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Way onto a new series of inside it north-west. This week we are in | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
Cheshire where we will be finding out how the salt mines have become | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
a precious winter asset. Well we are 200 metres beneath the Cheshire | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
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countryside. This machine turns this into road socks. Sprinter, | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
champion cyclist, cricketer, the world's first black professional | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
footballer - the remarkable story of Arthur Wharton. We all start | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
somewhere and we start with him. Ricky Tomlinson and remembers his | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
he wrote Jacqui Hamilton who many believed deserves to be ranked | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
alongside Liverpool's comedy greats. I remember thinking one day maybe I | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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will be that good! -- Jackie Hamilton. | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
Here in Cheshire up is a place people visit for peace and quiet. | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
What they may not realise is that this is an industrial landscape | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
formed more than 200 years ago when salt mining caused widespread | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
subsidence. The area still has one of the UK's largest stock | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
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repositories used mainly to keep Britain's a road say. | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
They say swallows are the sign that spring's arrived. And for me, the | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
first sign of winter is the sight of gritter lorries. When | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
temperatures drop, the gritters hit our roads - spewing out millions of | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
tonnes of road salt every year. And that means less black ice on our | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
roads. But have you ever wondered just where all that salt for the | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
gritters comes from? You might be surprised to learn that most of the | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
UK's supply comes from a huge salt mine near Winsford. What's mined at | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
Winsford began as ocean floor. The salt in the sea was left behind | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
when the water evaporated during the Triassic period. That's about | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
220 million years ago to you and me. Over the millennia, the salt got | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
covered up and it lay hidden underground until the Romans came | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
along and discovered Cheshire's salt deposits. And ever since, salt | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
has been a mainstay of the areas' economy. The word "wich," is a | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
Viking word for salt making, and that's reflected in the names of | :02:41. | :02:50. | |
local towns like Northwich, Middlewich and Nantwich. | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
Underneath the Cheshire Plain is a massive sold out that runs all the | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
way across to Northern Ireland and across to the east coast as well. | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
In the saviour, it is at its thickest. That is why there has | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
historically been sought meaning in this area. The Salt Union mine at | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
Winsford opened in 1844 and claims to be Britain's oldest working mine. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
But it's fair to say that methods of mining the salt have changed | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
over the years. In the early days, miners drilled holes in the rock, | :03:25. | :03:35. | |
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loaded the holes with gunpowder and let the explosions do their thing. | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
We run throughout the year building the stocks to sell in the winter. | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
We work five days a week most of the year but in the winter we set | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
that up to seven days a week. century salt mining is a much more | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
mechanised activity. This machine is called the continuous miner. And | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
it does what it says on the tin. Costing well over a million pounds, | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
at full pelt it can work 24/7 and it's capable of carving out up to | :04:02. | :04:12. | |
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10,000 tonnes of salt every day of the year if necessary. It is an | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
extremely old industry particularly in this area. We have done a lot of | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
work to invest in new equipment and be very safe. We are probably one | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
of the sea it is 9th in the country. You have also worked in coal mines? | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
Coal mines tend to be deeper, hotter and dirtier and a completely | :04:32. | :04:40. | |
different environment. The machine minds the opt out of the face and | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
it goes through the machine on to a conveyor. That takes any impurities | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
out. As soon as it comes out, if it is ready for the roads. The scale | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
of the Winsford Salt mine is mind blowing. When you go underground, | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
you enter one enormous dimly lit cavern. And for someone like me who | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
can get lost just driving to work, how the miners don't get lost in | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
the gloom is a mystery. It is five kilometres east to west and four | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
kilometres north to south. Over 200 miles of tunnel world another round. | :05:17. | :05:27. | |
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My friends ask what I do and I say I'm a minor. If you ever wonder why | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
a mind of this scale does not collapse, it is because of these | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
pillars here which as strong as concrete. The rock we are mining | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
through his very hard, some of the hardest stuff around. You spend the | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
majority of your day underground? Get up in the dark and come to work | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
in the dark. That is my job. Once the salt has been mined, it still | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
has to be crushed into the tiny pieces that you see flying out of | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
the back of the gritter lorries in winter. 200 metres beneath the | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Cheshire countryside, this machine is turning this into the salt on | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
your roads. Where are we now? are at the crashing in screening | :06:16. | :06:26. | |
plant. Everything has to come through here to get process. We put | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
the rock salt through sieves liked this close-up everything below that | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
size comes out ready to going to the lorry. Everything of our that | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
stays in this part and goes through more pressure so we take it back | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
here. This is a massive Platt. We put over a million tonnes a year | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
through this plant. But how on earth did they manage to get such a | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
massive machine deep in the heart of the mine? There is a lot of | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
Engineering Design work that goes into it. It comes down as they set | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
and rebuild it down here. One thing you can't help but notice when | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
you're in the mine is the taste salt in the air. And with some | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
health professionals warning about consuming too much salt in our food, | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
I wondered if excess salt intake was a concern for workers? There is | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
obviously sold within the environment. The body does need | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
salt and it is one of the main things we need to stay alive. We | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
see no health issues at all. well as mining salt, in recent | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
years the mines' owners have developed a surprising new sideline | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
that thrives 200 metres below the surface of Cheshire. Explain to me | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
where we are now? We are in deep stall. This is the records | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
management business that we run within the mind. We have created an | :07:53. | :08:02. | |
environment which is ideally suited to long term paper storage. It is a | :08:02. | :08:11. | |
very constant and cool environment. We have a national archive in here. | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
These archives have already been scanned and can be viewed on their | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
Web site. It is not just used for Mining sold then, it has another | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
face to it? We are always looking for things we can do to the use the | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
areas created by mining. Do you have any edgier how much you have | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
in storage? This room can hold 100,000 boxes. We have over 1 | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
million boxes under ground. Do you know where everyone is? | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
certainly do. It is done through a very detailed bar coding system. | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
But while storing the national archives may prove to be the long | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
term future for the business, for now there's plenty of salt down | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
there which is still waiting to be mined. As long as the desserts are | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
there, we on them and we on the reserves for the next 20 years. We | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
can keep going. Until someone finds a cheaper way to make the roads | :09:13. | :09:23. | |
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safer in winter, there will always be need for these cuts. | :09:25. | :09:34. | |
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Coming up - the best Scouse comic He was a pioneer and the British | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
sporting hero who plied his trade not far from here playing in goal | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
for teams like Preston North End and Stockport County. Arthur | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
Wharton's story is largely forgotten. He was Britain's first | :10:01. | :10:10. | |
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black professional footballer and held the record for the 100 yards -. | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
It starts in a little fishing port in West Africa in 1865. A boy is | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
born. He became arguably the greatest sportsman Northern England | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
has ever seen. But you've probably never heard of him. I feel so proud | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
of his achievements and delighted that at last, his story is able to | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
be told. He was the pioneer! He has a place in history, we all start | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
somewhere and we start with Arthur Wharton. This was what began the | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
whole story. This is Arthur, this is what began the whole story, | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
finding this in the box. I found it in this old box that belonged to my | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
mother. It's a photo of Arthur Wharton, who Sheila Leeson believed | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
to be a distant relative. She didn't know it but he had a | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
remarkable story. Arthur Wharton was born in Jamestown, in the Gold | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
Coast - now Ghana. His Scottish father was a Methodist preacher, | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
his Ghanaian mother a tribal princess. Arthur left for Britain | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
to train as a preacher himself. But he found his true calling in the | :11:17. | :11:27. | |
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He played football for Darlington, played a bit of cricket here as | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
well. He was a first class cricketer. But an even better | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
goalkeeper. He was a showman! He'd swing on the crossbar and catch the | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
ball between his knees. He played for Newcastle, he made an | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
appearance for Middlesbrough, Rotherham, Stalybridge. He was | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
playing so well Preston North End signed him - they were the | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
Manchester United of their day, the Barcelona of their day. But that's | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
just the tip of the iceberg. He was the world's first 100 yard record | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
holder, British Cycling champion, professional cricketer, and played | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
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Italy looked at his sporting achievements in the context of | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
today, if it you looked at his sporting achievements and the | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
context of today, -- if you look at the sporting achievement and the | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
context of today, he would be the Usain Bolt of his day. His memory | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
had a secret kept hidden in the some box. Arthur was married to the | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
sister of Sheila's grandmother. His personal belongings. Magor to a | :12:41. | :12:51. | |
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close link. He committed -- his personal belongings point to a | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
close link. He committed adultery. Arthur Wharton was actually the | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
grandfather she never knew. Sheila is heading from her home in | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
Yorkshire to Ghana. It is the last chance she will ever get to trace | :13:09. | :13:19. | |
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This is where Arthur's father preached. In his later life, I | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
think he forgot about his religion. Because of his illicit love affair, | :13:31. | :13:39. | |
he lost his family, and then, his celebrity status. He ended up as a | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
miner in Doncaster, living in poverty. He had gone from being | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
somebody well known in the country to practically being a nobody, and | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
he was buried in an unknown grave. An undignified end to a champion -- | :13:57. | :14:05. | |
for a champion whose life had started so promisingly. Shaun | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
Campbell's mission is to get recognition for Arthur Wharton, | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
first through a statue. I just wondered how many statues or money | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
men's were out there for a black footballers. -- money immense. It | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
took me two and a half months to find one. These small bronze | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
replicas have been bought by football's most powerful | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
organisations. We have won at the home of FIFA in Zurich and one in | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
the presence lounge, and when we go back to England, we have won at | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
UEFA. The timing of the campaign could not be better. There are wars | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
being raged -- waged against racism in football in England right now. | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
Somebody like Arthur Wharton could be the icon and the symbol for | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
overcoming racism. The Arthur was loved by many across the North, he | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
had to fight his own battles. they reported on matches, they | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
would refer to him as the darkie or say that he had features like a | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
monkey. In 1886, the people of the northeast of England called for | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
Arthur to play for England. He was denied the opportunity because of | :15:23. | :15:32. | |
the colour of his skin. Being a black player and playing in the | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
1800s, that is mine boggling. I never knew anything about Arthur | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
Wharton until six or seven years ago. That is a crying shame. You | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
speak to Andy Cole and they all know about him. We are doing our | :15:47. | :15:55. | |
little bit to get his name up there. They are doing exactly that him | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
Ghana as well. It is the birthday of Arthur Wharton, and any place | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
where he was born, there is a football tournament held in his | :16:03. | :16:11. | |
honour. This is a deprived community. A gentleman such as | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
community. A gentleman such as Arthur brings hope that despite | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
body adversity and the obstacles, one could make it through and reach | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
to the top. -- despite all of the adversity. Arthur Wharton has | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
finally come home, and in a sense, so has his granddaughter. She has | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
one last surprise. A local journalist has tracked down an | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
entire family she let never knew she had. -- an entire family she | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
never knew she had. He is your family, an entire sample. My work | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
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here is done. I wondered if I had a grandfather and I asked my mother | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
but she never answered me. I am very proud to be a member of your | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
family. I just feel so full. It is very emotional to be here with you | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
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all. Thank you. We are very happy. This is the first time I have heard | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
of any bite people chasing their black ancestors. She has come home | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
to look for us. -- any white people. For a ball is known as a beautiful | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
game and it unites people. -- football. We are all united. People | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
from all over the world have come together all because of one man and | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
his journey. It is 50 years since comedienne Jackie Hamilton first | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
took to the stage to make them laugh in Liverpool, but I am | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
guessing that most of you have never heard of him. Another funny | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
man from Liverpool pinks it is time you did. Ricky Tomlinson, star of | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
the award-winning sitcom The Royle Family, pink that Jackie belongs | :18:05. | :18:13. | |
right next to the all-time greatest comedians. -- thinks that Jackie. | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
If we can get a bargain of the bottle blowers and store stoppers | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
club, the world is your oyster! I married a girl from X -- Manchester | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
because I wanted to share the Scouse gene. I everyone thinks | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
Liverpool is full of comedians, but not all of them go on stage. The | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
funniest man I had ever seen, who did not make the big time, was a | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
wonderful, wonderful man. I want you to meet and greet the one and | :18:46. | :18:54. | |
only, Liverpools own Jackie Hamilton! I was waiting for a cap | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
and an automobile came around the corner very slowly and stopped by | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
the bus-stop. I jumped in and it started off again. There was no | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
driver! I got out at the Princess and there was a guy standing on the | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
other side. I asked him if he was waiting for a lift. I said there is | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
a ghost driving that taxi. He told me I must be joking. He said that | :19:23. | :19:32. | |
he pushed it all the way! He was a 24 hour comic. Watching him on | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
stage, I remember as a kid thinking that maybe one day I could be that | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
good. As soon as he came on stage, what came out of his mouth, you | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
knew they were going to laugh at Jackie. It is 50 years since Jackie | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
Hamilton first stood on stage and told a joke, and it is 10 years | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
since he passed away. He established a reputation as the,'s | :19:56. | :20:05. | |
comic, the best in the business. Up -- as the comics,. But Jackie never | :20:05. | :20:14. | |
made the big time. He said it was 35 a bar and asked why where the | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
woman wanted it. She said at that bloody price they would put it in | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
the display cabinet or stop Jackie Hamilton -- Cabinet. Jackie | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
Hamilton may not be the most famous comedian to come out of Liverpool, | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
but he was such a legend in this city that a play was a Briton about | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
him. -- that a play was written about him. Or audiences know when | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
you don't mean it. That is why I go onstage with a pint in my hand, | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
because they know that I like a drink, and then when I come off, | :20:54. | :21:02. | |
they can feel part of it. They say sometimes that comics say funny | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
things and comedians say things funny. He is a material was funny | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
but he was a funny man. Turkey had a tough upbringing -- Jackie had a | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
tough upbringing. That is him on the right, with his father and | :21:20. | :21:29. | |
younger brother Joey. My mother was always in hospital. Whenever we | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
were down, he always seemed to pull us up. He had that way about him. | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
Jack Dee and his wife had five children -- Jackie and his wife had | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
five children, he sometimes thought it was strange to have a comedian | :21:47. | :21:57. | |
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or a father. He was just my dad and he was just funny. I used to ask | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
him what he did and he would say he was a fireman or a cowboy and that | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
he was in the Marines. I never knew what he did. When Jackie left | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
school, he drifted from job to job, working on building sites, and | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
later on, at the docks. I never talk about the dogs because I used | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
to work at the docks myself, working. It's became obvious that | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
he should be on the -- it as soon became obvious that he should be on | :22:28. | :22:37. | |
the stage. He was part of a trio. There were no prizes for her | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
guessing which one of Jackie is a bright -- supplied, but the then | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
dropped him when he missed a gate. He liked a beverage. Every day was | :22:50. | :22:59. | |
Christmas. I never seen him nervous. He never let me on. The thing with | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
a Jackie was that he mixed with everybody. He mixed with the people | :23:03. | :23:12. | |
that it matters. You have not got a cigarette, I left mine in my shoe! | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
His solo career went from strength to strength on his home patch, and | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
when the BBC made a programme about the arts in Liverpool in 1973, they | :23:21. | :23:31. | |
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knew exactly where to go. Mr Jackie Hamilton! My wife this morning said | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
to me this morning that it is nice now. You think you would get out | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
there and turn the garden over. I told her to get hold of the other | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
end. The producer that they became a lifelong friend. He has now | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
written the play that was inspired by Jackie. A night featured program, | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
there were parts about the camellia -- him that feature programme, | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
there were part about the community, but the guy he was telling us what | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
it was really like to be in Liverpool and tell it in a | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
wonderfully humorous but also really perceptive way was Jackie | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
Hamilton. I got stopped by a copper who asked me who I thought I was. I | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
told him, the Luton Girls' Choir. He was a funny man who never met | :24:25. | :24:33. | |
the big time. He did not want to be shooting their or doing -- shooting | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
there. He wanted to do what he wanted to do. I do not think he | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
would have liked the big time because he would have lost a lot of | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
mates and he would not have handled the big time. I do not think he | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
would have been happy with the big time. Two men who knew him as well | :24:50. | :24:59. | |
as and when are these to a veteran comics. He could have stormed them. | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
He just would not conform to discipline. That was not Jackie. | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
All he wanted to do was make people laugh. What a joke that he tell | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
that made people laugh? He was talking about this woman at the | :25:16. | :25:26. | |
chippy. She has got a goldfish bowl and a goldfish and she -- and a man | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
:25:36. | :25:44. | ||
asked her if she did fishcakes and When he was on a recently -- when | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
the play was arm recently, the audience included Jackie's children. | :25:50. | :25:58. | |
I am a little bit anxious. It feels like I am going to see my dad again. | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
Very nervous because we do not know what to expect. I hope I do not | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
come out crying my eyes out. I am looking forward to it, to be honest | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
with you. It is more of a celebration than anything anxious | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
or nerves. I am going to watch it and enjoy it. They still have a | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
sense of humour though. They don't lose that witty thing about them, | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
like the names they give one another. There is one fella who | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
used to go down to his grandmother's and they called him | :26:30. | :26:40. | |
:26:40. | :26:42. | ||
Little Red Riding Hood. And my favourite, the one about the man | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
who was always saying these could fit the kids or the wife. The show | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
has got the verdict from the family. When I first seen him coming out, I | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
thought it was my brother come back to life. It was a fitting tribute | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
to him because he was full of laughter. When he was in the | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
dressing room in the show, he was very lonely, thinking of things | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
himself. But I really enjoyed it. 10 years after his death, Jackie's | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
reputation is as strong as ever. We will certainly never forget him he | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
was a great comedian who had the love of his own local people. | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
some ways, I think that is sometimes called surely more | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
important, to be known within her own city and to become a statesman | :27:33. | :27:43. | |
:27:43. | :27:43. | ||
of your city. For Jackie is probably having a good laugh | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
because he is more popular now than when he was alive, but it is no | :27:47. | :27:54. | |
more than he deserves. He was a wonderful comic. Only a docker | :27:54. | :28:04. | |
would go on a world cruise. I turned around to the steward, he -- | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
and asked where the tour that were. The steward said that they were a | :28:09. | :28:19. | |
:28:19. | :28:22. | ||
How great to see Jackie still leaving people laughing. That is | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
all for me here in Northwich. If you have missed any of the | :28:26. | :28:32. | |
programme, you can catch it on the BBC iPlayer. I will be back next | :28:32. | :28:42. | |
Monday on BBC One. Goodbye. Next week, we ask, is it time to | :28:42. | :28:45. |