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 ...

George cheers as the cuckoo emerges from the floral clock at Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to ...