Cuckoo clocks began regularly chiming on the hour in the middle of the 18th century in the Black Forest area of southwest Germany. Unlike traditional chiming clocks, the cuckoo often has a door or ...

In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to see the wooden cuckoo at Edinburgh's famous floral clock. But much to his horror, when they got ...