Working like Clockwork: Celebrated 18th Century Silver Swan Automaton performs again with help from local expert - Your Harlow

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Working like Clockwork: Celebrated 18th Century Silver Swan Automaton performs again with help from local expert - Your Harlow

– by HELEN MILLER A WORLD-famous 18th century clockwork swan can now “feed” again, after a local watchmaker stepped in to help.  Seth Kennedy, who’s an antiquarian horologist based at Grandey’s Place Heritage & Craft Centre in Green Tye, was called upon by The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle to help them get their stunning silver swan automaton performing again after its fragile mechanisms seized up in lockdown. The life-size swan is considered …