Aqua Horological Tintinnabulator

A photograph shows a pencilled note on a whitewashed beam in Emett's barn: 26th August 1970 (1/2 Closing Day) construction of the fountain started.

[1] In November 2011, local Chartered Engineer Pete Dexter contacted the Centre management to ask why the clock appeared to be defunct.

Pete Dexter designed and built a mechanical drive for the cobweb wheel, based on original photographs.

[7] 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.

The animated sculpture underneath consists of a sunflower with 36 copper petals, partially obscuring an orchestra of six 'jewelled' players; three squirrels and three birds.

The music for harpsichord Gigue en Rondeau II plays for 75 seconds after which the petals are raised and the animation ceases.

In the middle of the sculpture is a floral bouquet sitting on a large copper leaf, adorned by jewelled birds.