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In half an hour, EastEnders.

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But first, tonight's edition

of Inside Out London.

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Hello, I'm Sean Fletcher,

you're watching Inside Out London...

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Here's what's coming

up on tonight's show.

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Could living in loud London be

damaging your hearing?

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This is the Victoria line towards a

stock well and it's absolutely

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deafening.

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Fighting to get fit.

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How the Marshall family took

on our 'get active' challenge.

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We need to motivate each other to go

outside and do sports.

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And a working windmill...

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In Brixton?

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It's really special to be in a

building just like it was 200 years

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ago. The mechanics at incredible.

It's incredible to see what we were

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able to achieve 200 years ago.

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London isn't exactly

the quietest place on earth,

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and we all know it's so loud

here sometimes that you can barely

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hear yourself think.

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But could some of the noise levels -

in bars, or on the Tube,

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for example - be getting so high

that they risk actually

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damaging our hearing?

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We sent Gareth Furby to investigate.

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With millions living here, it's not

surprising London can be noisy.

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But is it getting too loud?

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We're going to have

a go at finding out.

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Meet Samantha - she's bothered

about London's nightlife.

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Definitely in bars at night.

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How can anyone hear anything?

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And Ian wants to know

about London's streets.

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In many areas traffic noise

is becoming more and more prevalent.

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So we sent both of them on mission

to measure the noise levels

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with sound meters.

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And I am on the underground

trying to find

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out which tube line is the noisiest.

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Samantha is a comedian.

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So my name is Samantha Baines.

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She often works

in loud environments.

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And a few months ago she got

some devastating news.

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I never thought

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at 30 years of age I would be told

that I needed a hearing aid.

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I never thought I had been exposed

to that level of noise.

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She wants to know if London bars

and venues get so noisy they can

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damage hearing.

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We will be able to look

at the average sound

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over the total duration.

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So she's meeting an expert.

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I am interested in whether there

are potentially harmful sounds.

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Dr Joe Sollini works

at the UCL Ear Institute

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and he lends Samatha a sound meter

to take into the West End.

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So all you need to do is pick

a sound source that you

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want to find out how loud

it is and point it towards it.

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So it's as if my ear

was receiving it.

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Good luck.

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In the next few hours I am

going to go about a normal evening

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in London, so I am meeting a friend

for dinner, we going to have some

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drinks, go to a couple of bars.

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Ian has also been to the UCL

lab to get the meter

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and now his mission is to measure

some of London's busiest streets.

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We are on Euston Road

and we are walking westwards

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toward Euston Station.

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Well, the noise is relentless,

it's like a kind of grey auditory

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fog which just covers everything.

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With Ian focused on his task it's

time for me to go underground.

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And it doesn't take long to find

something worth measuring.

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OK, so this is the Victoria Line

heading towards Stockwell and it's

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absolutely deafening.

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And here we are on the Northern Line

and once again it's really loud

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I mean I am having to shout,

can you actually hear me?

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All the numbers are being recorded.

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Back on the surface Samantha's

enjoying her evening out, moving

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from bar to restaurant to bar.

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It's not a Friday or Saturday night,

it's so loud in here.

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The sounds really reverberating,

to be honest I am really shocked.

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I am having a lovely time

and it's really loud.

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On the streets, Ian's route

takes him from Euston Road,

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then along Oxford Street,

and ends at Parliament Square,

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and he's passionate about sound

recording, because he used to be

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a sound archivist at

the British Library,

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on the shelves there's an old record

that's worth listening to again.

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Well, it's one of the oldest

surviving recordings

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of street sounds in London.

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I would be quite interested just

to make a comparison recording

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and then we can compare

now with 1928.

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So how to they compare?

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It was back to the British

Library to find out.

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2017, and

1928.

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Modern life in Leicester Square

sounds a bit more full

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on that it does in 1928.

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Back underground, I've already

measured several lines.

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It's so noisy I've been advised

by our UCL expert to

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wear ear defenders.

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And it's not just me

taking precautions -

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Roberta frequently uses the Tube

and always wears ear plugs.

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It's deafening, it's definitely not

good for your hearing,

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you are losing your ability

to hear, slowly.

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Florian is also a Tube passenger,

but with a specialist

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interest in acoustics,

and he's started his own

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study asking if London

is louder than Paris.

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I thought you know as an acoustician

it would be a very

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interesting thing to look at.

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Over on the Metro, I decided to join

him as he carried on with his study.

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In Paris, we have measured about 40

to 50 stations, I would say.

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There's far less clanging

and banging, you can't the wheels

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banging against the rail,

so it is definitely a more

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comfortable journey

in terms of noise levels.

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Florian still has more stations

to measure, but Paris did

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seem quieter.

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While he continues his research,

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ours is almost coming to its end.

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Samantha has an appointment

with Dr Sollini.

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He's done the number

crunching on her night out.

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So what we can see here

are the different sound

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levels that we measured.

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These two bars, bar two and three,

they are at a loudness

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which is worrying and could

potentially impact

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on people's hearing.

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The sound level got up to 112

decibels, and in an environment

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like that you wouldn't want to be

there for more than a minute.

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For Samantha it means

a rethink on how she spends

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her evenings in London.

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I have moderate hearing loss

at the moment and if that gets worse

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I could deaf in one ear.

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I could be deaf in one ear.

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I want to be extra careful,

you know, I am going to get

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myself some earplugs.

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But what about the streets,

how noisy are they?

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It was time for Ian

to get his results.

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Which two streets have

the loudest noise levels?

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Regent Street and Leicester Square.

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It is noisy but thankfully

it's not damaging.

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That's equivalent to

a loud vacuum clearer.

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I wouldn't really like to be

in the same room as a vacuum cleaner

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being used all the time,

every hour of the day,

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but yes, as a comparison

I guess it holds true.

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As for me, after spending

one week underground

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As for me, after spending

one week underground

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measuring 10 lines in

zone one and zone two,

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the data is complete.

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It takes Dr Sollini a few more days

to process and then he has

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the verdict.

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So the Central Line has

the loudest section out

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of all of the Tube lines,

and it basically gets as loud

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as almost 110db, to put

that into perspective

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that is approximately as loud

as going to a gig or rock concert.

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Also on average, the Victoria

Line is the loudest

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followed by the Jubilee,

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Northern and Central Lines,

at or above 85 decibels,

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which if this was a work environment

would be considered so loud that

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you would have to

wear ear defenders.

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I think what these measurement show

is that the Tube is sufficiently

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loud to warrant further

investigation, it certainly shows

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that it can be loud enough

to damage people's hearing.

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So what does Transport

for London say?

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We are confident that nobody

out there is exposed

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to an unsafe noise level.

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Of course, there are parts

of the network that are noisier

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than others, but you would need

to be exposed to that noise

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for a significant period

of time for it to cause

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you any hearing damage.

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One of the things we are doing

of course is look at things

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like quieter track fastenings,

we grind the rails,

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we replace the rails,

all of that is designed to give

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a smoother journey,

but also a quieter journey.

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But after our research, UCL's

Doctor's Sollini says some Tube

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passengers regularly hearing this

could think about

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taking precautions.

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For people using the noisier lines

regularly and for long journey's

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For people using the noisier lines

regularly and for long journeys,

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then it certainly suggests that it

would be worthwhile them

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using hearing protection.

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Gareth Furby reporting there.

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And if you want to check

out our online map of the 10 loudest

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Tube journeys in zones one

and two, then just head to

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bbc.co.uk/insideout

and click on London.

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Now then, still to come

on tonight's show...

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The whole idea of the windmill loaf

is that

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The whole idea of the windmill loaf

is that when they got the windmill

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up and running again, they could use

the flower picked up from the

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Windmill and we are making the

Windmill loaf from the Brixton

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Windmill.

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When it comes to exercise,

many of us nowadays lead pretty

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sedentary lifestyles,

which can sometimes take a big

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toll on our physical

and mental wellbeing.

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But getting more active doesn't

have to be a hassle,

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it doesn't have to break the bank,

and can change lives.

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We set one family from

southwest London a four-week

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challenge to get moving

with a little help from doctor

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and personal trainer Hazel Wallace.

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Across the capital, millions of us

are failing to move, and it's not

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only threatening our physical

wellbeing, it's also

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costing our health and social

services a small fortune.

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With children transfixed by screens,

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teenagers lost in their phones

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and adults with little time

for fitness, or healthy eating,

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we are, as a nation, as unfit today

as we have ever been before.

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And as a doctor, and personal

trainer, combating this plague

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of inactivity has become

a priority of mine.

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And today, I've come to meet

a family who want to get more

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active, but simply don't know

where to start.

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Meet the Marshall family -

nine-year-old Olly, 13-year-old

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Jorja and parents Fiona and Gary,

who are both in their 40s.

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The thing that really limits me

from getting active is being able

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to find the time to do it.

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I do spend a lot of time on my

phone, and I would like to change

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that cause I do want to get active

and I used to do a lot.

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It would be great for us

all as a family to be active again,

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just to strengthen our relationship

both as a family and for our mental

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and physical wellbeing.

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I think that we need to work

as family to motivate each other

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to go outside and do these sports.

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Over the next four weeks,

I'm going to help guide

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the Marshalls to living a more

active, healthier life.

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But before we start,

I've sent the family

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to the University of East London,

where trainers Nick and Andy

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are going to find out

just how fit they are.

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And whilst they do that,

I want to talk to some

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of the experts here about how

we might get started

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and some of the lesser know

benefits, of staying active.

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I think just bringing in some sort

of physical activity

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in your daily, general routine,

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even if it means just walking

as opposed of driving.

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Little things that can

increase your physical activity

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levels are going to be a great way

to improve your overall physical

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activity thought the day.

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I know I need to lose

some weight, so yep.

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This is the heaviest I've ever been,

so not feeling great actually.

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There are huge psychological

benefits when we look at exercise.

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So the first one is that we normally

have a feel good effect.

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Exercise relates to sleep,

so we tend to sleep better.

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Also expertise is related

to mental health, so we know

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there is a relationship

between exercise and depression,

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exercise and anxiety,

and exercise and more serious mental

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health issues like schizophrenia

and personality disorder.

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Just a bit shocked,

because I thought I was doing really

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well, then it came on very quickly,

and I knew my limitations then.

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In four weeks' time,

we'll return here, to find out

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if the Marshalls have been able

to make any progress.

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But now it's time for the family

to start their challenge.

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I've provided Fiona with some home

workouts ideas and encouraged her

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to walk the last part

of her commute.

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For both parents, it's important

that they move throughout the day,

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with new researching suggesting that

regardless of how much exercise

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you do, prolonged periods

of inactivity can be detrimental

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to you health.

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For Jorja and Olly, I've

asked them to moderate

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their screen times, and to work

on improving their nutrition.

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It's OK to start slowly,

and to try incorporate activities

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around your daily life.

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And as difficult as it may be,

the consequences of not doing

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anything, can be tragic.

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n the front lines of the capital's

inactivity epidemic,

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already stretched NHS staff deal

with both life and death

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on a daily basis.

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We can attribute one in 10

cases of coronary heart

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disease to inactivity.

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So it's now become clear that this

is really a priority for us

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as clinicians in the UK,

also globally, to encourage

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physical activity, not only

as a prevention measure,

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but also as a treatment package

that we offer to our patients.

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In the UK, heart disease remains

amongst the leading causes of death

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and in England and over 70%

of people referred for

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cardiac rehabilitation

were considered physical inactive.

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Of all the jobs that

you wouldn't want to do,

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informing close family

that the patient has passed away

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due to heart attack,

and obviously that is part of my job

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and I have to do that,

and it's always very

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upsetting, for every one.

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But it's also a wake-up call.

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For the Marshall family,

heart disease is of grave

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importance.

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Last year Fiona's mum

underwent five heart bypasses

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whilst her grandfather died

of a heart attack at only 40

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years of age.

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If the Marshalls are successful

in their efforts to lead a more

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active life, they can hope

to reduce their own risks of heart

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disease by as much as 35%.

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I've come back to the house to see

how they're getting on.

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Yeah, I've found quite a few easy

wins, which were take

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the stairs to get to work,

and I found a little running route

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around the streets here.

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I think for me, I think

the more that I do,

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the more that I want to do.

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I'm really pleased with the initial

progress the Marshals have

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made, but whist Fiona,

Gary and Olly have embraced

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the challenge, I'm slightly

concerned about Jorga.

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So guys I know you've

been tracking your steps

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since we started this challenge.

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For children of all ages,

building positive habits early

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on in life is crucial.

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When she was younger, Jorja,

like her brother now,

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was very active, but,

according to her mum,

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she is spending more

and more time on her phone.

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So Jorja just looking at yours,

it doesn't look like you've

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increased your activity that much,

it looks about the same as last

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month, so I definitely think

there is room for improvement,

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do you agree?"

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She is hardly alone - in an era

of smartphones and tablets,

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research suggests that today's

school children are the first

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generation since the Second World

War who are less fit

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than their parents.

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In extreme cases, private clinics

across the capital are treating

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young people for phone addiction.

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I think, for a minority of people,

using your mobile phone,

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when you're a teenager,

can become a real

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problem, a big problem.

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I think there is potential

an addict in everyone,

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and a mobile phone can possible

makes it easier to

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get to that addict.

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In terms of staying active,

this sort of addiction can increase

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the chance of prolonged sedentary

behaviour, and forge unhealthy

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habits in young people.

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If I asked someone to sit

still for 25 minutes,

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they would find it incredibly hard.

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If I gave someone a mobile phone

and they got engrossed

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in talking to someone,

doing whatever they do on a mobile

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phone, you might see them very

still for a long period of time.

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They wouldn't notice it.

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So I suppose what I'm saying is,

the less aware of yourself you are,

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the bigger the problem.

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Despite the challenges,

the Marshalls have continued

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to make positive change

to their lives.

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In the final two weeks,

I'm really pleased to see the family

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supporting each other

to reach their fitness goals.

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They've also started to build

in weekly family activities,

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a great way not only to stay active,

but to help strengthen

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family relationships,

a key goal of Fiona's

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from the start.

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With the four-week challenge over,

we're back at the University

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of East London, to see if there have

been any changes to

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the family's overall fitness.

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So regardless of the results

that we get here today, I'm really

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pleased with what the family have

achieved in the past four weeks,

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in particular Fiona.

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It just goes to show that the little

changes that they've made

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to their lifestyles,

has already shown improvement

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in their health and wellbeing.

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Well, thanks a lot for coming back

in, and doing the tests,

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I hope you've enjoyed it.

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Fiona and Gary, you both

went for further today,

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a good indication from the work that

you've been doing that

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that's working well.

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It's great to see any changes

in such a short amount of time,

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and I'm really proud

of the whole family.

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Do you think these habits

that you've picked up

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in the last couple of weeks,

you'll continue to use?

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Yes, I think we'll continue our good

eating habits, and exercise more,

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and hopefully spending more time

getting the four of

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us out of the house.

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Dr Hazel Wallace there.

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And you can find lots of fun,

free and easy to use activities

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and resources to get

you and your family more active

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at www.bbc.co.uk/supermovers.

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Mention windmills and what probably

springs to mind is a picturesque

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country scene from

Holland or France.

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One of the last places you'd expect

to stumble across one would be

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a crowded inner-city

neighbourhood like Brixton.

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But as ever, the capital

is full of surprises...

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If I say Brixton you probably

think of vibrant streets,

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lively, hectic, noisy

and full of life.

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But like everywhere in London

it was once totally rural.

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It was mainly fields.

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I know it's hard to believe,

but it even had a windmill

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that was built in 1816 and produced

flour right up until 1934.

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And it's incredible to think that

just over 200 years later that

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windmill is still here.

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The Ashby family who owned

and operated the mill right

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throughout its working life

were able to grow the wheat

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and everything locally.

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The mill carried on milling flour

right up until 1934 when the last

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Ashby family milling member closed

down the business because of

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the industrial production of bread

was in full flow by then.

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After the Ashby family stopped

making flour here Lambeth

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council took it over.

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They turned the surrounding area

into a park but made sure

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the old windmill remained intact.

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But through vandalism

and neglect, it

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had become a bit of a sad sight

so much so that in 2002 English

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Heritage placed it on their

buildings at risk register.

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That was until a few local

residents got involved.

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People used to come to the park,

it was used by drug users

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and prostitutes and it was really

sad to see the state

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that the windmill had sunk to.

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So we formed a group called

the Friends of Windmill Gardens

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to campaign for the restoration

of the windmill.

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They worked hard to get

the people of Brixton involved

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in trying to restore this

beautiful old windmill.

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One local bakery was very keen

to help and raised awareness

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by selling a windmill loaf.

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Brockwell Bake which is into

heritage wheats into planting wheat,

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old forms of wheat and keeping them

going, and he said to me, why don't

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you and me come up with a loaf

and we can launch it

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at one of their festivals and we can

donate money towards you know

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the windmill project with the loaf?

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So a certain amount per loaf goes

towards the project?

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Exactly, yes, 50 pence per loaf.

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Every loaf we sell, every few months

we send them a cheque for the money.

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The major funding they got

was from lottery, you know, things

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like that but every little bit helps

especially in the early days

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because they really didn't have much

funding and it properly was a real

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community organisation.

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The people of Brixton pulled

together and brought

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the old windmill back to life.

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The wheels are turning

once more and they are

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milling flour here again.

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There's a floor above us

where the grain comes down this

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shoot into this hopper and this

hopper feeds into the vat

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and in this vat there are two large

stones you got a bed stone

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at the bottom and a running stone

at the top, and this mill is powered

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by electricity.

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The top stone rotates

and grinds the the the wheat

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which comes out of a shoot

here at the side.

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which comes out of a chute

here at the side.

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So this is the flour that's coming

from the millstones at the moment

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and what we do is check it

between our fingers and thumbs

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to measure the consistency.

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It's quite coarse and

varied at the moment.

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It is, yes, not yet fine

enough for us to bag.

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This is where the phrase rule

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of thumb comes from.

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From millers checking

the quality of the flour.

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So you'd want this a lot finer,

you'd want the stones

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to be grinding this

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much more?

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So were going to have

to lower the running stone.

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We're going to turn the tendering

arm ever so slightly.

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Shall I have a go?

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Yes.

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It's obviously an old windmill.

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It feels like you're

back in the days

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when it was built.

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It's really special to be

in a building that's as much

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as it was 200 years ago.

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It uses these heavy iron mechanics.

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It's incredible to see

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what we were able to achieve

200 years ago.

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Well, I grew up in the countryside

overlooking a windmill for most

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of my childhood and when I moved

into London Brixton about 10 years

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ago, I was amazed to walk around

the corner and find this windmill

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here right in the heart of the city

and they had a programme

0:24:550:24:57

where you could learn and become

a miller, so I signed up.

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OK, we can take it over to weigh it.

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We're going to stir up the flour

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to make sure any bran is mixed

in then we put in a scoop and we

0:25:140:25:18

keep going until the bag is full.

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Would you like to have a go?

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Yes, I'd love to.

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So you're often busy

down here working.

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How much flour do you produce?

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At the moment, we're producing

about a 100 kilograms a month,

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so every time we mill,

we're producing between 40 to 50

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500g bags of flour and they're

being taken up by about six

0:25:380:25:41

different bakeries and

pizzerias in Brixton.

0:25:410:25:44

One of the shops they are supplying

is the Old Post Office

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bakery who helped them get

where they are today,

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and this means that the windmill can

now help produce its very

0:25:490:25:52

own windmill loaf.

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The whole idea of the windmill loaf

was that once they got the mill up

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and running again we would use

the flour that they were milling

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there in the windmill loaf,

originally because they weren't

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producing enough for us

we had to use other flour,

0:26:080:26:12

but in the last few months it's got

to the really exciting stage

0:26:120:26:18

where they are actually getting

to the point where they can mill

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enough for us so for instance,

last week I picked up 25 kilos

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of flour from the windmill

and we are actually making

0:26:240:26:26

the windmill loaf from flour

that has been milled

0:26:260:26:28

in the Brixton windmill.

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So circulating it round like that.

0:26:290:26:31

It's sticking to my hands.

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Yeah, annoying, isn't it?

0:26:320:26:37

Get in there or I tell you what,

what you can do is one at a time,

0:26:370:26:41

you can do it like this.

0:26:410:26:46

It feels like the circle's come

round and we've really got

0:26:570:26:59

to the point we wanted to with it.

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And the whole circle in terms of 200

years of the history

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of the windmill, it's doing

what it was meant to do.

0:27:040:27:07

It's doing what it was meant to do

and sited right in quite

0:27:070:27:10

a poor bit of Brixton,

right in the middle of an estate,

0:27:100:27:13

and they get the kids to come

in and actually teach them

0:27:130:27:16

about stuff that they really

wouldn't know, otherwise they go

0:27:160:27:18

into local schools, they plant

wheat, they mill it.

0:27:180:27:20

There's an amazing opportunity

for local people to learn about food

0:27:200:27:23

production.

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There are a number of small

growers locally in Lambeth

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who are growing wheat that is then

being bought here to be milled

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and it's a wonderful way

of recreating how windmills

0:27:300:27:32

traditionally operate.

0:27:320:27:36

Well, this is exciting, isn't it?

0:27:360:27:41

This loaf of bread, this wonderful

windmill and its millers, are proof

0:27:410:27:44

that history doesn't have to be

a distant memory, but something

0:27:440:27:46

we can all still enjoy

on our very own doorstep.

0:27:460:27:51

And I can confirm that that bread

was just as tasty as it looked!

0:27:530:27:57

Well, that's about all

for tonight's Inside Out.

0:27:570:27:59

Before we go though,

let's have a quick look at what's

0:27:590:28:02

coming up on next week's show.

0:28:020:28:04

We go undercover to expose the rogue

beauticians offering illegal

0:28:040:28:06

teeth-whitening treatments.

0:28:070:28:12

It's disgusting. It's putting a

patient's life at risk, doing dental

0:28:120:28:17

procedures outside of the dental

surgery.

0:28:170:28:19

Disfigured in battle -

how cosmetic surgeons,

0:28:190:28:23

more used to tummy tucks and botox

are helping our soldiers.

0:28:230:28:27

The movement is fantastic. Before, I

struggled to move it a tiny bit but

0:28:270:28:31

now I have full movement in it and

0:28:310:28:35

And would you be brave

enough to eat this?

0:28:350:28:43

And that's it for this

week's Inside Out.

0:28:430:28:44

Tonight's programme will be

available on the iPlayer -

0:28:440:28:47

just head to our website

bbc.co.uk/insideout

0:28:470:28:48

and click on London.

0:28:480:28:50

Thanks very much for watching.

0:28:500:28:51

I'll see you again soon.

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