00:00 Hello, I'm John Gallery, Marketing Director at the World of James Herriot and Chairman
00:05 of Herriot Country Tourism Group. We're here at the World of James Herriot at the statue
00:11 of Alf White, who became James Herriot the most famous vet in the world. He's a phenomenon
00:18 really. We're celebrating 25 years of the opening of the World of James Herriot this
00:23 year and we've been delighted with the way that the number of visitors has grown over
00:29 the last 12 years that we've been running it as a private sector business in tourism
00:35 in Thirsk. The town has benefited from James Herriot's stories of his life as a vet for
00:41 a lot longer than 25 years and it's a phenomenon that we're really enjoying a resurgence of
00:48 since the development of the Yorkshire vet on Channel 5 and now All Creatures Great and
00:54 Small being remade from its original series which was on the BBC in the 1990s. So the
01:01 World of James Herriot is doing a really good job of explaining the original story and the
01:06 original artefacts and photographs and memoirs and so on about James Herriot and his family
01:11 and his life and all of those characters that he brought to life in his books which still
01:17 people enjoy so much today and we're delighted that the growth of the visitor numbers is
01:22 going upwards and people love it. We love it. We wish he was still here but you know
01:30 it's one of those things. We've enjoyed success and we see that continuing for the future
01:37 and hopefully more people will come.
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