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Heller Overstone welcome to a brand-new series of Inside Out. | :00:06. | :00:14. | |
Here is what is coming on tonight. We follow a Hampshire carer | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
persistent as she delivers minute- by-minute care paid for by local | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
authorities. They do have to make cuts but 15 minutes to a carer, she | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
won't get in the door before she is out again. The reality is, the time | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
to chat is not time we have got to pay for. Battered and bruised, his | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
new legislation needed to control mobility scooters? People are | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
getting hurt, people are getting killed using these mobility scooter | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
is because they don't know how to use them safely. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
We go behind the scenes of an ambitious project to trace the | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
history of an entire Sussex town. Today, I am finding it quite | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
emotional. Just talking about the people. I did not realise that was | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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going to happen. This is Inside Out First tonight, how we look after | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
each other as we get older is always going to be a hot topic. It | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
has put Homecare visits under the spotlight. Cash-strapped councils | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
but carers for the minimum time possible. One care invited us out | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
to show us how tough it is getting to do the job she loves. | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
For home carer, Elaine, it is the start of a very busy day. The do | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
sleep well? I'm going to login. has been a carer for 23 years and | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
seen a lot of changes. One of which is the introduction of clocking in | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
when she arrives and clocking out when she leaves. Hampshire County | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
Council is tracking her every minute. Do you want to soak your | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
hand? He it is a juggling act, helping with personal care while | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
maintaining Joan's dignity. Joan washes her own face and then we do | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
eight general tidy up of the bed and if you need to put clean pads | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
on the bed just for her protection. After a length of this is assessed | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
by the council, Joan is one of the lucky ones. It is 45 minutes. We | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
normally get shown up and wash, she has gell on her back and knees and | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
a clean nightie. Even 45 minutes feels a rush that one in six visits | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
in Hampshire is now 15 minutes. likes her marmalade. Joan guess two | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
45 minute visits a day. Elaine is very good. But sometimes she is | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
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here much longer than she should be. But she never rushes me. She is | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
always very caring. In reality, Elaine is in a hurry. See you later. | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
Her next call is a ten-minute drive away. If sometimes it can be | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
difficult to fit within the time restrictions because of the | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
travelling. The tracking systems allows us to go the quickest route. | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
It isn't always the quickest route, the least miles. Elaine is not paid | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
travelling time and her mileage rate has been 25p for the last | :03:50. | :04:00. | |
seven years. How why you? Clean clothes, then these, socks. I had a | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
stroke in 2010. That changed my life. My whole world changed. The | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
whole way and the world looks a you changes. It is a frightening time | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
because you are never sure of anything. Some of us have paid into | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
the NHS all our lives. I have worked all my life. Care should be | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
for those who have done that. They do have to make cuts but 15 minutes | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
to a carer, she won't get in the dock before she is out again. That | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
person won't have time to speak to them. That is the most important | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
thing. What they're doing with their hands is by the by. As far as | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
I am aware, Hampshire County Council and going to be paying the | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
care that is received. If you have a 30 minute call to someone and say | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
the new welfare for 28 minutes, you will be paid for 28 minutes. If you | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
are longer than 32 minutes on a 30 minute call, you must then ring the | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
office to explain why you were there longer. You can then get paid. | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
They have to ask for the payments from social services. I don't know | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
any other job that is paid minute to minute. Hampshire County Council | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
say they are not paying by the minute but do monitor to ensure | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
people get the care that has been commissioned. They also say shorter | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
visits are becoming rarer and they are committed to delivering safe | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
and effective care. 15 minute visit to account for one in six calls and | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
can be part of larger care packages. It is like some days you can do | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
your ran and a run so smoothly and easily but all you need is just | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
somebody to have had a fall, somebody to be upset. It does not | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
feel like half-an-hour. They have gotta think of the time one of the | :05:57. | :06:06. | |
time. Their minds is on the time. It is putting extra pressure on | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
people. Colin Angel from the Homecare Providers Association says | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
councils across the South region as a whole are buying shorter and | :06:15. | :06:24. | |
shorter visits. Across the south of England we estimate that almost | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
two-thirds of visits are 30 minutes or fewer. That is not a lot of time | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
to deliver quite intimate personal care to people. Certainly, it is | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
increasingly difficult to do that with dignity and safety. We | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
recently surveyed home care providers across the UK and the | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
fundamental thing they were telling us was how concerned they were | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
about the use of short visits, making it really difficult to | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
deliver care safely and certainly with the dignity that is required. | :06:56. | :07:04. | |
This is Mrs Gingell. This is Mr Gingell. Elaine has arrived to find | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
this visit is going to take longer than scheduled. There has been a | :07:07. | :07:16. | |
complaint this morning. The commode was not empowered -- empty. He does | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
not have the correct hat on. He has an might pad on. It means it takes | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
a wee bit longer. Having to undress and dress again. We get there. | :07:30. | :07:40. | |
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Hello, sir. I am just going to take your shoes off. I have got | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
arthritis so made -- so one day I might need careful study think | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
about how you might want to be treated yourself. I don't take it | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
home. You have to be able to detach yourself. It does not stop you | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
worrying or thinking about people so maybe I do take it home a little | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
bet. I don't think you can be a carer if you don't do that. Even | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
with extra jobs, after 30 minutes time is up. You are now locked out. | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
That is it. The this is not for laundry, this is to walk on. At the | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
next house it is one of the controversial Short cuts. -- short | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
calls. It is to make sure that medication is taken, we leave a | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
piece of cake for a biscuit, a cup of tea, glass of water and | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
medication is taken. We check clothes, windows and if she was the | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
curtains closed. Television, any lights. She puts herself to bed. | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
Sometimes if she uses the toilet I have to shout goodbye to her and | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
tell everything is waiting for her downstairs when she comes down. | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
That is the best you can do in 15 minutes. Today's the 15 minutes | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
left little time to be sociable. Let's be clear, not everybody is | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
commissioning everything in 15 minutes units but it is happening. | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
Where we have got needs to be met an elegant its budget, we have got | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
to do it. We have got to make the money stretch. The reality of the | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
world is the time for chat is not time we have got to pay for. If you | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
want is to give people a bit more social interaction, home carer | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
agencies are not the weight to do that. But Elaine believes talking | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
is a crucial part of her job. about nice forests and mountains | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
streams and babbling brooks. I am not trying to be humble on anything | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
like that but I love my work. I would not do it if they did not | :09:49. | :09:59. | |
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enjoy it. I enjoy caring. I enjoy If you have got a story for us then | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
droppers and e-mail. -- dropped us and e-mail. Next, you can pick one | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
up for a couple of hundred pounds and you don't need a licence to | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
ride one. A godsend if you are struggling to get around birds and | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
menace to society says others. Is it time for a new registration for | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
mobility scoters. It is boy racers who get the bad press and face sky | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
high insurance costs. But drivers in a smaller machine and grinding | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
people's years across the south. Many have no insurance, no tax and | :10:39. | :10:48. | |
no experience. Pullover and make way for the mobility scooter. | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
see these every day. They go about four miles an hour, they go up and | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
down the pavements. Myself and some friends thought it would be a good | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
idea if we could put an engine in one. I am convinced this is | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Britain's fastest mobility scooter. Most scooters don't reach the | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
City's concern are capable of reaching eight miles an hour and | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
there is limited legislation controlling them. Mobility scooters | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
can do a lot of damage. People are getting hurt, people are getting | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
killed using these scooters because they don't know how to use them | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
safely. Her a quick trip to the shops ended in hospital for Graham | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
Marsland. Battered, bruised and broken he is the latest victim of | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
the scooter accident. I went over foreign loaf of bread and as I | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
stepped out of the shop on to the pavement I got hit. It was a | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
mobility scooter. It was quite a shock. It knocked me about eight | :11:50. | :11:59. | |
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feet. He broke my hip. I have had an operation on my shoulder. The | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
accident left Graham semi-conscious on the pavement. The scooter driver | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
was also shaken by the Commission. She was sat in shock. I felt a bit | :12:11. | :12:21. | |
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sorry for her. It was a bit of a loser lose situation for both of us. | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
The police got involved. She would have been traumatised to a degree | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
as well. While Graham was taken to hospital the scooter ended up here | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
among the mangled vaccinate police garage. It is being checked to see | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
if the speed setting was on for miles an hour. That is the legal | :12:42. | :12:52. | |
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Bit is happening more often, people are getting involved in collisions | :12:54. | :13:02. | |
with these things. This one ways in excess of 140 kilos. With the | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
driver on top of that, it is a considerable weight to be on the | :13:05. | :13:14. | |
pavement. Jenny Doe felt the full force of a mobility scooter on a | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
day out at a local show. It just kept coming, and when I turned | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
around, there was this elderly lady in his buggy, in this invalid, you | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
know, mobility scooter, and a I went, you have hit my leg! And she | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
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just looked at me as though, so? Just four hours later, this is what | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
her leg looked like. It was swollen because it was trapped underneath | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
the actual thing. It was swollen all round here. It just seems to me | :13:55. | :14:03. | |
that they are getting big here, -- bigger and heavier. Elderly people | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
- she was an elderly lady - have they got the strength to control | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
them?. Back in September, in Fareham, the victim was the driver | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
himself, but the 82-year-old man who crashed through a window off a | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
walkway leading to the local medical centre. He died at the | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
scene, after falling 12ft to the pavement below. Despite the | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
accidents, demand is high, with mobility scooter shops looking more | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
like car showrooms. They give people a lifeline, don't they? | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
do, without this, they could not leave the house. This one is the | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
maximum speed, 8mph. I do not need a licence, training or insurance. | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
That's right. It is not right, there should be a legal requirement, | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
but there is no actual or regulation, no legal the deletion. | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
Do you think there should be some changes to the law? Yes, I believe | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
there should be some kind of regulation from our level, we | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
should be regulated. It took Joyce Steeples six months to recover from | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
an accident after she was hit by a mobility scooter. She ended up in | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
hospital after getting knocked down on a pavement. I could not get up, | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
I was just dazed. I think the police car which was passing, they | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
phoned for the imbalance. Even when you were on the ground, the scooter | :15:33. | :15:42. | |
was still bumping into you? You do not expect to be knocked down on | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
the pavement, it is not right.. a scooter is involved in an | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
accident, the police have limited powers to prosecute, because they | :15:50. | :16:00. | |
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are not classed as vehicles, but as medical devices.? The legislation | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
does not cover them, unlike motorcycles or cars. We have | :16:05. | :16:14. | |
limited if any powers to deal with it.. The few rules there are have | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
not changed since the days of these vehicles, which have been obsolete | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
since the 1970s. Scott Moy said he would be lost without his scooter. | :16:23. | :16:32. | |
He cannot walk very far. I would be stuck in here 24/7.. Every year | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
around Christmas, former soldier Scott decks out his scooter with | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
tinsel and all the trimmings. it every year for the kiddies, they | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
come to accept it now. If I go down and I have not go to town, they | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
would be shocked. Scott has had no accidents in eight years as a | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
scooter driver. He does not feel welcome on the pavements or on the | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
roads, but he says he has got no choice. We are not allowed to use | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
the bus lane or the cycle path. If we are right in the middle of the | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
road, going more than 8mph, we are in the middle, with all of the cars. | :17:20. | :17:30. | |
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Then you get people shouting at you, get off the road. What do you do? | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
Safety campaign a John Seamons and says it is up to people to ride | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
their scooters responsibly, and not like this, with one being used as a | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
carpet carrier in Somerset. There is no restriction on who can buy | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
them, who can sell them, who can use them. You would not put a | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
person who cannot drive a car into a car and say, off you go. You | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
would not do the same thing with a motorbike. Johns says it is obvious | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
what needs to be done. Legislation stating these vehicles must be | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
checked every 12 months, like a car, to make sure they are safe, | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
training, and it does not take a lot of training... It just means | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
building the confidence of the person up. Today, John's wife, | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
Betty, is getting her first lesson in scooter riding from trainer | :18:21. | :18:31. | |
Simon Parrott. Do you drive cars? No, I do not. Oh, good. Until now, | :18:31. | :18:41. | |
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she has been too nervous to use one. Turned it. Do not touch that one or | :18:42. | :18:51. | |
that one. I was a little bit scared. When you first get on one, they | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
tend to run away with you. They tend to go too fast, and I did not | :18:56. | :19:06. | |
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Within an hour, she is braving the I certainly feel more confident. | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
And Betty is convinced insurance is a must. If you do not someone over, | :19:40. | :19:49. | |
that person has not got a leg to stand on. Meanwhile, Graham | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
Marsland has learnt that the police are taking no action against the | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
woman who knocked him down. have to deal with it. The irony is, | :19:58. | :20:07. | |
it is me who now needs the mobility scooter! But it is serious, really. | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
The Department of Transport says it is now looking at bringing in a | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
test for new users. Campaigners believe that is the only way to | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
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Join the debate on Twitter about mobility scooters. Finally tonight, | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
tracing your family ancestry could not be easier these days, mainly | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
thanks to the Internet. But how about tracing the ancestry of an | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
entire tome? Things get a bit trickier. But that is exactly what | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
this gang of enthusiastic volunteers is hoping to do here on | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
the Sussex coast. They are trying to find out as much as they can | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
about the ancestors of Eastbourne. I am really pleased with this | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
little but if, I think it is a lamb shoulder blade, but I found it! | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
is interesting, you do not know what you're looking at. Once you | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
start to find something nice, you do not want to stop. You just want | :21:16. | :21:25. | |
to get it done. This is the first year of a unique two-year project, | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
called Eastbourne Ancestors, a combination of archaeological digs, | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
scientific research and investigation which it is hoped | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
will make connections between people who live here today and the | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
people who lived here long ago. Archaeologist Jo Seaman is the man | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
behind it. It is about building up a picture of the people and the | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
place, whether that's Saxons that were living here, or Romans, Roman | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
British, even prehistoric people. Bronze Age and beyond, it could be. | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
Jo Seaman thinks more people would be interested in the history on | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
their doorstep if only they knew what was there. Ann and Simon Eyre | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
had no idea what was under their back doorstep until they decided to | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
build a bigger garage. This gave Jo Seaman's team the opportunity to | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
explore the garden, which happens to be close to an ancient burial | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
ground. We have lived here 25 years, and we have absolutely no idea that | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
we were sitting on top of this. thought that there has people -- | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
there has been people living here for years and years and years, | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
unbeknown to us, and sisters sitting under the back lawn for a | :22:35. | :22:44. | |
long time! Most towns in this part of the world are dotted with | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
evidence of previous human activity. Wartime bombing raids destroyed the | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
main museum in Eastbourne, so much of its history has had to be boxed | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
up. This town literally has skeletons in its claws it. We have | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
got about 300 of them down in the basement of the town hall, which we | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
have accumulated over the past 40 years, mainly from excavations in | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
Eastbourne. But they have not really been analysed properly, so | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
nobody has looked at them in depth to find out more about the people, | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
maybe the diseases they had, how they lived their lives. Show me | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
what you have got in here. We have got a male individual, and you can | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
see from his jaw, he has got really bad tooth decay. Osteo- | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
archaeologist Hayley Forsyth has been examining the skeletons of | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
about 200 Eastbourne Saxons. She says it is amazing what you can | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
tell from just a few bones and teeth. The enamel has been worn | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
away from things like grit in the diet, probably, and exposed the | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
area where than nervous are, so it would have been really painful. | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
is probably safe to say that this is the first time these Saxons had | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
overseen a toothbrush. There is a substantial team of volunteers from | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
near and far, working to learn more about the history of Eastbourne. | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
Tori Zeeger has come all away from Michigan, USA, to examine the | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
incredible collection of clavicles. It is the collarbone, which is | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
right up under your neck. It has three muscles attached to it, and | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
every time you move those muscles, the tendons will pull on the | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
clavicle, causing morphological changes. So, you can see where the | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
muscles attached. These clavicles show how active our ancestors were. | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
These were not puny, short Saxons, some of them were more than 6ft | :24:38. | :24:47. | |
tall and very strong. This clavicle is unusual. It has been suggested | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
that this man might have used a narrow extensively. You can tell he | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
is right handed. This is his right clavicle. His left, much less | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
developed. It is really awesome. Just down the hill from the Anglo- | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
Saxon burial ground is a strip of land which Jo believes was once the | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
location of a large house, dating back to the 14th century. What is | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
more, he thinks he has got the photographs to prove it. We are | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
hesitant to say it is a Manor House at this stage, but it has that kind | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
of feel. At least, a very wealthy landowner, I would think. And you | :25:29. | :25:36. | |
can see the flint work, it is quite detailed, isn't it? Yes, again, it | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
is indicative of a high-status building. The building was | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
demolished back in the 1960s to make way for a new housing estate, | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
but the Eastbourne Ancestors team has discovered that the medieval | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
foundations are still here, and it looks like Jo's plan to do high-vis | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
history is working. Eastbourne resident Ken Larkin saw the work | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
going on and brought along some photographs of his own. This is my | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
home, my area. The fields, the marsh, everything around here, my | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
playground. It was from that road to the railway line. And from here, | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
to the park. I had all of that to run about in. The strange thing is, | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
today, I find it quite emotional. Sort of just talking about the | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
people - I did not realise that was going to happen. And seeing it all | :26:35. | :26:43. | |
dug up as an archaeological site? The volunteers have found pottery, | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
bricks, belt buckles and all kinds of items, from the Bronze Age, | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
3,000 years ago, up to modern times. They have also found the wall of a | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
cellar, and by dating the material embedded above and below it, Jo has | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
worked out when the castle was built. I would doubt whether it | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
would be earlier than 1250. That fits in with medieval times, when | :27:07. | :27:17. | |
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The Eastbourne Ancestors jigsaw puzzle is slowly coming together, | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
piece by piece, but this is just the beginning. Over the next 12 | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
months, there will be more digs, and much more detailed analysis of | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
the skeletons in the town hall, including carbon dating, and even | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
reconstructing the faces of some of the Saxons, so that we can see what | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
they looked like. So, Jo is on the lookout for even more people to | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
roll up their sleeves and get involved, because he believes it is | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
important for all of us to get to know something of the people who | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
once lived where we live. People say, what is the point in digging | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
up the past? Well, it is a cliche, but the past can tell you so much | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
about the future, how to do things in the future. Even if all it does | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
is to give you respect for the area you are living in, or like to visit, | :28:06. | :28:16. | |
And we will have plenty more stories for you, same time next | :28:16. | :28:23. | |
week. Until then, bye-bye. Next time on Inside Out... At first we | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
moved away from family and friends to bring the children up down here, | :28:26. | :28:32. | |
to live the dream, but now, it has become more of a nightmare. We will | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
be meeting the West Sussex community which is fighting to save | :28:36. | :28:43. |