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Hello, and tonight Inside Out is in Nottingham to investigate the | :00:01. | :00:06. | |
dangers of bootleg booze. Coming up, the fake vodka victim who could | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
have gone blind, and says the people who make it don't care about | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
the damage done. There are affecting people's lives, possibly | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
for the long term. For me, it has been since November and I am still | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
affected now. Is Nottingham making enough of its | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
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local legend? Robin Hood has fallen into this apathy and lack of | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
interest, almost an embarrassment. Andrew Good time travelling at the | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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beautiful Belton House. -- and we An explosion, which killed five men | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
at an industrial unit in Lincolnshire, revealed the secret | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
world of bootleg booze. They died in a small garage lock-up where | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
fake vodka was being produced. So what potentially lethal concoctions | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
are out there? And where are they coming from? In the first detailed | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
insight into this highly organised crime, Inside Out lifts the lid on | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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the dangers of this growing illegal RADIO: News overnight that five | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
people have been killed in Boston in Lancashire. Sarah Sturdey is | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
there. How does it look? There's A police tape prevents us going round | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
the corner to witness the devastating impact... | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
The explosion revealed the secret world of bootleg booze. Inside the | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
charred unit, fake vodka was manufactured. It looked just like | :01:51. | :02:00. | |
this, the genuine article. The blast open the public's eyes to | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
this highly dangerous scam. It is often really hard to tell the | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
difference between a fake like this, seized at a Leicestershire but they | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
factory and the real thing. Drinking the wrong one could prove | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
fatal. The fake brands disguise a lethal | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
blend of chemicals. They don't care for anyone, they only care about | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
lining their own pocket. The criminal gangs cost the | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
taxpayer �1 billion a year by failing to pay alcohol duty. | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
Vodka is the easiest spirit to copy. You can make it on Monday and sell | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
it on Tuesday. But it's the drinkers who pay the | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
highest price, sometimes with their eyesight. I feel lucky to be alive. | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
I did not think I would ever get out of bed again. Hidden in a | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
remote corner of Leicestershire, one organised gang of bootleggers | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
went undetected. Until undercover customs officers finally tracked | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
them down to a rented unit. They were making fake vodka, at a place | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
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RADIO: We have found the subject that you're looking for. Excellent, | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
thank you very much. It was a wonderful feeling to know we had | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
cracked it. They have opened the rear of the lorry now, somebody is | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
in a top and blue jeans messing around with the palette on the back. | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
We have identified them. It is good to know they are all in one place. | :03:43. | :03:51. | |
No problem, they have not paid any attention to us. We will go in | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
steady, and we will be on our way back. Thanks very much indeed. | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
During the raid, 70 customs officers found a makeshift factory | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
producing illegal vodka on a massive scale. The unit had the | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
capacity to produce a bottle every five seconds. There was enough | :04:05. | :04:15. | |
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methylated spirit to produce They had a bid stainless steel tank | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
which held the finished product before dropping it down on to a | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
bottler nine -- a big stainless- steel tank. Then they had a | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
commercial capping machine which put the counterfeit caps on the | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
bottles. It then passed down a conveyor belt to a leading machine | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
which took the label on. -- labelling machine. I have visited | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
thousands of spirit bottling plants all over the world and they have | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
never seen anything like this. Absolutely horrendous. It could | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
have been a disaster in the make in. Ed Binsted is a spirits industry | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
safety expert. His evidence in the trial of the convicted bootleggers | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
revealed how a simple spark could ignite alcohol vapours, triggering | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
a major explosion. This place was a timebomb waiting | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
to go off. Look what happened in Boston and places popping up all | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
over the UK and if anybody had been walking on this public footpath or | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
on a horse, they would have been involved in this as well. I drive | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
past here a few times a week and when I found out what was going on | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
in the shed, it is unbelievable. You can't believe how something | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
like that could go on in a place like this. It is quite frightening | :05:33. | :05:42. | |
and shocking, really. The gang of six has been sentenced | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
to a total of more than 20 years in jail. The mastermind, who was never | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
seen at Moscow Farm, was Kevin Eddishaw. His right-hand man was | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
John Humphreys. But the chemist, the man who knew how to add bleach | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
to meths so it looked like vodka, was Wojciech Herbst from Poland. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
found that the counterfeiters had done a very good job of forging the | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
bottles and the labels. The bottles were sourced from a genuine brand | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
suppliers. We believe the labels came from Poland so the product | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
look like the real thing. Customs officers believe the meths | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
was smuggled from Poland. The finished product transported from | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Moscow Farm by the lorryload, then stored near East Bridgford in | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
Nottinghamshire. 5,000 litres were seized in Blackpool. It was found | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
on sale at small independent off- licences across the country in | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
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We observed John Humphreys meeting with one of his clients near East | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Bridgford. He had left the client in the car park while he went away | :06:45. | :06:55. | |
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in the van to get the fake vodka from the storage nearby. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Counterfeit alcohol is now being seized across the country daily. | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
It's a top priority for trading standards. | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
We've seized this in other parts of the county. It's industrial, not | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
agricultural alcohol. Stuff you keep out of harm's way like | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
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cleaning fluids, paint stripper, meths. Not something you would want | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
to be It can make you blind. People have been hospitalised. One even | :07:23. | :07:33. | |
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died. The person in this off- licence has just been convicted of | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
containing four fake brands including chloroform found in | :07:42. | :07:52. | |
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pesticides. Students are on the lookout for cheap vodka. Lauren | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Platts from Derbyshire bought what she now knows to be a bogus brand | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
for �5.99. The man in the off- licence near her Sheffield digs | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
joked, it would blind her. Two months on, he wasn't far wrong. | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
was throwing up. I was not able to get out of bed. The second day I | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
thought... Am I ever going to feel better? I could not see very well. | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
My vision blurs, I have black blotches. I tend to lose my | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
peripheral vision. Even crossing the road can be difficult. It is | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
really scary. When you can't see anything or if you are driving. | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
Even walking down the street trying to cross the road. | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Casualty departments are starting to see more patients who think | :08:39. | :08:48. | |
they've drunk vodka, but it's really industrial alcohol. They are | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
drinking the same amount they are drinking normally but getting much | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
more intense symptoms. Thinking they have been spiked. The symptoms | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
described are much more severe abdominal pain, staggering and | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
feeling nauseous, much more intense vomiting and also a visual problems. | :09:04. | :09:12. | |
He do not -- you do not tend to see that with normal alcohol. The optic | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
nerve can be attacked and that can cause permanent blindness. That | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
runs from behind the eye and that can cause permanent blindness. | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
Back at Great Dalby near Moscow Farm, the pub landlady is shocked | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
at the ticking timebomb which was on their doorstep. But can she tell | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
the difference between a fake from the factory and the real bottle? | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
No, I can't. I can't believe it. Everything is exactly the same. | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
you surprised? That's shocking, it's scary. Oh, my God. | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
There's one simple error, the forgers got the bottle's units | :09:46. | :09:56. | |
wrong. They put 28 units. Much of the Moscow Farm fake vodka could | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
still be out there, along with thousands of other dangerous bogus | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
brands. The vodka distillers are well aware of the threat the | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
bootleggers pose. The industry needs to stay one step | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
ahead for them and the public. But it's customs officers who face | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
the challenge of seeking out these highly organised criminals. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
We need to find these places and dismantle them, so they can't | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
operate ever again. The UK's consumption of real vodka | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
has risen considerably over the past ten years. As drinkers seek | :10:29. | :10:39. | |
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out cheap booze, the bootleggers are leaving a lethal legacy. It is | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
shocking that someone is telling that to people and they obviously | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
don't care. If it is still happening now, the problems with my | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
vision, I would assume it is here for good and this is all from just | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
The Robin Hood legend has been bringing tourists to Nottingham for | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
as long as we can remember. But is the city really making their visit | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
worthwhile and giving them the outlaw experience they come looking | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
for? Some would say not. Radio Leicester's Breakfast Show | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
presenter Ben Jackson is a stranger to Nottingham so we challenged him | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
to come and find out whether we give Robin Hood tourists value for | :11:16. | :11:26. | |
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The heart of Robin Hood County, BBC Radio Nottingham. | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
Well, I'm in the right place. These days when we're all strapped for | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
cash, cashing in on your assets sounds like a sensible idea. And | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
some of our cities come fully equipped with famous characters to | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
bring the tourists flooding in. But I think that Nottingham has the | :11:45. | :11:53. | |
ultimate cash cow. Robin Hood, and it's the first time I've been on | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
the Robin Hood tourist trail so I've come to Nottingham to how it's | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
competing with the other UK cities to bring in the tourists. For about | :12:01. | :12:10. | |
800 years there have been stories of how Robin has roamed these lands. | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
Stories passed down the centuries. But it is all a great story, Robin | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
from the rich to feed the poor and getting one over on the | :12:18. | :12:28. | |
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Widow of the gums, stories and fables, surely this is the place to | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
meet the hooded man -- with all of the films, stories and fables. | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
The name Robin Hood was celebrated in Nottingham in the 1950s. Today, | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
it should be a multi-million-pound business for the city but there is | :12:48. | :12:58. | |
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Frankly, the map is a fat lot of good. Time to break out the | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
official or deer trail -- official audio trail. Let's see if that can | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
give me a few more clues. Taking the road to Nottingham was | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
risky for an outlaw. Today, it is a vibrant cosmopolitan city but for | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
Robin had it was home to his arch enemy, the Sheriff of Nottingham. | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
Near by on Maid Marion Way, you can visit Robin Hood himself at the | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
Belton House. This cannot be it, surely? I have | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
followed all of the signs and the audio trail I have come to their | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
derelict shop. This is rubbish. I give up. Where do I find Robin Hood | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
tourist attractions in Nottingham? Let us ask the experts. I have come | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
out of the Tourist Information Centre and they are perfectly nice | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
people but I asked them if there was a map to find some things about | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
Robin had and nobody knew what I was talking about. Apparently, the | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
best place to find out something about Robin Herd is to drive 20 | :14:01. | :14:11. | |
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miles away out of the city -- about Robin Hood. Am I wasting what I'm | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
looking for Robin Hood in Nottingham? | :14:19. | :14:27. | |
I think Robin had is everywhere. You will find the castle, the | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
Galleries of Justice Museum, both of them have new exhibitions -- I | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
think Robin Hood is everywhere. We have a new costume actor trail as | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
well. Why isn't anyone telling us that these exist? I have just been | :14:40. | :14:49. | |
directed to the statue and Castle and to Sherwood Forest. A Sherwood | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Forest is one of the major draws of Nottinghamshire but there are so | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
many different things, maybe we need to signpost them better and | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
package them up in a more user- friendly Robin Hood Way. 20 miles | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
north of the city, there are still remnants of Nottingham's ancient | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
remnants. If you scratch below the surface, it is medieval and Robin | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
had related history is still very much apparent. Like this hidden gem. | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
So much of the story of Robin Hood is lost in myths and legends, but | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
this is king John's house. That means that if Robin had did really | :15:30. | :15:38. | |
exist then he knew that these stones. Amazing. All this history | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
certainly makes Nottinghamshire a county to be proud of. The next | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
couple of stops will unravel the thread of fact and fiction from | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
this rich tapestry of myth and history. Let us see what we can | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
unearth from the annals of history. This way. This local actor feels | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
that the City does not make enough of its medieval history but he is | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
determined that the Robin had a legend there should be kept alive. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
The beauty of Robin Hood is that in pursuing the character, you are | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
going on a journey through English Heritage, culture and the arts. | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
Robin had was a product of the Creative artists over the centuries. | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
-- Robin had was a product. He is a symbol of truth, justice, charity | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
and freedom and these are ideals that everybody wants around the | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
world. He has his own views on where the city is going wrong. | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
Robin had has fallen into apathy and lacking interest and | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
embarrassment. That is the fault of attractions like the Belton House. | :16:47. | :16:57. | |
There was no pride invested in it. It descended into a beer warehouse | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
for corporate parties. The Tales of Robin Hood turned into a nail in | :17:03. | :17:13. | |
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This is a bit more like it. I have come to the Robin Hood pageant at | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
Nottingham Castle. People seem to be having a great time but is it | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
enough for those of us who want to know more about Nottingham's | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
medieval history? It is better than what we expected. It has been | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
really good. Cities all over the country let themselves down by not | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
promoting their historical heritage. It is educational as well for the | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
children. Do you think Nottingham needs more of this? I do. This only | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
happens once a year. People come to be down and say Robin Hood, let us | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
go to Experience Nottingham. But it has gone. We have heard what the | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
people want but I am going to speak to the council now to see what they | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
are going to do about it. It seems that even the Sheriff of Nottingham | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
is missing Robin at the Nottingham council. They are going to build a | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
new tourist attraction at the photo of Nottingham Castle which is | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
expected to bring in half a million tourists to the City a year. You | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
are talking about recreating a medieval village with half-timbered | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
buildings and thatch and that kind of thing? Absolutely, as it would | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
have been. It will be educational and enjoyable. Give me an idea | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
about what you have planned? Take this road out completely, | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
completely remove it, until the top of the dates. Remove the college, | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
because at the end of the day... The whole building? We will find | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
somewhere else for it to go. We will move down to here and sort of | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
those buildings that as well. will take 10 years at a cost of �25 | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
million. Suitable external partners are being sought to help maximise | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
Robin's impact on the city. You did have the Tales of Robin Hood and I | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
am still following signposts to it but it has been closed by couple of | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
years now. There was also the World of Robin Hood. They failed. Why | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
would your village succeed? It will be bigger, better and more in | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
keeping with what people want. Big projects can succeed if you have | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
the will and the right package. are in a strange situation of the | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
Sheriff of Nottingham bringing Robin into the city? Times move on. | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
I will forgive him for a bit. you think a big tourist attraction | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
like a medieval village is a positive thing? We need to think | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
about the creative, the content of the product, rather than the | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
financial outcome. That is where it is going wrong in this game and age. | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
-- day and age. We want the world to discover Robin. He is our | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
greatest assets. Better as hope that this world be the long sought | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
after at tourist attraction that will last and stun the name of | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
Robin had back on Nottingham's soil. Interest in the upstairs-downstairs | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
world of the stately home has never been greater. The National Trust is | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
no doubt hoping that the success of TV programmes like Downton Abbey | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
will have a knock-on effect for visitor at numbers one made reopen | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
after the winter. We have been exploring pastimes of the man who | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
looks after the clocks at Belton House near Grantham, a place with | :20:31. | :20:41. | |
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Belton House was built to impress. The stately home near Grantham has | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
lavish gardens, grant Architecture and opulent decor. -- grand | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
architecture. It has also been host to royalty and the stage for | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
significant events in history. Who better to take us back in time | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
family man who looks after the clocks for the National Trust. -- | :21:16. | :21:24. | |
the man who looks after the clocks. At this time of the year, all of | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
the clocks have to be reset because of the loss of the hour at the end | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
of October. What this club is able to do is to be set by the sundial | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
which they have got in the garden. This clop could then be set as the | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
master time for the rest of the clocks have -- this clock. All of | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
the other clocks would they be said to this time. Different parts of | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
the country used to have their own individual time-zones. When they | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
needed to timetable the first train journeys, an average was taken and | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
that became known as Greenwich Mean Time. This is meant to impress. The | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
very height of this clock means that it is looking down on a lot of | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
people. This clock, although it functions exactly the same as it | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
was bought, it has witnessed many, many different changes throughout | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
the 300 odd years that it has been in this property. Belton was a | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
perfect country-house estate with around 50 indoor servants and 100 | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
rooms. Each room would have had at least one clock and time was the | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
lubrication that made the whole house run smoothly. We are now in | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
the Butler's pantry and it was essential that the butler and all | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
his staff had access to a clock. The sort of club they would have | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
had here is this clock above the fireplace -- the sort of clock. It | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
is known as an English dial clock but many know them as school clocks | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
or railway clerks. It is from here that you would have wind | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
distributed, food organised, all of the processes of the day and the | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
entertainments and everything would have been orchestrated from this | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
whole area and this room in particular. It was truly an | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
upstairs-downstairs lifestyle for the people here. Their daily | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
routines were wound tightly by the clock. Now this attic room is | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
mainly used to store time. This whole floor is given over to the | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
servants quarters. It is from here of course that the servants would | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
have descended fire at their own staircase to the basement -- via | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
their own staircase. They would need to prepare food, light the | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
fires, open up the rooms, do cleaning, and their day would have | :24:07. | :24:16. | |
been orchestrated by the clock. At the moment, this area is used as a | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
store. This provides a relatively stable environment for clocks that | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
might have been used in different rooms of Belton. Never had so many | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
people been living at Belton as during the First World War when | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
170,000 soldiers camped here. It was a war that changed everything, | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
not least at a grand country houses. The number of servants working in | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
them dwindled from more than 2 million before the war, to 300,000 | :24:50. | :24:58. | |
afterwards. The numbers never recovered. This is a very ornate | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
European rococo style. It is very exuberant. It is very, very | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
different to all of the other clocks. From around 1660, British | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
noblemen would undertake a rite of passage around Europe called the | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
grand tour where they would learn about the finest culture in the | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
world. They would often bring back treasures as examples of what they | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
had experienced. People of the stature of Lord Brownlow would have | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
wanted examples of this type of thing to show people that they had | :25:33. | :25:43. | |
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been on the grand tour. This is very typical of the sort of clocks | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
that you would find in libraries. They were called bracket clocks | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
because originally they would have sat on a bracket on the wall. What | :25:51. | :25:59. | |
I need to do now is stop the clock. Lord Brownlow who owned Belton was | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
a close friend and Lord-in-Waiting to Edward VIII. The king would | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
visit Belton's garden so much he earned a the nickname Gardener King. | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
Lord Brownlow would also host some of the hottest social events at | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
Belton where many members of high society would attend including | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
Wallis Simpson, the woman Edward VIII chose to abdicate the throne | :26:22. | :26:32. | |
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UCB clocks as something more than timepieces. -- you see the clocks. | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
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Bays are really impressive pieces of technical works apart. -- | :27:00. | :27:10. | |
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A few hours ago, I discharged my last duties as King and Emperor. | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
Now that I have been succeeded by my brother, the Duke of York, my | :27:26. | :27:36. | |
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first words must be to declare my allegiance to him. This I do with | :27:37. | :27:46. | |
all my heart. You all know the reasons which have impelled me to | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
renounce the throne. It was possibly hear plans were laid for | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
what was going to happen after the abdication. As a room, it would | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
have undoubtedly been witness to what we would regard as momentous | :28:01. | :28:10. | |
historical events. I want you to know that the decision by have made | :28:10. | :28:19. | |
has been mined -- has been mine and mine alone. What is interesting | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
about clocks is that they are handed down from generation to | :28:22. | :28:28. | |
generation. They're one of the very few old objects that we still use | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
in exactly the same way that the makers and the original purchasers | :28:32. | :28:39. | |
would have used them. We hear the same voice that the clock would | :28:39. | :28:46. |