0:00:13 > 0:00:17What you need is some real history! I'll show you round Bristol.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23JOLLY MUSIC
0:00:32 > 0:00:35'Bristol. Gateway to the west.
0:00:35 > 0:00:40'A great regional city of nearly half a million inhabitants.'
0:00:40 > 0:00:44'Bristol, thriving throughout Britain's history on the marriage of sea and land.'
0:00:44 > 0:00:47'One Saturday, in the middle of an English summer,
0:00:47 > 0:00:52'the people of the St Paul's area in Bristol put on a parade of their first festival.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54'It rained all day long.'
0:00:54 > 0:00:57This is the Queen speaking from Bristol.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02'They're fixing lights to the Clifton Suspension Bridge,
0:01:02 > 0:01:05'working more than 250 feet above the River Avon.'
0:01:07 > 0:01:10'To the casual eye, it's a huddle of roofs,
0:01:10 > 0:01:13'a cluster of spires, a labyrinth of streets,
0:01:13 > 0:01:17'but to the people of Bristol whom know and understand their city,
0:01:17 > 0:01:21'these buildings and these streets, all these tell a story.'
0:01:24 > 0:01:28'Joseph Fry's vanilla chocolate must've tasted good.
0:01:28 > 0:01:33'Because 250 years later, they're still making chocolate with his name on it.'
0:01:38 > 0:01:43'Here, cocoa from the Gold Coast and sugar from the West Indies
0:01:43 > 0:01:47'meet the milk and the cream of the dairy farms of Somerset
0:01:47 > 0:01:50'in the manufacture of cocoa and chocolate.'
0:01:58 > 0:02:00'These are conches.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03'Funny names, but effective machines.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06'The chocolate submits from one to three days,
0:02:06 > 0:02:10'whilst the flavour is developed and perfect smoothness obtained.'
0:02:11 > 0:02:15'Now, how does the cream get in the chocolate? Very simple.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17'Moulds are filled with molten chocolate
0:02:17 > 0:02:21'and as they proceed, the cream centres are placed in.'
0:02:26 > 0:02:29'Modern wrapping machines are amazingly clever.
0:02:29 > 0:02:36'They handle the chocolate bars as dextrously as a conjuror and as gently as a woman.'
0:02:36 > 0:02:39'Fry's also run an air service for urgent deliveries.
0:02:39 > 0:02:44'This, by the way, is the famous aeroplane which accompanied the Mount Everest expedition.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47'It flew to India for reconnaissance work.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49'It also carried Fry's for the intrepid airmen
0:02:49 > 0:02:53'who, for the first time, saw the summit of Everest below them.'
0:02:58 > 0:03:03'Long ago, the girls were called Fry's Angels and outnumbered the men two-to-one.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06'But the Angels of today are in the minority.'
0:03:08 > 0:03:14It's like a monster, it just keeps coming. It goes on and on and on.
0:03:20 > 0:03:25Sometimes you feel like... getting up and running out.
0:03:25 > 0:03:29Run away from it all and forget it. But you don't.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31You don't do that kind of thing.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37'Yes, these are the boxes single ladies get
0:03:37 > 0:03:40'that the married ones dream of.'
0:03:47 > 0:03:51'For 2,000 years, give or take a few,
0:03:51 > 0:03:54'ships have been coming to the mouth of the Avon from abroad,
0:03:54 > 0:03:58'or, as the port men say, from foreign.'
0:04:00 > 0:04:02'During the 18th century, Bristol was insulated
0:04:02 > 0:04:06'from the murderous reality of the slave trade,
0:04:06 > 0:04:07'though not from its profits.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10'Ships left Bristol for Africa
0:04:10 > 0:04:13'loaded with brass, guns and trinkets.
0:04:13 > 0:04:17'They left Africa for the West Indies loaded with slaves,
0:04:17 > 0:04:20'and they sailed from the West Indies back to Bristol
0:04:20 > 0:04:23'with a full cargo of sugar and tobacco.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27'There was a handsome profit to be made on every leg of the voyage,
0:04:27 > 0:04:30'and in Bristol, hardly a whiff of the human misery
0:04:30 > 0:04:33'that helped mint the money.'
0:04:34 > 0:04:36SHIP'S HORN WAILS
0:04:38 > 0:04:42'Of course, German reports of their operations differ from British.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45'They claimed in one raid to have wiped out Bristol Docks.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48'American journalists go to see for themselves
0:04:48 > 0:04:51'and observe that the docks are not only still there,
0:04:51 > 0:04:54'but quite a lot of shipping is using them.'
0:04:57 > 0:05:01'It's often asked, "Why do the Germans issue such fantastic claims?"
0:05:01 > 0:05:05'It's Hitler's principle that if you're going to lie, it'd better be a whopper.
0:05:05 > 0:05:10'He believes you and I will say there must be some truth in it or they couldn't make such statements.'
0:05:13 > 0:05:16'An extremely important arrival was the good ship Tilapa,
0:05:16 > 0:05:18'coming from the West Indies
0:05:18 > 0:05:22'with a cargo of about ten million bananas.
0:05:22 > 0:05:26'This was the first consignment to reach Britain since 1940, so it was a big event.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30'Very interesting to watch the bunches of bananas coming ashore.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34'For so important an occasion, the Lord Mayor was there in person.'
0:05:34 > 0:05:38They are the finest quality and they're very nice, too.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Isn't it lovely?
0:05:40 > 0:05:44'She had eaten bananas before, but others hadn't,
0:05:44 > 0:05:47'and the captain had to explain how to peel these strange fruit.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50'Even then, some kids didn't seem to know how to eat them.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53'Soon, we hope all young Britain will know how,
0:05:53 > 0:05:56'for more banana ships are on the way.'
0:06:01 > 0:06:05'Every docker in Avonmouth who hasn't got a job already
0:06:05 > 0:06:08'has to go to the call stand to find work.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10'This is where the employers choose their men.'
0:06:10 > 0:06:12MEN SHOUT SIMULTANEOUSLY
0:06:18 > 0:06:21Both the dockers and the employers say that
0:06:21 > 0:06:24they don't really approve of this system.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27But neither will set their faces against it,
0:06:27 > 0:06:33and it's typical of Bristol that both should tolerate something that, in theory, they abhor.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36I don't like it at all! I think it's degrading.
0:06:36 > 0:06:41In this day and age, 1962, men have to stand in a pen like cattle and be selected,
0:06:41 > 0:06:45I don't think it's right and I think most of the dockers resent it.
0:06:45 > 0:06:51The quicker they do away with this type of selection of labour, the better for all of us.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59Heights have never been a bother to me.
0:06:59 > 0:07:03One of the first things you think of when you apply for the position
0:07:03 > 0:07:04is, you know, up there.
0:07:04 > 0:07:09Another thing is solitude. People can't stand that either.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12They can't stand being up there on their own,
0:07:12 > 0:07:15even though you're within shouting distance of someone.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21When a job is going well, you do get a satisfied feeling
0:07:21 > 0:07:25that, although you haven't got covered in dirt
0:07:25 > 0:07:28like some of the jobs demand of the men in the ship's hold,
0:07:28 > 0:07:31you do have a feeling of satisfaction,
0:07:31 > 0:07:35because however much they've worked
0:07:35 > 0:07:37and however much money they've earned,
0:07:37 > 0:07:40they couldn't do it without you.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00Every day is a different day.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03You may not be working with the same people or doing the same job.
0:08:03 > 0:08:09A lot of dockers that I know down there, it's their life. It's their life to be at work.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11They prefer to be there than at home.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51'Much of the tobacco that comes to Britain passes through Bristol,
0:08:51 > 0:08:54'a cargo which could hardly go back farther than it does
0:08:54 > 0:08:59'because here, Sir Walter Raleigh is said to have smoked the first pipeful in England.'
0:08:59 > 0:09:02JOLLY MUSIC
0:09:23 > 0:09:27'2,000 cigarettes a minute are coming out of that machine.
0:09:27 > 0:09:32'And the output of this one factory, if its cigarettes could be joined end to end,
0:09:32 > 0:09:35'would go to the moon and back once every year.
0:09:35 > 0:09:39'Each machine has a crew of four, a man responsible for operating
0:09:39 > 0:09:43'and three girls to examine them as they're cleared into the slings.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47'Nearly 40 million cigarettes go through this factory every day.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51'The smoker will pay the taxman a mighty lot of money for the finished product
0:09:51 > 0:09:53'now leaving the packing machines.'
0:09:53 > 0:09:56'For the Bristol factories of this one firm,
0:09:56 > 0:09:59'duty amounts to about three-quarters of a million pounds per day.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03'The cheque has to be taken by hand each day to the customs office.
0:10:03 > 0:10:04'No credit is allowed.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07'The amount for Friday, May 29th,
0:10:07 > 0:10:13'was £753,465, four shillings and sixpence.'
0:10:13 > 0:10:16'Cargos from the New World, from the West Indies,
0:10:16 > 0:10:18'from every shore of the North Atlantic,
0:10:18 > 0:10:20'brought prosperity to Bristol.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23'Rum, sugar, tobacco
0:10:23 > 0:10:27'and the fine sherry wines for which the city is still famous.'
0:10:27 > 0:10:29JOLLY MUSIC
0:10:32 > 0:10:36'800 years ago, Bristol was one of the busiest wine ports in the world,
0:10:36 > 0:10:38'and it hasn't stopped ever since.'
0:10:44 > 0:10:46'Bristol doesn't merely hand the wine on,
0:10:46 > 0:10:49'as everyone who can read the label knows.
0:10:49 > 0:10:53'Bristol firms are famous for the selection, blending and marketing
0:10:53 > 0:10:55'of fine wines and spirits.'
0:10:55 > 0:11:00Sherry is a very complex wine, made up of, perhaps, 100 different wines,
0:11:00 > 0:11:04and those wines, in turn, contain many different years.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07It's rather like an artist with his palette,
0:11:07 > 0:11:09there are so many things to choose from.
0:11:09 > 0:11:13It's our special expertise that has produced this unique wine,
0:11:13 > 0:11:16which has been so successful all over the world.
0:12:02 > 0:12:08I'm standing on the stage of the Theatre Royal, Bristol.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11I've known the theatre for 17 years.
0:12:11 > 0:12:16I consider it to be the loveliest theatre in the world.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20A perfect theatre to play in and to see a play.
0:12:20 > 0:12:25Simply, unless something is done immediately,
0:12:25 > 0:12:29the whole place might just fall down.
0:12:33 > 0:12:37The last time I came down this way was in 1957
0:12:37 > 0:12:41in the pantomime Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43I was Mrs Ali Baba.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48'As nightclubs spread across the region's towns and cities,
0:12:48 > 0:12:53'they recorded the first to open specially for West Indians in St Paul's.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55'The man behind it was Tony Bullimore,
0:12:55 > 0:12:58'who was to become famous as a round-the-world yachtsman.'
0:12:58 > 0:13:00From a sociologic point of view,
0:13:00 > 0:13:04the West Indian in Bristol
0:13:04 > 0:13:08feels that he's now more on an equal footing
0:13:08 > 0:13:12to Bristolians, who have their own clubs.
0:13:12 > 0:13:16They feel quite proud of that fact that the club is done out
0:13:16 > 0:13:18the same as an English club.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21And it takes away this inferiority complex -
0:13:21 > 0:13:26"We haven't got anywhere to take our English friends." Now they can take them here.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29Now here is a heap
0:13:29 > 0:13:34of the most complicated antique stage machinery ever devised.
0:13:34 > 0:13:39Some lunatic Georgian inventor was let loose! It doesn't function. It's useless.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42I'll show you backstage. This way.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Number seven...
0:13:49 > 0:13:53I used this dressing room for two years when I first came down here.
0:13:53 > 0:13:57I shared it with Edward Hardwicke. It's a cosy little oven.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00If one's playing Othello,
0:14:00 > 0:14:03or another part which required body makeup,
0:14:03 > 0:14:05one went home rather stickily.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07But for the more fastidious,
0:14:07 > 0:14:13there was a zinc bath and buckets of hot water provided in the boiler room.
0:14:13 > 0:14:17We used to say, "If you can't do it here,
0:14:17 > 0:14:20you can't do it."
0:14:20 > 0:14:24"So would you please help us to keep on doing it?"
0:14:24 > 0:14:27DRAMATIC MUSIC
0:14:29 > 0:14:32'A superb edition to the West Country entertainment world,
0:14:32 > 0:14:36'within The New Bristol Centre, a new ABC Cinema.
0:14:36 > 0:14:42'It is a brilliant architectural triumph, wonderfully equipped with all thoughts of tomorrow in mind.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45'The up-to-date projection room and equipment
0:14:45 > 0:14:47'will ensure fine picture and sound quality.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51'Trumpeters sounded the fanfare.'
0:14:59 > 0:15:04'Everybody present voted it the perfect cinema.'
0:15:07 > 0:15:10- REGGAE MUSIC - 'Like most other cities,
0:15:10 > 0:15:13'Bristol's heart has been eaten out,
0:15:13 > 0:15:17'and yet, right in the centre, human life has come back again.
0:15:17 > 0:15:22'Black life now, centred around the ancient game of dominoes.'
0:15:29 > 0:15:32'But dominoes, you may insist, is essentially a British game.
0:15:32 > 0:15:37'The West Indian version of dominoes is different. It's unique.
0:15:37 > 0:15:42'It's faster, it's much noisier and it's full of sign language.'
0:15:42 > 0:15:43Take your shot.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46It's really a thrill to outwit the other person
0:15:46 > 0:15:50by using your sign that he don't know.
0:15:50 > 0:15:54That's where the fun is, the shouting and the noise.
0:15:54 > 0:15:55It's all part of the game.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59THEY BANG TABLE, SHOUT
0:16:02 > 0:16:04REGGAE MUSIC
0:16:11 > 0:16:14'The Western Star Club is not just a hotbed of domino playing,
0:16:14 > 0:16:17'although that is its focus.
0:16:17 > 0:16:21'It's a social club for mainly first generation, middle-aged West Indians.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25'It's not a ghetto. More a place where a community has refound itself
0:16:25 > 0:16:27'and its own enjoyment.'
0:16:32 > 0:16:36'Think what the West Indians did to the old stately game of cricket!
0:16:36 > 0:16:41'Perhaps, all things considered, it's a good job they're not playing rugby league or Irish hurling.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45'Heart attacks might count more naturally than score-points.'
0:16:45 > 0:16:49- Two pieces!- You shut up!
0:16:49 > 0:16:51HE BANGS FIST ON TABLE
0:16:56 > 0:17:00MUSIC: "Animal Magic" theme tune
0:17:00 > 0:17:04You don't know it, but you're coming back to Bristol with me.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07FRENCH ACCENT: "Bristol? Where is Bristol? Is it in France?"
0:17:07 > 0:17:08No, it's in Angleterre.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11"Angleterre? That will be jolly, eh?"
0:17:11 > 0:17:12Yes, it will be very jolly.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16Come on, then. Here's your collar.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Come and have your collar on, Lucy.
0:17:20 > 0:17:26"I do wish I had an umbrella! I wish I had an umbrella!"
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Well, wishes do come true sometimes.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31HE HUMS A JOLLY TUNE
0:17:33 > 0:17:35Morning, Giraffe!
0:17:35 > 0:17:38'Bristol Zoo seems to specialise in unusual babies.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42'The latest edition to Daisy the giraffe, a six-foot daughter.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45'Very small by giraffe standards, but doing well.
0:17:45 > 0:17:51'The new arrival is still unnamed. Any suggestions for Bristol Zoo?'
0:17:51 > 0:17:55BEAR: "Oh, come on, dear, it's time for you to meet the general public!"
0:17:55 > 0:17:58CUB: "Who are the general public, Ma?"
0:17:58 > 0:18:01"The general public, child, are neither you nor me."
0:18:01 > 0:18:05"They are always other persons."
0:18:05 > 0:18:09"Now, be careful along here, child. It does get a little slippery."
0:18:09 > 0:18:10"I don't care, Ma..."
0:18:10 > 0:18:14CUB SCREAMS, SOBS
0:18:16 > 0:18:18"It's horrid stuff, water!"
0:18:18 > 0:18:21I asked you not to do that, Christina.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24I asked you not to spray the crowd.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26CROWD SCREAM
0:18:26 > 0:18:30Now, let me have the hose.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33You mustn't take the hose away like that.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36HE LAUGHS
0:18:36 > 0:18:39Oh, dear. I'm giving up, I think.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49'To Willy and Stephanie, on August 25th at Bristol, a daughter.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51'A happy event and a noteworthy one.
0:18:51 > 0:18:56'Rhona is the first female African Black Rhino to be born in this country.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00'Weighing around 60lbs at birth, baby is doing fine and so is Mum.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03'3,500 weight of mother love.
0:19:03 > 0:19:07'You can't disguise it, a rhino is an unlovely hunk of armour plating.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09'Baby animals always have special appeal,
0:19:09 > 0:19:13'and Rhona almost manages to look endearing.'
0:19:20 > 0:19:23The excitement of this demonstration,
0:19:23 > 0:19:28organised up here on an afternoon very much like this,
0:19:28 > 0:19:32a rather dour November afternoon,
0:19:32 > 0:19:36and my father brought me up, as a small boy of eight.
0:19:36 > 0:19:41They then wheeled this thing out and they started up the engine,
0:19:41 > 0:19:43and eventually they went.
0:19:43 > 0:19:48And there was deathly silence through the whole crowd. There was a hush.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53Absolute wonderment - he's flying!
0:19:55 > 0:19:59He came past the gorge, up this side of the suspension bridge and landed again.
0:19:59 > 0:20:04And it was really something which, as a small boy, I'll never forget.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08I think it was pretty well the greatest day of my life.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11'Third call is at Filton Aerodrome, Bristol,
0:20:11 > 0:20:17'for the christening of the world's largest aircraft, the 126-tonne Brabazon 1.
0:20:17 > 0:20:23'Dwarfing the swarms of spectators, the plane is officially named by Air Marshal Coryton.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26'Now came the task of getting the giant into its hangar,
0:20:26 > 0:20:30'which itself is large enough to house the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth.'
0:20:34 > 0:20:37'No wonder the crowds rushed for a closer look at the giant prototype,
0:20:37 > 0:20:40'destined to begin a new era in air travel.'
0:20:40 > 0:20:45'Filton. Concorde 002 stands like a great bird in a massive cage
0:20:45 > 0:20:48'at the British Aircraft Corporation's plant.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51'But never has there been such an expensive bird before.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54'Nor one which has been so reluctant to fly.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57'Built jointly by Britain and France,
0:20:57 > 0:21:00'our prototype number 002 already looks more like an aircraft.
0:21:00 > 0:21:04'The nose of the plane can be tilted during takeoff and landing.'
0:21:13 > 0:21:17'Working on this calls for extraordinary contortions.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21'But then she's an extraordinary plane, over 180-feet long.'
0:21:23 > 0:21:28'Visiting the British Aircraft Corporation factory at Filton, near Bristol,
0:21:28 > 0:21:33'the Queen was to see for herself how the Anglo-French Concorde project was shaping,
0:21:33 > 0:21:35'to the delight of the crowd.'
0:21:39 > 0:21:43'Britain's Brabazon airliner leads the way with the revolution in air travel.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46'After five years of exhaustive experiments,
0:21:46 > 0:21:50'success crowns the work of the Bristol Aviation company.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53'With the Brabazon ticking over and behaving like a textbook machine,
0:21:53 > 0:21:57'there's a quick order over the intercom, "This is it, boys",
0:21:57 > 0:22:01'and then Pegg lifts the Brabazon's front wheel after only a 400-yard run.
0:22:01 > 0:22:06'Another hundred yards and the undercarriage slowly leaves the runway. Airborne!'
0:22:09 > 0:22:12'The second production model of Concorde
0:22:12 > 0:22:17'takes off from the British Aircraft Corporation's airfield at Filton on its maiden flight.'
0:22:44 > 0:22:48'Jerry is here early tonight. The siren went five minutes ago.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50'Yes, he's here all right.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52'Some bombs are being dropped
0:22:52 > 0:22:56'and a fire has started already to the east of us.
0:22:56 > 0:23:00'I've got a nasty feeling in my tummy, too, at this moment.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02'God grant it's going to be all right.'
0:23:02 > 0:23:05'Pause for a moment in the middle of the city
0:23:05 > 0:23:10'and you may count 11 churches without moving a single pace from where you stand.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14'Though some now are only the shells and remnants of what they once were,
0:23:14 > 0:23:18'for the bombing of Bristol fell with uncanny and almost diabolical precision
0:23:18 > 0:23:20'on her most venerable buildings.
0:23:20 > 0:23:26'But today the rubble is softened with wildflowers, with Buddleja and Rosebay willowherb,
0:23:26 > 0:23:29'and the shattered windows and roofless pillars
0:23:29 > 0:23:31'have a grave and silent dignity,
0:23:31 > 0:23:34'like blinded giants.'
0:23:35 > 0:23:38'It was the night of Bristol's first big blitz,
0:23:38 > 0:23:42'and a time when many of the city's ancient churches were destroyed.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45'Like St Andrew's, on top of Clifton Hill.'
0:23:45 > 0:23:48CHOIR SINGS HYMN
0:23:51 > 0:23:53'According to the official war diary,
0:23:53 > 0:23:55'the air raid sirens wailed out their warning
0:23:55 > 0:23:59'at 21 minutes past six that Sunday evening.'
0:23:59 > 0:24:01SIRENS WAIL
0:24:04 > 0:24:06BOMBS BOOM
0:24:06 > 0:24:11'The enemy aircraft, about 60 of them, came in in twos and threes
0:24:11 > 0:24:17'to empty their bellies of the destructive power of incendiary bombs and, later, high explosives.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20'People did stay in their houses.
0:24:20 > 0:24:24'Perhaps it was the feeling of security of being within your own four walls.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26'These two ladies were lucky in their cellar.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29'They, and five others, came out of a hole in the ground
0:24:29 > 0:24:33'when the house above them collapsed about their ears.'
0:24:35 > 0:24:38'Clearing up in Park Street at 11 o'clock the next morning,
0:24:38 > 0:24:42'a veil of censorship attempted to disguise wartime Britain,
0:24:42 > 0:24:45'"Walls have ears" was a familiar slogan,
0:24:45 > 0:24:49'designed to prevent the enemy knowing the extent of the damage he had done.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53'Yet remarkably, a lone cameraman walked through the rubble within hours of the raid
0:24:53 > 0:24:57'to capture these scenes, never before shown.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59'These walls had no ears.'
0:25:10 > 0:25:13'Clifton...' CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:25:14 > 0:25:16'High up on the Downs.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19'Built in the 1790s.
0:25:19 > 0:25:24'A place to live in, not just to stay in for a season.
0:25:24 > 0:25:29'Where East India men returned from voyages.
0:25:29 > 0:25:34'In some of the vaults below these Clifton terraces and crescents
0:25:34 > 0:25:36'that hang above the Avon Gorge,
0:25:36 > 0:25:41'the Bristol merchants stored their pipes of port.'
0:25:49 > 0:25:53'In some way, Clifton has a very Mediterranean atmosphere about it.
0:25:53 > 0:25:57'I suppose it's the balconies and the flowers
0:25:57 > 0:26:01'and the coloured washes on all the walls.
0:26:01 > 0:26:07'And Clifton's just a marvellous place for strolling around in, swinging a shopping basket.'
0:26:13 > 0:26:17'I still can turn a corner here
0:26:17 > 0:26:20'and get that small glow of pleasure and surprise,
0:26:20 > 0:26:22'which one doesn't really expect
0:26:22 > 0:26:27'in an environment which has become so familiar.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30'I never fail to succumb to its charm,
0:26:30 > 0:26:33'its Georgian buildings, the bridge,
0:26:33 > 0:26:36'this camera obscura thing up here, for instance.'
0:26:37 > 0:26:44'You are now inside one of the few remaining cameras obscura in the country.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47'And if you look down into the dish, you will see,
0:26:47 > 0:26:51'reflected by the giant lens at the top of this tower,
0:26:51 > 0:26:54'a panorama of the city of Bristol.
0:26:54 > 0:26:59'You are standing at the highest point of the city,
0:26:59 > 0:27:02'more than 300 feet above the Avon,
0:27:02 > 0:27:07'and overlooking Brunel's world-famous suspension bridge.
0:27:07 > 0:27:12'Don't let that light touch fool you. This could be billed as the suspense story of the year.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16'They're fixing lights to the Clifton Suspension Bridge,
0:27:16 > 0:27:19'working more than 250 feet above the River Avon.
0:27:19 > 0:27:24'Yet all the men engaged on this project are ordinary electricians. None is a professional steeplejack.
0:27:24 > 0:27:29'Usually, these men hand each other bulbs from the height of a household ladder.
0:27:29 > 0:27:35'They're specialists at inside installation, but they've worked on the chains of this bridge before.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38'They illuminated it for the Festival of Britain.
0:27:38 > 0:27:43'702-feet-long, the bridge needs six miles of cable for wiring.
0:27:43 > 0:27:47'He looks pretty high, and some of us would have to be lit up ourselves
0:27:47 > 0:27:49'before we tackled a job like that!'
0:27:56 > 0:27:59MUSIC: "Safe From Harm" by Massive Attack
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