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Poverty and Crime Everywhere... · Neil McCoy-Ward Podcast

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SPEAKER_00: This town does not seem to be looking too great.
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SPEAKER_00: Barbecue area.
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SPEAKER_00: And what is this?
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SPEAKER_00: Been smashed.
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SPEAKER_00: More graffiti.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean look at the signs.
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SPEAKER_00: Needles and sharps disposal.
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I was about to say that's abandoned but I just saw someone
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going into that shop there.
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SPEAKER_00: This branch is now permanently closed.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at the state of this.
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SPEAKER_00: Dumping ground it looks like.
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SPEAKER_00: That's gonna collapse at some point.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's have a look.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, there's stuff in there, look.
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SPEAKER_00: Hold on, we've got to stop for a moment to appreciate this sign here.
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SPEAKER_00: To kick off this season's city tours then around the UK and Europe,
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SPEAKER_00: I wanted to begin in the south of England.
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And these are twin towns which are very interesting because
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they used to be some of
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SPEAKER_00: the wealthiest towns in the country.
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SPEAKER_00: And since the business and the money left the towns,
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SPEAKER_00: they are now the poorest towns in the poorest county of the UK.
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I think a very powerful lesson here for what's happening with
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the UK government.
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SPEAKER_00: Because as the UK government continues to overtax,
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overregulate and drive away business owners and entrepreneurs
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from the country with
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SPEAKER_00: these new draconian laws and tax rules coming in,
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SPEAKER_00: this is what we could see for the rest of the country.
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Because when the money leaves,
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the tax base reduces,
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there's less money in circulation.
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and it causes towns and cities that were once very wealthy and
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have a lot of
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SPEAKER_00: industry,
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SPEAKER_00: a lot of money,
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SPEAKER_00: to fall very,
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SPEAKER_00: very quickly.
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SPEAKER_00: What is that on the other side of the street?
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SPEAKER_00: It's like a junkyard or something in someone's garden there.
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Okay,
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it's a very rainy day here,
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but already this town does not seem to be looking too great.
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SPEAKER_00: We've got closed stores everywhere so far.
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SPEAKER_00: Well,
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SPEAKER_00: so far I'm just seeing a lot of retail space available,
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SPEAKER_00: a lot of closed businesses,
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SPEAKER_00: and a lot of people driving crazy.
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SPEAKER_00: But let's take a walk down then.
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SPEAKER_00: More ways to talk, that mural says there.
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And then we just got a lot of graffiti everywhere and posters
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and things like that.
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SPEAKER_00: Everything seems to be gated up as well, which doesn't say much.
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SPEAKER_00: Looks like someone smashed this window in here.
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and this as well has been smashed interesting it's a bit of a
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rainy day here today
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so we're probably not going to see many people out because it
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is windy and it is
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rainy everything just looks boarded up continuing the walk then
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we'll go into the
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town center now i'm not sure what this was i mean that's from
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july look that poster
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SPEAKER_00: Look at this.
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SPEAKER_00: It's that coffee station on the left.
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SPEAKER_00: Guys, this is not looking good so far.
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SPEAKER_00: I've only just started filming already.
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SPEAKER_00: I guess this was quite beautiful at one time.
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SPEAKER_00: Just goes to show what happens when the money leaves a place.
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look it says this is for sale actually whatever this was at one
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time all concreted
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over now no idea what this was nice building though let's go on
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to this side of the
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SPEAKER_00: road now we got some rubbish on the floor we got another closed business
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SPEAKER_00: Now what's interesting about this statue here,
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SPEAKER_00: we'll have a look in a second,
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is that Redroof and Camborn were once not the poorest towns in
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the poorest county,
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SPEAKER_00: but they were actually the wealthiest towns because of the mining.
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SPEAKER_00: Think of today the AI rush.
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Well,
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this was back in the day,
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sort of 18th,
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19th century,
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was the mining rush.
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SPEAKER_00: So this is how they made their money.
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SPEAKER_00: This was a very wealthy place.
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SPEAKER_00: from mining.
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SPEAKER_00: It was copper mining predominantly.
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SPEAKER_00: Tin and copper mining.
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SPEAKER_00: Everything just looks to be a little bit worn.
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SPEAKER_00: Got more posters here and whatever.
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SPEAKER_00: No idea what that are.
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SPEAKER_00: I guess these were old ATMs.
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SPEAKER_00: Took out the ATMs.
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bear in mind it is a morning here that i'm recording so that's
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why you're not
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seeing many people out and also it's a rainy windy day here but
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look i mean you
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can't fake this stuff though because usually people say oh
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you're recording at 4am
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or something like that you can't fake this stuff that's all
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boarded up that's
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SPEAKER_00: obviously gone whatever that was
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SPEAKER_00: Over here, that's all boarded up as well.
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SPEAKER_00: Someone smashed that window, look.
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SPEAKER_00: So this is the, I guess this is the high street.
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SPEAKER_00: Another one there to let, so to rent.
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SPEAKER_00: Barbers always seem to be doing well though.
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SPEAKER_00: Got a barbershop here.
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SPEAKER_00: Barbers always seem to do well.
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SPEAKER_00: Plenty of pigeons.
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SPEAKER_00: You've got to have your pigeons in a typical high street.
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SPEAKER_00: And of course, a pasty shop.
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SPEAKER_00: You've got to have a pasty shop.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at this.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at this.
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SPEAKER_00: This has seen better days.
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SPEAKER_00: It just takes a second.
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SPEAKER_00: Plenty of rubbish scattered around.
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SPEAKER_00: Is that their recycling?
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe that's their recycling.
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SPEAKER_00: A creative art space for hire, really.
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SPEAKER_00: That's what happens when the business goes.
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SPEAKER_00: You get creative art spaces.
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SPEAKER_00: Got a cinema here.
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SPEAKER_00: Perhaps you're doing some work.
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plenty more rubbish here we've got another art installation
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just here look as they
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as they call these things these days art installations another
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barber shop a bit of
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SPEAKER_00: coming and going in this barber shop
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SPEAKER_00: This is nice though.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at this.
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SPEAKER_00: Got some beautiful flowers arrangements here.
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SPEAKER_00: Some hanging baskets outside the credit union.
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SPEAKER_00: But then right next to it, look what you've got.
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SPEAKER_00: What is this?
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SPEAKER_00: You've just got a load of bin bags full of rubbish.
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SPEAKER_00: What is going on here?
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SPEAKER_00: What is all of this?
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SPEAKER_00: Another barber's here.
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SPEAKER_00: Plenty of barbers, eh?
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SPEAKER_00: There's always loads of room for barbers.
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SPEAKER_00: This looks nice here.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's have a look in here.
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SPEAKER_00: See what it is.
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SPEAKER_00: This looks beautiful actually.
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SPEAKER_00: Nice.
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SPEAKER_00: So they've got this little courtyard area here.
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SPEAKER_00: This looks nice actually.
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SPEAKER_00: I guess this was an old church.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think this was an old church at one point.
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SPEAKER_00: Obviously it lost the roof.
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SPEAKER_00: and then they just made it an outside courtyard.
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SPEAKER_00: Nice!
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Over on the other side of the street then,
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I don't know if anyone actually lives there.
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SPEAKER_00: But it says,
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this site improvement was created by the young people of
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Redruth to celebrate the
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SPEAKER_00: town's past,
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SPEAKER_00: present and future.
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Well,
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if you look at this,
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does that really look like a celebration to you?
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SPEAKER_00: It doesn't look like much of a celebration to me.
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SPEAKER_00: It says, welcome to Redruth, the heart of Cornish mining.
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SPEAKER_00: And yet, what exactly is this?
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SPEAKER_00: Behind here.
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SPEAKER_00: It's all overgrown.
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SPEAKER_00: The building next to it is falling down.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, it's almost falling down.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at the brickwork in the middle there.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me zoom in.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at that.
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SPEAKER_00: That's going to collapse at some point.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we have a bookstore opening soon.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at the size of this structure here.
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SPEAKER_00: With rubbish next to it.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh and in here.
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SPEAKER_00: What is this?
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SPEAKER_00: What is all of this in here?
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SPEAKER_00: Look at the state of this.
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SPEAKER_00: Dumping ground it looks like.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at this, look at this.
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Improving the appearance of this site was voted by the
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community as a priority.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: It's an interim measure while long-term regeneration is awaited.
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SPEAKER_00: How long has this been here?
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SPEAKER_00: If you're from Redruth, please let me know.
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SPEAKER_00: This doesn't look like it's an interim thing to me.
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Look at the size of the buddleia and trees and weeds growing
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out of this thing.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, it's been here so long it's started to rot.
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SPEAKER_00: It's rotting.
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what is this the state of this you can see it's actually a
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beautiful town all the
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architecture here the old architecture you can see the
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different time periods as
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well with it by the by the stone and then over time they've
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added to it and they've
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SPEAKER_00: made adjustments to it like this window here
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SPEAKER_00: So there are some beautiful things here.
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SPEAKER_00: Unfortunately, this is what happens when the money leaves a location.
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SPEAKER_00: And believe it or not,
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SPEAKER_00: in the 18th century,
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SPEAKER_00: Redruth was the largest copper-producing mining town in the world.
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SPEAKER_00: Just vast, vast riches in the 18th century.
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And this continued through to the 19th and even the 20th
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century,
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actually.
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SPEAKER_00: But they also mined tin here as well, as well as arsenic.
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SPEAKER_00: So that was used in dyes and pesticides, things like that, arsenic.
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SPEAKER_00: So they mined tin even before copper and after copper as well.
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SPEAKER_00: So the riches that were so vast.
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SPEAKER_00: And actually,
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SPEAKER_00: quite interestingly,
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SPEAKER_00: they've started to find more mining deposits yet again in this area.
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SPEAKER_00: So the area of Redruth and Cambod.
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SPEAKER_00: Lots of art installations, as I like to call them.
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SPEAKER_00: Very rainy today.
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SPEAKER_00: What do we have in here then?
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not exactly sure.
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SPEAKER_00: It kind of looks abandoned here.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe some new development about to go on.
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SPEAKER_00: Wow, it is windy.
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SPEAKER_00: That's a lot of ivy that's been growing for years, decades probably.
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SPEAKER_00: OK.
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SPEAKER_00: Barbecue area.
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SPEAKER_00: And what is this?
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SPEAKER_00: What is this?
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SPEAKER_00: Some sort of dumping ground by the looks of things.
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SPEAKER_00: So sad to see all of these old churches looking like this.
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SPEAKER_00: So sad indeed.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm sure back in the day this was a really really nice town.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm sure it was.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm sure it was beautiful back in the day.
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SPEAKER_00: But you can just see now.
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SPEAKER_00: It's just beauty salons, hair, barbers, funeral homes.
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SPEAKER_00: And a lot of boarded up shops everywhere.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's take a walk down this street then.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, first one we're seeing is not looking good.
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SPEAKER_00: Got a hair place on the right.
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SPEAKER_00: Gyms, whatever gyms is.
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SPEAKER_00: Looks like it sort of does a bit of everything.
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SPEAKER_00: Got a car park down there.
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SPEAKER_00: Nice old stone monuments here.
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SPEAKER_00: Quite neglected.
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I think some of the,
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oh another barber shop,
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how many barbers do you need in one town?
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SPEAKER_00: I think some of these businesses are seasonal as well,
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SPEAKER_00: so we're out of season at the moment,
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SPEAKER_00: hence why some of them are closed,
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SPEAKER_00: although some of them are just closed permanently,
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SPEAKER_00: nothing to do with the season.
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SPEAKER_00: It does look like they're doing some development though,
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SPEAKER_00: if I turn the camera around here and show you.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a ton of graffiti,
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but it looks like there's a spot here they're going to develop
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because there's some
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SPEAKER_00: newer houses in the background with all solar panels,
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SPEAKER_00: of course.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, here we go then.
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SPEAKER_00: Walking into Cambon here.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at the sign.
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SPEAKER_00: Hold on.
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SPEAKER_00: We've got to stop for a moment to appreciate this sign here.
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I think that tells you everything you need to know about a town
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when their sign
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SPEAKER_00: looks like that.
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SPEAKER_00: We've got some beautiful architecture here on the windows.
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SPEAKER_00: Camborn Library.
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SPEAKER_00: That's a beautiful building, that is.
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SPEAKER_00: Really nice building.
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SPEAKER_00: And then on the right here, this says, it was the old fire station.
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SPEAKER_00: But look at this lamppost and the sign.
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SPEAKER_00: They really need to hire some street cleaners, really.
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SPEAKER_00: But look at this beautiful old fire station here.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's walk into the
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main town then and see what's going on i'm on the outskirts of
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the town now then
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walking in so far it doesn't look too bad from the reports that
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i had saying that
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this place was quite rough doesn't look too bad so far so let's
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keep walking
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SPEAKER_00: without getting run over
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SPEAKER_00: Just looks like an old seaside town to me.
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SPEAKER_00: Gosh, it's pouring down with rain here.
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SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm going to look like a drowned rat by the end of this.
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SPEAKER_00: But yeah, we got some, I mean, we got some clothes.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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SPEAKER_00: We got some clothes stores here.
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SPEAKER_00: So we've got the first of the clothes stores behind me.
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SPEAKER_00: This is going to be a wet one.
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SPEAKER_00: This is going to be a wet one today.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of old mining.
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These are old mining cottages down here that they've converted
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by the looks of things.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, everything looks to be closed.
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SPEAKER_00: But then again, it is a morning.
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SPEAKER_00: It is wet.
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SPEAKER_00: It is windy.
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SPEAKER_00: So a lot of the local business owners,
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know,
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maybe they just decided not to open today because they probably
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thought they
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SPEAKER_00: wouldn't get any business.
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SPEAKER_00: Look in here.
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SPEAKER_00: Just walking by some of these gardens.
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SPEAKER_00: Just rubbish everywhere.
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SPEAKER_00: So we got a Chinese, looks like it's gone.
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SPEAKER_00: Tattoo place.
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SPEAKER_00: All the good stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: Another barbers.
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SPEAKER_00: How many barbers does this area need?
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SPEAKER_00: Here we go, some more rubbish here.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know what it is.
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SPEAKER_00: Why do people just put all of their rubbish in the front gardens now?
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SPEAKER_00: I've noticed this pattern throughout England.
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SPEAKER_00: People just seem to pile up rubbish in their front garden.
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SPEAKER_00: Looks like an old bar or something there.
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SPEAKER_00: Another unit to let.
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SPEAKER_00: This was a massage place.
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more graffiti okay we're getting close to the town center by
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the looks of things
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now then look at this look at the state of this this looks like
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a nice building i
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SPEAKER_00: wonder what this used to be here you can see the time here is 12 o'clock
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SPEAKER_00: I have to put the time in somewhere.
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SPEAKER_00: You know why,
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SPEAKER_00: if I don't put the time in somewhere,
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SPEAKER_00: then people say,
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SPEAKER_00: oh,
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SPEAKER_00: he recorded this at four o'clock in the morning,
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SPEAKER_00: or things like that,
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SPEAKER_00: because they just don't believe.
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I don't know why,
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but sometimes people just don't believe the videos when I walk
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around.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, here we go.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the Wetherspoons now, then.
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SPEAKER_00: Erected by John Francis Bassett in 1866, this building.
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SPEAKER_00: We've got people beeping.
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SPEAKER_00: And we've got yet again another barbershop.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, because you can't have too many barbershops in one town.
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SPEAKER_00: Cash only, of course, most of these barbershops.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not just here, it's everywhere.
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SPEAKER_00: These barbershops, they're everywhere now.
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SPEAKER_00: Just got some guys came out the alleyway there when I was filming.
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SPEAKER_00: Not sure what they were up to.
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SPEAKER_00: Gone.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's have a look around this square then.
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Well,
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there's plenty of gambling shops around,
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so that shows you what the economy's like.
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SPEAKER_00: We've got a William Hill behind here.
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SPEAKER_00: There's also a bingo hall just up there behind me.
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SPEAKER_00: Nice little square here.
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SPEAKER_00: What's this?
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Some sort of a monument presented to the town of Canbourne by
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John Holman in 1890.
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SPEAKER_00: Looks like a
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SPEAKER_00: Little fountain here.
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SPEAKER_00: Beautiful.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, that shows you how much money there was.
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SPEAKER_00: If you think how much...
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SPEAKER_00: I know it would have been back in the day 1890,
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SPEAKER_00: so you can't compare the price today.
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SPEAKER_00: But if we did an inflation adjustment on this,
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SPEAKER_00: this would have cost,
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SPEAKER_00: what,
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SPEAKER_00: 20 grand or something in today's money to install something like this?
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe more.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe more.
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it's beautiful it looks like it's in granite here so again it's
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designed to last a
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very very long time but yeah this place is uh very worn out and
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it really does show
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you what happens when the industry leaves a place like for this
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town here this
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region was mining they they were very very wealthy very wealthy
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indeed from mining
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and when the industry leaves it shows you what happens the town
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loses the money
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SPEAKER_00: And things start to go downhill.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's take a walk down this side street here then.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, this is probably a church at some point closed down.
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You're probably fed up of hearing now about churches closing
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down,
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but that is the...
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SPEAKER_00: That is the nature of things now.
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All the churches have,
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all these old beautiful churches anyway,
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have since closed.
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SPEAKER_00: Being replaced by now a lot of modern churches.
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SPEAKER_00: I think we're seeing a revival actually in the UK.
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SPEAKER_00: I really do think we're seeing a revival in the church.
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within the uk which i think is a great thing really bring
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values back to the uk
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where the media for so long have just been giving people their
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values and it
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obviously hasn't worked because we've never been so divisive as
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we are today looks
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like they're building something here then got another one out
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here then says
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SPEAKER_00: This shop is now closed.
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SPEAKER_00: We'd like to thank all our staff, customers, etc.
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SPEAKER_00: So there's another one gone.
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SPEAKER_00: This is open.
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SPEAKER_00: There you go.
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SPEAKER_00: We've got our business open.
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SPEAKER_00: And Superdrug is open.
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SPEAKER_00: So there are some businesses open here.
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SPEAKER_00: It looks like we've got more out down here then.
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SPEAKER_00: M & Co.
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SPEAKER_00: It's all boarded up on the left.
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SPEAKER_00: This branch is now permanently closed.
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SPEAKER_00: That was a Santander bank here, permanently closed.
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SPEAKER_00: Another barber shop.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, how many barber shops do you need in one town?
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, look at this old gentleman here ahead.
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SPEAKER_00: He's looking smart, isn't he?
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SPEAKER_00: Looking very smart indeed.
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SPEAKER_00: There we go.
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SPEAKER_00: They don't dress like that anymore, do they?
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of people.
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SPEAKER_00: Another pasty shop here.
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SPEAKER_00: I might grab one, actually, in a minute.
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SPEAKER_00: Cafe over there, gone.
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SPEAKER_00: Another beautiful old church, which is now a Costa Coffee.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we go, look at that.
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SPEAKER_00: Beautiful, beautiful.
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SPEAKER_00: It's just amazing what we're now seeing.
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I feel like I'm in one of these dystopian movies walking around
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a lot of these
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SPEAKER_00: British towns now,
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SPEAKER_00: you know?
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It's like we're living in the relics of the old world,
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all this beautiful architecture.
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SPEAKER_00: Beautiful, beautiful.
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SPEAKER_00: And now what is it all?
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SPEAKER_00: It's a Costa coffee shop.
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SPEAKER_00: Sad.
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SPEAKER_00: It's very sad, really.
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SPEAKER_00: I just got the middle finger there.
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SPEAKER_00: Someone obviously doesn't like me filming.
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SPEAKER_00: Just got the middle finger.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, there you go.
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SPEAKER_00: Got a lot more people out now though.
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SPEAKER_00: Still rainy, but we got this over here as well.
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SPEAKER_00: It's all gone.
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SPEAKER_00: Something on the right here.
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I was about to say that's abandoned,
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but I just saw someone going into that shop there.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's obviously open.
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SPEAKER_00: What is it?
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's a little mini market on the corner there.
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SPEAKER_00: You wouldn't think it though.
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SPEAKER_00: You'd think that was a closed business there.
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SPEAKER_00: There we go.
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SPEAKER_00: More tattoo studios again.
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SPEAKER_00: And hair and barber.
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SPEAKER_00: I've lost count now.
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SPEAKER_00: What's that?
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SPEAKER_00: Eight barbers?
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SPEAKER_00: Something like that.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know how many more barbers we can get in one town.
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SPEAKER_00: I haven't seen anyone in any of them either.
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SPEAKER_00: So I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know what's going on in these barbershops.
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SPEAKER_00: How many barbershops is that now?
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SPEAKER_00: I think was it seven or eight?
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SPEAKER_00: And I haven't seen anyone in these barbershops anyway.
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SPEAKER_00: So I don't know what's going on in these barbershops.
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SPEAKER_00: Seven or eight barbershops in one town.
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SPEAKER_00: Empty.
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SPEAKER_00: No one in them.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's go up here.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a big building ahead of me here.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's have a look what this is.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, another beautiful church again.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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SPEAKER_00: Obviously been closed for some time now.
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SPEAKER_00: Looks like a lot of bird poo there.
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SPEAKER_00: So yeah, there we go.
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SPEAKER_00: That's where the birds are.
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SPEAKER_00: More art installations.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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SPEAKER_00: Another shop out there.
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SPEAKER_00: And another one for sale.
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SPEAKER_00: I think they're probably best off.
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SPEAKER_00: Just turning all of these old businesses here,
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SPEAKER_00: these old shopfronts,
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SPEAKER_00: turning them into accommodation.
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SPEAKER_00: Since they're so short of housing,
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it doesn't make sense that the planning officers would reject
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so many of these
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SPEAKER_00: businesses being converted into homes.
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SPEAKER_00: I think that would be the sensible thing to do.
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SPEAKER_00: Convert them into a couple of apartments.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, let's have a look what this is then in front of me.
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SPEAKER_00: I spotted this building from right down the street.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's a church.
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SPEAKER_00: That's what this is.
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SPEAKER_00: 1839, it says there.
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SPEAKER_00: There it is, 1839 on this church.
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SPEAKER_00: What a wet day.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope it's not like this all the time here.
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SPEAKER_00: But very, very wet day.
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SPEAKER_00: People are obviously not used to cameras here as well.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm getting lots of stairs.
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SPEAKER_00: I've had one middle finger so far.
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SPEAKER_00: Not bad.
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SPEAKER_00: More graffiti.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, look at the signs.
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They need to just get someone around,
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clean the signs,
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or even buy some more signs.
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SPEAKER_00: It can't cost that much to hire someone for a month.
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just go around and clean all these signs surely surely it can't
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cost that much but
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i will say the people here seem very nice very friendly people
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i've only had one
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middle finger lots of stairs one middle finger so that's not
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too bad at all usually
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gosh go to london go to bradford go to birmingham i'm running
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i'm being chased out
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SPEAKER_00: of the areas
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SPEAKER_00: What was this?
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SPEAKER_00: Sunday school stone.
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SPEAKER_00: Made in 1887.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, look at the quality of the buildings back then.
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SPEAKER_00: 1887 this was built.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at it.
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SPEAKER_00: Just beautiful stonework.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, okay, the joinery, the windows and doors probably need updating.
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SPEAKER_00: But look at the stonework on it.
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SPEAKER_00: Beautiful.
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SPEAKER_00: Really nice.
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SPEAKER_00: Danger anti-climb paint.
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SPEAKER_00: Obviously they've had some issues here.
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SPEAKER_00: There's the graveyard here.
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SPEAKER_00: Just taking a walk down the side streets now then and the alley,
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SPEAKER_00: see if I can spot anything down here,
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SPEAKER_00: but all seems pretty normal,
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SPEAKER_00: pretty standard.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like normal housing, really.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of the miners' cottages.
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SPEAKER_00: Very windy, very wet, but that made me laugh as I walked by.
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SPEAKER_00: 36.
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SPEAKER_00: Rubbish bin.
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SPEAKER_00: So you just pile it all up there.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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SPEAKER_00: Another barber's up here.
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SPEAKER_00: How many barbers?
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SPEAKER_00: Seriously?
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SPEAKER_00: And a betting shop.
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SPEAKER_00: So we've got another betting shop.
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SPEAKER_00: We've got a barber's...
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SPEAKER_00: Check this out then.
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SPEAKER_00: Needles and sharps disposal.
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SPEAKER_00: For the disposal of needles and sharps only,
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SPEAKER_00: please ensure all sharps are fully inserted into the bin.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Do I even want to look in here?
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SPEAKER_00: Go on.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's have a look.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, there's stuff in there, look.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at that.
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okay that's worrying ladies and gents what i just saw there
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that is worrying
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they've obviously got some sort of an issue here all right i
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think it's time to get
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a pasty now then yeah this guy's got the same idea time to get
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a pasty i know i'm
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SPEAKER_00: gonna get i'm gonna get a nice steak pasty here
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SPEAKER_00: Here we go then.
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SPEAKER_00: Nice steak pasty here.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's get into this and then we'll carry on.
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SPEAKER_00: This guy here is doing a good job keeping the streets clean.
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SPEAKER_00: Really good job.
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SPEAKER_00: We've got some activity down here then.
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SPEAKER_00: We've got a Poundland and we've got an Argos,
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SPEAKER_00: which I think the Chinese are bidding on Argos at the minute,
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SPEAKER_00: aren't they?
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SPEAKER_00: So that'll be interesting.
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SPEAKER_00: And here's the front of that building, by the way.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at that.
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SPEAKER_00: The John Francis Bassett.
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SPEAKER_00: Beautiful, beautiful building now owned by Wetherspoons.
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SPEAKER_00: It's now a pub.
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SPEAKER_00: The supermarket looks busy anyway.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of people in the supermarket.
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SPEAKER_00: We've got another church here.
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SPEAKER_00: It just shows you how much money used to be here in Cambon.
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SPEAKER_00: The amount of churches there are.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's take a walk down Church Lane here.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, just needs a bit of a clean.
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SPEAKER_00: That's all they need.
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SPEAKER_00: A bit of stone cleaner on that.
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SPEAKER_00: It'll come up nicely.
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SPEAKER_00: Here's the churchyard here then.
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SPEAKER_00: Wow, that's a lot of kegs at the back of Wetherspoons here.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of heavy drinking goes on here in Cambod.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, what's going on there then?
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SPEAKER_00: Look at all those kegs, eh?
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SPEAKER_00: Should we have a walk in the cemetery here then?
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SPEAKER_00: Let's have a look what's going on.
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SPEAKER_00: Are they maintaining this place?
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SPEAKER_00: Not really, I'd say.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, the whole thing...
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We're sort of seeing a pattern here in Camborne and some of
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these other towns and cities.
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SPEAKER_00: When the money disappears,
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SPEAKER_00: people just,
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SPEAKER_00: there just isn't the same amount of resources to maintain everything,
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SPEAKER_00: the upkeep.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, hold on.
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SPEAKER_00: What's that?
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SPEAKER_00: Another sharps bin here.
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SPEAKER_00: How many of these are there around here?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they're not upkeeping the cemetery at all.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at it.
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SPEAKER_00: It's all overgrown.
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the headstones are overgrown as well in that those clumps there
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sad shame really
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real shame so here we have one of the pumping engine houses
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this is just on the
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outskirts of cambourne here then you can see the size of the
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industry that would
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SPEAKER_00: have been here and you can see just here this was the boiler house
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SPEAKER_00: So it would have held, what, four, five boilers?
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SPEAKER_00: Let's have a look, see what this sign tells us.
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SPEAKER_00: Five boilers, each producing steam to power the engine.
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SPEAKER_00: So where we're standing here was the working space.
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SPEAKER_00: This area here was the working space then.
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Again,
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you can see the stonework that's changed over the years with
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the orange brick here.
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You've got more sort of quartz granite stone here and then a
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different stone.
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SPEAKER_00: This will be a local Cornish stone higher up.
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SPEAKER_00: There was a doorway there in the middle that they've bricked up.
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You can see they've patched it up with a number of different
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stones and bricks over the years.
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SPEAKER_00: And here we go.
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SPEAKER_00: And behind me was the rag room.
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SPEAKER_00: I could do with that today, actually, because I'm absolutely drenched.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's where they would dry out their clothing there in the rag room.
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SPEAKER_00: But it's quite fascinating.
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SPEAKER_00: I wonder how much energy these boilers use.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me look at the size of them.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
35:55
SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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SPEAKER_00: Half a ton of coal an hour to produce enough steam for the engine.
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SPEAKER_00: Half a ton per hour.
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SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine that today?
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I don't think the climate people would allow half a ton of coal
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per hour to be
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SPEAKER_00: burned per engine behind me here to power these engines.
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Let's keep walking around then and let's see what else we can
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see at this site.
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I'm not sure what this room here would have been,
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but that's what the doorway was for.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the engine pumping house here then.
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SPEAKER_00: It looks to be closed, so we can't go in.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure why it's closed, but look at the size of these pipes then.
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SPEAKER_00: Absolutely enormous.
36:46
SPEAKER_00: Wow, look at the wind.
36:49
SPEAKER_00: Gosh, it's a strong wind today.
36:51
SPEAKER_00: Wow, what's this?
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SPEAKER_00: Broken up whatever this sign was.
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SPEAKER_00: Now we can't get in here because it's all fenced off,
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SPEAKER_00: but I can still pretty much give you a good view here.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at that.
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SPEAKER_00: That was the pumps or the pistons just above here.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at the size of these things.
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SPEAKER_00: These would have created the energy here for the pumping via the steam.
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SPEAKER_00: And just looking at the size of these beams here,
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Absolutely rotten now,
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completely rotted away,
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just left out in the elements here.
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So give it a few years and there'll be nothing left of these at
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all,
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unfortunately.
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SPEAKER_00: Huge, huge pipes here, enormous pipes.
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SPEAKER_00: Looks more like a bunker than it does for mining.
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SPEAKER_00: See what's inside here then.
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SPEAKER_00: Not much.
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It did say online that this was open today,
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but it doesn't look like it is.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure why it's closed,
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but that's a shame because I would have liked to show you
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inside this museum here.
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SPEAKER_00: They don't want you going in here, that's for sure.
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SPEAKER_00: Gosh, how many padlocks and chains on this?
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SPEAKER_00: So what's this then?
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SPEAKER_00: That looks like a fan.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe an extractor.
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SPEAKER_00: I think it's probably an extractor fan.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, something like that.
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And again,
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if we look at the chimney,
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you see that that's modern brick up there.
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SPEAKER_00: And when I say modern, I don't mean, you know, five, ten years.
38:47
SPEAKER_00: I mean a long time ago.
38:49
SPEAKER_00: But you can see lower down,
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look at the size of those stones that they would have had to
38:53
get up there to build
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SPEAKER_00: that.
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SPEAKER_00: Those stones are big.
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SPEAKER_00: They are very heavy indeed.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so that was funny then.
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SPEAKER_00: It is actually open behind stone.
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SPEAKER_00: Although it's not open.
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So they said it's closed today and I couldn't go in the
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building because of high winds and rain.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't get that at all.
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SPEAKER_00: That makes absolutely no sense.
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SPEAKER_00: But it is a National Trust site.
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SPEAKER_00: So there we go.
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SPEAKER_00: If you know, you know what I'm talking about.
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SPEAKER_00: But at least we can walk around and see the grounds a little bit here.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there we go.
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SPEAKER_00: There's one of those pistons there.
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