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00:00I can't believe we're at this place and I still pinch myself. Now we can be
00:19inside, like properly inside. It's brilliant. It's just a question of them
00:26waiting and letting the plaster dry. It's very delicate because it's so thick and
00:34it has to be looked after. Nancy did a love hat in the plastering and she's
00:44tried to cover up but it's failed. Pretty bad. In the plaster? Yeah.
00:51Is she really worried? No. Is that a worried look? Yes. It's definitely a worried look. Mum, come on, look at it. It's very...
00:57Right. Mum, look at this. Ta-da! Oh my God. That is beautiful artwork. We'll remember forever.
01:07I'll have to think of it. Don't make it worse. Is that Nancy's feet? Yeah. Probably. Clog it off. Yeah, clog it on.
01:15That just makes it unique and the unique houses are the best houses to have around this place.
01:36Nothing less said about this the better. Right, are you done? Looks better. Right, sponge it off and let's walk away. Come on.
01:54Come on. Look at the bottom of my phone.
02:24Right, do you guys want to put everything in for camping?
02:51Hello.
02:52We're off camping.
02:53Yeah, get that bag.
02:55So it's just packing up all our bits and pieces that we need.
02:59Jump in!
03:00Jump in!
03:00You and whoever else is camping.
03:17It's so exciting because the summer holidays are here.
03:20We're at a stage now with Aunty Johns and the renovation that we just have to sit and wait
03:29for the plaster to dry because we can't proceed inside until we've got some of the moisture
03:34out of the building.
03:35So we've made hay and we've sheared sheep, but we aren't holidaymakers.
03:42We really don't go on holiday.
03:44In fact, we don't really go anywhere.
03:45So going on a camping trip just down Boggle Hole, that is, to me, the perfect holiday.
03:52It means that light o'clock, dark o'clock, time doesn't matter anymore.
03:59Right.
04:00Carry on.
04:01Right.
04:02Everybody get something because you might as well bring something.
04:04Come on.
04:05They want to swim, they want to camp, they want to sleep under the stars.
04:14You know it.
04:15They want to do it.
04:16We're going to set up the tent today and stay in there tonight.
04:23Do you think it's quite good here?
04:25Here.
04:26We're making a sun bed as well.
04:28Excellent.
04:29I think Boggle Hole is a really good place to go in the summer holidays because you can
04:33stay there like super long.
04:35Last year we stayed there for two weeks straight, which was really good.
04:44I think it's going to be better than the last year because there's a good spot to swim
04:47and stuff like that.
04:48Space, quiet, peaceful.
04:51Well, it was peaceful until they turned up.
04:55It's just the most magical place.
04:58I also think it's probably quite unchanged actually.
05:01Yeah, it's called Boggle Hole because of the noise as the water runs down this very steep
05:06ravine and cuts between the rock.
05:08When the wind's up, it's just whistling and banging and sometimes you hear a rock cracking
05:13off as it rolls down into the bottom.
05:16And I guess in times past, when you could hear all these noises and you were walking in
05:21the darkness, you'd think that maybe it was a haunted place.
05:24But I don't think I'll be saying too much to the children about that tonight.
05:27It's like a holiday at home.
05:32I don't know why, but I love the swimming and the sleeping.
05:38It's nice to sleep somewhere different.
05:40Do you know what a boggle is?
05:42A boggle's a ghost.
05:44They're just going to have a nice time, a nice chilled out time.
05:48It's like a little piece of paradise.
05:50Ha ha!
05:51The poop!
05:52The poop!
05:53The poop!
05:54The poop!
05:55The poop!
05:56That orange trailer!
05:57Yeah, into orange trailer.
05:58Just get all them cans and bits of wire and things like that and just put them in the trailer.
06:09All right, doing that?
06:11Yeah, into orange trailer.
06:17Just get, like, all them cans and bits of wire and things like that
06:21and just put them in the trailer.
06:23All right, doing that? Marvellous.
06:36Yeah, what we're doing in the house with deep plastering,
06:39it just takes an awful lot of time for the drying process
06:42because in just a small area of that insulating plaster,
06:46something like this kind of size,
06:49there's probably eight gallons of water going into it
06:52and we have to wait for all that to dissipate and evaporate, etc.
06:57And it just makes it so difficult that you can't do anything else
07:01while this process goes on.
07:05So we've got a little team today, Clive and his crew,
07:08looking at having a bit of a tidy up everywhere.
07:11They've brought the big digger and what have you.
07:13I think we're going to start trying to clear some of this soil
07:16and put it where it needs to be.
07:18We're going to shift all the scrap, what we've piled up,
07:21any bits of rubbish so that we can just have a little bit of a housekeeping,
07:26so to speak.
07:26Well, I'm not exactly sure how it was,
07:35but as I understand it,
07:37Anthony Clarkson and the Irish family were gardeners
07:40and I think there'd be quite a nice garden here back in the day.
07:46What are you thinking, Mars?
07:48Well, you can see there's been walls out here
07:51and there's no doubt been a garden and food grown
07:54and all sorts going on back in the day.
07:58So this was walled in here somewhere.
08:00Yeah, back to that wall there.
08:02You reckon?
08:02Yeah.
08:04Well, I'm sure in them wonderful diaries it'll say all them things.
08:07He was probably a better gardener than me.
08:09There's a lot of tidying up.
08:13You know, that is one thing about a bill like this.
08:15There's a heck of a mess when it's over.
08:19What are you thinking then?
08:21Well, I think we could have a bit of a pull all this back, couldn't we,
08:23and then put it back there.
08:25Anyway, get it fired up, have a practice,
08:27see if you can operate,
08:29and then come along here.
08:34This is the gears.
08:35I don't know all this.
08:43You've never done it before.
08:45You can tell, OK?
08:49Woo-hoo!
08:51So he's just feeling his weave.
08:57Come on, Willie.
08:58What?
09:00Wind her in.
09:01I'm still figuring out what everything does.
09:03Where's the revs on it?
09:08There's the revs.
09:10Right, how do I bloody do all this?
09:15Yeah?
09:16Hello.
09:21Getting the hang of it.
09:23I mean, that wasn't fast.
09:24It's nice to work with Dad.
09:26He can give advice and help,
09:27but sometimes he,
09:29you know,
09:31I do just have to figure out for myself.
09:34Now, just pull it all this way.
09:43How's it going on?
09:44It's getting better on it now, I think.
09:46It's getting used to it, don't they?
09:48Ah, they take a bit of getting you,
09:49but, you know,
09:50these lads can soon land
09:51an hour and they're away,
09:53aren't they?
09:53They're away now.
09:54It's a bloody grand thing.
10:05Oh, well, that's grand.
10:07That's grand, Marley.
10:08No, well, you're getting the hang of it now, Marley.
10:10Yeah.
10:11Huh?
10:11Takes some getting used to it.
10:12And that's just tidied that up.
10:14And that's just what we need to do.
10:18To know the actual layout,
10:20I'm sure we can learn that
10:21off maps and plans and things,
10:23to actually what was garden
10:24and how it all worked.
10:26And hopefully maybe, you know,
10:29put it back to that.
10:31It just needs a plan, really,
10:33to decide exactly
10:35how they're going to do it.
10:38Can you imagine sitting out here
10:39in a year or two's town
10:40with a nice beer in your hand?
10:42Can you imagine sitting out here, Marley?
10:47It's kind of a project
10:48that never ends, isn't it?
10:49One, two, three.
10:52You know, you can go on and on and on.
10:55Well done, David.
10:57A lot.
10:57Good day for camping.
11:15I'm just trying to work out
11:16which way up it is.
11:17Maybe the other way up.
11:19I actually have no idea
11:20what I'm looking at,
11:21if I'm being completely honest.
11:22Any idea where the door is?
11:28Oh, my God.
11:29This is so confusing.
11:32I can't say I'm an avid camper,
11:35but I do like the canvassy big tents,
11:37which means at least I only have to do it once
11:38and everybody can fit in it.
11:39Ah, tent.
11:45Have you suffocated?
11:47Are you OK?
11:48Can you come in and hold this for a minute?
11:50I don't really want that.
11:51I know it's full of spiders.
11:52It isn't.
11:52There's no spiders.
11:53That's just a big lie.
11:55There is no spiders.
11:56But even though there's only one million pearl in it,
12:00it still seems to perplex me
12:02how to put it up.
12:05Where the heck is your zipper?
12:07Spider.
12:09I don't think it's supposed to lean like this
12:11if I'm being totally honest.
12:14At the moment,
12:15I'm just, like, totally confused.
12:18Ow!
12:19Oh, it's on my head.
12:20Hey, let me out.
12:22Mum's always really insistent
12:23that I should take this tent with me
12:24whenever I go places,
12:25and I'm always like,
12:26I think not.
12:29Where are the tent pegs?
12:31Oh, come on,
12:32you're not going to make me go and find the tent pegs?
12:34No, I'm not.
12:34I just want to know if you have any idea.
12:35I'm standing inside the middle of a tent.
12:37I just was liking to know.
12:39What a tent?
12:40Found him!
12:45Bit of a nightmare putting it up
12:46because it suddenly got really, really hot
12:48and it's just a warm, sweaty job.
12:52I don't know where the hammer is.
12:54Did you say you've got a degree?
12:57I've not done it in putting tents up, have I?
13:00I'm quite glad that I think I might be going home
13:02by the time that this all gets packed up.
13:04So, perfect.
13:06Right, keep pegging out.
13:12There you go.
13:13It's like a bug hotel.
13:17No, it's not.
13:21And there it is.
13:23It is finished.
13:24Well done.
13:25Yay!
13:26I don't usually go camping with Raven.
13:34It's just nice to have a mini holiday.
13:37I'm king of the world!
13:38Playing, you mean?
13:39I think it's really good
13:40because you can just get your own time
13:42and relax for a bit
13:44and have fun with your family.
13:47It's great to have the whole gang back.
13:49I'm in my element.
13:52This is the best.
13:53For such an isolated
14:12and quiet place
14:14it takes
14:16an enormous amount of upkeep
14:18to keep a place like Raven Seat
14:20going.
14:22So, taking a little bit of time out
14:24is such a good thing
14:26to give yourself a reset.
14:28There are so many
14:30bugs right now.
14:31Not even bugs, midges.
14:33Not in this bit.
14:34If you come stand here
14:35it's not pretty alright actually.
14:41Now rip.
14:42It won't go off!
14:46Now my eyes are stinging.
14:48Yeah, my eyes are still going to slow.
14:50This has definitely turned out
14:52to be a girls' trip.
14:56You're cut off
14:57from the world.
14:59You've got your fire.
15:00You're back to basics.
15:06What do you have a flavour of sausages?
15:08Cheese and pork, I think.
15:12Let's get some grub.
15:16Mine's raw.
15:16Me and Edith and Violet are very close
15:27because we're all sisters
15:28around the same age.
15:31So we're definitely more sisterly
15:32than you get with your little
15:35siblings because there's so much
15:36more of an age difference.
15:39So it's really nice to see them
15:40and there's about 10 minutes of us being
15:42like, oh yeah, really nice to see you,
15:43really nice to see you.
15:44And then it's about another
15:45two days of bickering
15:47is I think what we do quite well.
15:51But it is really nice to see each other
15:53and in between that we have lovely chats
15:55and get to hang back out again.
15:57Right, who's doing the pancakes?
15:59Me!
15:59OK, so how much?
16:01Yeah, quite thin I reckon.
16:02DB.
16:03Like that?
16:03Like that.
16:04Right, can you get some sticks
16:06for the big marshmallows?
16:07Where are the sticks?
16:08On the trees!
16:09Oh, you didn't bring any?
16:11That's what all of them doing.
16:13Who made the pancake mix?
16:15I did.
16:16Yeah.
16:17You never stop, do you?
16:19Do I have a marshmallow in one?
16:21Please, thank you.
16:22Yeah, you have to sort of like graduate.
16:25This is adventure.
16:26Adventure on your own doorstep.
16:28You know, it's not to say that
16:30you know, you don't want to see other places
16:33but I feel like
16:34when you've got somewhere like here
16:36sometimes you can feel like
16:38you're looking for something
16:39that actually is right at home.
16:44If you could go camping anywhere like this
16:46where would you be?
16:47Would you be like...
16:48A festival.
16:48A festival.
16:50Yeah?
16:50I don't really count on a festival.
16:51Raven is the only one of the children
16:53that has actually flown a nest.
16:55So when she does come back
16:57her siblings are obviously very interested
16:59and excited as to what she's been up to.
17:01They literally do hang off her every word.
17:05I think I want to go to Vietnam next year.
17:08Vietnam?
17:09Really?
17:09How come?
17:10Yeah, how come?
17:10Really?
17:10She looks gorgeous.
17:12Me and Tom are saving up
17:13and sort of looking at flights.
17:14Edith doesn't really know
17:17what she wants to do in the future
17:19but is busy studying away
17:21and I've just said to her
17:22the thing that excites
17:24and fires you up
17:25might not become apparent
17:26until you're in your 20s.
17:28I've only ever been to Kendall.
17:31In the world?
17:32Just Kendall?
17:32That's as far as she's been.
17:34Where have you been, Vi?
17:35To the toilet and back.
17:36I mean, Violet, she's very intelligent,
17:42very clever,
17:43very good at mathematics.
17:44I think at the moment
17:45she's certainly more of a home bird.
17:49Annis is now at high school.
17:52She's kind of, I suppose,
17:53the one in the middle now.
17:55So she can be found
17:56in Edith's make-up bag
17:57or alternatively
17:59in and amongst
18:00Clemmie and Nancy's Barbie dolls.
18:02And I think for the two smaller ones,
18:07Clemmie and Nancy,
18:08I do know that they think
18:10about other places in the world
18:11but it isn't the places
18:13that you might think of.
18:15I want to travel the world
18:17so I can see different fossils.
18:22I would go to Hawaii
18:25because it just looks
18:26really nice there.
18:27They did find videos on YouTube
18:33about families
18:34in Eastern Bloc countries.
18:37There was, quite often,
18:38there was actually
18:38no speech whatsoever.
18:40It was people
18:41tending their goats.
18:42It was families
18:43making milk and cheese.
18:45It is a common language
18:47and it's a language
18:48that isn't spoken.
18:49It's a language
18:49of working the land
18:51and family farming.
18:53That's what resonates with them.
18:54I don't really want
18:57to go to uni.
18:58I want to stay around here
18:59but I think
19:00I'm going to be a farmer.
19:01I like it at Ravens here
19:02because it's not easy.
19:04You don't just sit inside
19:05and do nothing.
19:06You get new stuff
19:07like catching sheep
19:08and stuff
19:08that normally aren't
19:09on your side.
19:10They do things
19:11you don't want them to do.
19:12So it's a good challenge
19:13and it just gets you
19:15more confident.
19:17Goose!
19:18I'm not telling them
19:24all to stay here
19:25rooted to the spot
19:26and go where they want.
19:29And I don't doubt
19:30they're all going to
19:31head off in their
19:32different directions
19:32to do what they want to do.
19:35I wouldn't be here
19:36if I hadn't have
19:38taken a chance
19:39on another life
19:40and I want them
19:41to do the same.
19:42Duck.
19:43Duck.
19:44Duck.
19:45Goose.
19:46But I believe
19:50they'll always have
19:51that appreciation
19:52and that feeling
19:53of belonging
19:54that comes
19:55with a place
19:56like this.
20:02Look!
20:04Look!
20:04Look up!
20:05Is that a meteor?
20:07What was that?
20:09We just watched
20:09the UFO go bus.
20:10That was crazy!
20:12What was it?
20:13That was weird.
20:14I mean,
20:15honestly,
20:15what the hell
20:16was that?
20:19It always has
20:20been a special place.
20:21It's not just
20:21the sheep
20:22that are used
20:22to this place.
20:23It's the people
20:24too, right?
20:26Let's do
20:27our usual routine.
20:28Sleep pile.
20:34Go to bed.
20:37Good night.
20:38What's for breakfast?
20:55What's cooking,
20:55fam?
20:56Porridge.
20:57Lovely.
20:59Good day for swimming.
21:01You've had your cup of tea.
21:02I'm drinking my cup of tea.
21:04You've even brushed your hair.
21:06That's a change.
21:09It's lovely, isn't it?
21:10Hi, Nance.
21:11Hi.
21:12We're making some porridge.
21:14That porridge looks good,
21:15but I'm very full.
21:17OK.
21:17Oh, that's all right.
21:18Well, have you had your cup of tea?
21:19There's tea over there.
21:20Oh.
21:20Get a cup of tea.
21:21How long do you think
21:24you could survive
21:24out in the wild?
21:26A year.
21:28Yeah?
21:29That tea is amazing.
21:30There's something about
21:31food that you have
21:32outside that makes it
21:33taste a lot better,
21:34you know?
21:36What does camp food
21:37taste like?
21:38Really good.
21:41Hot, though.
21:42Good.
21:44That's the best tea
21:45I've ever had.
21:46Mm-hmm.
21:51I've ever had.
22:21Come on, Nellie.
22:26Come on.
22:28Come on.
22:29There you are.
22:34That fire is so hot.
22:38So that piece of wood came out of Auntie John's.
22:41You know, that dry wood?
22:42I took it down to the woodshed and sawed it up.
22:45So that's probably it.
22:47It's keeping it warm.
22:48The fireplace is something that I feel is, like, really important
22:53because, of course, it's the heart of the home, isn't it?
22:55It's sort of like the atrium.
22:57It's where everybody gathers round.
23:04It was never going to come into question
23:06as to whether there was going to be one of those at Auntie John's.
23:09There always had been one.
23:11But what we're going to do is reinstate
23:14what would have been there in Auntie Clarkson's time.
23:18We're going to go to Ian's, my friend Ian.
23:24He specialises in what you call country furniture.
23:29We're also bringing Philip,
23:30who is the joiner who is working on Auntie John's.
23:35Them are the guys that have the fish and chip shop
23:37at Middleton in Teasdale.
23:38Oh, OK.
23:40Yeah, yeah.
23:41So, here we are.
23:42You've been here before, haven't you?
23:43Yes, I have.
23:44I've seen Ian's place, yeah.
23:46But not in there.
23:48No.
23:48Because that's where the good stuff goes.
23:50No.
23:50And that's not...
23:51I'm not saying this is not good stuff.
23:53Right.
23:53But basically, this is where he puts his other stuff.
23:56Ian has a lovely shed.
24:01In there, he will have all the components
24:03for me to put together the fireplace that I want.
24:08Avert your eyes from all the timber and furniture.
24:11What do you think of that?
24:14Yeah.
24:14It's got all the components in that you're looking for, hasn't it?
24:17The front of that, for me, is very...
24:19It is of the age.
24:21We're keeping the actual fire surround and the mantelpiece,
24:26the stone surround.
24:27We have the chimney.
24:28They're our fixed elements we have to work around.
24:30Exactly.
24:31Fixed elements.
24:31But this isn't a fixed element.
24:33It isn't.
24:34We can orientate it the other way around.
24:36We can use all or part of it.
24:38It's almost like Lego.
24:41I do like that it's got a localish name.
24:44Hi, Kendall.
24:46I'm the daydreamer.
24:47And when you've got a daydreamer,
24:49you do need somebody who can rein you in a little bit
24:53and get out a tape measure.
24:55Philip?
24:56Should we put a tape over and see if it'll fit?
24:58Measure that.
24:59Will it fit?
24:59Will it work?
25:00If I hold that at the end, are you all right?
25:03Measuring end.
25:05Well, that's four foot there.
25:06Four foot?
25:07That's four foot.
25:09I think we need to get it out,
25:11get it reconstructed again,
25:13and then we can work with a welding man
25:15to adapt any parts that are required.
25:20I want a fireplace that feels cosy at home.
25:24You can pull up, put your feet against it.
25:26Hopefully, there'll be a sleeping hound next to it
25:29and maybe a kettle boiling over it too.
25:32That's what I want.
25:32And when the electric goes out
25:34and when there's snow on the ground
25:35and the wind's bland and all the rest of it,
25:37I want to be able to hunker down.
25:39I really like this.
25:43I feel like it's of the age
25:44and I feel like it's very much in keeping.
25:47It's got the functionality.
25:49We should maybe have a word with Ian
25:50and then say what he thinks.
25:52Oh, well, I know what he thinks.
25:54He thinks there's only one mug, one of these.
25:57The minute he gives me the keys to his shed,
26:00he knows he's on a winner.
26:01Yes.
26:02He knows I'm going to come out with something, doesn't he?
26:04Right, let's go and find him.
26:05And then we need to find some manpower
26:08or children power to start shifting things.
26:10Yes.
26:12It's been a really great day.
26:14We've managed to find lots of pieces
26:16of a black Yorkshire range.
26:18Philip is going to put them all back together again
26:21and we'll see whether it's going to work.
26:35Oh, that was close!
26:49Didn't get wet though.
26:51Let's go.
26:52Onward we head.
26:57It's really good in the summer holidays
26:59because you just get to do whatever you want,
27:01no school,
27:02and you can go meet up with our friends.
27:04I bet there's snakes in there.
27:06Oh, grass snakes.
27:07Yeah.
27:08Never mind, it's just a piece of grass.
27:09That's not mine.
27:12These are cute little flowers.
27:17This is like one billion acres or something
27:19and you can just go wherever you want.
27:23This is the longest adventure ever.
27:28Yeah, yeah!
27:34How are you? How's it going?
27:51Hi, how's it going?
27:54It's a nice day.
27:54Where were you at?
27:55Yeah.
27:56Nice day.
27:58Next spring, I think it would be really lovely
28:00to plan out the gardens and boil them up.
28:03They're Danny and Johnny.
28:04Yeah.
28:05Is there any way of knowing where they were?
28:07Yes.
28:07Is there some maps at shore?
28:08I've got a map, yeah.
28:09Well, that's where we'll put them back then.
28:11Yeah.
28:13Outside, you can still see the imprint
28:14of where the garden was
28:16and from the diaries,
28:17we can also see that Anthony Clarkson
28:19had green fingers.
28:22So the thing that gets me most about these diaries
28:24is that he writes about his wedding
28:26and a bit like you, he's a man of few words.
28:29We know that he married Mally, Mary Alderson,
28:32who lived at Close Hills.
28:36He basically, they set off from here
28:39and then they get married at Muca.
28:42When's the last time you went to Muca?
28:48The shore?
28:50Hmm?
28:50Muca show?
28:51Maybe.
28:53What about in 2000?
28:57July.
28:58No, it's the August.
29:00It's July.
29:03Why, what happened in August 2004?
29:05In August?
29:06In August, you probably regretted
29:07what happened in July.
29:08I remember now.
29:12I remember now.
29:13We had a bit of a day in Muca, didn't we?
29:16Aye, what a hell of a day we had.
29:18I mean, I'm going to let you
29:19into a little bit of a secret.
29:20I got married to Clive at Muca.
29:26Do you think when I got on my horse
29:28to ride side saddle down the road
29:31like Baudelaire
29:32and there was a great thunderclap
29:34and lightning,
29:35do you think someone was trying
29:36to tell me some words?
29:37Aye, there you are.
29:38That could have been a sign,
29:39couldn't it, from the heaven?
29:40Yeah.
29:43I'll tell you something, though.
29:44It's good that we can laugh about it.
29:47Oh, well, it was a grand day.
29:48Aye, it was a great day.
29:52Anthony Clarkson came to Ravensea the lot.
29:55Romance brought him here.
29:56His wife-to-be was here at Ravensea.
29:59So that's quite a thing, isn't it?
30:02With these diaries,
30:04there are so many parallels
30:06in our lives now and back then.
30:08I think that's the weird thing.
30:11We keep uncovering things
30:13and when I say the truth is strange
30:16in the fiction,
30:17you couldn't make this one up.
30:18Nixt.
30:20Nixt!
30:20Nixt.
30:23Nixt.
30:23Nixt.
30:24Nixt.
30:27Nixt.
30:33Nixt.
30:39Nixt.
30:42千.
30:42Hey, how are you?
30:55You all right? I'm sorry I'm late.
30:56You all right? Yeah, not too bad.
31:00Today I'm here at Phillips, like the timber yard,
31:03but it's not timber on with today,
31:05because he is helping with the fireplace.
31:08There seems to be a lot of bits of it.
31:10But you haven't seen anything majorly...
31:12No, no, it's been quite pleasing, actually, looking through it.
31:17Rather than just heading out and buying the new fireplace,
31:22it's all bespoke.
31:24That sounds good, doesn't it? Bespoke.
31:28Me and Phillip have been at Ian's Antique Shop over at Hawes,
31:31and our task is really to put it together.
31:34It's kind of like a made-to-measure sort of a project.
31:37It's a traditional Black Yorkshire range
31:39that actually kind of is in pieces.
31:42I must admit, I was thinking, oh, my goodness,
31:44because there's lots of different pieces to it.
31:46There's a boiler, there's a back plate, there's an oven.
31:51And we need to mock it up and work out
31:53whether we need to source some more pieces of it
31:56and whether any of it actually needs mending.
31:58So what exactly is the plan?
32:00I mean, we know this...
32:01We've made... Oh, hang on, you've done it.
32:03We've got a fire-surround template of Auntie John's.
32:06You're always one step ahead of you.
32:07One step, well, I don't know.
32:09Maybe the best thing to do is to make sure everything fits
32:11just in case there's anything we need to change around.
32:13Exactly.
32:15Right. Right, you're ready.
32:16OK.
32:17So...
32:18Oop!
32:19Sorry.
32:20In the living room, it would have been the focal point
32:22where you would have got warm, cooked, baked, dried your clothes, everything.
32:27And then where you have the front plate...
32:29That's the bottom, yeah?
32:30Yeah.
32:31It's the real heart of the home.
32:33So it's massively important that I get this right.
32:46That makes a corner.
32:48Now, where did that go?
32:53Oh, it's that weird.
32:56Now, hang on.
32:57Huh?
32:58Wait, I'm thinking.
32:59I'm very much relying on Philip helping me put it together
33:02It's not...is this...
33:05No.
33:06It didn't go down at the bottom, did it, with its name on?
33:09No, no, no.
33:10I think that's up.
33:11Eh?
33:12Oh!
33:13It's up.
33:14Hold on.
33:15There.
33:16That's your throat plate.
33:18That goes in there that creates for the flu.
33:21Yep.
33:22All right.
33:23Just down a little bit.
33:25It doesn't matter whether it's woodwork or metalwork, it's...
33:30The sort of restoration process is lovely to see things come back from in tired and forgot about.
33:37I feel like this project has brought a lot of people together who have the same vision.
33:43There you are.
33:44Right.
33:45Hey.
33:46Look at that.
33:47Now we're looking busy.
33:51It's put a big smile on my face, this.
33:54So, oven?
33:55Oven.
33:56They're on board with me.
33:58They don't think I'm totally and utterly mad.
34:00And it's been...honestly, I think that's the whole joy of it.
34:05That's it.
34:06That's it.
34:07That's it?
34:08Yeah, that's it.
34:09Right.
34:10Maybe it's a bright one, you know.
34:13That is good.
34:14That's looking well.
34:17It's a black range and it's rather rusty.
34:21So, we've got some rust killer here.
34:23Yeah.
34:24So, brush it on.
34:25Mm-hm.
34:26Yeah.
34:27Are you supposed to really blather this on or what?
34:28Oh, definitely, yeah.
34:29Yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:30A good blathering.
34:31It's going to look fantastic.
34:32It's going to look really great.
34:33Couldn't have gone better, really.
34:34The fireplace is the place where you go and sit and cry when it's all gone wrong.
34:37It's the place that you sit and have a drink when it's all gone right.
34:39It's the place that you sort of share stories.
34:55You know, when there's snow underground and it's cold and the weather's coming in and everything's bad, you can brew yourself up a cup of tea.
35:01And even Anthony Clarkson was doing that in his time.
35:04So, there you go.
35:05Some things never change.
35:08We can only put it together to a certain degree.
35:14The next thing is to actually get it on site at Aunty John's.
35:19I'm pleased to say it's going to evolve.
35:22Thank you so much.
35:24All right.
35:25See you soon.
35:26See ya.
35:27We're in Mewka.
35:49Mewka Parish encompasses the top end of the dale, so it's Mewka, Keld, Ravensea, the little
35:56hamlets.
35:58Come on, nookie-nookie.
36:03It's a bit of a miserable day, but actually, I'm feeling really bright and excited because
36:07we're going to go to church.
36:10And I'm going to church with my friend Derrick.
36:14He's a historian, a genealogist.
36:17He's really great at uncovering the secrets of the past.
36:19Do you know when it was built?
36:21No.
36:221580.
36:23He has been transcribed in the diaries.
36:27He's a mine of information.
36:30A huge part of these diaries that were all written by Anthony Clarkson is all about his love life.
36:37It's all about what was going on in his personal life.
36:41We know that he married Mally, but as we have gone more and more into the diaries, we've
36:55learned more about their lives together, their dating period, and of course, them getting
37:00married.
37:07friends, go up to uncle Hermann
37:11whether or not him pe кон See the book.
37:13Thursday, December the third got up.
37:17Changed myself.
37:18Got tea William Cleesby came for me went with him to close hills.
37:26Got breakfast, set off to Muca with our friends, went to church and Mary Alderson was married
37:41to me by the Reverend Thomas Edmondson, vicar of Grinton.
37:52Here we are, look. We're at St Mary's. This was the local church, so this is where Anthony and Mally got married.
38:04Looking from the entries in his diary, he came from over that way.
38:09Did he walk? Er, no.
38:13He ridded? He rode on a horse.
38:15I feel like there is so much commonality between Oz and him.
38:28Let's get out of the rain. Come on.
38:35I got married at Muca in 2000.
38:39Wait, you were married here?
38:41Did I not mention that? No.
38:49Look at that lovely window.
38:51Do you know why there are sheep on there?
38:53No, I don't know.
38:54He's a shepherd, isn't he? He's looking after his flock.
38:57Like, when it says, the Lord is my shepherd, it kind of means, like, God is protecting us and we're the sheep.
39:04That's right. That's exactly right.
39:06But, Derek, did you know this? That if you're a shepherd, I get a free pass into heaven.
39:12As long as I've got wool in me pocket and I can prove it, that's like me ID.
39:16Well, you know where that came from.
39:18Derek, I mean, he's a mine of information.
39:20He's very good at, sort of, gleaning, sort of, information from anywhere and everywhere.
39:28What time of year did they get married? What month was it?
39:31December.
39:32So she had a big ball gown and she'll have some flowers.
39:36Yeah.
39:37And it'll be, like, all decorated and everything.
39:40Most of the things.
39:41And it'll be snowing outside.
39:42Shimmer, shimmer, shimmer, shimmer.
39:44I do like to see, from the children's perspective, what interests and excites them.
39:51Because, of course, they have so many questions.
39:54Who knows what they might ask?
39:57Do you think there would be music at the wedding where she would walk in?
40:01Do you know what? That is one thing I'm sure of. There'd be music.
40:04Afterward.
40:06Afterward.
40:07They would have a disco.
40:09They danced.
40:11Like ball.
40:12The diary says that we have some dances.
40:14Ball dancing.
40:15Ball dancing.
40:16Would she be wearing heels or would she wear...
40:20She might be wearing heels.
40:22I don't think it's fashion.
40:24She'd be wearing wellies.
40:26I've got a copy of the marriage certificate.
40:30It tells us quite a lot.
40:32That's fancy.
40:37That is fancy.
40:38Oh, that's the proper gear, isn't it?
40:43Anthony Clarkson.
40:45Is that...?
40:46Bachelor.
40:47Bachelor.
40:48Yeah.
40:49And Mary Alderson.
40:51Spinster.
40:52In the year 1,800 and 18...
40:571,000.
40:581,000.
40:591,000.
41:00Now look here.
41:02Cross.
41:03Molly couldn't write so she had to do a cross.
41:06Anthony could write so he can do his signature.
41:09Girls can learn too.
41:12Yeah.
41:13They should have had the chance to go to...
41:16Score.
41:17Go Power!
41:18Shut up.
41:19Then we went off home.
41:28Called at Mary Knowles.
41:30Got some drink.
41:32And spent the remainder of the day with some dances.
41:36And got tea.
41:37Drank and danced till bedtime.
41:40Molly and I went to bed.
41:42This day was wet in the morning.
41:45But better afterwards.
41:52They went up to Ravenseed.
41:54Stayed there overnight.
41:56Which was the wedding night.
41:57And then had wedding breakfast the next day with the guests.
42:00Who had been with them at the wedding ceremony.
42:02It's the practicalities for me.
42:09Just the whole journey of how they did it.
42:14It's not particularly the sort of falling in love bit.
42:17I never was a Mills and Boone's fan.
42:19It's just the logistics.
42:21I feel like it does open a window up to a world that you never really consider.
42:28You know, they were full of ideas and aspirations.
42:31And much the same as we are, I suppose.
42:34You know, they come down here, get married and then head back up the dale.
42:38So yeah, it was the start of things.
42:40And who knew that we would be able to get this insight?
42:45I'm permanently sort of juxtapositioning his life with my life.
43:06And here I am writing my own diary.
43:13It's the human story.
43:16That's what I love.
43:21I feel like this whole Auntie John's project, the house, the diaries, have been an absolute blessing.
43:35I could never have ever envisaged that this little house on a hill end
43:41but it would give so much back to us, really.
43:45And I think that's why it's so good for the children, because it's bringing history alive.
43:49So thank you, Anthony Clarkson.
43:52It's been a good summer.
43:55It's been a good summer.
44:03Busy, as expected, but plenty of good times.
44:14Well, it doesn't look like it's going to sink.
44:15Mmm.
44:16Bog.
44:17Is it warm?
44:18Kind of.
44:19No, you have to wash your feet.
44:20Gross.
44:21It's really good that we have lakes and things around here, because we can literally just head to the town and it's really, really fun because you can splash about and cool off.
44:34And you can go meet up with our friends and have fun with our family.
44:51Swimming is really fun.
44:59Nancy jumped into the water and just swam straight across.
45:03Up until the last time I saw her, she was swimming with her floaties.
45:07So that's how it happened in the past three or four weeks.
45:09Children reveled in the freedom.
45:27It was timeless.
45:29It was timeless.
45:30This is really just what our lovely summer holiday is all about, really.
45:40I mean, this is what I remember when I was a kid, and it's really nice seeing them get to have the exact same experiences.
45:50It's good to think to yourself that actually there is still good stuff out there.
45:55I mean, I hope, I hope that the children remember these times.
46:02And take them with them wherever they may go.
46:25I mean, I hope, that you've seen you endlessly get this with the big food life from the world.
46:47You can definitely see them on the next house in London.
46:50Like, as people said, solve your filling up.
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