0:00:02 > 0:00:04Hello, and welcome tae a new series o' Santer.
0:00:10 > 0:00:11In our first programme back,
0:00:11 > 0:00:15Leslie Morrow realises an ambition he has houl for a long while,
0:00:15 > 0:00:17to dae up a forge at the end o' his loanen.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20The plans were in here. They werenae on paper,
0:00:20 > 0:00:22but they stuck wi' me. I showed where the bricks went.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Mark Wilson's in Donegal
0:00:24 > 0:00:28on a musical journey that'll tak him to Canada.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31One of the places this style of music appears in a similar form
0:00:31 > 0:00:34is Cape Breton in Nova Scotia.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37The first time I experienced it was mind-blowing altogether.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39Frank McLernon makes a boul of pinada
0:00:39 > 0:00:43while Paula McIntyre gives the dish a modern twist.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45I've got a bit of vanilla in it and a teabag.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48And young Zoe Abraham reports frae the Cowal Games
0:00:48 > 0:00:51where her sister Lauren competes in the Pipe Major competition.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55Whenever my sister's off practising, I eat chips.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05But afore all that, what about a weethin of Bluegrass
0:01:05 > 0:01:06frae The Down And Outs?
0:01:06 > 0:01:08BLUEGRASS MUSIC
0:01:21 > 0:01:24# I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time
0:01:24 > 0:01:26# That was before I met you
0:01:27 > 0:01:32# I never saw one that I wanted for mine
0:01:32 > 0:01:33# That was before I met you
0:01:35 > 0:01:40- (ALL)- # I thought I was swinging the world by the tail
0:01:40 > 0:01:43# Thought I could never be blue
0:01:43 > 0:01:47# I thought I'd been kissed and I thought I'd been loved
0:01:47 > 0:01:49# That was before I met you
0:02:05 > 0:02:09# I wanted to ramble and always be free
0:02:09 > 0:02:13# That was before I met you
0:02:13 > 0:02:16# I said that no woman would ever own me
0:02:16 > 0:02:18# That was before I met you
0:02:20 > 0:02:23# I thought I was swinging the world by the tail
0:02:23 > 0:02:27# Thought I could never be blue
0:02:27 > 0:02:31# I thought I'd been kissed and I thought I'd been loved
0:02:31 > 0:02:35# That was before I met you
0:02:49 > 0:02:53# They say I must reap just what I have sown
0:02:53 > 0:02:56# Darling, I hope it's not true
0:02:56 > 0:03:00# For once I made plans about living alone
0:03:00 > 0:03:04# That was before I met you
0:03:04 > 0:03:08# I thought I was swinging the world by the tail
0:03:08 > 0:03:11# Thought I could never be blue
0:03:11 > 0:03:16# I thought I'd been kissed and I thought I'd been loved
0:03:16 > 0:03:17# That was before I met you
0:03:18 > 0:03:23# Yes, that was before I met you. #
0:03:39 > 0:03:40Behind me, here's a wee shed
0:03:40 > 0:03:42I purchased a couple o' years ago.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44It originally was built
0:03:44 > 0:03:46as a blacksmith's shop in 1938.
0:03:46 > 0:03:50It ran for so many years and then it ceased to function.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52It lay derelict for a wee while.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54I've since bought the wee shed now
0:03:54 > 0:03:56and I hope to return it to its former glory.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00I've some fellows here today to gie me a hand, get it cleared out.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05I'm used to coming here, sliding back them doors
0:04:05 > 0:04:07and this place was just full of stuff.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09There'd be a tractor sitting here
0:04:09 > 0:04:11and another half-a-tractor behind it
0:04:11 > 0:04:13and the walls would be built up,
0:04:13 > 0:04:16so it's nice now to see all this stuff moving.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19The furnace here you see behind me,
0:04:19 > 0:04:22A couple of mates came up and we got stuck intae it last Friday morning.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24I gathered the brick and everything.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27The plans were in here. They werenae on paper
0:04:27 > 0:04:30but the guys stuck wi' me and I showed them where every brick went
0:04:30 > 0:04:34and they built frae eight o'clock in the morning till nine on Friday night.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Then, once I start replacing everything back in,
0:04:36 > 0:04:38there's benches, there'll be tools,
0:04:38 > 0:04:41and I look forward to lighting a match some night
0:04:41 > 0:04:43and getting the place up and running.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Believe it or no', in among this pile of stuff
0:04:50 > 0:04:52there's maybe another tractor in there.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54It'd take a wee while to put her together,
0:04:54 > 0:04:56but some dark night when I've nothing else to do,
0:04:56 > 0:04:59I'll maybe go hoking through this and see what I can do.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02There's a wee man helping me here today, that's Gerard.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Gerard's a good, hard worker.
0:05:04 > 0:05:05All right, Gerard?
0:05:05 > 0:05:07All right.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10We're ridding the shed out today
0:05:10 > 0:05:13and it'll be very, very hard.
0:05:16 > 0:05:21You can see the outline of the original windows that would've been in this building.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23There would be two on the wee building on this side.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25There's the other window there.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28These windows, I'm going tae knock these out
0:05:28 > 0:05:31and reinstate the windows
0:05:31 > 0:05:33as close to the original as I can get.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37At the other end of the wee shed, there would've been a door here
0:05:37 > 0:05:40where the blacksmith could walk out and in this wee door
0:05:40 > 0:05:43rather than opening the double doors at each end.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48See that stuff in the trailer? I dinnae where I'm going to start.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Go to the scrap, then.
0:05:50 > 0:05:51- Get some money.- Cash her in?
0:05:51 > 0:05:54- Aye!- No, I don't think so.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56About 200.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59200? I wouldn't like to be taking scrap to sell to you, boy.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02It's worth mair than 200.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04500?
0:06:04 > 0:06:08Aye, that's getting mair like it. I like the sound of that.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Somewhere around 4th November 1938
0:06:12 > 0:06:14would have been about the time
0:06:14 > 0:06:18leases and stuff were signed for him to commence.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22I'm hoping in a couple of months to hae the place nearly ready
0:06:22 > 0:06:25so that I can hae a night in it around that time.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29We'll catch up wi' Leslie again later on in the programme
0:06:29 > 0:06:32to see what way that restoration turned oot.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Now I mind as a wee'un getting ponada as a treat,
0:06:37 > 0:06:38and what a treat that was.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41If you're not just sure what ponada is, never worry.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44I called in at the Tearooms in Dervock a wee while ago
0:06:44 > 0:06:46and Frank McLernon was making a boul
0:06:46 > 0:06:49and then chef Paula McIntyre gin it a modern twist.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Right, what I'm going to do,
0:06:54 > 0:06:57I'm going to show youse how to make ponada.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Now, did you ever eat ponada?
0:06:59 > 0:07:01- No.- Aye.- You ate it?
0:07:01 > 0:07:04I know there's a whole lot of folk will be listening
0:07:04 > 0:07:07and looking at each other wi' a grin on their face saying, "We ate ponada tae!"
0:07:07 > 0:07:11- Were you toul if you ate the crusts, you'd get curly hair?- Oh, aye.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15But we always kept the crusts till last, cos that was the tastiest bit.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Now we need a taste o' hot milk.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Now a whole lot of folk made this with tay,
0:07:20 > 0:07:23- which I suppose you could.- I've always heard of it made that way.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26We'd have got it made with tay in the winter,
0:07:26 > 0:07:28mair whenever you were coul.
0:07:28 > 0:07:32And that's the breid in and now the sugar.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34And that's your ponada, as basic as that.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37- Is that done? You don't have to soak it?- Oh, no.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39You have to wait till your breid's soft.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42- Everybody likes things different, Anne.- Aye.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45I mean, look at your lipstick and look at mine!
0:07:45 > 0:07:48- So there you are, Anne. You hae a taste.- OK.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50- Does that not peel back the years? - Takes you way back.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53- Gie her a wee bit. - Do you want a bit of the crust?
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Aye, I'll take a wee bit of the crust.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Right, OK, you ready?
0:07:57 > 0:08:01That's the straight crust. That's the end we calt the pipe.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03Oh, that's not too bad. Isn't it lovely?
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Well, Frank, I did like your ponada, actually,
0:08:06 > 0:08:09I didn't think I was going to but...
0:08:09 > 0:08:12This is a sort of a more modern version.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15- This is, I'm going to make a tea-bread.- Right.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17So tea-bread, tea and bread.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19The tea in this instance comes in,
0:08:19 > 0:08:22I've soaked this fruit in hot tea.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24- So if you'd a pot of black tea left? - Black tea,
0:08:24 > 0:08:25bring it to the boil, bit of fruit,
0:08:25 > 0:08:27bit of sugar. Pour it over the fruit
0:08:27 > 0:08:30and that's the first stage of it. The next part of it
0:08:30 > 0:08:33is to crack an egg into just a wee drop of milk here
0:08:33 > 0:08:35and then just mix that up.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41So the egg's going in there, and a wee bit of milk to loosen it up,
0:08:41 > 0:08:44- and that goes in there.- That'll bind it a bit, as well?- That's it.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46So I've put a few nuts in mine.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49- What nuts are these? - These are just chopped, mixed nuts.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51There's almonds, hazelnuts.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54You cannae be allergic to nuts in oor village cos it's full of them!
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Tip the flour in.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59There's nothing complicated about this, sure there's not?
0:08:59 > 0:09:00It looks good.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Wait and taste it!
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Wait till you taste it, aye.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08- Are you finished with this here? - Yes, are you going to lick it?
0:09:08 > 0:09:10He's got to taste it, has he?
0:09:10 > 0:09:11- Well?- Hi, that's nice!
0:09:11 > 0:09:14You can always tell from a cake what it'll be like.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16- Could you not wait till it's cooked? - No.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19We were talking about no waste earlier, Anne.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22- Frank's just taking that... - You'll not even have a boul left!
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Spoon or naething, it'll all be away.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27Go on, I dare you. Good for you. Yay! Good for you!
0:09:28 > 0:09:31I'm going to make a baked custard. This is cream.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33I've got a wee bit of vanilla in it
0:09:33 > 0:09:34and then there's a teabag.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37That's what I cannae believe, a teabag.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40I can understand the vanilla but what will the teabag do to it?
0:09:40 > 0:09:42It'll give it a tea-y sort of flavour.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45- It's a sort of Aghadowey custom. - I've never had baked tea!
0:09:45 > 0:09:48Well, you're going to have baked tea, now, right?
0:09:48 > 0:09:51It's like... another thing with the ponada, you had tea
0:09:51 > 0:09:54and that's what I was thinking, tea. But to make the custard,
0:09:54 > 0:09:56egg yolks, I've got some sugar here.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58You just whisk these up together.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00So when you've got it whisked like that,
0:10:00 > 0:10:02I'll pour over the cream,
0:10:02 > 0:10:05so just pour that in.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08The French would call this, like a creme brulee
0:10:08 > 0:10:12after they burn the top of it, you know, the custard.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14The Ulster-Scots would just call it tay-custard.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16- Tay custard.- Baked custard.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18That's what it is, burnt cream.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21- Then you're just pouring your custard into...- The wee bouls.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Into the wee bouls, yes.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26And that's it. Put a bit of hot water in the bottom of that
0:10:26 > 0:10:30and you bake them for about 40 minutes.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32If I cut into the cake, see it's like a boil cake?
0:10:32 > 0:10:36- Oh aye, it's like a fruit cake.- Then take a wee bite of your custard.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39- He's going to butter it with his. - You butter it too.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Mmm.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43- Noo I'm in heaven.- Well, Frank,
0:10:43 > 0:10:46what do you think about this agin the ponada?
0:10:46 > 0:10:49- Would you gie up the ponada?- No, I wouldnae gie up the ponada, Anne,
0:10:49 > 0:10:51but I'd be greedy, I'd be wanting both.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54I would hae this on a Sunday and the ponada the rest o' the week.
0:10:57 > 0:11:01Percussionist Mark Wilson has been a regular contributor tae Santer
0:11:01 > 0:11:03wi' his journeys of the musical kind
0:11:03 > 0:11:05and this series is nae different.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26In previous series of Santer, I took musical journeys
0:11:26 > 0:11:28following the Ulster-Scots and their ancestors
0:11:28 > 0:11:32on their journeys of love, loss and leaving.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35And now I'm taking another such journey,
0:11:35 > 0:11:38one that'll take me through Nova Scotia, down through Canada
0:11:38 > 0:11:41and as far as Boston in the USA.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44But I'm starting that journey here in Ulster
0:11:44 > 0:11:46on the shores of Donegal.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56The violin or fiddle is synonymous with Ulster-Scots music.
0:11:56 > 0:12:00It travelled over from the west coast of Scotland
0:12:00 > 0:12:03into County Antrim, County Londonderry and County Donegal
0:12:03 > 0:12:08and it's in that county that it's most vibrant and alive today.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11One of the centres of that vibrancy of the Ulster fiddle style
0:12:11 > 0:12:14is here in Gweedore.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22It's an absolutely beautiful piece of the world,
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Ciaran, isn't it? Gorgeous.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26You're a Donegal man,
0:12:26 > 0:12:29although you're not living all the time in Donegal,
0:12:29 > 0:12:31- you travel all over the world.- Yeah.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34But you're from Donegal. That's where your music's from?
0:12:34 > 0:12:37That's where the music's from, the music we take around the world.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40We're very lucky to be able to do that with the band.
0:12:40 > 0:12:44The style of fiddle-playing you do do is very much an Ulster style.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48In fact, I met guys in Scotland, down in the Mull of Kintyre,
0:12:48 > 0:12:52who said that their style was very similar to the Donegal style.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55Oh well, I think it's the other way round, really.
0:12:55 > 0:12:56I think we got it from Scotland.
0:12:56 > 0:13:00- Right!- Yeah, it's a very close...
0:13:00 > 0:13:03It's the same thing really, I suppose.
0:13:03 > 0:13:07Donegal, being so cut off from the rest of Ireland as well,
0:13:07 > 0:13:09in terms of the music.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Our music is so much more different
0:13:11 > 0:13:15to that from Clare or Kerry or any other part of the country.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Our music is much more...
0:13:17 > 0:13:21I suppose aggressive is one way of describing it, because of the bow.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25- Right?- We make much more use of the bow hand.- Aha.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28So like, in Clare, you would have...
0:13:28 > 0:13:29GENTLE TUNE
0:13:33 > 0:13:35Something nice and gentle like that.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Whereas in Donegal...
0:13:37 > 0:13:39FASTER, MORE STACCATO
0:13:43 > 0:13:45So it's much more up and down.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48- There's a bit more kick and more life to that?- Absolutely.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07Of course, the fiddle style you have here,
0:14:07 > 0:14:11the Ulster fiddle style, as people refer to it in Donegal,
0:14:11 > 0:14:13is very similar to the Antrim style of fiddle
0:14:13 > 0:14:16- and Antrim style of whistle-playing? - It would be, yeah, very similar.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19That Antrim fiddle-style, Ciaran,
0:14:19 > 0:14:21it's very, very like the Scottish style.
0:14:21 > 0:14:25It's very sort of dot-and-cut or "Scotch snap" is what they say
0:14:25 > 0:14:27- and that comes out in the Highland...- Exactly.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29..Highland tunes you have here in Donegal?
0:14:29 > 0:14:33You can trace that right from Donegal, right through Antrim
0:14:33 > 0:14:35and then Scotland is the next stop.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55One of the places that this style of music appears again
0:14:55 > 0:14:58in a very similar form is Cape Breton in Nova Scotia.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02Cape Breton? I've been there a few times and it's just amazing.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06The first time I experienced that was mind-blowing altogether.
0:15:06 > 0:15:11- You can understand the proximity between Donegal and Scotland.- Yes.
0:15:11 > 0:15:16But to travel across the world to the eastern seaboard of Canada
0:15:16 > 0:15:19and see and hear the relationship of what's going on, you know,
0:15:19 > 0:15:23- it's amazing.- But as you say, if you strip it all back, it's the music
0:15:23 > 0:15:28that's gone back and forth between Scotland and the north of Ireland for hundreds of years.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40One of the tunes that you play
0:15:40 > 0:15:43is actually a tune written in Cape Breton for yourself?
0:15:43 > 0:15:47That's right. It was after my first trip over there
0:15:47 > 0:15:50that two of the best fiddle players from Cape Breton,
0:15:50 > 0:15:52sadly both no longer with us,
0:15:52 > 0:15:55Gerry Holland and Dougie McDonald,
0:15:55 > 0:15:57wrote this tune in my name, in my honour.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00It was a total honour at the time and still is,
0:16:00 > 0:16:04to have somebody of those calibre of musicians write a tune for you,
0:16:04 > 0:16:07so yeah, Ciaran Tourish's Reel.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22And so that fiddle music
0:16:22 > 0:16:25that came from the west coast of Scotland to Ulster,
0:16:25 > 0:16:28some of it stayed with the people who stayed.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30But also people travelled on,
0:16:30 > 0:16:33and those people left from ports throughout Ulster,
0:16:33 > 0:16:36from here in Donegal, but a lot of them from Londonderry.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39And they sailed to North America, to places like Nova Scotia,
0:16:39 > 0:16:43and that's where I'm off to next.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45We'll be followin' Mark on this musical journey
0:16:45 > 0:16:48as he takes off o'er the Atlantic to Cape Breton
0:16:48 > 0:16:50and then south through Nova Scotia
0:16:50 > 0:16:53afore goin' intae the United States tae Boston and Londonderry.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02The Cowal Games are houl every year in Dunoon, Scotland.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06Among many Ulster folk that travel o'er regularly for the competition
0:17:06 > 0:17:10are the Abraham family frae County Armagh.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13My name's Zoe Abraham
0:17:13 > 0:17:15and we've come from Richill.
0:17:15 > 0:17:16We've came for the Cowal Games.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22Lauren's my sister and she's competing as a drum major.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26She's practising and she's doing a lot of throws there.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29That's called the helicopter, what she just done,
0:17:29 > 0:17:31the sort of spin at the top.
0:17:31 > 0:17:35And then she does finger-spins
0:17:35 > 0:17:39and then she does some side-throws and then normal throws, just up.
0:17:39 > 0:17:40I think she's really good.
0:17:43 > 0:17:49My dad's out there polishing her shoes cos they have to be shiny.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51My mummy's getting her dressed
0:17:51 > 0:17:55and she's trying to get all the fluff off her jacket now.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57If you don't have it right, you'll get a fault
0:17:57 > 0:18:00and then the fault will go to your overall score
0:18:00 > 0:18:02and then it'll maybe mark you down.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09My mum has to crawl around the floor
0:18:09 > 0:18:12doing my sister's socks and laces and shoes and all.
0:18:14 > 0:18:15I think she's ready now.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23We're going up for Dress, to get judged on her dress
0:18:23 > 0:18:26and then they'll be competing after that.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47He's checking her hat
0:18:47 > 0:18:51and the hat has to be in perfect angle.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54See, he's being very fussy.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57He's checking her socks now and her laces.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01He's checking her kilt, so that's it finished.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03And then later on, she'll be doing her run.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Always glad when Dress is over.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07It's the most stressful part, for me anyway.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16Whenever my sister's off practising, I eat chips!
0:19:16 > 0:19:18She's done well this year.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20I think maybe she's done 13 this year.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23She won about five or six of them.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25This is her eighth year competing.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30She practises in windy weather
0:19:30 > 0:19:33or rainy or sunny, just to get used to it.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Depends what type of day it'll be at the competitions.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41She's about to do her main run now.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45She doesn't really like anybody standing at the end.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47It sort of puts her off.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49So you have to stand at the side most of the time.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51So I hope she does well.
0:19:53 > 0:19:54Quick, march!
0:20:11 > 0:20:13That was really good, I think.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21This is the finale.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23They're marching past.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26They'll soon find out the results
0:20:26 > 0:20:30and they find out if they've done well or not.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36Lauren Abraham!
0:20:36 > 0:20:39And Lauren certainly did do very weel,
0:20:39 > 0:20:42winning one of the maist-sought-after Pipe Major titles
0:20:42 > 0:20:44o' the saison, that o' the Cowal Champion.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58Earlier on in the programme,
0:20:58 > 0:21:02we seen Leslie Morrow starting to restore an oul forge
0:21:02 > 0:21:03at the end o' his loanen.
0:21:03 > 0:21:08We're back with Leslie noo. This time, it's twarthy months later.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12Colin, it's good to hae you doing this cos you're the spade-maker
0:21:12 > 0:21:15at the famous Patterson's Spade Mill at Templepatrick.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19Well, blacksmithing's a wee bit different from the spade-making
0:21:19 > 0:21:22but it's basically the same, and I have an interest in blacksmithing
0:21:22 > 0:21:25so I've went and trained with different boys.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29Right, Colin, we'll get this thing fired up. This is its maiden voyage.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34How long has it been since a fire was lit in her?
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Well, I cannae ascertain the date.
0:21:36 > 0:21:41I think it quait functioning in, I think, the early '60s.
0:21:41 > 0:21:45The farmer that had it took it over and he ripped this all oot
0:21:45 > 0:21:48and he built up all the windows and built up the doors.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51The windows are back in the original position.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53They just were blocked up.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57Also, just behind me here you'll see
0:21:57 > 0:22:00there was an original door there as well, a wee pedestrian door,
0:22:00 > 0:22:04so I put that back the way it should be as well.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07The place was originally built
0:22:07 > 0:22:10to keep a blacksmith in the countryside
0:22:10 > 0:22:13and that was a man by the name of James O'Boyle.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15That's what you needed in the country.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17He made all the tools for other tradesmen.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20He made it happen and they kept him in the countryside,
0:22:20 > 0:22:23and just to show you, there's the man there.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25That's James O'Boyle.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28Now I've nae links to the man at all
0:22:28 > 0:22:32but a real character and wan of the best blacksmiths in the countryside.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40They're original,
0:22:40 > 0:22:42that's original,
0:22:42 > 0:22:47and the cart shaft here for pumping the bellows is all original as well.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51And there's even wear on the inside of this shaft
0:22:51 > 0:22:55which helped me whenever I went to put this place together
0:22:55 > 0:22:59because the wear there is seen.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01And it was caused by that being
0:23:01 > 0:23:04rubbing up and down the corner of the chimney breast.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07So that gave me an indication of exactly where the furnace
0:23:07 > 0:23:10or the forge was. Just when we're on that point,
0:23:10 > 0:23:13see the way the handle just sticks about there,
0:23:13 > 0:23:17and then away it went? I wonder would it stick there again?
0:23:17 > 0:23:20The handle sticks on that brick. I don't know why.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23But about three weeks ago,
0:23:23 > 0:23:26I came in here in the dark on my way out to work,
0:23:26 > 0:23:29and the wee door wasn't on, obviously, the opening was there.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31It was very stormy and I thought,
0:23:31 > 0:23:35"I'll lose the roof off this place. I'll go and boord up the door."
0:23:35 > 0:23:36I came down in the van,
0:23:36 > 0:23:38stopped with the lights at the end of the building.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40I came in here groping away in the dark
0:23:40 > 0:23:42and I lifted a bit of plywood,
0:23:42 > 0:23:44set it up against the door,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47and I lifted a piece of wood frae over there,
0:23:47 > 0:23:49propped it agin the wood to keep it there,
0:23:49 > 0:23:52and when I turned to lift another piece of wood,
0:23:52 > 0:23:54that was going up into the air.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57And the bottom half of the bellows was dropping.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00The hair raise between my shoulder blades.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02It stood straight to the back of my ears.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05It must have been about 11 o'clock that day before I settled down.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08I couldnae figure out why the bellows moved.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11But I've discovered it's because they're catching on the brick.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13Thank goodness that's the explanation.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15I thought the blacksmith was back
0:24:15 > 0:24:18although he would be very welcome.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21I'm looking forward to the first big bit o' red-hot steel
0:24:21 > 0:24:22coming up out o' here.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26You done a bit o' professional training, then, for it?
0:24:26 > 0:24:29- I did a bit, yeah. - I'm just going tae do it
0:24:29 > 0:24:32the way my granda would've learnt the fiddle, by ear.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34And I hope I dinnae burn my ear!
0:24:34 > 0:24:36- Well, you take that now.- My turn!
0:24:36 > 0:24:39I haen't even my glasses on but it'll no' matter. Right.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42You just hammer that square
0:24:42 > 0:24:45and what you're going to do is draw that out.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49If the truth be toul, in the last two months
0:24:49 > 0:24:51I hae talked nothing but blacksmith's shop.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54The wife's scunnered listening about the blacksmith's shop.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57I'm delighted it's up and running. Later, the wife will be down
0:24:57 > 0:24:59with a lot of other people, hopefully.
0:24:59 > 0:25:03I'm going tae mark the occasion, maybe do a bit of storytelling,
0:25:03 > 0:25:04bit of poetry, bit of a yarn.
0:25:10 > 0:25:11The poet tells of a smith
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Who lived beneath a chestnut tree
0:25:13 > 0:25:16This smith owed naught to any man
0:25:16 > 0:25:18An honest blacksmith he.
0:25:18 > 0:25:19No poet ever wrote of me
0:25:19 > 0:25:21But all the world should know
0:25:21 > 0:25:24The story of the blacksmith's fate
0:25:24 > 0:25:25The blacksmith of Drumcrow.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28In '14, when war broke out
0:25:28 > 0:25:30I went to fight abroad
0:25:30 > 0:25:33I fought for three things dear to me
0:25:33 > 0:25:35My country, king and God
0:25:35 > 0:25:38When blessed peace came back at last
0:25:38 > 0:25:40With victory over the foe
0:25:40 > 0:25:42No happier man in Ireland was aye
0:25:42 > 0:25:44The blacksmith of Drumcrow.
0:25:50 > 0:25:51I did the work my father did
0:25:51 > 0:25:53In the little blacksmith's shop
0:25:53 > 0:25:56And though ex-soldiers often drink
0:25:56 > 0:25:58I never touched a drop.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00A demolition order came
0:26:00 > 0:26:02The source of all my woe
0:26:02 > 0:26:05And homeless, homeless then was I
0:26:05 > 0:26:07The blacksmith of Drumcrow.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10In God's good book we read of one
0:26:10 > 0:26:12Who gave the country bread
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Yet in the whole wide world
0:26:15 > 0:26:17He had nowhere to lay his head.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19And that is what happened
0:26:19 > 0:26:22As all the world should know
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Please God, a brighter fate awaits
0:26:24 > 0:26:26The blacksmith of Dumcrow.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Well, heth, it's great to be back
0:26:41 > 0:26:44and we hope you'll stay wi' us for the rest o' the series.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46We'll finish off this programme
0:26:46 > 0:26:49wi' a singer that's just been voted Scottish Folk Singer of the Year,
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Rod Patterson, with Willie Wastle.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59# Willie Wastle dwalt on Tweed
0:26:59 > 0:27:01# The place they cried it Linkumdoddie
0:27:01 > 0:27:04# Willie was a wabster guid
0:27:04 > 0:27:07# Could stown a clue wi' onybody
0:27:07 > 0:27:09# He had a wife was dour and din
0:27:09 > 0:27:12# Tinkler Maidgie was her mither
0:27:12 > 0:27:14# Sic a wife as Willie's wife
0:27:16 > 0:27:19# I wudnae gie a button for her
0:27:23 > 0:27:26# She has an ee, she has but yin
0:27:26 > 0:27:28# The cat has twa, the very colour
0:27:28 > 0:27:31# Five rusty teeth, forbye a stump
0:27:31 > 0:27:33# Her clapper-tongue wad deave a miller
0:27:33 > 0:27:36# A whiskin' beard about her mou
0:27:36 > 0:27:38# Her nose and chin they threaten ither
0:27:38 > 0:27:42# Sic a wife as Willie's wife
0:27:42 > 0:27:45# I wad nae gie a button for her
0:27:50 > 0:27:52# She's bow-hough'd She's hem-shin'd
0:27:52 > 0:27:55# Ae limpin' leg a hand-breed shorter
0:27:55 > 0:27:57# Twisted left an' twisted richt
0:27:57 > 0:28:00# Tae balance fair in ilka quarter
0:28:00 > 0:28:03# She has a hump upon her breest
0:28:03 > 0:28:05# The nibor o't upon her shouther
0:28:05 > 0:28:08# Sic a wife as Willie's wife
0:28:08 > 0:28:12# I wad na gie a button for her
0:28:16 > 0:28:19# Auld baudrans by the ingle sits
0:28:19 > 0:28:22# An wi' her loof her face a-washin
0:28:22 > 0:28:24# Willie's wife she's nae sae trig
0:28:24 > 0:28:27# She dights her grunzie wi' a hushion
0:28:27 > 0:28:30# Her walie nieves like midden-creels
0:28:30 > 0:28:33# Her face wad foul the Logan Water
0:28:33 > 0:28:35# Sic a wife as Willie's wife
0:28:35 > 0:28:38# I wudnae gie a button for her
0:28:40 > 0:28:44# I wudnae gie a button for her
0:28:46 > 0:28:51# I wudnae gie a button for her. #
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