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Hello. Tonight in a special edition of Inside Out East Midlands, we | :00:02. | :00:08. | |
investigate transport - the future and the past. Coming up in the next | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
half hour: Falling out of love with the car. Research reveals who is | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
driving and who is not. What has changed attitude-wise is everyone | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
gave up. No-one cares about cars any more. Also tonight: eight | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
months on, controversy still reigns over Nottingham's tax on workplace | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
parking. It is outrageous. If people have a little place outside | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
their business, they should be able to park for themselves. | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
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How did you travel today and how will you travel tomorrow? The | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
chances are you will drive or be driven. We have had exclusive | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
access to a major piece of research published today which suggests that | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
for some, our love affair with the car is going cold. Richard Westcott | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
has been investigating the figures and asking what it means for the | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
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people who have to plan our Building roads is controversial but | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
not building them could be controversial too. So, how do the | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
planners get it right? How do they decide whether to spend our taxes | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
on road or rail? The only way you can ever be sure it is to beam | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
yourself into the future and we all know how easy that is. When these | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
fans were watching their favourite series back in the '60s, we thought | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
we knew how we would be travelling by 2012. There was talk of having a | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
little personal car that flew. sci-fi got it wrong. Most of us get | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
around now the same way we did 50 years ago. Having your own jet pack | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
remains a distant dream. Ever since I can remember, we have assumed | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
that traffic will get worse and worse. After all, we really love | :02:24. | :02:34. | |
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our cars, don't we? Maybe not. Whisper it, but there is a rumour | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
going around transport circles that we are falling out of love with our | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
four wheels. In fact, they have even given it a name, Peak Car. | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
What is Peak Car? Just look at UK traffic growth in the '60s and '70s | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
when we could not get enough cars, but by the '90s, the trend was | :02:55. | :03:05. | |
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slowing and by 2002, average mileage per person stalled. Is the | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
love affair with the car cooling down? What seems to be happening in | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
many advanced countries, including even America, is that traffic | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
growth due to car use simply is not going ahead at the same rate that | :03:15. | :03:25. | |
it used to. Now Inside Out has been given the first piece of research | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
into Peak Car in the UK and this report is full of surprises. While | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
some of us are driving more than ever, others are dramatically | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
changing the way they travel. Take young men, for example. When I was | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
young, I could not wait to get my hands on the keys to my dad's Mark4 | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
1.6L T reg Ford Cortina with reversing lights. Like a lot of | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
young men, I saw getting my driving license as a rite of passage but | :03:55. | :04:03. | |
that is changing. Market trader Lee Vernon is 19 but he will not be | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
adding to the traffic around Mansfield any time soon. He has | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
been forced to sell up because he has been quoted �2,800 to insure | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
his three-wheeler. I really love it. It is a great looking car, a | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
classic, but insurance is too much and I cannot afford it. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
research shows Lee is not alone. Young men are driving 2,000 miles a | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
year less than they were in 1995. Women, young and old, are driving | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
more than they used to, so what is going on? What has changed | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
attitude-wise is everyone gave up and got used to using Facebook and | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
phones, and sitting around, or using public transport that no-one | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
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cares about cars any more. One of the big things from this report is | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
that young men are not driving much and there are a number of possible | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
explanations for that, including rising higher education and | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
insurance costs but if that carries on, there will be a lot less car | :05:09. | :05:18. | |
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traffic and a lot less car What else has the report found? | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
This is the rainy 716 from Warwick Parkway to Marylebone. Over the | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
last two years, the numbers using this line have gone up by a | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
staggering 40%. And according to the report, that is in line with | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
the national trend. Since the mid- 90s, the distance the average | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
person travels by rail has soared by more than 60%. The last time the | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
trains were that busy was during the war. The key growth we have | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
seen is in two areas. One is business travel in the morning and | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
the other is leisure travel, where travel has become cheaper. At the | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
same time fuel prices are increasing, congestion is | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
increasing so that value equation is tilting in the favour of rail. | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
And all those gadgets mean you can work and play on the move. You can | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
even book your ticket on the train, if you can get a signal that is. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
While business travel by rail is up, company car mileage is down by 40% | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
between 1995 and 2007, so that is before the recession. Scrapping tax | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
breaks made the difference and it has had a big impact on traffic in | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
London. Despite more people moving to the capital, there are fewer | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
cars here, but the report found people in the countryside seem to | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
be driving as much if not more than ever. Of course, in big cities you | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
do have a lot of options for getting around. Fairfax Hall runs a | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
London company making specialist gin and vodka and thinks he has | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
distilled the perfect formula for company travel. Whenever they need | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
a car or van, they book it from a car club and pick it up from a | :07:08. | :07:18. | |
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designated car park space 15 minutes later. Like a lot of small | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
start-up businesses, you do not have a lot of money, so we invested | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
everything we had into the distillery. Investing money into a | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
van did not seem like good use of capital. It is low cost and the | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
other benefit is flexibility. You can jump into a brand-new vehicle | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
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and drive it at 15 minutes notice. So here is a question - what does | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
all this research mean for the future you of the UK car industry? | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
We have had a bit of a boom recently. The UK is actually on | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
course to produce more cars than at any time since 1972, but that's not | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
because we are all buying ourselves a new motor. 80% are being exported. | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
These Minis are heading for Asia and South America. Last month in | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
London at the RAC's future car challenge, another famous sci-fi | :08:14. | :08:22. | |
face was in no doubt what the future holds. What is happening now | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
is a huge challenge for the car industry. I do not see that the car | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
will come to the end, they are too useful but we need to rethink the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
model of how we use the car and electric cars are very much part of | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
that because it makes much more sense in a city. You have somewhere | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
to park it where it is always charged, ready to use. It is not | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
just the car industry that will look at this research. The | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
Department for Transport is planning a major role building | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
programme all based on the assumption that traffic will go up | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
by 44% over the next two decades. But what if they have got it wrong? | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
After all, since 1989, successive governments have overestimated | :09:04. | :09:12. | |
traffic growth. This is the range of predictions and the red line is | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
what is actually happening. There is always a risk forecasts will be | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
wrong but the key thing the model does is takes a wide set of data | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
and ensures that it is rigourously analysed. There is a lot of useful | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
things in this research to look at, but I am not convinced it shows we | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
have reached Peak Car. government points out that the UK | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
population is projected to grow by another 10 million in the next 25 | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
years and the RAC foundation, who helped fund the report, says that | :09:43. | :09:52. | |
means we are still going to need more roads. This is not the end of | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
the car. The use of the car has been declining but for 70% of the | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
population, people will need to use cars unless they have railways and | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
buses available, and most do not have those things. Almost half a | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
century ago when Star Trek started, this is what we thought travel in | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
the 23rd century might look like and it is pure '60s. It goes to | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
show just how hard it is to predict the future. The danger is you end | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
up assuming it is a bigger version of what we have today. The motor | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
car has been the transport story of the last 50 years. But it just | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
might not be the transport story of the next 50. What does this button | :10:35. | :10:45. | |
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If you would like to find out how car use is changing across the | :10:46. | :10:55. | |
Just how do towns and cities in the East Midlands tackle traffic | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
congestion and how much should we pay for expensive public transport | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
projects? Earlier this year, Nottingham launched a highly | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
controversial scheme that has managed to upset drivers, commuters | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
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Back in April, Nottingham City Council made history. They did not | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
quite tax the street but got close, slapping a hefty levy on workplace | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
parking spaces and became the only council in the country to tackle | :11:27. | :11:37. | |
congestion this way. We thought the levy was the best option for | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Nottingham. We decided against congestion charges and decided to | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
introduce the level to provide that local contribution to match against | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
the �0.5 billion the Government is putting in to our transport network. | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
It may well be changing behaviour, encouraging more people from their | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
cars onto the buses and trams, but it is a struggle to find support | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
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for this new tax. It is outrageous. If people have a little place | :12:06. | :12:13. | |
outside their business, they should be able to park for themselves. | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
is not helping anybody and it is making things more difficult for | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
people. All it will do is drive businesses away from Nottingham. | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
think it will provide a lot of revenue for the council and | :12:24. | :12:34. | |
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A small crew in a car equipped with cameras polices the levy. It is | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
their job to ensure employers with more than 11 spaces pay the �288 | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
per bay to the council. Some suspect the cameras may be a stunt, | :12:56. | :13:06. | |
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just a high-profile deterrent. car is equipped with cameras. It | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
takes pictures and certainly our experience on bus lane enforcement, | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
there is definitely something going on inside. We have seen the car | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
that is designed to enforce the levy with the cameras on the top | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
drive around on a couple of occasions. We feel very much Big | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
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Brother and we are not happy about Steve Walker runs Art Systems based | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
a few miles out of the city on an industrial estate. He refuses to | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
pay the levy and parks his car on the road a few feet from his | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
largely deserted company car park. The estate has become overcrowded | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
with traffic on the roads because there is a migration of cars from | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
the car parks onto the roads around the estate, which has made it quite | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
difficult for the trucks to get around, which has made itcongested | :14:03. | :14:12. | |
and unsafe. Steve's company grudgingly meets half the levy. | :14:12. | :14:21. | |
Some of his staff pay. Others do not. I have chosen to park on the | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
road in principle, because I feel that this is an unfair tax on | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
ordinary people going about their ordinary business. We need to make | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
the transport infrastructure investment and there is no other | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
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way we can fund the local The levy is set to raise �14 | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
million a year to fund an extra tram line and improvements to the | :14:48. | :14:58. | |
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railway station. But will it drive business away from the city? | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
have some evidence of businesses that have had to make people | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
redundant in order to pay the levy and reduce their investments, | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
because you can only spend the same money once. And some businesses | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
have left the city. Games Warehouse supply pub quiz machines. Boss | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
Bernard Taylor found he was in the hot seat facing his own killer quiz. | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
Should he pay the levy for his 40- strong workforce, around �7,000, | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
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and risk redundancies or move to Derby where parking is free? Once | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
we had assimilated all the facts and understood what the cost would | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
be, it would became an easy question for us to answer and the | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
answer we came up with was to relocate to somewhere where we did | :15:49. | :15:58. | |
not have the same cost base imposed on us by local authorities. We made | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
the right decision and probably got the question right, yes. We have | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
been here for six, seven months and we are very settled here and | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
pleased with the move. Nottingham has lost what we consider a very | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
valuable talent pool. We have 20 or 30 highly educated, very clever, | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
intelligent people within our business who are no longer part of | :16:17. | :16:27. | |
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the Nottingham scene. And there are signs that the levy is affecting | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
confidence among some businesses. If we need to expand we will need | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
to take on extra buildings. If we do that, we will take those out of | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
the city limits because we cannot justify working with a council who | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
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appears to have little or no interest in local business. | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
there are fans of the levy. Adam Bird cycles to work and so do lots | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
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of his staff at a new technology company. They come in via buses, | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
trains, trams, bikes, you name it. Some even walk. People change | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
behaviour and actually appreciate that getting the bus is not that | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
bad. It gives you a better quality of life if you use public transport. | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
You get to work fresher, you leave work fresher and you can enjoy the | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
city as well, rather than just seeing it as a place to leave every | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
day. If we are going to transform Nottingham and improve the mix of | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
businesses in the city, it takes the council to make bold steps like | :17:46. | :17:56. | |
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this. The city may well be bold but the big question is will it work? | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
The only other city in the world to try this is over 9,000 miles away | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
in Perth, Australia. So to end this film, we asked Candice Barnes, a | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
reporter in the city, to tell us how it is going Down Under. | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
The parking levy was introduced more than 12 years ago. Now this | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
tax has since made parking in Perth the eighth most expensive in the | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
world, more costly than midtown New York city. This is a high cost time | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
and place in which to do business, and the presence of a parking levy | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
adds another burden to businesses, which at the moment are struggling. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
We have not seen congestion ease, so it is difficult to see what the | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
point of it was. Parking is shocking. It is too expensive to | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
park in the city, about $35 a day. I do not get a bay and if I do park | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
in the city, I would expect to pay about 25 bucks. The revenue raised | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
promised to ease congestion and support a better transport system. | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
12 years on, and the latter is still in question while the revenue | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
sits in state government coffers. Nottingham, you might want to think | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
again about your parking levy, but I guess it is too late for that. | :19:16. | :19:25. | |
This is Candice Burns for BBC From cars to bicycles and this year | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
marks the 125th anniversary of Raleigh. At its peak the firm | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
employed 12,000 people at its Nottingham factory. Alan Sillitoe | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
wrote about it and now his son, David, is finding that despite | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
moving production to the Far East, the brand will always be associated | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
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with the city where it has shaped Raleigh is the greatest cycle | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
There was a time when this bike would have been made here, Lenton | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
in Nottingham. At the Raleigh factory, which was on this site, | :20:07. | :20:15. | |
they used to produce 1 million bikes a year. Families worked there, | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
big families. In our department, you had five or six brothers | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
sometimes working from the same family together. You could go into | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
a frame shop and see brass boiling where frames were being dipped into | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
it to seal the joints. It was wonderful. There was huge talent | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
here, some of the skills we have had, it made it very humbling and | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
as a graduate coming into the business, you were very quickly | :20:40. | :20:50. | |
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brought down to size. Of course Raleigh's bikes are now made in the | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
Far East. Because it is cheaper to make them there than here. But | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
Raleigh's reputation as a global brand was made in Nottingham. It | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
was the people of this city who turned it into the world-famous | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
name in cycling that it is to day. But how did a tiny business from a | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
Nottingham backstreet get known all around the world for making the | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
best bicycles money could buy? And what is the future for the firm now | :21:20. | :21:30. | |
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These buildings are a credit to the city. They have won awards for | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
their design and environmental credentials. They are part of the | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
University of Nottingham, a 21st- century campus built to educate a | :21:40. | :21:49. | |
21st-century workforce. But this site was once home to a very | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
different kind of workforce. At its height, 12,000 people were making | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
bikes here and one of them was Harry Hardy. From school, a lot of | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
friends went there. You didn't know what you had let yourself in full, | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
but it was very friendly. A friend of mine was in the same class as me | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
in school. He was in the buffing department, buffing wheels. Dust | :22:19. | :22:27. | |
was indescribable. And naturally, not many of them retired because of | :22:27. | :22:37. | |
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the effects of the dust on their chest. When Harry worked here, | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
Raleigh were selling bikes to 144 countries around the world, quite | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
an achievement for a firm that started out with only three | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
employees. It was called Woodhead, Angois & Ellis after the three men | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
that were running it. Paul Angois was an engineer, Richard Woodhead a | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
mechanic and William Ellis a financier. The fortunes of these | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
men changed when one day in 1887, a lawyer walked into their workshop | :23:03. | :23:12. | |
and bought one of their bikes. That lawyer was Frank Bowden. He was so | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
impressed with the bike they sold them that he bought the company. A | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
year later he founded the Raleigh cycle company, named after the | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
street their workshop was on. John McNaughtan joined Raleigh as a | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
graduate in 1965 and ended up running the place. What was the | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
secret of their success? Raleigh really has been created by the many | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
thousands and thousands that have worked for Raleigh and felt a sense | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
of identification with the product. The spirit that was in Nottingham | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
that went into Raleigh. What did they bring? A total dedication to | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
the product, identification with A huge factory, a huge impact on | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
the city, but what amazes me is when you come to Nottingham today, | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
you have to look hard to see any evidence that Raleigh was ever here. | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
They have invited Harry and the other former Raleigh workers to | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
talk about the factory that was here before the university. When it | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
is done it goes on a conveyor belt? No. From there, from that, it went | :24:18. | :24:28. | |
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to the bench where you finished bracing there. I think it is part | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
of the city and the history of the city. I have just discovered that | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
the factory was here on campus. That is one student who has learned | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
something from these former workers. But there is more to be done. So | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
the university has commissioned a play to tell the story and | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
tonight's event offers the director an opportunity to research material. | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
One of the guys I was talking to was there on the very last day, | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
when Raleigh closed its doors. He was one of the 200-odd employees | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
who received a thank you mug as the doors were finally closed, so that | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
was great to find one of the 200- odd people left in Nottingham that | :25:10. | :25:20. | |
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Geoff was also made redundant in 2003 when Raleigh closed the plant. | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
It was a massive blow to the city but an inevitable result of years | :25:24. | :25:33. | |
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of decline. You could see the workforce decline. You'd ask, | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
"Where is so-and-so?" "They finished him on Sunday." "Why?" | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
That was the constant feedback. They are buying it in now. | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
decline started in the early '70s, but Raleigh managed to hold on for | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
another 20 years. One of the reasons was the Raleigh Chopper. | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
Geoff worked in the department that developed it, but the Chopper was | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
not the only product to come out of Raleigh. Anybody that was doing a | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
little work for themselves on the side, was doing a bit of a Jago. I | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
once saw a chap welding some steel together to make a wheelbarrow. I | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
myself made quite a few items, including a grandfather clock. | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
is the first night of the play. you keep your stuff behind the bar? | :26:26. | :26:36. | |
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Are you excited? I am. A little bit nervous. I can't do anything about | :26:43. | :26:51. | |
it now, it is just sitting there When you went out onto town, you | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
could tell the girls that worked out Raleigh by the smell of their | :26:54. | :27:04. | |
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Harry, what did you think? I think they have done a marvellous job. | :27:05. | :27:15. | |
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Marvellous. It depicts the factory as it was. Excellent. What keeps | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
England going is export and Raleigh had its export. Throughout its 125 | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
year history, Raleigh has been bought and sold half a dozen times. | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
The latest owner is the Dutch bicycle company Accell. What is the | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
future for Raleigh now? It may be linked to its past. I think they | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
bought it for reasons of its heritage and what they think they | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
can bring it back into being as it is in Holland and Germany, perhaps. | :27:45. | :27:54. | |
A bit of Cool Britannia for Europe? Maybe. The company it bought is | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
nothing like the one my father worked for and wrote about in the | :27:58. | :28:06. | |
1950s. Sadly those days are long gone, but the name Raleigh still | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
evokes quality thanks to the men and women of this city, my father | :28:10. | :28:19. | |
among them, and it is something we Happy anniversary, Raleigh, and | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
that is it from Nottingham, the city it helped put on the map. We | :28:23. | :28:29. |