Among the rooms that feel the most personal are the bedroom and sitting room where you can get a sense of what he saw when he woke up, from his snail clock on the glass coffee table to the mirror positioned so the rising sun hit his face.

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With silk carpets, a crystal Bulgari clock, smoked-glass roof and a chilled-champagne compartment, it harkened back to the elegant Caddys of the 1930s, when Cadillac developed the automotive industry's first V-16.

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Its street level windows have been boarded-up, the glass on the clock vandalised and metal theft has allowed rain water to get in, the Victorian Society said.

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The stonework, sculptures, organ, stained glass windows, bells and clock have all been worked on since 1942.

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Skeleton clocks display the interior mechanisms of the timepiece, while mystery clocks, like the 1890 enamel and glass French timepiece showing a fetching young lady holding a pendulum clock, hide their mechanisms, thus presenting a mystery as to what makes them tick.

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Bolshoi dancers have been known to place crushed glass inside each other's ballet shoes, or set an alarm clock to go off during a tour de force (a feat of technical skill during a ballet performance).

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