:00:08. > :00:15.Good evening and welcome to Inside Out - stories from your region.
:00:15. > :00:22.Here is what is on tonight's show. One year after he was buried as a
:00:22. > :00:28.hero, we find out how the people of Leeds feel about Jimmy Savile pulls
:00:28. > :00:32.up all of a sudden this man has become an ogre. I am horrified at
:00:32. > :00:40.what he did. He is a Jekyll-and- Hyde character. It is just for a
:00:40. > :00:44.war. Also tonight, the criminals taking a liberty with history.
:00:44. > :00:51.can get an incident on any night of the beaker people urinating in the
:00:51. > :00:56.city centre. And how we're uncovering the glories of a
:00:56. > :00:59.neglected masterpiece at York Minster. I will find out how the
:00:59. > :01:04.crafts men and women have been getting on with their Herculean
:01:05. > :01:14.task. It is most important because it is about Europe's place in the
:01:15. > :01:23.
:01:23. > :01:30.beginning and end of all things. -- When you're old Leeds and buried
:01:30. > :01:36.its most famous son, at Jimmy Savile. Thousands lined the streets.
:01:36. > :01:46.How do people feel now? Is there a sense of shame? We have been
:01:46. > :01:47.
:01:47. > :01:50.finding out. In hindsight, the clues were there. It is like
:01:50. > :01:58.someone telling you you're with the Yorkshire Ripper and she did not
:01:58. > :02:08.know it. He was a classic cycle path.
:02:08. > :02:11.
:02:11. > :02:14.He died as he led, in the public eye and flamboyant.
:02:15. > :02:17.When Jimmy Savile died last year, over 5,000 people came to visit his
:02:17. > :02:20.coffin. Crowds more lined the streets for his funeral cortege.
:02:20. > :02:24.Fans, friends and those who were just curious. Leeds people claimed
:02:24. > :02:26.him as one of their own - he was one of the most famous figures in
:02:26. > :02:29.Britain, but he had stayed rooted in the city.
:02:30. > :02:37.Anyone who lives in Leeds, like me, has a memory of Jimmy Savile -
:02:38. > :02:44."used to run past my house", "saw him in his favourite restaurant".
:02:44. > :02:49.This afternoon as we celebrate Jimmy Savile.
:02:49. > :02:52.And it seems, we were all taken in. The stories that are coming out -
:02:52. > :02:54.hundreds of claims of child sex abuse, many carried out on the
:02:54. > :02:56.premises of loved and trusted institutions - have shocked the
:02:56. > :02:59.world. For the people who turned out last
:02:59. > :03:01.year to mourn him, it is like a second bereavement.
:03:01. > :03:05.Many people thought of themselves as Jimmy Savile's friends. Lois
:03:05. > :03:08.first met him when he fixed it for her to fight Henry Cooper. This
:03:08. > :03:11.turned into a friendship with the presenter when she later moved to
:03:11. > :03:21.Leeds. He used to jog along Street Lane,
:03:21. > :03:21.
:03:21. > :03:26.would stop and talk to anyone. did you feel when you read about
:03:26. > :03:34.what he had done? Or what he is alleged to have done. I could not
:03:34. > :03:38.believe it. He seemed genuine and genuinely friendly and nice in 1976.
:03:38. > :03:44.And every time afterwards. But to think he has been doing this there
:03:44. > :03:48.will time that he has been famous. It is very uncomfortable. I have
:03:48. > :03:53.started to put all my memorabilia at to do with him in a box and take
:03:53. > :03:59.it off the wall, my family do not want to see it. I want to forget it,
:03:59. > :04:06.I am horrified by what he did, he is a Jekyll and Hyde character. It
:04:06. > :04:13.is horrible. The first thing they will experience is a sense of shock.
:04:13. > :04:17.The present that you thought they were suddenly is not.
:04:17. > :04:22.psychologist has worked with sex offenders for many years.
:04:22. > :04:25.trusted this person and it is a sense of betrayal. Someone has to
:04:25. > :04:30.treat themselves in one way and they had not been who you thought
:04:30. > :04:34.they were. That is a small reflection on the kind of betrayal
:04:34. > :04:39.that the abuse victims would have felt. I spent a lot of time alone
:04:39. > :04:44.with them out for lunch and at his flat. I never once found him to be
:04:44. > :04:49.creepy. If anything he was a perfect gentleman and very
:04:49. > :04:52.intelligent and why is with good advice about various things. He was
:04:52. > :05:00.interested in news and current affairs. How did she feel when the
:05:00. > :05:05.stories began to emerge? I felt sick. Over the last few weeks what
:05:05. > :05:11.we have seen has been devastating. He was a classic cycle path, at no
:05:12. > :05:17.question about it. One of those features is I'll ability to beat
:05:18. > :05:23.superficially charming and to be a very good comparison. Someone who
:05:23. > :05:27.is good at smoke and mirrors. And then you Allied that with a sense
:05:27. > :05:37.of grandiosity about who the art and a sense of entitlement. There
:05:37. > :05:39.
:05:39. > :05:42.are not accountable and normal rules do not apply.
:05:43. > :05:45.They are trying to erase the reminders of his links to the city,
:05:46. > :05:49.but even so, there are parts of Leeds that will forever be
:05:49. > :05:52.associated with the man - Consort Terrace where he grew up, the LGI
:05:52. > :05:55.where he volunteered as a porter... And here, County Arcade, home of
:05:55. > :05:58.the old Leeds Mecca dance hall where Jimmy first became a DJ.
:05:58. > :06:00.This was when rumours began that the entertainer had a more violent
:06:01. > :06:03.and aggressive side. Legend has it, he was introduced to professional
:06:04. > :06:07.wrestling by the bouncers at his club. Big Daddy - Shirley Crabtree
:06:07. > :06:17.- used to do the door for him. His brother Max Crabtree spotted the
:06:17. > :06:18.
:06:18. > :06:25.DJ's potential as a fighter. He was a bag of Bones. I do not mince
:06:25. > :06:30.words but he had some spirit. he a good wrestler? No, he was a
:06:30. > :06:39.man of the world, he knew his role. There were guys there that could
:06:39. > :06:48.have broken him in half. But he was value for money. Was it a shock
:06:48. > :06:53.when used on allegations? Yes. An emphatic yes. It felt so sad, in a
:06:53. > :07:01.way I am glad his mother is dead. She loved him dearly. It would have
:07:01. > :07:09.been terrible. And I am a family man, all of these things, it is an
:07:09. > :07:15.aspect of life that you never think about and then all the sudden, it
:07:15. > :07:25.is there in black and white. Alison to the radio and all of a sudden
:07:25. > :07:26.
:07:26. > :07:32.this man has become a real ogre. Wherever he went, Jimmy Savile
:07:32. > :07:37.seemed everybody's friend. But a few resisted the presenter's charm.
:07:37. > :07:44.I came across him in the early 70s when we met up in a small village.
:07:44. > :07:49.He popped out of his camper van. I thought he was ridiculous. He was
:07:49. > :07:52.the most peculiar person I ever filmed. If anyone said that
:07:52. > :07:58.Frankenstein meet this man and all the bets were not there, I would
:07:58. > :08:05.say yes, but his time. The managed to get have right of the bolt
:08:05. > :08:08.through his neck. As time went by, here is a man with a knighthood, he
:08:08. > :08:14.is a top performing start at BP -- at the BBC, are earning money for
:08:14. > :08:19.charity, and very powerful. So somebody would say to themselves if
:08:19. > :08:24.I go to the police and say that I personally as a cameraman think
:08:24. > :08:32.this guy is a paedophile, they would have asked me what proof at
:08:32. > :08:37.heart. But he never did have the proof. People ask me why did not
:08:37. > :08:43.know. In hindsight the clues were there for all to see. But there was
:08:43. > :08:48.nothing concrete or official. The police had not found anything. They
:08:48. > :08:53.said there was no evidence. So after that, after the police
:08:53. > :08:56.inquiries, I just put it down to rumours. I asked him and he looked
:08:56. > :09:01.me in the face and said that it goes with the territory had that he
:09:01. > :09:08.had people queuing up outside the room. He was dismissive as that I
:09:08. > :09:11.was talking nonsense. A year ago I stood here
:09:11. > :09:13.interviewing mourners at the funeral. This year it is a city
:09:13. > :09:17.ashamed of its most famous celebrity. Visiting teams chant
:09:17. > :09:26.abuse at Elland Road, people won't speak and it is not just a
:09:26. > :09:31.reluctance to be associated, there is a feeling of hurt and betrayal.
:09:31. > :09:36.When he died it was like a state funeral. At the time I thought it
:09:36. > :09:37.was a little bit over the top. was a little bit over the top.
:09:37. > :09:40.was a little bit over the top. Maybe that is just my a being from
:09:40. > :09:46.Maybe that is just my a being from Leeds. He was a local hero. A
:09:46. > :09:53.little bit like an embarrassing uncle. How do you feel now? It does
:09:53. > :10:01.not look good. He has been venerated by as here but also by
:10:01. > :10:06.the nation. People are rightly proud of someone who is the mess
:10:06. > :10:16.and does something in society. But that is part of his skill to dupe
:10:16. > :10:20.
:10:20. > :10:30.people, it made him more Still to come, we go behind the
:10:30. > :10:33.
:10:33. > :10:38.scenes at York Minster for a very I would historic buildings are a
:10:38. > :10:42.magnet for tourists and generate millions for the local economy. But
:10:42. > :10:52.the now also attract the attention of criminals. These heritage cranes
:10:52. > :10:56.
:10:56. > :10:59.are a problem across the North. He Howarth, an traditional Yorkshire
:10:59. > :11:01.village. It would be little more than a footnote in a guidebook,
:11:01. > :11:09.except for one thing. This is the parsonage in Howarth,
:11:09. > :11:12.which was home to the 19th-Century literary dynasty, the Brontes. In
:11:12. > :11:14.fact, it was in this very room that Emily Bronte wrote the masterpiece,
:11:14. > :11:22.Wuthering Heights. Howarth depends on tourists for its
:11:22. > :11:25.survival. Among the sights is the church where the Brontes' brother,
:11:25. > :11:32.Branwell was parson, attracting over a million visitors a year. But
:11:32. > :11:41.now its gates lie closed, another victim of heritage crime. He can
:11:41. > :11:43.see where some of the water has come through.
:11:43. > :11:47.How much is it costing to do all these repairs?
:11:47. > :11:50.Well, we have reached our insurance limit so it has probably cost us
:11:50. > :11:53.about �5,000 at least, and the gain of the value of the metal, probably
:11:53. > :11:57.�100 at the most. It looks bad from out here, but it
:11:57. > :11:59.is only when you step inside that the true cost of the lead theft is
:11:59. > :12:02.revealed. Well, there you are, you can see
:12:02. > :12:04.the damage caused by the water, especially in the recent days, it
:12:04. > :12:08.is really destroying the plaster and the paintwork.
:12:08. > :12:11.What is the knock-on effect of that, I mean has it damaged any of the
:12:11. > :12:14.artwork inside? Well, have a look at the top there.
:12:14. > :12:16.You can see that quite a bit of the artwork has disappeared.
:12:16. > :12:18.Just the way that the paint is chipping away.
:12:18. > :12:20.Yes, exactly. You must feel a huge responsibility
:12:20. > :12:26.to protect this church for future generations?
:12:26. > :12:30.Oh, definitely. It is the parish church, it is the parish of Howarth.
:12:30. > :12:33.It belongs to the people of Howarth, so it is not protecting the church
:12:33. > :12:36.for the sake of the building, it is protecting it for the sake of our
:12:36. > :12:37.community, and actually Britain generally, because it is an income
:12:37. > :12:40.generator. English Heritage say that
:12:40. > :12:49.nationally more than 70,000 listed buildings were damaged in the last
:12:49. > :12:52.year. The heart of a historic city. If these streets could talk, what
:12:52. > :12:57.stories would they tell of Chester's past? It was invaded by
:12:57. > :13:07.the Romans in 79AD. It was besieged by the Royalists during the English
:13:07. > :13:09.
:13:09. > :13:13.Civil War. But now it is facing its Spending a penny, whatever you call
:13:13. > :13:20.it, when you get the call of nature, you have to answer, but surely you
:13:20. > :13:22.wouldn't do it here? Well, you and I wouldn't, but that is exactly
:13:22. > :13:27.what the town's late night revellers have been doing, turning
:13:27. > :13:29.Chester's historic rows into an open air toilet.
:13:29. > :13:32.We became really aware of the problems when businesses started
:13:32. > :13:33.complaining to us about the problem of urine dripping through from the
:13:34. > :13:36.rows into the shops below. Seriously?
:13:36. > :13:38.It was a horrendous situation. Getting through the wood, beneath
:13:38. > :13:42.to the shops? Dripping all the way through. They
:13:42. > :13:45.are an ancient structure. You can see there some of the damage that
:13:45. > :13:48.has been caused by people who have chosen to urinate on the rows.
:13:48. > :13:50.And that...that paint that has been worn away, that is from urine
:13:50. > :13:54.eroding it? That is right. So we started to
:13:54. > :13:57.have a look at what the extent of the problem was, and we had some of
:13:57. > :14:00.the clean-up teams reporting to us when they were finding pools of
:14:00. > :14:04.urine. We were horrified to find that there were up to 30 incidents
:14:04. > :14:07.on any night of the week of people urinating in the city centre.
:14:07. > :14:11.30 people a night? Up to 30 people a night, and many
:14:11. > :14:14.of them on these ancient rows. Public urination is nothing new.
:14:14. > :14:18.Cities the world over are plagued by it. It is a public order offence
:14:18. > :14:22.and carries a hefty fine of up to �400. But when it threatens
:14:22. > :14:24.somewhere like Chester, it is a heritage crime.
:14:24. > :14:34.The city centre is a site of archaeological importance. There
:14:34. > :14:38.are only five in the country. It is also a major conservation area. We
:14:38. > :14:40.have got 126 listed buildings of which 11 are grade 1, and 26 grade
:14:40. > :14:46.2 star. But Chester Council has come up
:14:46. > :14:49.with a unique way of tackling the problem.
:14:49. > :14:54.It is Friday night. Chester's medieval past is forgotten, drowned
:14:54. > :14:59.out by boozy revellers and the clack of high heels. Everyone is
:14:59. > :15:02.out on the town. All except Paul Hunt and his team.
:15:03. > :15:05.So tell me about where we are right now?
:15:06. > :15:15.We are in the CCTV control centre for Cheshire West and Chester
:15:16. > :15:19.
:15:19. > :15:22.Council. We operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Even on Christmas
:15:22. > :15:25.Day there is somebody sat in here looking out for other people's
:15:25. > :15:28.interests. And we store all that information for 31 days.
:15:28. > :15:31.It is 2am and the pubs and clubs are shutting up. If you are caught
:15:31. > :15:34.short, even at this hour, the public loos are still open, but
:15:34. > :15:37.this man has taken matters into his own hands.
:15:37. > :15:42.Can we just ask you just then, you just... We just saw you weeing, in
:15:42. > :15:45.the...in the Chester Rows. I never. We just...we just...saw you, why
:15:45. > :15:49.did you do that? Did you not want to go to a toilet instead?
:15:49. > :15:51.Well, getting anyone to curb their ways after they have had a few
:15:51. > :16:01.isn't easy, but this is where the council's clamp-down kicks in
:16:01. > :16:06.
:16:06. > :16:09.because this man is about to get a rude awakening.
:16:09. > :16:12.Camera control, is there any 5-1s who can attend The Cross?
:16:12. > :16:14.The man wanders off, but there is no escape from the CCTV men.
:16:14. > :16:17.5-1, David to CCTV. Go ahead, David.
:16:17. > :16:19.Just confirm for us that you have still got this man on camera and
:16:19. > :16:22.his location. Control, yes yes. Carry on.
:16:22. > :16:24.Offenders usually face a court appearance, �400 fine and a
:16:24. > :16:27.criminal record. But Chester's pioneering a different approach.
:16:27. > :16:29.Instead, anyone caught can pay �75 to go on an awareness course, and
:16:29. > :16:33.if they do their slate is wiped clean.
:16:33. > :16:35.We bring them in at 6am in the morning and they get to hear video
:16:35. > :16:38.presentations on how it affects local businesses, how it affects
:16:38. > :16:41.schools, residents and then we bring them out on the rows.
:16:41. > :16:43.The feedback from that is really positive because they say that they
:16:43. > :16:46.hadn't thought about the consequences to the heritage, to
:16:46. > :16:49.the children having their picnics, to the tourists, to the people of
:16:49. > :16:53.Chester, to the people who live here and the people who have to
:16:53. > :16:55.clear up and so that is a really good thing and none of the people
:16:55. > :16:58.who have been on the course have reoffended.
:16:58. > :17:02.There are many types of Heritage crime, but many are fuelled by
:17:02. > :17:09.metal theft, and in the North East this takes on a sinister form.
:17:09. > :17:11.They enter illegally at night. They target historic sites.
:17:11. > :17:15.And they plunder and steal our national heritage.
:17:15. > :17:19.Welcome to the world of the Nighthawk.
:17:19. > :17:23.Nighthawking is unauthorised metal detecting. People that go on
:17:23. > :17:29.scheduled sites and dig the stuff up and you don't know what they are
:17:29. > :17:31.taking and you don't know where it is going.
:17:31. > :17:38.This is Low Chibburn in Northumberland, the ruins of a
:17:38. > :17:40.14th-Century monastery run by the Knights Templar. It is a protected
:17:40. > :17:49.site of archaeological significance, now under threat from illegal metal
:17:49. > :17:52.detecting. Some time ago, we had a couple of
:17:52. > :17:55.incidents reported which led to the site being visited by myself and
:17:55. > :17:57.English Heritage, and what we found was quite clearly some of the turf
:17:57. > :18:01.and grass had been cut and lifted back.
:18:01. > :18:04.This is a monument which we think is 700 years old, isn't it? So what
:18:04. > :18:06.are your concerns for the future if these type of things keep
:18:06. > :18:10.happening? My real concern is that they are
:18:10. > :18:14.actually going to damage the structure. If we had people digging
:18:14. > :18:17.around the foundations, as you can see, it has been left in situ for
:18:17. > :18:20.people to come and enjoy, but if they continue to dig there is a
:18:20. > :18:23.real issue with the integrity of the building.
:18:23. > :18:26.Well, so far there haven't been any more disturbances at Low Chibburn,
:18:26. > :18:34.but Northumbria Police are still monitoring the site to ensure the
:18:34. > :18:37.Since we filmed in Haworth during the summer, we are happy to report
:18:37. > :18:42.that the church roof is now fixed and St Michael's is open again to
:18:42. > :18:45.be enjoyed by tourists and parishioners alike. And in Chester,
:18:45. > :18:49.their pioneering approach to anti- social behaviour crime is paying
:18:49. > :18:54.off. But until there is a wider understanding of heritage crimes
:18:55. > :18:57.across the north of England, our past remains under threat. And that
:18:57. > :19:07.means keeping an ever-watchful eye, and protecting our unique heritage
:19:07. > :19:15.
:19:15. > :19:22.A stained glass windows of York Minster are amongst the finest and
:19:22. > :19:27.rarest in the world. They take pride of place in the collection.
:19:27. > :19:35.It is being painstakingly restored, and it is a process that has
:19:35. > :19:38.revealed a neglected masterpiece. Among the majestic splendours of
:19:38. > :19:44.York Minster, there's one that many feel stands out. The Great East
:19:44. > :19:47.Window. Perhaps the finest and largest Medieval stained glass
:19:47. > :19:50.window in the world, it has brought pilgrims from around the globe for
:19:50. > :19:52.centuries to marvel at its intricate design. Well, that was
:19:53. > :19:57.until 2008, when all this scaffolding went up, and it sadly
:19:57. > :20:00.disappeared from view. Regular visitors were heartbroken as the
:20:00. > :20:10.great masterpiece was taken down bit by bit, and removed for
:20:10. > :20:11.
:20:11. > :20:15.essential repairs. In terms of the scale and ambition of the work, it
:20:15. > :20:20.is up there with something like the Sistine Chapel, but it was very
:20:20. > :20:24.little known compared to Michelangelo's great work. One of
:20:24. > :20:28.the objectives was to make people aware of this masterpiece in their
:20:28. > :20:34.midst. In its place has hung this this digital reproduction in itself
:20:34. > :20:38.one of the the world's biggest examples of graphic art. But soon
:20:38. > :20:41.though, visitors will be able to see the real Great East Window up
:20:41. > :20:44.close and personal in a way they never could have had access before.
:20:44. > :20:47.For the past few years the window has been undergoing restoration
:20:47. > :20:52.here at the York Glaziers Trust, and I'm about to go inside to see
:20:52. > :20:55.how the craftsmen and women are getting on in their Herculean task.
:20:55. > :21:03.Heading up the team of handpicked restorers is art historian, Sarah
:21:03. > :21:09.Brown. This looks like an incredibly complex process. Where
:21:09. > :21:14.do you start? We start where we are starting now, as we bring the panel
:21:14. > :21:19.into the workshop we take photographs of it. We make a 1-1
:21:19. > :21:23.drubbing so that we have effectively a map, locating all of
:21:23. > :21:27.the individual glass pieces and their relationship to each other
:21:27. > :21:32.and that provides us with a map on to which all the other processes
:21:32. > :21:38.can be placed as we go through the various stages. Then you take the
:21:38. > :21:42.lead out? Taking the lead out of this panel and then we can lay out
:21:42. > :21:47.on top, all the individual glass pieces that make up this very
:21:47. > :21:49.complicated jigsaw. Sarah and her team can feel the weight of history
:21:49. > :21:58.on their shoulders, as they carefully peel back the centuries,
:21:58. > :22:02.year by year. She is cleaning away residue and dirt from lamps, from
:22:02. > :22:07.Gaslight, from cobwebs and dust, and all the time, she is monitoring
:22:07. > :22:15.what she does with a microscope so that she is not risking stretching
:22:15. > :22:17.any paint or glass offices. -- surfaces. Taking the window as one
:22:17. > :22:21.huge storyboard, its designer John Thornton used the stained glass
:22:21. > :22:26.panels to reveal an epic vision of the Apocalypse. He took a subject
:22:26. > :22:30.that was not uncommon in the Middle Ages, but he re-imagined it for his
:22:30. > :22:35.own time and created a work of immense ambition, imagination and
:22:35. > :22:40.power. It is important to York Minster because its subject matter
:22:40. > :22:45.is about the place of York in the beginning and end of all things, of
:22:45. > :22:50.history. Have the techniques and skills changed since the window was
:22:50. > :22:54.first made? Some of the techniques have changed very Little. The way
:22:54. > :22:58.that we will eventually replace the window would be recognisable to a
:22:58. > :23:04.medieval glazier. One thing that has changed is the way that we cut
:23:04. > :23:09.glass, so when we are trying to distinguish between medieval glass,
:23:09. > :23:14.and any insertions introduced from the late 18th century onwards,
:23:14. > :23:17.examining the edge of the glass can be very helpful. It takes about two
:23:17. > :23:22.months to conserve each of the window's 300 panels, with the
:23:22. > :23:27.highly-trained team of 11 using a variety of different skills. This
:23:27. > :23:32.is actually quite study, it is thick and solid, and it has been
:23:32. > :23:39.bonded together with breaks in it, but that has already been bonded
:23:39. > :23:44.together, so it is quite sturdy. Sometimes you're matching a new
:23:44. > :23:47.piece to piece that is corroded, and the glass can be as thin as an
:23:47. > :23:52.eggshell, so then you have to be quite careful and it is nerve-
:23:52. > :23:56.racking. In Thornton's day, the paints would have been fixed, mixed
:23:56. > :24:00.with wine and urine. Today they use vinegar and lavender water. You
:24:00. > :24:06.have a nice studio with all the mod cons. Does it make you think about
:24:06. > :24:12.what the medieval craftsmen did, and their conditions? It astounds
:24:12. > :24:17.me they could produce such fine works of art given how crude their
:24:17. > :24:25.facilities were. I take my hat off to them. So how does the modern
:24:26. > :24:29.team's work compare? This is the finished article? It is, exactly.
:24:29. > :24:35.Talk me through the difference between when it came in and now
:24:35. > :24:39.that it is finished. One of the most striking differences is that
:24:39. > :24:45.the relationship between class and lead is as close to their original
:24:45. > :24:51.medieval relationship as we can get it. The glass is not submerged
:24:51. > :24:58.under lead, and as a consequence of the cleaning, it is greater and
:24:58. > :25:04.lighter, and the drama of the scene emerges from the gloom. You can see
:25:04. > :25:07.the narrative a lot better. You can indeed. But the painstaking work
:25:07. > :25:12.going on here is just part of a complicated jigsaw, which will see
:25:12. > :25:14.the panels being displayed with a very 21st century twist. A few
:25:14. > :25:18.miles away from the antique glaziers, a group of computer
:25:18. > :25:22.experts are hard at work creating a fresh new setting for some of the
:25:22. > :25:25.panels. Together with engineers and joiners, they're putting together a
:25:25. > :25:29.Grand Orb - a sort of mini time- capsule where visitors to the
:25:29. > :25:37.Minster will be able to step inside and see some of the restored
:25:37. > :25:41.stained glass face to face. And today, for the first time, those in
:25:41. > :25:51.charge of the project have come to see how their plans are starting to
:25:51. > :25:51.
:25:51. > :25:56.come to life. As visitors enter this space they are confronted with
:25:56. > :26:01.by conserve panels from the window and can get their faces right up to
:26:01. > :26:06.the glass. It is a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity for visitors
:26:06. > :26:11.to see the details. So far, so good - but no one's taking anything for
:26:11. > :26:18.granted. When you're working on scale drawings, you think, it all
:26:18. > :26:24.to fit. But how will it translate to the mighty Minster? Hopefully it
:26:24. > :26:27.will mitigate all those headaches in and the design process. Fingers
:26:27. > :26:31.crossed that the mix of ancient and modern will get the public's
:26:31. > :26:36.blessing. I am nervous but excited. It will be a great credit to
:26:36. > :26:39.everyone involved in delivering this. With the team confident
:26:39. > :26:42.they're on the right track, it's time to start assembling the orb in
:26:42. > :26:45.the Minster itself. With more than 3,000 pieces to put together, it
:26:45. > :26:48.takes a six-strong team three weeks to complete it, working quietly and
:26:48. > :26:52.carefully around the cathedral's daily rythmns of births, deaths and
:26:52. > :26:54.marriages. And today, with everything now place, it's time to
:26:54. > :27:00.see if this latest chapter in the Minster's colourful history has
:27:00. > :27:10.gone according to the script. And who better than Sarah to help me
:27:10. > :27:11.
:27:11. > :27:18.assess the finished work? Look at this. Howard Wright and clear it is.
:27:18. > :27:22.Are you happy? Yes, thrilled and excited. Here, for the first time
:27:22. > :27:26.in York Minster we have created an equivalent for a short period of
:27:27. > :27:30.time of a wonderful exhibition space and it enables you to
:27:30. > :27:37.appreciate that these on a par with great paintings in the National
:27:37. > :27:41.Gallery, for example. And Sarah's not the only one who's impressed.
:27:41. > :27:48.It is fantastic that you can step back into the past and see what was
:27:48. > :27:53.done through the minds of the workers. I think it is ground-
:27:53. > :27:58.breaking. But what would the designer John Thornton make of it
:27:58. > :28:03.if he was teleported forward in time? I hope he would have been
:28:03. > :28:07.ratified that 600 years on we are so impressed with his work, but I
:28:07. > :28:12.think he would have found it an extraordinary experience, to see it
:28:12. > :28:15.at eye-level in an exhibition he would have found rather peculiar.
:28:16. > :28:19.The window is due to be fully restored and back in place in 2016
:28:19. > :28:29.and it'll be a few hundred years before anyone gets the chance to
:28:29. > :28:30.
:28:30. > :28:36.That is all from us for tonight. Remember, if you have got the story