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Hello - I'm Matthew Wright, you're watching Inside Out London. | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
Here's what's coming up on tonight's show... | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
We reveal how much pollution your daily routine is exposing | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
you to and what you can do to cut it down. | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
It is a wonderful place to be but are we harming them? | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
We meet the filmmaker obsessed with catching the region's | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
It was a way of getting out to the hares silently. | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
If you do it slowly, all of a sudden you can be | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
It is all about eye level, you get the best shots at that, really. | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
And we hunt down the capital's most intriguing "ghost signs". | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
This sign was painted in the mid-1920s. | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
In a sense, they are still whispering quietly away | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
and we are allowed to hear that, if we take the time | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
Rising pollution levels are an issue of growing concern | :00:56. | :01:10. | |
The capital breached its annual air pollution limit within just | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
five days this year, and in recent weeks there have been | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
public health warnings from the Mayor's office | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
about the high levels of air toxicity. | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
So what can we do to cut down the amounts of pollution | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
that our daily routines expose us to? | :01:29. | :01:29. | |
about how polluted the air is around us, especially for children. | :01:30. | :01:48. | |
A big concern is a gas called nitrogen dioxide, | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
which many people may not have heard of, but it can be | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
I'm in East Greenwich and behind me is the A2 which leads | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
to the Blackwall Tunnel, and this area very frequently | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
They live in a flat just meters away from the A2. | :02:00. | :02:09. | |
They have real concerns about their exposure to air pollution. | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
I'm an assistant head at a school in Charlton. | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
Raising a family somewhere where air pollution can potentially | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
have an impact on their health is concerning for us. | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
And this is Caleb, and he is one year old. | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
We probably started thinking about air pollution first | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
when we brought Caleb home - he was born eight weeks prematurely | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
and spent five weeks in hospital working out how to breath properly. | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
We'd love to find out ways of reducing what they are exposed | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
Today we've enlisted the help of scientist Romain Lacombe | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
to measure how exposed to pollution this family really are. | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
This brand-new device measures air pollution and downloads the results | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
The good news is, here, indoor air quality is good and we'll | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
see how that changes today in traffic. | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
It's exciting to be part of something brand-new. | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
It's extremely windy out there today, how is that | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
going to affect the results that we get? | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
Pollution changes a lot with the weather. | :03:23. | :03:23. | |
When there's wind and rain it actually chases pollution away, | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
so today is a good day - clean air. | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
It means we'll have to see where we find pollution. | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
The likely answer is next to traffic, so let's | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
Sean drives to work each morning around eight o'clock. | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Romain goes with him to measure just how much pollution he's exposed to. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Usually it's very busy, bumper to bumper. | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
Sometimes it can take 15-20 minutes to go 50 yards. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
As soon as we hit traffic, the readings start to rise from low | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
What we see here are the readings for NO2 which is an exhaust gas | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
coming from cars - nearly twice as much as the average | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
But the biggest surprise comes when we arrive outside the school. | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
As we got out of the car here and stood in front of the school, | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
we saw the NO2 levels that we were measuring actually | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
became higher and we now have a high pollution reading. | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
Charlton Manor Primary is one of hundreds of schools | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
across the capital close to roads and in a highly polluted area. | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
Research has shown nitrogen dioxide can cause a range | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
It can stunt growth, cause inflammation within the lungs | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
and that will aggravate conditions like asthma. | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
Certainly working in A, we've definitely seen a rise | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
in cases of children with wheezy conditions. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
I think there is a general understanding that air pollution | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
is high and it's bad and we need to turn off our cars, | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
but I don't think people realise specifically how high it is and how | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
dangerous it is and the impact that will have on health. | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
With children you have to be careful because they have | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
Children also need to be physically active and letting them play outside | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
actually can help you protect yourself against air pollution. | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
Dr De Nazelle is analysing the results and offering | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
With two small children, for Rachel, the danger of air | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
It's a wonderful place to be but are we harming them? | :05:19. | :05:29. | |
As soon as we step outside we are next to a bus stop. | :05:30. | :05:39. | |
With the device attached to the pram... | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
just how polluted is Rachel's journey to nursery? | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
So we've just dropped Jonah off at nursery. | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
I'm interested to see what the pollution levels are here. | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
We had higher pollution in the street and then it came back | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
Rachel walks to nursery and normally her route | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
What can she do to try to lessen her exposure? | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
You can reduce 20-50% your exposure by taking a more quiet route | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
On her journey home, Rachel and the device take | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
a slightly longer route away from the main road. | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
But science doesn't always go according to plan! | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
At first I didn't realise why the sensor was peaking up. | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
As we came out of the roundabout in front of the nursery, it turns | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
Traffic also had a huge impact on Sean's journey to school... | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
As we went out through traffic in the car and then here in front | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
of the school with cars idling, we can see something very | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
important with pollution and that is that exposure changes - | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
At the school we found very high levels of pollution - | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
First, don't drive to school yourself and encourage your schools | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
to put something in place to get people not to drive to school. | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
Charlton Manor already encourages children to walk or cycle to school, | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
but today they are going a step further and trialling a living wall. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
It's a wall with plants giving out oxygen and taking in carbon monoxide | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
from the car fumes and really helping to reduce the impact | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
This school in Earls Court is in a highly polluted area next | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
Erecting a living wall here two years ago has been a huge success. | :07:40. | :07:48. | |
The NO2 was reduced by 36% and the PM10 was reduced by 40%. | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
So this is quite significant and I think this would be | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
Sean hopes a living wall at his school will have a similar impact. | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
The introduction of more plants and oxygen can only be a good thing | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
and it will be interesting to look at the results that the living | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
wall has on the quality of the air these children | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
It's not just pollution outside that we need to worry about. | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
There are things that we do every day within our homes that | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
Even everyday products like nail varnish remover | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
Interestingly, here we see the indoor quality has gone bad. | :08:26. | :08:36. | |
That's the chemicals in these products that | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
Cooking also releases similar chemicals which are | :08:39. | :08:47. | |
You would expect cooking - in particular if you have a gas | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
cooker - to increase air pollution, that's why you always have | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
to put your ventilation on and open your windows to air | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Back at the school and it's hometime for Sean. | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
He's ditched his car in favour of walking. | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
He will be doing something that is healthy for himself | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
and he'll be lowering his exposure to air pollution. | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
Are there any other things people can do to protect themselves? | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
Eat fruit and vegetables because that helps protect yourself | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
Sean's journey home exposes him to much lower pollution levels. | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
It just goes to show you really can make a difference. | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
Do you think you are going to make changes to what you do? | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Walking more regularly, definitely... | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
As a school, looking at getting the living wall | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
Being just aware of raising two young boys and making sure | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
they have the best possible air that they can, really. | :09:46. | :09:56. | |
And the BBC is broadcasting a season of stories this week looking at ways | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
Don't worry if you've missed that - I'll give it to you again | :10:02. | :10:12. | |
Now then, still to come on tonight's show... | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
Ghost signs were considered to be very much semi-permanent fixtures, | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
they would have been painted, painted over often with simple brand | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
messages, whereas today's advertising was much | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
It changes frequently, that constant change of new product, | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
new brands is quite relentless and I think the ghost signs give us | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
Spotting wildlife in a built-up place like London can be tricky, | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
and capturing it on camera is an even bigger challenge. | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
But there's one man who's made it his mission in life to film some | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
of our most elusive wildlife and he's designed some pretty nifty | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
I've been a naturalist for 40 years and I've been a wildlife presenter | :10:50. | :11:08. | |
for well over a decade, and I get the chance | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
best wildlife cameramen in the world, and this is some | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
Intimate, beautiful behaviour of animals that | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
But, for me, the most amazing thing is this footage is not filmed | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
by a professional but someone who does it in their spare time. | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
I'm at Panshanger Park in Hertfordshire and I'm | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
going to spend the day with the man who took all those wonderful | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
all those wonderful shots, and I can't wait. | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
After a successful career in motor sport engineering, Russell Savory | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
now uses his knowledge and passion to film wildlife. | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
We are after water voles today, so it's a simple bit of kit. | :11:55. | :12:06. | |
These will get the lovely what I call | :12:07. | :12:19. | |
silver bullet which is the water vole coming towards the camera | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
All that air trapped in the fur and the ones on the top | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
Russell's love of racing and wildlife began at an early age... | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
What I used to do is get one of those beech pencil | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
cases you had at school, take off the lid and then | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
you were left with two little runners that the top would slide | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
on and I'd put two woodlice one on each of those and race them. | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
There becomes my motor sport career and my first interest into picking | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
up everything from worms to beetles and bugs. | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
The one thing I would give everything up for is my wildlife. | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
My wildlife is very important to me, that's where I want to be | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
It is a cold da, maybe freezing minus one or two.. | :13:12. | :13:21. | |
Once the camera brick is in, Russell uses his secret weapon | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
going to put half a litre of apple juice which spread down the river. | :13:31. | :13:45. | |
Many of us have admired the Planet Earth films and seen | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
the extraordiary lengths the crews go to to get those killer sequences. | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Russ's dedication is something else and the creations he uses to get | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
the shots are second to none...check this out. | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
Well, it was a way of getting to the hares silently. | :13:58. | :14:13. | |
Basically, very early in the morning, in the darkness, creep out. | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
I do go to asleep in it sometimes actually, and then wake up. | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
Basically it's to creep forward slowly and get closer and closer | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
to the hares - if you do it slowly you can be within 20 feet of them. | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
It's all about eye level, you get the best shots at that, really. | :14:31. | :14:41. | |
I've got superb boxing and the hares shake in the morning they've got | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
the dew on them they sit and shake like mad and you can get all thst | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
The hare-mobile is genius but not all of Russell's | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
Often his best shots are down to a simple idea | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
One of my favorite birds is the cuckoo. | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
It's a bird that is really hard to see it's got | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
a persecution complex but you've had incredible encounters. | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
I managed to see a cuckoo that was perched in a tree | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
and I flicked out a mill worm to see if there was any interest | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
I was in my four by four and as I drove away, I looked | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
in the mirror and this cuckoo comes straight down, | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
Within two days I got it onto a post 10 foot from the car. | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
Then I got a bit of an old chunk of a branch, I strapped that | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
across the screen on the car and there we were it | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
This is the shyest of birds that is so difficult to get close. | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
We're back at the river bank and both Russ and I have had | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
tantalizing glimpses of the water vole, and you can see | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
actually where they pop in and out of the water. | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
They haven't been persuaded to take any apple yet, but sun's | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
Russell has won awards for his wildlife photography, | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
but for him, it's all about getting to know his subject. | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
What I like to do is get close to it, you don't have to use a huge | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
to use a huge great lens, and really it's a matter | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
You get out of it what you put in it and wildlife will come to you. | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
My favourite moment is spending time with the voles in the water | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
and eventually I ended up with them on my leg - I could feel the heart | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
Not only has Russell filmed some close encounters, | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
he's also managed to capture water voles exhibiting some unusual | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
behaviour - climbing trees and eating bark. | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
The site here is owned by Tarmac who work with the Wildlife Trust. | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
We caught up with their water vole conservation officer. | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
You spend your whole professional life working with animals like this | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
What a shot that is - seeing a water vole going into one | :17:16. | :17:29. | |
of it's burrow underwater, to see the water vole balancing | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
Our own BBC cameraman was suitably impressed. | :17:34. | :17:44. | |
Graham you make a living as a wildlife cameraman and we've | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
been flming for the best part of 15 years. | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
What do you think of Russell's shots? | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
Super behavior that he's filmed and wonderful | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
You need to be not just a good engineer but have a really good | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
knowledge of natural history behaviour - good field craft. | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
So as the day comes to a close, did Russell's cameras manage | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
Well, Russ, it has been a very cold day but they could have come in. | :18:07. | :18:22. | |
Yeah, there's a chance actually, we've seen a bit | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
You won't know of course until you download all the action | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
Anything you haven't got with water voles? | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
I think my next mission I guess is more underwater stuff around | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
the borrows and those sort of things that we are doing. | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
Water vole or not, I've still had an amazing day and can't wait | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
Well, they didn't manage to catch any water voles | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
on camera that time, but wasn't that footage | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
And you can find out more about becoming a wildlife cameraman | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
One of the things I love about London is that there | :18:56. | :19:12. | |
are reminders of our rich history all around us - right down | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
to the traces of old branding and advertising signs that are often | :19:16. | :19:17. | |
to be found on the sides of buildings. | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
Well, now there's a new phone app that can give you a guided tour | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
of some of the best of these "ghost signs", so we sent Jo | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
If you think of street advertising today its this... | :19:29. | :19:42. | |
Garish, quick, flashy, attention grabbing, and it has | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
After all, you've got to pull those countless sets of eyes up | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
and away from their latest apps on their phones, | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
as they pass through our streets, oblivious to what's around them. | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
Once Londoners walked with eyes raised staring at brick after brick | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
and occasionally those bricks would become a colourful treat. | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
Because street advertising isn't a modern invention but was once | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
and if you look up as you travel though London today, there's | :20:11. | :20:27. | |
still a few to be found, and now you can even go on a guided tour | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
of them, ironically through an app on your phone. | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
All the brainchild of ghost sign hunter and historian Sam Roberts, | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
who first came across this one in stoke Newington. | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
In about 2005 I moved house and as a result of that I think | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
I used to walk up this side of the street more than I had done | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
before when I walked up the other side of the street and I noticed | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
One was that people even bothered to paint walls | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
Second was it was faded - I thought maybe it wont | :21:06. | :21:15. | |
be here for ever and we need to document it in some way. | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
If we look at old historic photographs of the area, | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
we can see that it wasn't there in the early 1920s and that's | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
because the stationary firm advertised the Walker brothers | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
They moved in in 1924 - this sign was painted | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
lettering and it's even got an old illustration | :21:35. | :21:55. | |
These signs were painted often a hundred or more years ago | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
and the words that you find on them were never intended for our eyes | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
or our ears and in a sense they're still whispering quietly away | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
and were allowed to hear that if we take the time | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
We can look at them in the context of local history, so we can | :22:09. | :22:23. | |
understand something about the companies that used | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
In Highgate there's a building there that's got signage on three | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
sides advertising a tea rooms or dining rooms but also | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
for parties, beanfeasts, so I had to look up this word | :22:32. | :22:45. | |
beanfeast because I became intrigued by that and it turns out that | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
beanfeast was an end of year do for staff, | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
a works do, a summer party or Christmas party, or whatever | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
These adverts entice you into remembering | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
Advertising designer Brendan McGrath works in the modern world | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
but his loft is an emporium of nostalgia with model trains | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
trundling past miniature ghost signs that he has made. | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
I started by creating some ghost signs for my own train set, | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
I built them with our children and it was from there that I decided | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
I could make a very small commercial enterprise producing them | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
I think one of the things about railway modelling is to make | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
the situation as characterful as possible and I think that's one | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
of the things that the ghost signs provide is that extra | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
Brendan's train set made me think of an age where life moved at a much | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
slower and thoughtful pace and he reckons that's exactly | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
I think the interesting thing is that the ghost signs | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
were considered to be very much semi-permanent fixtures, | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
they would have been painted, painted over often with simple brand | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
messages, whereas today's advertising was much | :24:00. | :24:01. | |
it changes frequently, that constant change of new product | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
and new brands is quite relentless and I think the ghost signs give us | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
Are there more still to be found, are we still discovering them? | :24:12. | :24:23. | |
This is one of the funny things, a lot of the development that takes | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
place can destroy ghost signs, so maybe a building gets knocked down | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
where there was a ghost sign on it or a building gets built next to one | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
So we lose them all the time and people get vary | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
So we lose them all the time and people get very | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
upset and angry about that the same types of development can actually | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
allow us to see them for the first time or the first time in a long | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
time and a great example of that is at the junction | :24:52. | :25:06. | |
of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street where the cross rail | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
development has been happening, the big new railway line in London | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
and part of that has meant a big new swath of buildings have been | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
knocked down and just behind them on oxford street is this fantastic | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
old sign for veglio and co cafe established 1854 and it takes | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
you right back to what was probably a humble old Italian cafe right | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
on the fringes of soho so yes there always becoming | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
Often councils or developers will remove them, not aware | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
of their significance, but here in Stoke Newington, one | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
Is it true that this sign is only here because of you? | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
Partly, yes, Hackney Council, a number of years ago, | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
to remove the so called graffiti off the walls and I looked around | :25:41. | :25:49. | |
and I thought - where's the graffiti? | :25:50. | :25:51. | |
and there was no tagging there was just this beautiful | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
ghost signs and that's what they were calling graffiti. | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
So I sent them a letter made it very clear and they thank god stopped | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
doing it but they did remove quite a few round here. | :26:03. | :26:11. | |
But the good news is they are becoming fashionable again | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
and new ones are being painted like this colorful delight | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
on the side of this canal side pub in Westbourne Grove. | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
It took us about a week to do, we painted it using a dry brush | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
to give it a bit of a faded look to begin with and then once | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
that was finished we took the colours of the brickwork behind | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
And whilst you were doing this was there a lot | :26:36. | :26:37. | |
There was quite a bit actually when we first started | :26:38. | :26:55. | |
we were being questioned why we was painting it out, | :26:56. | :26:57. | |
quite funny and then towards the end there was an old chap that had lived | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
in the area all his life and he remarked that he had never | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
noticed it in all the times hed walked past the pub. | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
How long will that take to fade do you think? | :27:08. | :27:17. | |
What I really like about these is that they fade and grow | :27:18. | :27:28. | |
old gracefully and it seems that with some help from skilled modern | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
day sign writers there might bee a whole lot more for future | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
generations to watch grow old and fade. | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
Well, that's nearly all for tonight's show - there's no | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
Inside Out next Monday, but we'll be back | :27:44. | :27:45. | |
Here's a quick look what we've got coming up... | :27:46. | :27:53. | |
We find out why London's clubland is struggling to survive.. | :27:54. | :28:05. | |
Our culture is at rest of being closed down. | :28:06. | :28:12. | |
And why this man has given up his life in London to help people in | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
war-torn Syria. The stories are absolutely heartbreaking. Add | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
EastEnders star Jessie Wallace says goodbye to her old Grammar school. | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
This is such a great school, I have been reading about it since I left. | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
My heart is here and there will be a gaping hole. That is all from this | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
week 's inside out London. If you missed any of the programme tonight, | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
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to... Thank you for watching, see you in a fortnight. | :28:57. | :29:06. | |
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Vauxhall employs 4,500 people but its new owners | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
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