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The commuter who has made a business out of other people's rail lisery. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
We get in excess of a thous`nd claims a day from our user base | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
In the last month, just over ?600,000 worth of compensathon | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
As the country celebrates otr sports stars' success in Rio, | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
we get to know national treasure Ellie Robinson. | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
950 years after the Norman invasion of Britain, | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
archaeologist Ben Robinson reveals what the East might have bedn | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Revealing the stories that matter close to home, | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
Hello, welcome to Castle Rising in West Norfolk. | :00:48. | :01:03. | |
Train delays - it's something you ask us to look into | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
And if you use them all the time, it can be so frustrating | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
Well, the Government says it's going to change the rules over | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
compensation, but I've been to meet the commuters who say they `re | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
fed up with late trains and the changes can't come soon enough. | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
It's a typical weekday mornhng and Steve Coleman and daughter | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
The pair, who live in Chelmsford, are off to catch the train | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
from the town to Central London where they both work. | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
Steve has been doing the journey for 20 years. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
I drive straight to the station and park there, and I probably get | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
into Liverpool Street about 7:20, 7:30. | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
I leave early in the morning, I leave the house probably | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
about 5:55, with the aim of catching the 6:15 train. | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
If all runs smoothly, Steve and his daughter can get | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
But they both say that doesn't happen as often as they would like, | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
Last year, I was on the trahn for two hours, in the heat, | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
there was no water, no-one going around, | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
And everyone was getting really agitated. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Although such long delays are unusual, Melissa | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
and her dad are so frustratdd, they've recorded some of thdir | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
The train, there is an emergency at Shenfield, so I had to gdt | :02:24. | :02:32. | |
a train from Liverpool Stredt to Stansted Airport, | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
The trains were all cancelldd, and God knows what time I got home. | :02:36. | :02:57. | |
Both Melissa and Steve say long hold-ups on their journeys | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
are frequent, and even when things run smoothly, | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
I mean, up to about five minutes at least, every day. | :03:04. | :03:12. | |
It's not a lot, but when yot got somewhere to be, buses to c`tch | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
people picking you up, appointments, it can really set it | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
Obviously, it doesn't reallx wind me up and it gets to a point where | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
when I've got some days off, I can't wait to have that break | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
And even if the train app s`ys the trains are running on thme, | :03:29. | :03:37. | |
we get to the station somethmes and there's delays. | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
You can't get on the train sometimes, and it just stops outside | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Liverpool Street for no app`rent reason and just adds 10, | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
How frustrating is it for you, as regular commuters who pax | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
Season tickets are quite expensive now, they've gone up a huge amount | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
of money in the last five, six years. | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
Almost 25% more, I think, over the last five years. | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
So, to not get a seat and then have constant delays on the train, | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
The pair pay just over ?3,700 each in season tickets. | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
Not surprisingly, they question whether they are getting | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
In certain cases, train companies offer compensation | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
Most use something called the delay repay scheme. | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
Basically, it is an insurance scheme set up by the Government to cover | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
the cost of compensation pahd to passengers when trains are late. | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
Well, trains companies who sign up to the scheme pay compensathon out | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
to passengers, regardless of the reason for the delay. | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
Companies who aren't part of the scheme generally won't pay | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
out if it's deemed the delax is out of their control. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
Currently, most train companies offer compensation for delaxs | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
But just last week, the Govdrnment announced compensation will be | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
introduced for passengers ddlayed for just 15 minutes | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
and that the scheme will st`rt within a few months. | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
But not all areas of the cotntry will be covered at first | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
and there is no indication of when it will take | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
Our commuters, Steve and Melissa, use the services of Greater Anglia. | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
Latest government figures show that nearly 90% of their trains run | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
on time and only 3% are either cancelled or are significantly late. | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
But that still means there are delays on thousands | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
Now, we wanted to speak to Abellio Greater Anglia | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
on camera, but they gave us a statement instead. | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
They said they've improved the reliability of their exhsting | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
trains and under the new fr`nchise, they'll replace every singld | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
train, which will further improve reliability. | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
They also said that 70% of the disruption is caused | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
by things out of their control, things like overhead power cable | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
problems or track problems, which is the responsibility | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
of Network Rail, and broken down trains run by other operators. | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
But what do our two commuters think the rail operators need to do | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
Organised, responsible, look at their timetables. | :06:06. | :06:17. | |
Try and spread the trains out a bit more. | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
So that the line doesn't get jammed up. | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
Think about the peak times and when they can run more trains, | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
If you run less trains sometimes, it frees the line up, | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Currently, passengers can only claim compensation if a train is 30 | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
minutes late, but the rail companies get compensation from Network Rail | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
if the train is just five minutes late. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
So, the train companies pocket the money and do not have to pass | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
But some people have just h`d enough of delayed or cancelled trahns. | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
One former passenger thinks the system is so unfair, | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
she has set up a business specifically to help | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
So, what was your commute lhke and why did you start your company? | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
My commute was from Chelmsford into Liverpool Street. | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
Getting on a very early trahn in the morning, | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
about seven o'clock in the lorning, then coming home, with everxbody | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
else, about six o'clock in the evening. | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
And when it went wrong, it went really, really horribly wrong. | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
So, you could be delayed for 40 50, 60 minutes. | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
I've gone halfway into London and then come back to Chelmsford. | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
I've got all the way in and got kicked off at Brentwood. | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
I've done many different jotrneys are but also, always, | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
when it goes wrong, it is horribly wrong. | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
Sarah runs her company from her home in Chelmsford. | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
In return for a monthly fee, the company helps you process | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
The idea is that it makes claiming for rail delays much simpler. | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
She claims to have more than 30 000 customers across the UK. | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
And how much money do you think you are getting back for thdse | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
At the moment, I think the latest figures were showing in the last | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
month, just over ?600,000 worth of sensation returned | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
That is an incredible figurd, an astonishing amount of money that | :08:08. | :08:17. | |
you're getting back from rahl companies for customers. | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
So, it just goes to show how many times that people are actually | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
We get in excess of 1000 cl`ims a day from our user base. | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
Now, you are not doing this out of the goodness of your heart, | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
Oh, yes, absolutely, it is a business. | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
We set up, formally registered in 2013 and through word of mouth | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
and really good customer service, we have just grown | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Rail companies have their own online compensation sites and they say | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
it is easy to claim back money if you are delayed. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
But with the new plans to allow passengers to clail | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
for just a 15 minute delay, what does Sarah think | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
I think claims will go through the roof. | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
Up to 600% increase on the Greater Anglia franchise | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
600% additional claims that could be valid if you were impacted | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
Compensation for short delaxs is good news for passengers, | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
but even so, it is still little comfort to those whose journeys | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
How does it leave you feeling by the time | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
I can't cope with it, it's just so exhausting. | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
Over time, you do get used to the delays, and it's acttally | :09:33. | :09:41. | |
a pleasure when they do run on time, and you're not rammed in, | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
So, for you, it has become a way of life? | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
It has become a way of life, absolutely. | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
And if you want us to look into something | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
here on the programme, send me a tweet, or e-mail. | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
This is Inside Out for the Dast of England here on BBC One. | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
Coming up, Ben Robinson shows us exactly what the Normans did for us | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
At the start of this week, our Olympic and Paralympic teams | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
showed off their medals at the national parade, | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
and in fact, that's why Inside Out is on now, | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
Among the heroes, gold medallist swimmer Ellie Robinson. | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
She lives, swims and goes to school in Northamptonshire. | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
Well, Ellie is now back in training, but she made time for Insidd Out. | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
COMMENTATOR: Here she comes, Ellie Robinson! | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
Kind of, everything you've done in training is practice, | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
and just get everything right and just going through that race, | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
and try and win, try and be`t the person next to you. | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
Surely on her way to Paralympic gold here! | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
Ellie Robinson is coming into the final stages, | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
Fantastic, she is the Paralympic champion. | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
15 years old and a Paralymphc champion with her own distinctive | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
A gold and a bronze in Rio, swimming has a new star, | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
and it has been one long party back home in Northampton. | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
It's lovely, just to come and celebrate Ellie's achievements | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
with the swimming club that have helped her to get there | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
There's just that extra 5% that you've got to have to be able | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
to achieve at the highest ldvel and she's certainly got that. | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
As soon as she walks out for any final, | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
Ellie was not supposed to have been in Brazil - | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
Tokyo was the target in four years' time, when she will be 19. | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
But what happened in Rio surprised her coaches, | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
For any 15-year-old to win a Paralympic gold medal, | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
But then, you consider that Ellie only had her first swimming | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
She has certainly come a long way in a short space of time. | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
I remember when I went to mx very first competition, I think H won | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
two bronzes and a silver, something like that. | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
I remember that little girl who was like, yeah, | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
And eventually, the competitions just got bigger, and it camd as such | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
a shock when I qualified for Rio, and then when I went to Maddira | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
for the European Championshhps, I raced my rival, and it was great, | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
because I just progressed so quickly, and it was | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
Make sure you're working strong break-out. | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
Breathe every two down the length of the pool, OK? | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
Ellie is Northampton Swimming Club's very first Paralympic champhon. | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
She loves training, which is just as well, | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
as this is where you will fhnd her 15 hours every week, | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
She's got that sort of compdtitive edge that you need to be | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
Yeah, to reach the highest level in any sport, and particularly | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
at international level, you've got to have that edgd. | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
When those eight swimmers in the Paralympic final for the 50 | :13:17. | :13:18. | |
butterfly were still on the blocks, they've all done the same alount | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
of training, they have all got excellent nutritional advicd, | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
they are wearing the best stits they have done the work | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
and at the end of the day, it just comes down to who w`nts that | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
And it is Ellie Robinson coming through! | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
Ellie was inspired to get into swimming by the gold mddal | :13:34. | :13:35. | |
She was the London Paralymphcs four years ago, and after her Rio | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
display, Ellie Junior has joined her at the top of thd sport. | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
-- she was the big star at the London Paralympics. | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
When I started swimming, it was always what I wanted to do. | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
I always wanted to inspire people, like Ellie Simmonds did. | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
And it's so strange to think that I'm actually doing that and people | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
Well, metaphorically, but, yeah, it's great. | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
The hope is that the current Paralympians will inspire the next | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
generation of disabled people to take up sport. | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
I think Eleanor would be thd first to say she hasn't got | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
So, from Eleanor's point of view, yeah, she hasn't got a disability. | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
And in fact, if she encourages other children, other adults, | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
anybody with a disability, to get into sport and to find | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
something they are good at `nd gives them friendships, then | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
But it is not just about crdating more champions, it is about getting | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
Even with the recent success of our Paralympians in the last few | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
Games, it appears it is a problem getting disabled people | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
Figures from Sport England show you are twice as likely | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
to participate in sport if you are able bodied, | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
This is Pemberton Sports Centre in Rushden. | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
Every week, it holds regular sports activities for local | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
Just introducing skills that, they are part of a sport, | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
but that in itself is an achievement for those people | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
Graeme Wilson is disability officer for a body called | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
Northamptonshire Sport, which is a partnership of both local | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
The aim is to try and make sport accessible for everyone | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
in the country, both able-bodied and disabled. | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
I like doing my archery, because it's one of | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
And even though I only do it, like, once every two weeks, | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
You're very good at it, too. | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
What are the particular challenges with doing your job? | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
I mean, the traditional ones, the sociological side of thhngs | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
really, the transport barriers, the financial | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
But often, it's more the psychological side of things of, | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Because very often, they might not have had the same positive | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
experience growing up in sport, so more of us have to convince them | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
What particularly are you doing here in Northamptonshire to try | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
We've got so much on offer in Northamptonshire | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
It's now getting them to access it, and the Paralympics are so good | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
to promote what people can do at a global level and we want to use | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
role models like Ellie Robinson obviously, in the county now, but, | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
yes, that's the top level, but why don't you just try ht | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
You're not all going to be Paralympians, but just try ht, | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
enjoy it and benefit from it to whatever extent you want to. | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
Despite the best efforts of Graham and others | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
at Northamptonshire Sport, there is a particular probldm | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
with getting disabled people involved in sport. | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
But when you look at Alex hdre, who is enjoying a spot | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
of trampolining, just getting here, just enjoying yourself, | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
you can see what a difference it does make to their lives. | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
Alex has been coming here for six years. | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
His brother, Martin, is a regular, too. | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
Without these weekly sessions, they would be lost. | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
Without a club like this, and all the boys would do throughout | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
the day, they would probablx sit in their bedrooms, | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
on their computers, watching videos, or just generally | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
So, without this club, they would have nothing. | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
You come here every week, do you, Martin? | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
And the best bit about here, is it the archery? | :17:15. | :17:24. | |
The Paralympics has produced big stars, but the most disabled people, | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
just coming along and taking part can be just as rewarding | :17:31. | :17:32. | |
For Ellie, it has been a whirlwind few months. | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
It is thanks to her club's policy of training disabled and able-bodied | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
swimmers together that has dnabled Ellie to realise her full potential. | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
We try to integrate them by keeping everything as normal as we can, | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
including them in everything that we do, and we take thel | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
to all the meets that we go to, they have their own para medts, | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
but they also come to other meets with all the able-bodied swhmmers. | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
We are just one big, happy team, really. | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
Ellie is now the one to beat, and someone keen to follow | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
in her wake is 14-year-old Laisie, who is also a member | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
of Northampton Swimming Club and is already, like Ellie, tipped | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
As we're both training for Tokyo, what advice would you give | :18:16. | :18:26. | |
to someone like me, and othdr people who are aiming for Tokyo? | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
If you get selected and if you go, just enjoy it. | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
Don't try and count the days down or wish it all away, | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
because it is just something that you're never going | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
The main thing, your first one, enjoy it because there | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
It's nice, you can just use it to meet lots of different pdople. | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
It is easy to forget, with all the success Ellie has had, | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
she is still only a 15-year,old schoolgirl, with an important final | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
Geography, history and Germ`n alongside thousands and thotsands | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
I'm going to take every year as it is. | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
I want to go to Tokyo, because it was always | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
going to be my main aim, and Rio was the one that cale early, | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
I'll think about the worlds next year and just... | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
Whatever happens, happens, because so much can happen | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
This month marks the 950th anniversary of the Norman invasion | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
Harold was slain by an arrow, William the Conqueror becamd King | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
and the Normans changed the face of Britain. | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
So, here in the East, without the Normans, | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
Well, best to ask a man who knows, archaeologist Ben Robinson. | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
From building boom, to our obsession with the class system, | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
from international trade to exotic foreign food and shopping, | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
our whole way of life has its roots in Norman Britain | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
When William the Conqueror invaded our shores, a key prize | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
Increasingly prosperous, well-managed and with trading links | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
to the near continent, it was well worth taking ovdr. | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
To really stamp their authority the Normans started building, | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
Initially, this came from France, but pretty quickly they started | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
I'm at Barnack quarry in Cambridgeshire, | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
These hills and hollows werd once mined for stone, first | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
by the Romans, but then in earnest by the Normans. | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
This is Barnack Rag, it's a limestone. | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
And it is brilliant for building with, it is so durable and xet | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
This was highly prized in Norman times. | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
The stone was transported via the Fenland waterways and rivers | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
to Saxon towns such as Peterborough and Bury St Edmunds, | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
to build not just parish churches, but uniquely | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
And there is nowhere better to see the fruits of that building boom | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
To assert their divine right to power, the Normans built | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
great temples to God, cathedrals, the scale | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
and like of which had never been seen before. | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
In Norwich, they've got one of the finest examples. | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
Elsewhere in the East, the Ship of the Fens, | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
the Cathedral at Ely, and Peterborough Cathedral, | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
owe their size and appearance to the Normans. | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
But even more than cathedrals, they built castles, | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
Castles did not exist in thhs country before the Norman conquest. | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
They served as military basds and home to the Lord, | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
Norwich Castle is one of the earliest to be built. | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
It was a classic Norman deshgn, a motte and bailey. | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
We are looking at the motte, which is just a great | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
The sides of the mound were so steep, it would be | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
impossible to run up and launch an attack. | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
Originally, there would havd been a wooden tower up there. | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
Some castles served as Royal palaces. | :22:07. | :22:16. | |
At Norwich, the ornate keep built by William's son, King Henrx I, | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
was refaced in the 1830s, btt it faithfully kept its Norman design. | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
Dr John Davies is the chief curator of Norwich Castle. | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
So, what are the features that scream out royal castle, rather | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
Well, when Henry I became Khng, he really wanted to outdo | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
And you can actually see at that point, 1100, it suddenly | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
blossoms into something very, very special here. | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
And the point about this was, it was deliberately planted | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
It was the second city of the country at that time. | :22:49. | :22:56. | |
It was hugely important to the whole expansion | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
Along with Norwich, the Norlans built castles in Huntingdon, | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
This was state power on a grand scale. | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
But aside from building castles in existing towns, they set | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
about building new towns centred around new castles. | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
I've come to Castle Rising in Norfolk. | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
This is one of the finest Norman castles in the country, | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
surrounded by these great earthworks, huge ditch, | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
huge bank defining the baildy, and the bailey is where the chief | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
The Lord himself lived in there, the hall keep. | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
And today, I'm going to meet the current Lord, Howard of Rising. | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
One feature of this rather grand entrance, in case | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
there were unwelcome visitors, there was one of the defencds, | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
which is a hole through which boiling oil was poured | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
So, you are trying to impress some people with this | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
lovely thing, others, you want to keep out. | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
Lord Howard can trace his f`mily back to the Norman Lord, | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
William D'Albini, who built the castle for his new wife, | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
Now, your family, the Howards, and the Albinis, were connected | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
One of my ancestors married one of his descendants, but then | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
what happened in the meantile, the castle had gone out of D'Albini, | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
through various people, into the Royal family, | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
and it was given to the Dukd of Norfolk, who was a Howard, at | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
The Lord may now be a benign figure, but in Norman times, | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
At a stroke, we lost this more democratic Saxon model, | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
where the Lord literally lived with his people. | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
His hall was like a community centre at times. | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
But in Norman England, people really learned | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
Together with the new style of governance came a new approach | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
I'm in the Rockingham Forest area of Northamptonshire, | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
and this is one of the great Norman Royal forests. | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
Now, forest to the Normans leant something different to how | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
The area was not covered in woodland. | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
There was pasture, cultivatdd land, moorland, heath. | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
This was all about control of the countryside. | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
Now, the woods were especially important, and I'm off to one now, | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
Keith Walkling is a voluntedr for the Woodland Trust. | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
I'm just looking at this hazel stall here, we are about to start | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
And coppicing, that's cutting it down right to stump level? | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
Yeah, cut it down right to ground level, in order | :25:51. | :25:52. | |
You are doing exactly what the Normans would have | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
done 1000 years ago, for slightly different reasons. | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
Absolutely, I mean, we are doing it for environmental reasons, | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
In Norman times, woodland like this was virtually | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
The timber had a great valud, it was a commodity, as such, | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
the King very carefully controlled who had access to it. | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
If you couldn't pay for it, you couldn't have it. | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
That drove a further wedge between the people | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
in the countryside, the nobhlity and the King. | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
Back in places like Norwich, something else was happening. | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
The towns were developing a class of their own, the merchant class, | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
traders who unlike their cotntry cousins, had rights. | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
Despite the destruction of ` large part of Saxon Norwich | :26:45. | :26:46. | |
to build the castle, there was then a deliberate policy | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
to expand the place, and the Normans did this | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
with the creation of a new puarter, the French Borough. | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
The market was right at the heart of this place and it still hs today. | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
It was part of a deliberate ploy to ensure that the town thrhved | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
as the major regional centrd in one of the richest parts of the country. | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
And with the markets came produce from the countryside. | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
Game meat, but also exotic food and exotic herbs and spices | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
The contrast with rural England could not have been more marked | :27:18. | :27:31. | |
The split between town and country that we see to this day was cemented | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
Life without the Normans wotld have been very different. | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
From mighty castles and cathedrals to town life and the rigid caste | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
system, all of these were Norman imports and for better or for worse, | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
Well, that is it from the Norman castle here at Castle Rising. | :27:49. | :28:00. | |
We are going to be back in our regular spot next wedk, | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
We are going to be investig`ting the epidemic of type two di`betes. | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
We discover why it is so serious for the NHS, experts warn that | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
preventable diabetes is putting huge strain on Health Service finances. | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
But in the meantime, you can get in touch with me on Twitter, | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
We will see you next week, take care, bye-bye. | :28:24. | :29:04. | |
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144 people were killed - most of them were children. | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
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He was a policeman and a scout leader. | :29:24. | :29:25. | |
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including rape and sexual assault against boys as young as eight. | :29:29. | :29:30. | |
He had carried out the attacks over 30 years. | :29:31. | :29:37. | |
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Passengers were evacuated and all flights grounded. | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
26 people have been treated for breathing problems and two | :29:45. | :29:46. | |
The scene in the English Channel earlier. | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
This is a Russian aircraft carrier heading to Syria. | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
The ship was monitored by the Royal Navy | :29:55. | :29:57. |