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Hello from South Bristol. Tonight, the dramatic personal journey of an

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I will be pretty much on the alcohol from the moment I wake—up really. I

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just want not to be thinking of drink all the time. I just want

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just want not to be thinking of be respected again and liked again.

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Also tonight, the modest man behind When you are standing at the bottom

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of Park Street and you look up the hill and there is this tower. It is

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I'm Alastair McKee and this is First, an extraordinary insight

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I'm Alastair McKee and this is one man's fight to give up alcohol

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before it kills him. Andy Farlow drinks up to 10 litres of cider

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before it kills him. Andy Farlow day. We follow his painful journey

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through detox. Matthew Hill has It is 5am in Hengrove in Bristol.

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Andy Farlow has been awake for an hour. I tend to wake up very early

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morning. I will have my cup of tea first and I will be on the alcohol

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from the moment I wake up really from after that cup of tea. And

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from the moment I wake up really I will find myself drinking until I

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have not enjoyed it for ages, but it is a part of my life and since my

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wife died ten years ago, I have is a part of my life and since my

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drinking all the time and I need to do something. I'm 48 years of age

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and if I don't do something, I will I haven't got my children with me

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now and that's down to drink and Andy has two 14—year—old boys who

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are being looked after by a family friend. I feel terribly guilty that

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I'm not the one that's caring for them. I just want not to be thinking

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of drink all the time. In a year respected again and liked again

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As well as being an alcoholic, Andy suffers from schizophrenia, a mental

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voices. He Dricks up —— I drinks up to ten litres of cider a day. This

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is my downstairs. I have not been able to use it at all for a long

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time due to drink. As you can see, suppose, no alcoholic's house is

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pretty. It will be when I'm sober. He doesn't eat properly. These are

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the remains of the last meal he He doesn't eat properly. These are

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And that was two days ago. I feel Everywhere. Andy can't just stop

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drinking. Doctors have told him Everywhere. Andy can't just stop

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he does, he could die. He needs professional help. This unit in

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Bristol is the only NHS funded hospital in the city which has an

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inpatient facility for alcohol detox. We manage that by giving

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people replacement drugs for the alcohol and then lowering them over

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alcoholic every fortnight. Andy alcohol and then lowering them over

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been on a waiting list for two months. Today, is the day he has

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been waiting so long for. He is about to begin his detox. A new

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start now. A new start now which I'm determined as hell not to wreck

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anymore. So this is the best thing that's going to happen to me. It

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really is. He has agreed to let that's going to happen to me. It

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follow him through the process. that's going to happen to me. It

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is the first time cameras have been allowed in. Andy has discussed how

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much he was drinking and he was drinking approximately 40 to 50

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units a day. So that's equivalent to a bottle—and—a—half of spirits.

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The staff book him in and take him to his room. He will spend the next

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searched for alcohol and other breathalyzed so they can work out

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long, slow breath. That's it. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going.

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It is 0.6. Right. OK. So we need it to be a little down and then we

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It is 0.6. Right. OK. So we need it start your medication. Okey dokey.

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Thank you. Here we go to detox. start your medication. Okey dokey.

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the best man win and he is dying to. Room six. Where is that garden?

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It has been 36 hours since he was admitted and Andy is starting to

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sober up. It is making him feel anxious so he has come to see the

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REPORTER: You seem to be worried, what's the problem? I can't stop

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little bit concerned about my home. It is empty at the moment because my

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friends are looking after my dog. schizophrenia is becoming more

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pronounced. My voices are getting stronger and louder, but they are

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Andy is given alcohol replacement drugs, painkillers and a sedative to

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help him through the night. Thank you. I have had my meds again and I

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will calm down in 10 or 15 minutes. I'm just concerned about my voices

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REPORTER: What sorts of things are they saying? I don't discuss that. I

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don't. I discussed it once and they sectioned me. I'm not being rude,

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but they might. They are personal voices. I made a cup of tea and

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but they might. They are personal going to go and drink that. I will

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As well as the drugs, Andy has found another way of coping with his

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worsening mental health. It helps me distract from my voices because

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worsening mental health. It helps me have to concentrate fully on what

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I'm playing. It is really good for Sometimes I rock it out without

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It is midnight and lights out. It is time to try and get some sleep.

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It is midnight and lights out. It is staff check on him hourly. But for

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Andy, the drugs seem to be working and he sleeps soundly through his

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It has been five days and Andy has started to take an interest in the

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garden. Part of the therapy here is for patients to grow their own

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reintroducing them to food. I think I have got all my carbohydrates

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reintroducing them to food. I think what have you fr alcohol. I am

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eating three meals here. I am going to have to continue that when I

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leave detox and go home. I can't afford to go back to how I was.

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Have you thought about a drink? Do you know, I think about a drink

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every day, several times a day. you know, I think about a drink

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reasonably confident that I can carry it off and I can remain sober.

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More so because I want to build carry it off and I can remain sober.

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contact with my children, my lovely children. I miss them terribly.

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next time they see me, I want them to see daddy well. I want them to

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see me sober. I would like them to see daddy well. I want them to

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It's been a week and Jan has come to Hi, how are you? You are towards the

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tail end of the medication to help Not too sedated, but not to alert?

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Alcohol detox, with appropriate care, goes smoothly. It is not a

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problem, people whether it. He has weathered it well. He is now trying

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to move on and unpack all the issues that were there that the alcohol was

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Andy's body has been weaned off that were there that the alcohol was

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chemical dependence on alcohol. that were there that the alcohol was

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What we do first of all is look that were there that the alcohol was

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what recovery is. Group therapy that were there that the alcohol was

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other reformed addicts is a key that were there that the alcohol was

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Andy's not had a drink now for that were there that the alcohol was

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days. It's something others in the I remember how difficult it was

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days. It's something others in the to drink for one day. Through my own

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willpower, I couldn't stop myself. For 12 days. Hats off to you, mate.

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That's the end of today's workshop. Since I've been doing that, I've

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been affecting me for years. It Since I've been doing that, I've

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me even more determined to stay sober. I'm absolutely determined to

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stay sober. I got three more nights totally safe. Then I go home to

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stay sober. I got three more nights It's... It's a little bit daunting.

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The reality is, I don't know if It's... It's a little bit daunting.

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going to be sober for the rest of my life, but that is my intention.

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It's been two weeks and today Andy's going home. He's finished the detox.

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Take care. Like you very much. I was really nervous about leaving the

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ward but I'm optimistic now. I'm really excited about going home

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ward but I'm optimistic now. I'm seeing my animals. And seeing my

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kiddies soon and just to get back in to society. I've had a really good

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detox all the staff have been great and the service users but I just

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one of 26 alcoholics to get funding You can detoxify, that's easy. Most

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people think if I detoxify I'm addicted, I've climbed the mountain

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reality is here's the molehill of detox and then there's two to three

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years of climbing up. Easy to fall back down. That two to three years

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requires input and support. If they leave and there's no support for

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them then the next time they have a crisis, the first thing they'll

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think of is to reach for the bottle. But if they have the support from

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services like the AA or drug and rehab services then that improves

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their chances. Everything improves Andy's friends have been true to

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their word. They've cleaned his house. This is different. This is

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not how I left it, either. This house. This is different. This is

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brilliant. I realise that I can house. This is different. This is

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this, and I've got the support in the community. I will have support

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from mental health stop under got somebody on the end of a phone

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should I be tempted to drink, which It's been a month and Andy's still

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dry. Today is the tenth anniversary of his wife's death. He's come to

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Bedminster Down Cemetery with his This will be the first year since

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your mummy died that I've not been a Make it a big change? As in, not

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It's obviously a very sad day for us all. It's good to be sober. It means

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more, I think. It means more respect to Mandy that I'm not drinking.

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more, I think. It means more respect just a sad day. It is ten years

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today. I keep thinking, ten years gone. Lots of respect for my mum and

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my dad as well for, like, stopping I think it's a great improvement.

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illness, schizophrenia, the alcohol wasn't helping at all. Knowing he's

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stopped that will make a great year's time, you'd see me as I am

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now, but even better. And hopefully I'll have my children back. They

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haven't got a mummy. In a year's time, I'll be one year sober. As

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one—year—old. But it is just for today. You live just for today.

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one—year—old. But it is just for just for today, I'm not going to

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And it's been 126 days for Andy since filming and he's not had a

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drink. Well done to him. For more information and support relating to

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the issues in Andy's film you can visit the BBC action line website —

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that's bbc.co.uk/actionline or you can call for recorded information on

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hours—a—day and are free from most landlines. Some networks and mobile

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operators will charge for the calls. Next tonight, anyone who has visited

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Bristol will be familiar with its yet there was much less fanfare

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Bristol will be familiar with its the life of their architect Sir

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George Oatley, as Mark Horton has architecture, but one building looms

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large in every vista — the Wills Memorial Building. Yet the man who

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created the so—called "Lantern of the West" was a private man who

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loathed publicity, and his humble life was a stark contrast to the

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characterises much of his work in Even the building where I work — the

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designed by George Oatley. Much Even the building where I work — the

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Bristol's wealth was generated by the great non—conformist families

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such as the Wills, the Robinsons and non—conformist himself, was able to

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rely on them as the patrons for non—conformist himself, was able to

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His parents were members of one non—conformist himself, was able to

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the wealthiest and most influential the building and restoration of

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churches was to play a key role the building and restoration of

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Sir George Oatley's working life. The most important restoration that

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Oatley believed he'd been entrusted was John Wesley's New Room. Built by

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the movement's founder, this is was John Wesley's New Room. Built by

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oldest Methodist chapel in the century, Oatley restored it to its

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simple, yet beautiful original state, in which it seems that time

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has stood still. But the decade leading up to this project, the

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1920s, was perhaps the most prolific I've come to the Physics laboratory

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at the University of Bristol, one of the many Oatley—designed projects

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funded by the Wills family. Brian Pollard is the department archivist.

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So Brian, why did the University think it needed such a grand Physics

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I think Artur Tindall, the head think it needed such a grand Physics

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appreciated that there would be think it needed such a grand Physics

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rapid growth of physics. It would be a subject that would influence

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industry and technology. Wills paid for Tindall and also orderly to

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visit the United States where many of the new colleges and universities

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were building buildings at the cutting edge. He brought back ideas

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of how to build a state—of—the—art Is this actually fit for purpose of

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The architect's brief was to be sympathetic to the design of the

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original building. He asked if the interior walls could be moved to

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He had enough foresight to build a space fit for the 21st—century full

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Oatley's most important creation, building, is the Wills Memorial

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million pounds to build over a building, is the Wills Memorial

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year period interrupted by the First World War, there is much more to

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this great edifice than the tower that dominates the view from the

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The glorious entrance hall is more befitting of a cathedral than a

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enormous Founder's Window, and probably the last fan vault ceiling

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built in Britain, 75 feet above probably the last fan vault ceiling

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ground. At the top of the stairway, sits the bust of Sir George Oatley.

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Sarah Whittingham, to find out more So Sarah, here we are in the Council

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extraordinary structure this, is it Oh, I think so yes, in terms of

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extraordinary structure this, is it scale of it, the monumentality of

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it. When you're standing at the bottom of Park Street and you look

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up the hill there is this soaring tower at the top of it, it lifts the

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spirits, it's a symbol of Bristol. To what extent do you feel that

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spirits, it's a symbol of Bristol. incompatible with his much more

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modest non—conformity background? His patrons shared his beliefs,

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modest non—conformity background? he practised his profession as a

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means of serving God, and if the Wills brothers wanted a grand,

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prominent building on the top of Park Street that's what he would

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Do you think Oatley would have been comfortable with the grandeur of the

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He really had to go with it, because Bristol. The streets were full of

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rooftops to see the King and Queen. Oatley said to someone that he

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really didn't want to be there. Oatley said to someone that he

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said that if your buildings were any themselves. If they aren't then

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And would he have been happy with He didn't tell anyone about it.

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And would he have been happy with didn't tell his family. They read

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about it in the papers. When he actually went to get the knighthood

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at the Palace in London, he didn't take his wife. He was very much

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at the Palace in London, he didn't Bristol architect serving his city

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So perhaps in this anniversary year we should celebrate his memory.

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He may not have wanted us to, but I It wasn't just for young people

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He may not have wanted us to, but I Oatley built grand buildings, but

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here at St Monica's he constructed more of a mansion than a nursing

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home for the old people of Bristol. Through the ornate entrance, bearing

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the monograms of the project's benefactors, Henry Herbert and Mary

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Monica Wills, you enter a corridor which is an eighth of a mile long,

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with private rooms on one side, facing south into the vast gardens,

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Augustine's Chapel — the final part This was the chapel that Oatley

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could never build in the secular university. Money was no object

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could never build in the secular creating this magnificent Gothic

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But the best bit is the garden front facing out over some 12 acres of

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parkland. One of the wings is in this kind of Tudor, Arts and Crafty

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style, but it doesn't prepare you Jacobethan style with all these

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classical details and things, just like actually what he was building

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at the same time in the University. But that's hardly surprising because

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it's 1925. What I find extraordinary is that all these grand buildings

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were going up at the same time, using the same craftsmen and the

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Vehemently anti—publicity, Oatley continued to work steadily up to his

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death in 1950, but never again on projects as iconic as those he

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carried out in the 1920s, which earned him his Knighthood. He was

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interest from the press and public — So here we are. George Herbert

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Oatley, 1863 to 1950. What's so interesting about this tombstone is

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simple, very plain. But actually did he need a grand tomb, because his

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extraordinary buildings in Bristol. Well, that's just about it for this

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week but if you'd like to keep in touch with what we're up to then you

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can find us on Twitter. Or you can email us: But from all of us here in

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Bristol thanks for watching and goodnight. Next week: food glorious

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