock designed to show the inner working and clockwork. Among the pieces featured in the event will be an elaborate painted clock faces by Leeds artisans J C Elliott and G Winter, who both had local workshops in the late 19th Century, when many such small, family-run workshops would have been located in big cities like Leeds. An intricate early 20th Century Swiss-made wooden cuckoo clock and some classic examples of 19th and 20th Century carriage clocks are also included. They will be shown alongside a more modern, 1970s Minitman digital bedside alarm clock.

Michelle Raw, 53, and husband Mark, 49, have fostered children for 21 years.

An event was held at Herd Farm Activity Centre to celebrate 10 years of mockingbird hubs in Leeds.

Foster Carer Fortnight runs from May 12-25 and this year has a theme of 'the power of relationships'. Picture: Adobe stock image