00:00 Hi, so my name's Karl Allsopp, I'm the Operations Manager at the York Business Improvement District,
00:05 the York BID, and the York BID are responsible for the autumn project, the Ghosts in the
00:10 Gardens, and you can obviously see the bride here with me.
00:13 The Ghosts in the Gardens has been going three years now, we're in year three, and this year
00:17 there is more than ever, and they're spread out further than ever.
00:21 So we have 39 different ghosts in gardens around the city in 13 different locations.
00:26 As you can see they're all made of what we call a low aperture wire mesh, which looks
00:32 a bit weird on first view, but actually what that does is it means that as the light hits
00:37 them in different ways, they start to disappear and go quite ghostly.
00:42 Really they're not meant to be spooky, it's all about having a snapshot of history in
00:46 a beautiful location, which I'm sure you'll agree.
00:49 Over by the Hospitium here, an amazing wedding venue, we've got our bride who's rethinking
00:54 things in the beautiful Museum Gardens.
00:57 This year we've added a few new designs as well, so there's ten new ghosts.
01:01 We've got an astronomer, which sits on the roof of the largest observatory in Yorkshire.
01:07 We've got a bear in the Museum Gardens, which seems a bit random, but actually at the turn
01:12 of the century there was a menagerie in the gardens with eagles and monkeys and bears,
01:17 or a bear, and this particular bear kept escaping, he used to chase the gardener around the gardens,
01:22 so we thought what a nice little piece of little known history to bring to life.
01:27 Around the city as well we've got a miller over at the Castle Museum hoisting up a sack
01:32 of grain on the old mill there, which really brings that building to life really nicely.
01:38 We've also got a butcher or a butcher's wife throwing a bucket of slop out a window on
01:45 the shambles, much as it would have been back in medieval times.
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