0:00:02 > 0:00:04Welcome to the last programme in the series of Santer.
0:00:10 > 0:00:11Coming up on the show,
0:00:11 > 0:00:14Adam Dunlop tries his hand at archery in Ballymoney.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16Right, you've one arrow there.
0:00:16 > 0:00:18Do you think you could get it closer to the centre?
0:00:18 > 0:00:20I'll take that bet, so I will.
0:00:20 > 0:00:22After all their hard work,
0:00:22 > 0:00:26Bobby Acheson and Andy Cornett record Lilliburlero wi' the Kellswater Flute Band.
0:00:26 > 0:00:30We've been working towards tonight and it's fallen apart a bit.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Mark Wilson reaches Londonderry
0:00:32 > 0:00:35on the last leg of his musical journey in America.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38You can imagine these families who were out working in the fields,
0:00:38 > 0:00:41at night, after they'd brought everything back into the barn,
0:00:41 > 0:00:43would have a little dance.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46And the wee'uns of Glynn Primary School stage a short drama
0:00:46 > 0:00:48about visiting US soldiers round Larne.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51There's them two buddies again,
0:00:51 > 0:00:53gawping at us like gulpins.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55(BROAD AMERICAN ACCENT) Bud-dies?
0:01:02 > 0:01:06But afore all that, what about some bluegrass from The Down and Outs?
0:01:20 > 0:01:23# Wish that I was on old Rocky Top
0:01:23 > 0:01:25# Back in the Tennessee hills
0:01:27 > 0:01:30# Ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top
0:01:30 > 0:01:33# Ain't no telephone bills
0:01:33 > 0:01:36# Once I had a girl on Rocky Top
0:01:36 > 0:01:38# Half bear, the other half cat
0:01:39 > 0:01:43# Wild as a mink and sweet as soda pop
0:01:43 > 0:01:46# I still dream about that
0:01:46 > 0:01:48# Rocky Top
0:01:48 > 0:01:49# You'll always be
0:01:49 > 0:01:52# Home sweet home to me
0:01:53 > 0:01:56# Good ole Rocky Top
0:01:57 > 0:02:00# Rocky Top, Tennessee
0:02:00 > 0:02:02# Rocky Top, Tennessee
0:02:17 > 0:02:20# Once two strangers climbed old Rocky Top
0:02:20 > 0:02:22# Looking for a moonshine still
0:02:24 > 0:02:27# Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top
0:02:27 > 0:02:29# Reckon that they never will
0:02:30 > 0:02:34# Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top
0:02:34 > 0:02:37# Dirt's too rocky by far
0:02:37 > 0:02:41# That's why all the folks on Rocky Top
0:02:41 > 0:02:42# Get their corn from a jar
0:02:44 > 0:02:47# Rocky Top, you'll always be
0:02:47 > 0:02:49# Home sweet home to me
0:02:51 > 0:02:53# Good ole Rocky Top
0:02:54 > 0:02:57# Rocky Top, Tennessee
0:02:58 > 0:03:00# Rocky Top, Tennessee
0:03:31 > 0:03:34# I've had years of pent-up city life
0:03:34 > 0:03:36# Trapped like a dog in a pen
0:03:37 > 0:03:41# All I know is it's a pity life
0:03:41 > 0:03:43# Can't be simple again
0:03:44 > 0:03:47# Rocky Top, you'll always be
0:03:47 > 0:03:50# Home sweet home to me
0:03:50 > 0:03:54# Good ole Rocky Top
0:03:54 > 0:03:56# Rocky Top, Tennessee
0:03:58 > 0:04:00# Rocky Top, Tennessee
0:04:01 > 0:04:10# Rocky Top, Tennessee-ee-ee-ee! #
0:04:14 > 0:04:15Detail on the line!
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Detail commence shooting!
0:04:22 > 0:04:24You know, I was in the Army Cadets
0:04:24 > 0:04:27and I'd done some target shooting before, some clay shooting,
0:04:27 > 0:04:29but I hadn't really done archery.
0:04:29 > 0:04:33And I certainly didn't know there was a club in the town.
0:04:34 > 0:04:38Chris, I'm local from Ballymoney and I didn't know this place existed.
0:04:38 > 0:04:39It's a hidden gem.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42We've been in circulation for about eight years as a club,
0:04:42 > 0:04:44moving from schools to leisure centres.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46We found this place by accident.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49We've been here about three years, and you never knew we were here?
0:04:49 > 0:04:52- Never, no.- Even though we put it in the paper every week as well?
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Ah, see, I don't read the paper!
0:04:54 > 0:04:56THEY LAUGH
0:04:56 > 0:04:58At what age would you start archery?
0:04:58 > 0:05:01Well, we have kids in the club ranging from seven years of age
0:05:01 > 0:05:04right up to 68, 70 years of age.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06So there's a vast difference in the age groups here
0:05:06 > 0:05:08on the shooting line together.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10So this is a lifetime sport?
0:05:10 > 0:05:12It can be.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14Jordan, how long have you been at this?
0:05:14 > 0:05:17Aye, well, roughly about two years now.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21I'm in the Northern Ireland squad.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Is there many in this club on that team?
0:05:23 > 0:05:24There's a good...
0:05:24 > 0:05:27seven, roughly, in it.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30- Are you going to show me how to fire one of these things?- Aye.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32If you put a foot at each side of the line.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Now bring it to your cheek so it touches.
0:05:35 > 0:05:36Touches my cheek?
0:05:39 > 0:05:41That wasn't very good, was it?
0:05:41 > 0:05:43It was all right for your first time.
0:05:43 > 0:05:44What about your first one?
0:05:44 > 0:05:46My first one, I missed the target.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51- That was good gripping. - I got it in the red now.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55This isn't as easy as it looked whenever I seen you doing it!
0:05:55 > 0:05:58So how many arrows would you fire in a proper competition like this here?
0:05:58 > 0:06:01I'd fire about 60 arrows, roughly.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03- It's sore on the hands.- Aye.
0:06:05 > 0:06:06APPLAUSE
0:06:06 > 0:06:08- That's her there!- That's not bad!
0:06:10 > 0:06:1350/50. Still not quite in the yellow.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17I heard we had some Northern Ireland champions
0:06:17 > 0:06:19in the shooting line today?
0:06:19 > 0:06:21We do, yes. We've got four gents,
0:06:21 > 0:06:24or ladies and gents, who are on the Northern Ireland squad.
0:06:24 > 0:06:28The young lad here, only ten years of age, Northern Ireland champion.
0:06:28 > 0:06:29- Only ten?- Indoors and outdoors.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32- That's amazing.- So he's moved on
0:06:32 > 0:06:36from the beginners' distances, ten metres and under for Under-Tens
0:06:36 > 0:06:40straight back to the full distance for 10-years-old in one day.
0:06:42 > 0:06:43And aim.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48- There we go!- There we go!
0:06:48 > 0:06:50APPLAUSE
0:06:50 > 0:06:54What's the distance for the adults in archery?
0:06:54 > 0:06:56Adults have got to shoot at about 90 metres.
0:06:56 > 0:06:5990 metres is the full distance of a football pitch.
0:06:59 > 0:07:00What distance was I at?
0:07:00 > 0:07:03- You were at seven metres, Alan. - Seven metres?
0:07:03 > 0:07:06- And in the gold, which is pretty good.- A long way to go, then.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08Just a bit. A bit of practice, you'll be OK.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Right, you've one arrow left.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12Do you think you could get it closer to the centre?
0:07:12 > 0:07:14I'll take that bet, so I will.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17- Right so, bring it back to your... - Robin Hood!
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Aye! To your cheek.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Right, so. Just tiny wee bit right.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26OK.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28- There we go!- Good man!
0:07:28 > 0:07:29APPLAUSE
0:07:29 > 0:07:31I think you won that bet.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34- You're a brilliant coach.- Thanks.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37See that there?
0:07:37 > 0:07:38That's class!
0:07:40 > 0:07:43Over the last wheen of programmes,
0:07:43 > 0:07:46we've followed the progress of Bobby Acheson and Andy Cornett
0:07:46 > 0:07:49after they took up the challenge to learn the fife and drum,
0:07:49 > 0:07:53and then to record Lilliburlero with the Kellswater Flute Band.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56Well, the nicht of the recording has finally arrived
0:07:56 > 0:08:01and as Willie Hill puts the band through their paces, there's a nervous tension in the air.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04Play what's there. I'll give you a two and a four.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08Do the repeat for the time being, but we'll work out what we're doing
0:08:08 > 0:08:10once we get all the other stuff going.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13Basically, we're arriving here with a clean slate.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16None of them have played with a flute band before.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18We're going to have to work out links
0:08:18 > 0:08:21between what the fifes do, what the band does,
0:08:21 > 0:08:23then bring the fifes and drums back together
0:08:23 > 0:08:26so there's an awful lot to be done in a very short space of time.
0:08:30 > 0:08:34FLUTE PLAYING
0:08:36 > 0:08:37Terrible!
0:08:37 > 0:08:40I am. I havnae improved any.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42Anyways, we'll get through it, sure.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44We've been working towards tonight.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46It's fallen apart a bit, but I'm sure
0:08:46 > 0:08:49once we get down wi' the band, we'll maybe pull it through.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56A room full of people, bit nervous
0:08:56 > 0:08:57but no, it'll be dead on.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00Should be OK, hopefully. Hopefully.
0:09:00 > 0:09:01This is Bobby.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03BAND: Hello, Bobby.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06- And I met Bobby, what, about five weeks ago?- That's it, Willie.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09And Bobby has been very, very brave.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12We've got our own flute band here, we've got the fifes going
0:09:12 > 0:09:16and we've got the very big percussion instrument. So what we'll try and do
0:09:16 > 0:09:20is tie everything together. Is Karl on his walkie-talkie there?
0:09:20 > 0:09:21'I am.'
0:09:21 > 0:09:24We'll try this. I don't think it'll be perfect first time.
0:09:24 > 0:09:29'Willie, does either you or Bobby have a telephone switched on?'
0:09:29 > 0:09:31- A telephone?- Aye, it's me. - 'A mobile.'
0:09:31 > 0:09:33- I have.- 'It's crackling away.'
0:09:33 > 0:09:36It's the Ulster Orchestra ringing Bobby here!
0:09:36 > 0:09:38LAUGHTER
0:09:38 > 0:09:39"Are you free?"
0:09:39 > 0:09:41BAND PLAYS: "Lilliburlero"
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Lilliburlero goes back hundreds and hundreds of years
0:09:51 > 0:09:55and, of course, it's one of the most popular tunes.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57People might know it's played four times every hour
0:09:57 > 0:10:00on the BBC World Service. It's their signature tune.
0:10:00 > 0:10:04So it's very popular. Everybody recognises it, everybody knows it.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10'Well done, boys. That's the one. Brilliant.'
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Well done, boys. Brilliant.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14With the track recorded now,
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Bobby and Andy are keen to hear it played back.
0:10:17 > 0:10:18BAND PLAYS
0:10:18 > 0:10:20ANDY: Is this the last take, is it?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22I'll use the previous one.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25You'll use the first one? I was happier with the first one.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28- Well, Bobby, have you starred yet? - Absolutely!
0:10:28 > 0:10:31- I'll let you hear that in a minute. - It'll be brilliant.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34So it was the Ulster Orchestra ringing, then?
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Eh?
0:10:41 > 0:10:43- Dunno.- That's all right. - Nothing wrong with that.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46Sounds good, sounds good,
0:10:46 > 0:10:50but we'll wait and see whenever, later on, how it works out.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53We'll be back with Bobby and Andy afore the end of the show
0:10:53 > 0:10:56to hear the whole track in all its glory.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59Throughout the series, we have been with Mark Wilson
0:10:59 > 0:11:02as he followed the trail of the Scottish fiddle style
0:11:02 > 0:11:05from Ulster into Canada and then to the USA.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08We're going to join him again now on the last leg of that journey.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27I'm now on the last leg of my musical journey,
0:11:27 > 0:11:29one which started in Donegal,
0:11:29 > 0:11:31brought me across the Atlantic
0:11:31 > 0:11:32to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia,
0:11:32 > 0:11:35and from Halifax down to Boston.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37I'm now heading north into New Hampshire
0:11:37 > 0:11:41and to a town with a name very familiar to everyone back home,
0:11:41 > 0:11:42Londonderry.
0:11:46 > 0:11:50In April 1719, 20 Ulster-Scots families
0:11:50 > 0:11:52who had emigrated to Boston
0:11:52 > 0:11:55moved north into New Hampshire
0:11:55 > 0:11:58to a settlement called Nutfield. Over the next 20 years,
0:11:58 > 0:12:01they would be joined by 700 more Ulster-Scots.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04One of the families who moved during that period
0:12:04 > 0:12:07were Samuel Morrison and his wife and family.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10They moved here in 1719
0:12:10 > 0:12:13and in 1760, they built this house
0:12:13 > 0:12:15that would become known as The Morrison House.
0:12:15 > 0:12:19It's a typical house of the Ulster-Scots settlers of that era.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25You can still imagine that these families out working in the fields,
0:12:25 > 0:12:29at night, after they brought everything back into the barn,
0:12:29 > 0:12:32they'd have a little dance to the fiddle and the banjo.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05Lauren Rioux, you're a violinist,
0:13:05 > 0:13:09a fiddle player, a singer. You're a little hard to classify,
0:13:09 > 0:13:11but what do you see yourself as?
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Well, that's a good question.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15I'm probably a musician!
0:13:15 > 0:13:19- That's a good answer!- Thank you.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22I would say that I am a musician
0:13:22 > 0:13:25or string player that comes from the classical world
0:13:25 > 0:13:28that has recently crossed over into more folk styles.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30And I play a lot of American styles,
0:13:30 > 0:13:33a lot of Appalachian music and some bluegrass
0:13:33 > 0:13:36and I'm very influenced by Scottish traditions
0:13:36 > 0:13:37and Cape Breton traditions.
0:13:41 > 0:13:42So with a classical upbringing,
0:13:42 > 0:13:45how did you get into playing folk music or Scottish tunes
0:13:45 > 0:13:47or Cape Breton music?
0:13:47 > 0:13:49I went to a teachers' convention
0:13:49 > 0:13:52and there were a bunch of really amazing fiddlers there.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56I heard them playing and fell in love with it and said, "This is the style,
0:13:56 > 0:13:59"Where's this been? I need to start playing this kind of music."
0:13:59 > 0:14:02At that point, I was probably about 20
0:14:02 > 0:14:04and still in school, still in college.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07And everybody said, "Well, you need to go to a fiddle camp."
0:14:07 > 0:14:10So I went to a fiddle camp.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14It was Mark O'Connor's camp and my first class was with Natalie McMaster
0:14:14 > 0:14:17and she taught a bunch of Cape Breton jigs
0:14:17 > 0:14:21and my heart was totally in there, I was in love.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49Another very famous fiddle player out here, a Scottish fiddle player,
0:14:49 > 0:14:51is Alistair Fraser. Have you come across Alistair?
0:14:51 > 0:14:54I have, yes. I've been going to Alistair's camps,
0:14:54 > 0:14:58specifically Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddling School,
0:14:58 > 0:15:00for about six years now. I adore him.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03He is a force to be reckoned with.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05His direction
0:15:05 > 0:15:09and his adamant decision of making sure Scottish music is kept alive
0:15:09 > 0:15:13and the people of Scotland's voices are heard,
0:15:13 > 0:15:15is a really wonderful thing.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29- You were over in the UK two years ago?- Yes, in January 2010
0:15:29 > 0:15:31for Celtic Connections in Glasgow
0:15:31 > 0:15:34and it was such a blast. I really want to come back and visit you guys.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37How did the audience in Scotland react
0:15:37 > 0:15:40to a girl who grew up playing classical music in Portland, Maine?
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Well, the audience was incredibly wonderful
0:15:43 > 0:15:45and very warm and very welcoming
0:15:45 > 0:15:48and I was there with a band I'd been performing with a lot
0:15:48 > 0:15:50which is called Darol Anger's Republic of Strings
0:15:50 > 0:15:53and that band and Celtic Connections, I thought,
0:15:53 > 0:15:55were a perfect match for each other
0:15:55 > 0:15:59because Celtic Connections is finding the thread
0:15:59 > 0:16:03between all the musicians and bands that come together there
0:16:03 > 0:16:05and I think we had a really good time.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28- Lauren, thank you so much. - Thanks for playing with us.
0:16:28 > 0:16:32- Hopefully we can get together again and play a few tunes.- I'd love that.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Maybe at Celtic Connections this year?
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Yes, that sounds like a great plan! I'll see you there.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39- Thanks, Lauren.- Thank you, Mark.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49STIRRING WARTIME MUSIC
0:16:52 > 0:16:56Now a short story specially wrote by the wee'uns of Glynn Primary School.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00It's about American soldiers stationed at Kilwaughter Castle trying to understand
0:17:00 > 0:17:03the local sayings from about Larne.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05You'll never guess what I heard in class, Carly.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07- What?- See Kilwaughter Castle?
0:17:07 > 0:17:10Well, there was American soldiers there during the war.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12- Americans?- Get out of here!
0:17:12 > 0:17:13No, no! It's true.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17- They trained there before they were going to Normandy.- Americans?
0:17:17 > 0:17:20- Awesome!- Bet all the local women probably loved them.
0:17:22 > 0:17:23Afternoon, ma'am.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26THEY GIGGLE
0:17:26 > 0:17:28I bet when the Yanks went down to Larne,
0:17:28 > 0:17:32they couldn't understand the locals.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Millie, are you coming over later to see the bull goin' out?
0:17:35 > 0:17:36I think we're in trouble.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40Yeah, I think they've taken a bull gun out!
0:17:40 > 0:17:43Get it? Bull goin' out? They thought it was a bull-gun
0:17:43 > 0:17:45instead of a bull going out to the field!
0:17:49 > 0:17:52There's them two buddies again,
0:17:52 > 0:17:54gawpin' at us like gulpins.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59- Bodies?- First guns and now bodies?
0:17:59 > 0:18:02And what on earth does "gawpin" mean?
0:18:03 > 0:18:06My gran tells me to stop gawpin' at people
0:18:06 > 0:18:09out her living room window when I'm at her house.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Aye, well my gran tells me the Yanks were right friendly.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19That's a mighty fine-looking bicycle you've got there.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Hey, boy, you're no goat's toe.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31I always said them Yanks were quare and decent.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37I bet the locals were sorry to see the Americans leave here.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40Yeah, but we better leave now too.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50A weethin more music now from Stonewall
0:18:50 > 0:18:53and a lovely version o' My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose.
0:18:56 > 0:19:03# My love is like a red, red rose
0:19:03 > 0:19:07# That's newly sprung in June
0:19:09 > 0:19:16# My love is like a melody
0:19:16 > 0:19:20# That's sweetly sung in tune
0:19:23 > 0:19:29# As fair thou art, my bonnie lass
0:19:29 > 0:19:34# So deep in love am I
0:19:34 > 0:19:42# And I will love thee still, my dear
0:19:42 > 0:19:48# Till all the seas gang dry
0:19:48 > 0:19:55# Till all the seas gang dry, my dear
0:19:55 > 0:20:00# And rocks melt with the sun
0:20:01 > 0:20:07# And I will love thee still My dear
0:20:07 > 0:20:14# While the sands of life shall run
0:20:14 > 0:20:19# And fare thee well, my only love
0:20:20 > 0:20:25# And fare thee well awhile
0:20:26 > 0:20:32# And I will come again, my love
0:20:33 > 0:20:38# Though it were 10,000 mile
0:21:04 > 0:21:10# Till all the seas gang dry My dear
0:21:10 > 0:21:15# Till all the seas gang dry
0:21:15 > 0:21:22# And I will love thee still My dear
0:21:23 > 0:21:29# Till all the seas gang dry. #
0:21:33 > 0:21:36This farmer boy was out for a walk
0:21:36 > 0:21:39and he was coming walking down the country lane, down the country road.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43And he turned the corner and he was met by a wild catastrophe in the middle of the road.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47There was a horse standing grazing against the bunker and a cart lying upside down
0:21:47 > 0:21:49and a load of hay and the wheels spinning.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52And a boy about 12, sitting on the brow, crying his eyes out.
0:21:52 > 0:21:57And the farmer says, "Boy, you're in a bit of a pickle here," he says.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00"Don't cry," he says, "It's not worth crying over."
0:22:00 > 0:22:03He says, "Come on down to the house and we'll get you a cup of tea
0:22:03 > 0:22:06"And when we come back up," he says, "we'll get the whole thing onto its wheels
0:22:06 > 0:22:10"and get the hay on and you'll be on your way and you'll be dead on."
0:22:10 > 0:22:12But the whole way down to the house, and during the tea,
0:22:12 > 0:22:16and the whole way back up the road, the wee boy kept lamenting the same thing.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19"My Dad'll kill me, my Dad's bound to kill me," he says.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23But they came on back up the road and the wee boy, he called out again,
0:22:23 > 0:22:25"I'm telling you, my Dad's sure to kill me."
0:22:25 > 0:22:26And the farmer boy says to him,
0:22:26 > 0:22:28"Don't you worry about your dad," he says.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30"Your dad will never know."
0:22:30 > 0:22:33The wee boy says, "He will, he's below the load of hay!"
0:22:33 > 0:22:35LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Well, here we are, down at Leslie Hill Farm with John Leslie,
0:22:48 > 0:22:50lord of the manor, maybe.
0:22:50 > 0:22:51Oh, I don't know about that!
0:22:51 > 0:22:52I can't believe
0:22:52 > 0:22:57that I live a few miles down the road and all this here's sitting on my doorstep,
0:22:57 > 0:22:59all this horse-drawn machinery.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01You're taking me for my special treat today,
0:23:01 > 0:23:03in to see the family coach.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05I'm delighted, it's just over here.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Well, this is the family coach that was used by the family up until
0:23:14 > 0:23:18the time when my great-great-grandfather bought his first motor car.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21So up until that point, it had been used by the family
0:23:21 > 0:23:26from about 1850, when it was built, until, as we say, 1905-1910.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29So it was actually in everyday use, or would it have been brought out
0:23:29 > 0:23:33- for special occasions? - Well, I think it would have been more for special occasions
0:23:33 > 0:23:37because they probably would have used the jaunting car. This was a four-horse coach
0:23:37 > 0:23:42so, you know, it's quite a palaver to get it out even though, at that time,
0:23:42 > 0:23:44there was a coachman dedicated just to that job.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47- Oh, wouldn't that be lovely! - Times have changed.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Well, it's in very good nick, like.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59- How did the restoration come about? - Well, it turned out that a local man,
0:23:59 > 0:24:01Albert McAleese,
0:24:01 > 0:24:04we found out that he was interested in restoring it.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07And he actually had done furniture restoration up until the point
0:24:07 > 0:24:11when he started this coach, but he took about,
0:24:11 > 0:24:14I think it was about two years, and ten layers of paint.
0:24:14 > 0:24:18And, as you can see, the detail that he's come up with is really fantastic.
0:24:18 > 0:24:24It was a real labour of love for him. For us, of course, it was absolutely fantastic finding somebody locally
0:24:24 > 0:24:26who could restore it.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33So we have Mr Leslie Senior here, looking very well.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Thank you, thanks very much.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38That is mainly because I'm displaying our own tartan.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40There we are.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44- So this is the Leslie tartan? - It's the Leslie tartan.- Lovely.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47And it's the tartan also worn by the King's Own Scottish Borderers.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51Could you tell us a wee bit maybe about the family crest
0:24:51 > 0:24:54- that's on the side of the coach? - Yes, I could. I'll try and be as brief as I can.
0:24:54 > 0:24:58It's the full coat of arms of the family
0:24:58 > 0:25:01but the thing that is interesting really is the motto at the bottom,
0:25:01 > 0:25:05"Grip Fast", which has always been our family motto for a long time.
0:25:05 > 0:25:09And my ancestor, who was called Bartholomew, who came,
0:25:09 > 0:25:13in fact, originally from Hungary, and who, in the 11th Century,
0:25:13 > 0:25:17ended up in Scotland at Dunfermline with
0:25:17 > 0:25:20Malcolm Campbell, King of Scotland.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23He was very much in the King's favour.
0:25:23 > 0:25:28His job was to escort the Princess Elizabeth.
0:25:28 > 0:25:32He was responsible for her safety and she used to go on the horse behind him,
0:25:32 > 0:25:35strapped to him by a belt, a big leather belt.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38And on one occasion, they were going over some very rough going
0:25:38 > 0:25:40and down across a stream.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44And she very nearly fell off. And Bartholomew shouted,
0:25:44 > 0:25:50because probably his head was at stake here, he said, "Grip fast."
0:25:50 > 0:25:52And she said, and this is interesting,
0:25:52 > 0:25:54"And gin the buckle bide."
0:25:54 > 0:25:58So she'd obviously acquired a bit of the Scottish vernacular, which was nice.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02So when he got back, he told the King his story
0:26:02 > 0:26:07and the King said, "This shall be your motto, Grip Fast."
0:26:07 > 0:26:10And he added two more buckles to the belt,
0:26:10 > 0:26:13that's why we have three buckles in each quarter,
0:26:13 > 0:26:14which I think is a nice story.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19Well, John, it must be great for you as a family to have this coach,
0:26:19 > 0:26:22but, of course, it's great that the folk from the town
0:26:22 > 0:26:26and anywhere can come and see it in all its glory.
0:26:26 > 0:26:27Yes, absolutely.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30It's marvellous to have it restored to this standard
0:26:30 > 0:26:32and done by a local man.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38Well, sadly we have come to the end of the series.
0:26:38 > 0:26:39Hasn't it just been great?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41But before we go,
0:26:41 > 0:26:44I think it's only right that we let Bobby Acheson and Andy Cornett play
0:26:44 > 0:26:48us out with Lilliburlero, accompanied by the Kellswater Flute Band.
0:26:48 > 0:26:49Cheerio.
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