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.