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February 2014, the clock was dismantled by Pete Dexter and technicians from intu Victoria Centre and taken to Croxall and other locations near Tamworth where Pete Dexter and the Rowland Emett Society carried out some initial refurbishment of the parts. In particular the frame was restored to its original configuration by adding many sections of tube, some of which were to raise the height by around 400mm. This height had been lost through two occasions where the legs buried in concrete had been sliced off to move the clock. The frame colour was restored to aircraft grey-green based on a paint chip discovered during dismantling. Pete Dexter designed and built a mechanical drive for the cobweb wheel, based on original photographs. The clock was assembled as a dry installation in Millennium Point, Birmingham. This formed part of a wider exhibition in Birmingham of the works of Rowland Emett. After around three months, it was dismantled and put back into storage until December 2014, when the parts were transported back to Nottingham. Between January and June 2015, Pete Dexter and staff at the Victoria Centre carried out significant further renovation. The clock was reassembled on the upper mall at the north end of the Victoria Centre and officially restarted on 17 June 2015 by Pete Dexter's granddaughter Emma Jaggers. It sits in a purpose-built GRP basin with a glass surround. Pete Dexter designed a new water system as part of the refurbishment, reinstating a circular fountain of twelve water jets, as had existed originally, with hand-crafted copper 'buds'.
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ridden by a squirrel, the second is a squirrel pushing a pram with a bird's nest and birds above, the third is a peacock rowing a boat with a squirrel on the rudder. In the middle of the sculpture is a floral bouquet sitting on a large copper leaf, adorned by jewelled birds. The clock originally struck and performed on the hour and half hour but was modified at some point to perform every fifteen minutes. Motive power is provided by four 230 Volt AC Parvalux geared motors (cobweb wheel, Top
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