:00:16. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. Afrpblgts and Matt
:00:21. > :00:25.Baker. We have a busy show tonight. Later John Sergeant will reveal the
:00:25. > :00:30.family who built Scotland's Whitehouses. Lucy Siegle tests her
:00:30. > :00:34.nerve with the RAF's bomb disposal heroes. First seven hours ago the
:00:34. > :00:36.deadline closed for applications to become the next commissioner of the
:00:36. > :00:41.Metropolitan Police. The Home Secretary said she was looking for
:00:41. > :00:45.a single minded, tough crime fiergt. It's a shame they don't want an
:00:45. > :00:50.American. We have the perfect woman, it's Cagney & Lacey's Sharon Gless.
:00:50. > :00:53.APPLAUSE How fantastic. There's that music.
:00:53. > :00:59.Do you ever tire this afternoon music? I lover that music. It's
:00:59. > :01:04.great. We love it as well. I walked into a restaurant last night and
:01:04. > :01:08.the piano player started playing it. It was a treat. Sharon, look at
:01:08. > :01:16.these pair of cute little female rabbits. Here they are. Sorry I've
:01:16. > :01:23.got them here. They're here! They called them Cagney & Lacey. Can you
:01:24. > :01:28.guess which is which? It may be a trick question. I think the blonde
:01:28. > :01:32.is Cagney. Call me crazy. I think the dark one is Lacey. I think yes,
:01:32. > :01:36.Cagney is the cutest. No it's actually, this one is Lacey and
:01:36. > :01:42.this is Cagney. Oh, well there we are. Yeah, that's what I said.
:01:42. > :01:46.LAUGHTER Any way! Whichever way it is, it
:01:46. > :01:50.doesn't really matter. They are up for adoption from the RSPCA. The
:01:50. > :01:54.trouble is they're so close that they can't be separated and we need
:01:55. > :01:58.your help in finding them a home. Details are on our website. Come on
:01:58. > :02:03.Britain, give Cagney & Lacey a home. We thought there must be more
:02:03. > :02:06.Cagney & Lacey pets out there. We would like to see them. If you are
:02:06. > :02:11.already living with Cagney & Lacey creatures, send us a photo and tell
:02:12. > :02:15.us all about them. Now one of the most dangerous jobs in our arms
:02:15. > :02:18.forces in Afghanistan is dealing with the threat posed by home-made
:02:18. > :02:21.bombs. It's a role most of us associate with the army, but the
:02:21. > :02:27.Royal Air Force are experts too. Lucy Siegle spent the day training
:02:27. > :02:31.with them. A bomb has failed to detonate on
:02:31. > :02:36.landing. We need to take out the fuse to make it safe. This way?
:02:36. > :02:41.Yeah, that way. One wrong move could be fatal. It's like something
:02:41. > :02:45.out of a Hollywood movie. When lives depend on one person keeping
:02:45. > :02:49.their nerve and a steady hand and that person happens to be you, well
:02:49. > :02:53.very few of us will experience that for real. Thankfully the closest
:02:53. > :03:01.I'll get to it is this training exercise. That seems nice and tight
:03:01. > :03:04.now. We'll go back to the vehicle and fire it off. For the men of the
:03:04. > :03:09.RAF's 5131 Bomb Disposal Squadron life and death decisions are a
:03:09. > :03:16.daily reality. The squadron deals with unexploded World War II bombs
:03:16. > :03:20.here in the UK to improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan.
:03:20. > :03:25.16 men from the squadron have recently returned home after six
:03:25. > :03:30.months on the Afghan front line. The men tackled IEDs in two ways:
:03:30. > :03:34.Working in destroy teams, blowing up devices and clearing a safe path
:03:34. > :03:39.for ground troops or neutralise teams, disarming bombs and
:03:39. > :03:43.recovering evidence, which could help identify who put them there.
:03:43. > :03:47.Sergeant Martin Farrimond led a four-man destroy team. They worked
:03:48. > :03:54.with a remote controlled robot known as a dragon runner. It's used
:03:54. > :04:00.on mat jort of tasks in Afghanistan. It goes down the road to see --
:04:00. > :04:05.save a person having to go doub into -- down into a dangerous area.
:04:06. > :04:10.The robot places an explosive charge on top of an IED allowing it
:04:10. > :04:16.to be detonated from a safe distance. Come on. At least that's
:04:16. > :04:19.the theory. If I was doing this for real, we would be in big trouble.
:04:19. > :04:26.More by luck than judgment I managed to put the charge down in
:04:26. > :04:30.roughly the right place. I just think under pressure, it would be
:04:30. > :04:34.really, really tricky and as soon as I started to lock at the screen,
:04:34. > :04:37.I completely lost it. Then dropping the thing at the end, you have to
:04:38. > :04:41.be in exactly the right position as well. I think it's pretty difficult.
:04:41. > :04:45.It's a pressure that you do get used to. First couple of times out,
:04:45. > :04:51.it's like, right the pressure's really on here. I need to get this
:04:51. > :04:58.done rapid. Obviously, it's a case of more haste, less speed. Now it's
:04:58. > :05:03.time to detonate our charge and destroy the IED. Firing now!
:05:03. > :05:07.Something like that small charge like that would probably cause
:05:07. > :05:09.lower limb loss, one possibly multiple. These are the sort of
:05:09. > :05:14.devices that you were come ing across all the time and bigger than
:05:14. > :05:17.that. Yes, up to anything that would take on vehicles.
:05:17. > :05:22.delicate job of disarming these devices so forensic evidence could
:05:22. > :05:27.be recovered from them fell to the neutralise team. The team was led
:05:27. > :05:31.by chief technician Dave Lowe. you're aware, there's many IEDs
:05:31. > :05:34.over there. To convict one bomber and one bombing chain is worth
:05:34. > :05:38.removing hundreds and hundreds of bombs. If you can stop it at source,
:05:38. > :05:42.you stop it in the future. That's so important. There's no points
:05:42. > :05:46.just stopping the drip from the tap. You need to turn the water off.
:05:46. > :05:53.of Dave's vital pieces of kit is this bomb suit. It's made of Kevlar
:05:53. > :05:56.and it's designed to with stand the impact of a blast. It is so heavy.
:05:56. > :05:59.I can't actually express how uncomfortable this is. I haven't
:05:59. > :06:03.even tried walking and they have a little task they want me to do. I'm
:06:03. > :06:10.not sure that I'm actually going to be able to do it. I'm going to move
:06:10. > :06:14.over here. It's really hard. The object of the exercise is to attach
:06:14. > :06:17.this wire it a weapon concealed in here. So if it's booby trapped, it
:06:17. > :06:27.can be recovered without anyone touching it. It's very, very hard
:06:27. > :06:29.
:06:29. > :06:33.to move. So hard to lift your arms. Now am I going to put it in here?
:06:33. > :06:40.Job done. But it's not been a pleasant experience. That was
:06:40. > :06:45.appalling. It's like every muscle is straining just to drag yourself
:06:45. > :06:51.along and just the thought of that weight and that people work under
:06:51. > :06:57.such intense pressure and the heat and being shot at, I mean, it's
:06:57. > :07:01.unfathomable how they manage to do it. Over the last five years, 174
:07:01. > :07:04.British service personnel, including 13 bomb disposal experts,
:07:04. > :07:11.have been killed by IEDs in Afghanistan. Don't you think your
:07:11. > :07:14.job is unacceptably rifpbgy. course there's risks with it.
:07:14. > :07:17.There's risks with every job out there. But the reward is massive.
:07:17. > :07:21.At the end of the day, you're making an area safe, allowing
:07:21. > :07:27.people to live a normal life. That's incredibly rewarding to be
:07:27. > :07:31.part of that. And to have your teams doing that (. Our thoughts
:07:31. > :07:37.are with the family of Daniel Clack from the 1st Battalion The Rifles,
:07:37. > :07:41.who became the latest British victim of an IED last Friday.
:07:41. > :07:45.We saw Lucy struggling with the training there. Did you have formal
:07:45. > :07:51.police training before you played Cagney? I did. I had to go to the
:07:51. > :07:59.police academy and learn gun training. I felt very uncomfortable.
:07:59. > :08:04.I was playing the tough cop. Tyne had her training, so she came down
:08:04. > :08:08.to give me support. Start -- you start with blanks. Then they put in
:08:08. > :08:14.real bullets and handed it back to me. Why give you real bullets?
:08:14. > :08:18.That's what I said. Here I'm the tough one and Tyne had just met me,
:08:18. > :08:22.and I start crying. Please, I just don't want the gun with the real
:08:22. > :08:26.bullets. Why do I have to have those? They said, because we need
:08:26. > :08:30.you to feel it because there's a kick. I suppose the weight. When a
:08:30. > :08:38.real bullet goes off there's a kick to it. If you are going to fake it
:08:38. > :08:48.on film, you have to know what that feels like. Let's see new action.
:08:48. > :08:58.
:08:58. > :09:04.Chris, you all right? Yeah. It looked realistic to me.
:09:04. > :09:08.looking at it saying what happened? Let's not go there. You mention
:09:08. > :09:12.Tyne Daly before. You seemed like a great pair, friends. Were you
:09:12. > :09:16.friends then, are you still friends now? We're very, very close friends.
:09:16. > :09:22.She was very generous and welcoming in the show. I was her third Cagney.
:09:22. > :09:28.Her mother had a great expression. She said "Sweat makes a great
:09:28. > :09:33.cement." We sweat together for six years against all odds. It was very
:09:33. > :09:38.controversial show. We are cemented for life. Lots of 80s television
:09:38. > :09:43.shows have been remade. You have Dallas, Charlie's Angels, the A-
:09:43. > :09:47.Team. How would you feel about a remake of Cagney & Lacey? I think
:09:47. > :09:52.it would be wonderful. I don't know if it would go as a series. I don't
:09:52. > :09:56.think you should top it. Not because I was in it. But to try and
:09:56. > :10:00.top a classic, but it would make a good film. It was dark then. I
:10:00. > :10:05.think it could be, what you could do with those two characters could
:10:05. > :10:09.be very dark. You said it was dark, but it inspired a lot of women to
:10:09. > :10:14.join the police force. Yes, it did. I used to get letters all the time.
:10:14. > :10:20.Young girls telling me, I'm joining the force because of you. Are you
:10:20. > :10:24.crazy? Alex was saying she used to play it. I always wanted to be
:10:24. > :10:27.Cagney. We deal with lots of big questions here on The One Show, but
:10:27. > :10:31.one we have never answered before is where do passenger aeroplanes go
:10:31. > :10:36.when they're not needed any more. I've always wondered that. Such a
:10:36. > :10:39.good question and Marty Jopson has the answer.
:10:39. > :10:43.With nearly two million commercial flights entering or exiting the UK
:10:43. > :10:49.each year, few of us stop to think what happens to those planes at the
:10:49. > :10:53.end of their lives. And even fewer of us would picture the rolling
:10:53. > :10:59.Cotswold countryside as their final destination. But when an aircraft
:10:59. > :11:05.needs to be retired from service and scrapped, it may well fly to
:11:05. > :11:14.this airfield in kendal where the remaining value will be stripped
:11:14. > :11:18.from it. This is a budget airline boneyard.
:11:18. > :11:21.Former planes of the air lying forlornly beneath the heavy British
:11:21. > :11:25.summer sky. But they're not going to waste. There's a huge amount of
:11:25. > :11:31.cash sitting here on the Tarmac that ultimately can be extracted to
:11:31. > :11:36.keep passenger air fares down. Having scrapped some 350 planes
:11:36. > :11:40.over the last 15 years, Mark Gregory runs the 25-strong company.
:11:40. > :11:46.We've got 12 aircraft in at the moment through various states of
:11:46. > :11:53.repair or dismantle, I should say. The time zones for dismantle depend
:11:53. > :11:57.on the type of plane. A 737, up to eight weeks. It's not just a
:11:57. > :12:00.wrecking ball job. It takes time. What are you doing? It's very
:12:00. > :12:08.methodical. First the engines are removed. They're the high value
:12:08. > :12:13.part of the aircraft. Anything from $500,000 to �4 million -- $4
:12:13. > :12:18.million per engine. Then avionics, air conditioning, landing gear etc.
:12:18. > :12:23.A typical plane has up to 2,000 salvagable parts. Each has a
:12:23. > :12:27.complete caid toll grave service history, all of it is carried
:12:27. > :12:31.through the cataloguing of every component in all these packing
:12:31. > :12:35.crates. With all this nitty gritty detail, it's easy to forget the
:12:35. > :12:42.amazing machine that this lot comes from. So here's my guide to the
:12:42. > :12:48.most iconic plane of the skies, the 747, or jumbo jet.
:12:48. > :12:54.The 747 contains six million parts. 171 miles of wiring, but only five
:12:54. > :12:58.miles of tubing. The wings weigh a massive 21 tons each. They're so
:12:58. > :13:03.big if you put them together you could park 45 medium sized cars on
:13:03. > :13:09.them. The aircraft sits on 18 of these monster wheels. The interior
:13:09. > :13:16.is so cavernous you could fit 25 African elephants in here. The
:13:16. > :13:23.flight deck has 365 buttons, switches and dials and overall, the
:13:23. > :13:27.entire fleet of 747s has flown an astonishing 48 billion miles. All
:13:27. > :13:33.the while transporting 3.5 billion passengers. That's equivalent to
:13:33. > :13:37.half the world's population. No wonder she's looking a bit tired.
:13:37. > :13:45.With all the parts laid out like this, it's more like a giant air
:13:45. > :13:49.fix kit, but we're not here for the making. We're here for the breaking.
:13:49. > :13:58.With just the frame left, it doesn't take long for the team to
:13:58. > :14:08.reduce this 737 to 25 tons of scrap aluminium. With just a teepbsy bit
:14:08. > :14:08.
:14:08. > :14:11.of help from yours truly. How was that? That was fab. Don't
:14:11. > :14:15.you feel guilty munching up these planes? They have got so much
:14:15. > :14:18.history in them. It's quite sad, but at the end of the day,
:14:18. > :14:25.everything's got a life on it. Everything comes to an end. And it
:14:25. > :14:31.ends up here. And with recycling only taking 5% of the energy used
:14:31. > :14:35.to manufacture aluminium from raw site, this plane lives on as an
:14:35. > :14:39.increasingly valuable resource, which one day will be used to make
:14:40. > :14:49.engine blocks or ladders or cars. One aeroplane contains enough
:14:50. > :14:50.
:14:50. > :14:59.aluminium to make 16,934,234 of these. So the next can you're
:14:59. > :15:06.drinking from may be a tiny part of a jumbo jet.
:15:06. > :15:12.Great film. Not bad that One cola. Sounds like what happens to old
:15:12. > :15:18.actresss in Hollywood. Your Cagneys and Lacey s are coming in thick and
:15:18. > :15:23.fast. That's from Gemma. Keep them coming. You've flown over to the UK
:15:23. > :15:28.to play a character who doesn't want to end up on the scrap heap. A
:15:28. > :15:32.Round-Heeled Womam is out from October. It's a true story, isn't
:15:32. > :15:37.it about one woman's unusual quest for a more fulfilling love life.
:15:37. > :15:43.That's true. It's a book I optioned ten years ago. A woman really did
:15:43. > :15:46.this in Berkeley California, a teacher. She took an ad out in the
:15:46. > :15:51.New York Review of Books because she wanted to attract an
:15:51. > :15:57.intellectual like herself. The ad said "Before I turn 67, next March,
:15:57. > :16:03.I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you need to
:16:04. > :16:10.talk first trollope works for me." She didn't think nb would respond.
:16:10. > :16:14.She took a sabatical a year later, to write about the 63 men who
:16:14. > :16:18.answered. She did well. Yeah some of it is heart breaking. I went to
:16:18. > :16:21.watch her lecture. I obtained the option, but I never met her. I flew
:16:21. > :16:26.to New York to listen to her lecture. Someone raised her hand
:16:26. > :16:30.and said "Why did you humiliate yourself like this? "And she looked
:16:30. > :16:35.right at her, she said "I had not been touched in 30 years and I
:16:35. > :16:40.wasn't going to die until I felt that again." It's a really cool
:16:40. > :16:45.play. It is a subject that has a lot of taboos around it still. How
:16:45. > :16:49.do audiences react to it? audiences in America, we've tried
:16:49. > :16:54.it out twice, have been very, they end up being very touched by it.
:16:54. > :16:58.The people come and talk to me. Sometimes they're crying, saying
:16:58. > :17:02.you've changed my life. I'm not afraid any more. I'm going to take
:17:02. > :17:06.a chance. I say I didn't change your life, Jane did. I've told that
:17:06. > :17:10.to Jane, the real woman. I said these people want to do what you
:17:10. > :17:16.did. She said "I don't know if I could recommend that." But she was
:17:16. > :17:20.very brave. It's the story of a woman's courage. Lots of woman can
:17:20. > :17:24.empathise with the character. But you've finished auditioning today
:17:24. > :17:32.for the other parts. Yes. You're going to have to maybe kiss or be
:17:32. > :17:36.intimate with these men. All they did was read with me. They only
:17:36. > :17:41.read their side. I haven't really informed them about the scene. Then
:17:41. > :17:46.the chariot race started, I haven't informed them about some of the
:17:46. > :17:51.scenes. It sounds superb. We've got another Cagney & Lacey. Five-year-
:17:51. > :17:54.old labs. Thank you very much. Recently a vicious war of words
:17:54. > :17:59.broke out between two Scottish towns. It's nothing to do with
:17:59. > :18:05.politics, religion or money. It's far more important than all of that.
:18:05. > :18:10.It's a battle over which location inspired author JM Barrie's famous
:18:10. > :18:15.tale of flying boys and fairies. Why the sudden who haw about the
:18:15. > :18:20.boy who never grew up you might be thinking? Last week residents in
:18:20. > :18:30.Dumfries unveiled this statue, boldly claiming this is the
:18:30. > :18:33.birthplace of Peter Pan. But 150 miles north, in the town of Kerry
:18:33. > :18:40.mule, say hold on, we thought the birthplace of Peter Pan was right
:18:40. > :18:46.here. Are the Dumfriesians in fantasy
:18:46. > :18:52.land. I would say never, Neverland perhaps. They have a part to play
:18:52. > :19:00.in Barry's life. Dumfries birthplace of Peter Pan, that's
:19:00. > :19:05.quite a bold statement to make. is quite a bold claim. JM Barrie
:19:05. > :19:10.lived and was educated in Dumfries. He went to Dumfries academy.
:19:10. > :19:17.Adjacent to the academy was a house. He played pirates in the garden.
:19:17. > :19:21.That was described by him as an enchanted land. He only revealed
:19:21. > :19:25.the secret of the Genesis of Peter Pan when he came to Dumfries in
:19:25. > :19:29.1924. Perhaps the most important secret was the Genesis of Peter Pan
:19:29. > :19:37.was in that enchanted land. So JM Barrie made this claim himself.
:19:37. > :19:39.did. Why do you care? Unlike Peter Pan, we should all grow up and both
:19:39. > :19:46.towns should embrace the opportunities available to both of
:19:46. > :19:52.us for tourism. Will the locals of kerriemuir do what Peter Pan failed
:19:52. > :19:56.to do and grow up. Or will they snap back at the heels of Dumfries
:19:56. > :19:59.like the crocodile at the feet of Captain Hook. They say JM Barrie
:20:00. > :20:04.himself said the idea for Peter Pan came from his time of living in
:20:04. > :20:10.their town. He did say that. But he also said the Genesis for Peter Pan
:20:10. > :20:15.started off when he was a young boy playing in his mother's wash house
:20:15. > :20:20.behind where he was born. This is where the idea first started.
:20:21. > :20:24.Dumfries may well have continued the movement. After he became
:20:24. > :20:29.successful, he returned to the town and of course, instead of being
:20:30. > :20:34.laid to rest in Westminster Abbey, he decided, when he died, that he
:20:34. > :20:38.would come back here, where he was born. Tell me about the statue, you
:20:38. > :20:43.designed it, didn't you? I drew something very quickly on a piece
:20:43. > :20:52.of paper. I put it into planning in December last year. And this is the
:20:52. > :20:57.result. You've got the stamp of approval of Joanna Lumle ye.
:20:57. > :21:03.was. She realised the truth about Peter Pan. How does it compare to
:21:03. > :21:06.your statue? I think our statue has got a wee bit more taste. It's like
:21:06. > :21:10.JM Barrie, like Peter Pan, it's small in stature, but it actually
:21:10. > :21:17.gives off quite a lot. So with both towns using Peter Pan
:21:17. > :21:22.as a draw for tourism, maybe the National Trust has the answer. John,
:21:22. > :21:29.in your professional opinion, who has this claim to Peter Pan? It has
:21:29. > :21:34.to be ultimately Kerriemuir because of his birthplace. Both claim --
:21:34. > :21:40.towns claim to fame is that they are both Scottish and I can assure
:21:40. > :21:44.you that Peter Pan was Scottish. You're a big fan of Peter Pan the
:21:44. > :21:49.musical. I love it. I know all the songs. Anita is here, because the
:21:49. > :21:53.origins of other figure is in dispute. Yes if I said to you Robin
:21:53. > :22:02.Hood, you'd all say Nottingham and Sherwood Forest. I can now proudly
:22:02. > :22:07.reveal that Yorkshire, yes my own county, is already laying claim,
:22:08. > :22:13.ballads dating to 1500 says he lives in the forest of barns Dale
:22:13. > :22:17.and lived in Loxley. Yorkshire feel Nottingham have taken their hero
:22:17. > :22:20.for themselves. They have a big sign and the visitor centres. It
:22:20. > :22:26.even got to Parliament. All Yorkshire want is to be able to
:22:26. > :22:32.claim the hero that was born in their county. That's all. We have
:22:32. > :22:42.got time for one more. We have news on King Arthur. I have! Everybody
:22:42. > :22:44.
:22:44. > :22:49.lays claim to King Arthur. You have Cornwall, Glastonbury Abbey,
:22:49. > :22:53.Glastonbury Abbey and you're not going to believe this, castle field
:22:53. > :22:56.in Cardiff also claim that he's from there and now the French are
:22:56. > :23:00.involved. It's gone international. The French say they believe King
:23:00. > :23:06.Arthur was a Welshman and that he would have hated the English. What
:23:06. > :23:13.it's got to do with the French I don't know. Croatia have muscled in.
:23:13. > :23:21.They say King Arthur's final resting place is in a village. --
:23:21. > :23:26.village there. And the mayor has challenged the Brits to a dual.
:23:26. > :23:30.say Durham. Any way. Definitely not. Moving on from castles and forests
:23:30. > :23:33.to light houses. As John Sergeant explains, it was one remarkable
:23:33. > :23:41.family business that has kept the light shining in the dark for the
:23:41. > :23:46.last 200 years. The rugged Scottish coastline has
:23:46. > :23:51.inspired countless tales of high drama. Many dreamt up by the author
:23:51. > :23:55.of Treasure Island. Members of Stephenson's family, including his
:23:55. > :24:02.father, did more than dream of this coastline. They transformed it,
:24:02. > :24:06.building more than 200 lighthouses. When I smell salt water, he wrote,
:24:06. > :24:10.I know that I'm not far from one of the works of my ancestors. When the
:24:10. > :24:14.lights come out at sun down ah, long the shores of Scotland, I'm
:24:14. > :24:20.proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my
:24:20. > :24:23.father. They were an extraordinary,
:24:24. > :24:29.ingenious family. No matter how inaccess ibl a site was, if a light
:24:29. > :24:37.house was needed, they built it. I'm on my way to see one of the
:24:37. > :24:42.earliest light houses. With me is Dr Robert Prescott from St Andrews
:24:42. > :24:45.university. How many wrecks do we know there were around the Scottish
:24:45. > :24:50.coast? Around the coast, it would be many thousands. Light houses
:24:50. > :24:54.were brought in, was that to save life or to save cargo? I think it's
:24:54. > :25:00.always a question of lives and property. It's the two things
:25:00. > :25:10.together really. A crew of 30 maybe would have hundreds of pounds of
:25:10. > :25:10.
:25:10. > :25:15.cargo on board. Light house building really took off in 1808,
:25:15. > :25:18.when Stevenson's grandfather became engineer and chief executive of the
:25:18. > :25:22.Northern Lighthouse Board. The aisle of May light house is one of
:25:22. > :25:26.his earliest and it's a master piece. He had space here. Most
:25:26. > :25:31.towers are built on skimpy pieces of rock, covered by the high tide.
:25:31. > :25:34.Here he had the room and space to spread himself. I don't think
:25:34. > :25:39.there's another light house like this anywhere many Britain really.
:25:39. > :25:43.Not quite so grapbld. It's like a country house really. How much of a
:25:43. > :25:47.pioneer was Robert Stevenson. was a considerable pioneer. No-one
:25:47. > :25:51.prior to him would have dreamed of trying to put a light tower on the
:25:51. > :25:56.Bell Rock, a rock that is submerged most of the time and just appeared
:25:56. > :26:00.for an hour or two at low tide and is in the fiercest and most exposed
:26:00. > :26:05.locations. The abt to build a tower strong enough to kopt with those
:26:05. > :26:08.situations, he perfected it. Robert Stevenson retired in 1842. There
:26:09. > :26:15.were three more generations of Stevensons working in the Scottish
:26:15. > :26:21.light house industry. It wasn't until 1938 that the last Stevenson
:26:22. > :26:26.finally retired as chief engineer. It's an maizing -- an amazing
:26:26. > :26:30.record. Wherever you go round the Scottish coast, you're not far from
:26:30. > :26:36.a Stevenson light house. Bob McIntosh has visited most of them.
:26:36. > :26:39.They built 200 light houses around the coast of Scotland. 100 like
:26:40. > :26:42.this here and 100 smaller lights, something which the mariners around
:26:43. > :26:48.the coast of Scotland have been very grateful for. These light
:26:48. > :26:54.houses have stood the test of time. Most are still in use. But they
:26:54. > :26:57.have modern technology. When was this built? This was built in 1870.
:26:58. > :27:06.No lift. We have to go all the way on the stairs. Yes there's 170
:27:06. > :27:10.steps right to the top. 170 - oh. The Stevenson light houses are
:27:10. > :27:13.impressive structures. They've endured storms, fierce winds and
:27:13. > :27:17.heavy seas. Remarkably they're all still standing. It's a real tribute
:27:17. > :27:22.to the men who built them. Here we are at the top of the light house,
:27:22. > :27:27.and this is the light, isn't it? Yeah, this is the modern technology
:27:27. > :27:32.with the headlight type lenss. There are three levels which gives
:27:32. > :27:36.us the equivalent of three flashes. We've used the original strakure
:27:36. > :27:39.with modification inside and the modern technology gives us a
:27:39. > :27:44.brighter light. Otherwise the structure of the light house is
:27:44. > :27:50.exactly the same as it was at the end of the 19th century. Exactly.
:27:50. > :27:55.The light house Stevensons were remarkable men. Their ideas spread
:27:55. > :27:59.worldwide and they became legendary figures. These aren't just
:27:59. > :28:05.marveelzf the Victorian age, here in the 21st century they still
:28:05. > :28:09.stand looking magnificent and proud and long may they do. So
:28:09. > :28:14.I couldn't agree more. Earlier on we asked to you send in your photos
:28:14. > :28:17.of pets called Cagney & Lacey. Inspired by these two who are from
:28:17. > :28:27.Inspired by these two who are from the RSPCA. They kneed a home. We
:28:27. > :28:40.
:28:40. > :28:50.asked you to log onto the website. right! This is from the Gibbs
:28:50. > :28:53.
:28:53. > :28:58.family. 14-year-old Lacey, missing a Cagney. Thank you for coming in.