Bowes Museum Silver Swan Restoration
The Cumbria Clock Company will remove the head and neck of the Silver Swan as part of the restoration and conservation programme to hopefully get it working again.
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00:00 Hello, my name's Keith Scobie-Youngs from the Cumbria Clock Company and we're here at the Bowes Museum
00:05 working on this wonderful automata of the famous Bowes Swan.
00:11 We're incredibly lucky to have been putting a team together to undertake this work
00:16 from our three young conservators, Callum, Becca and JC, who are working away in the background
00:24 with the experience of Matthew and Seth and also Simon, who are just kind of documenting and making
00:30 sure that we get this right and this wonderful opportunity to bring this thing back to life.