The Birthplace Of Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Gothic Hometown / Inside Bell Tower & Horror Museum
Birthplace Of Frankenstein
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Today's adventure begins as the
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recording of this. It is Saturday,
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June the 28, 2025. I am in Bath,
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England.
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Very interesting, Gothicky looking town
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here in the UK.
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Really quite an amazing town.
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also known as the birthplace of
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Frankenstein.
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Been covering a lot of that today. Mary
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Shel was from here. Welcome everyone.
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Adam the Woo here. I'm inviting you to
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join me here in Bath Bath, England.
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Never been here before. Join me,
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shall you? Water is best. What that
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states right there? There's this very
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interesting
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little sculpture right here. This is the
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cathedral that was right next to where
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Mary Shelley lived when she wrote the
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majority
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of the book when she started writing the
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book of Frankenstein.
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She would hear the cathedral bells here.
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Probably went inside this very
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church building. Her former home was
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right over here. It's torn down, but
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I'll show where that used to be. Talk a
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bit a little about the history. Now, a
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little bit later this evening, I am
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going to be going on a tour up to the
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clock tower and get a little history
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level history lesson. That little bird
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just flew by a pigeon. a history lesson
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on the clock making and the clock tower
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itself
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inside
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the cathedral right here at the
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courtyard where Mary would sit
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write her book.
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It's amazing how iconic the Frankenstein
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character obviously I know it's called
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Frankenstein's monster but I refer to
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the monster as Frankenstein like so many
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others. Even the sequel, Bride of
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Frankenstein, that was not about the
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Doctor so much, but The Bride of the
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Monster.
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I think it's just become pretty pretty
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standard. When you say Frankenstein,
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most people think of Frankenstein's
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monster, but when she wrote the book,
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Frankenstein was named after the doctor.
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This all dates back to the early 1800s.
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Possibly
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not this building, but and then the
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baths are over here.
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The pump room, part of the pump room, as
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far as I can tell, part of the pump room
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was here and her house was right here.
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They tore that down and now they've
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extended the pump room over. Mary Shel
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and Frankenstein. The novel Frankenstein
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was written on this spot 1816
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to 1817.
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She finished it up shortly after that.
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Just kind of added the finishing touches
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to it. Proof read it, released it
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anonymously.
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Because at that time, you know, a woman
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would not have written a book about a
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a monstrous creature being taken from
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body parts from other people and having
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a abnormal brain. So, I would imagine
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she wanted to release that without her
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name on it. And then when it became
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popular, she released it again the next
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year under her name, Mary Shelly. But
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right here's the info.
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age 19 arrived in Bath 1816 looking for
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lodging here at Five Abbey Churchyard.
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The house was demolished to make way for
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the pump room extension in the 1890s
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and she married a poet. Very interesting
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story. Percy Shel in 1816.
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She left Bath early in 1817. Much of the
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novel had been written. It was published
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anonymously. There it is in 1818.
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Oh, and coincidentally,
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there is now a vault bene beneath this
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sign that's in the electricity
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substation that delivers thousands of
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volts to Central Bath. There's a lot of
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interesting stories about Mary and her
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husband. So, she married her husband
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shortly after her husband's former wife
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passed away, like within like two weeks
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or so. So she passed away. They got
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married.
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A couple of her children did not
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survive. Their children did not survive.
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So she had a lot of lot of grief
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grief in her life. Her mother passed
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away right after Mary's birth. And
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actually her mother is buried over in in
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London. I visited her final resting
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place back in January when I was over
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there. So kind of really a lot of
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interesting stories. Also, her husband
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shortly after, like in 22, 1822ish,
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passed away in a boating accident. And
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Mary, as the rumor states, kept his
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heart before he was cremated in a
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drawer. She had it in a drawer.
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Yeah, she was interesting. She was an
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odd one. All right, going to grab a cup
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of coffee here
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and uh explore around. going to head
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over to the attraction as well. And I'm
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also thinking about purchasing Mary's
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book here in Bath. And to be honest,
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I've seen a majority of the films. I
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mean, there's what hundred different
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Frankenstein versions. In fact, last
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night I watched the original Universal
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Monsters one. I've seen Bride of
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Frankenstein a bunch of times, but I
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haven't seen the original as many times
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as Bride. And I watched it last night in
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my hotel room. Yeah, it still holds up.
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It's still just such a such a great
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original film and I wanted to watch it
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while I was here where the book was
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written. This alleyway kind of has
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interesting Frankensteiny vibe.
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So, I got my piping hot caffeinated
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beverage. A couple other little
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footnotes about the relationship of her
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and her eventual husband before
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his wife passed away. They were having
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an affair and it is said that they
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consummated their relationship at her
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mother's headstone in London at the St.
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Pancress Churchyard.
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She did not realize that. And then it's
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also been said that she was inspired and
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kind of started to get the ideas, the
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rumblings in her brain on the story by
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hanging out. She would hang out that
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cemetery all the time. Also, the heart
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that she had, that was after the heart
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did not end up getting burned after he
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passed away and that was the only thing
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that was left. So, it was a charred
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burnt heart that she had in her drawer.
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And then when she passed on, they went
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through her stuff at her house and
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realized that she had her husband's
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heart in a drawer that was all charred
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and burnt. And not just because of what
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I'm talking about, but also, you know,
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not the subject matter, but the city of
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Bath is just amazing. The architecture
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through here is incredible. But the
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topic obviously is,
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you know, the monster and the book and
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Mary Shelly, but this is a gorgeous
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place. Incredible archway.
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You got the seagulls making their
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noises. Oh, the chimney tops up there. I
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mean, this looks like something out of
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like a a movie backlot or something. I
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mean, look at this. Look at this archway
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walking through here.
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It's just very reminiscent. Again, I
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watched the film last night and the film
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is based on the book, but in the film
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when you know all the people in town,
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they all have their, you know, their
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the fire on the stick and they have
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their pitchforks and all that and
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they're running through an area kind of
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similar to this. It definitely has that
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vibe.
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The corner of Quiet Street. I like how
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the lettering is etched carved into
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the wall itself, not just painted on
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there.
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This raven has a top hat here,
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giving a little hello with his cane.
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This area here is known as the circus.
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It's like a little circular row of
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homes.
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little park in the middle here. Very
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beautiful.
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One thing I find interesting about this
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is the residents have like a little al
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cove down below, like a little outdoor
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basement seating area. I like that.
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Just a nice little area through here.
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People walking their dogs, having their
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morning coffee.
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It's another similar
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type of architecture here. Looking over
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a really large stretch of land, a big
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courtyard, grassy
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BM.
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There is an attraction here called Mary
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Shel's House of Frankenstein.
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All right, made my way in, paid the
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admission price,
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and now there's also an escape room. I
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don't want to do the escape room. I'm
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just going to do the museum aspect of
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it.
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You can rent this out for different
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parties if you so choose. You could have
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a party inside the Bloody Mary's bar
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right here. Just don't say her name into
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the mirror over there. Bloody Mary's.
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I like all the spooky stuff here. You
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got ghost of Frankenstein, Boris Caroff
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over here. You can go up the staircase.
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Creaky
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staircase. Oo.
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Revenge of Frankenstein.
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Frankenstein 19. If you're playing a
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drinking game, how many times I say the
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monster's name or the doctor's name?
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Probably will not end well.
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There's bride.
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This place is awesome. Right there's the
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brain
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that Fritz took. It's interesting
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because you always think that that it's
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Igore and not Fritz, but in the f in the
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movie it's Fritz. It's also Henry and
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not Victor Frankenstein. It's the only
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time that he's referred to as Henry and
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not Victor in that first Universal film
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cuz they thought Victor would just uh
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fake audience wouldn't have related and
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thought that Henry was a good person cuz
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the name Victor was a little too ominous
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back then, I guess. But yeah, the first
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movie it's not Victor, it's Henry.
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All right, into Mary's origin here. This
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is kind of good, too. So, I can learn a
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little bit of history. I've already
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detailed a little bit, talked about a
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little bit, but I'll give a little more
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about her mother passed away 11 months
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after her birth due to unwashed hands
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from an infection
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from the her mother's doctor.
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This was her father, William Godwin. He
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was a theorist, political theorist and
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philosopher.
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She was fascinated by galvanism theory
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that electricity could bring used be
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used to bring a body back to life. It
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played a significant part in writing the
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book.
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Perhaps a corpse could be reanimated.
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Perhaps the component parts of a
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creature might be manufactured, brought
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together and endured with vital warmth.
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name galvanism came from Luigi Galvani
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because he made a dissected frog's legs
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twitch when he hooked the animal to an
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electric charge. Now, was it the
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electricity that brought it back to life
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to make the logs the frog's legs twitch?
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Or was it just the shock and the jolt
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going through? Who who really knows? But
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probably
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I don't really know. I'm not a
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scientist.
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This is the face of a criminal who his
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nephew, Galvini's nephew, performed this
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act on. And they said that due to the
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shock, his eyes were twitching and he
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possibly came back subtly
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to life. He was quivering and his musles
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muscles were horribly contorted.
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I love this museum.
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This is amazing.
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Talk about Percy Shelly and his two
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wives.
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This is a scorpion monkey from the
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Borneo in 1847.
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Oh my goodness. What is this? Her
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husband Percy was also fa fascinated by
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the reanimation process.
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He tried to reanimate a cat.
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Shortly afterwards, Mad Shelly,
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cuz he was mad, he was a mad scientist
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of sorts.
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He tried to
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So, he was supporting the
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decriminalization of atheism. I didn't
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realize that athe I guess atheism at one
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point was a criminal act.
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Oo Frankenstein 80. I need to go on a
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Frankenstein kick and watch all these
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films. I mean it would take a year but
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young Frankenstein I think is my other
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young I love young Frankenstein and the
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original and bride
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creature created by man and forgotten by
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nature.
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Oh, that's eerie. You got Mary here and
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then you got the monster here. Depending
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on the way you look at it as how you can
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see it.
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For several days, Mary struggled with
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the inspiration. Till one night, she had
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a dream. I placed my head on the pillow,
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did not sleep, nor could I be said to
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think.
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A thrill of fear. Her words infused with
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memories of her mother and child.
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Thus, the first fragments of the world's
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most famous monster were conceived.
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of the dream here at Lake Geneva after
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the book was almost done, but she didn't
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have a name.
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She didn't have a name yet.
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Here's a look at the cathedral now. The
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abbey now. Bath Abbey. There's the doors
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I showed a little bit ago. And here is
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where the new baths are, the Roman
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baths. So, this is where she would have
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been here. right by Hayward. The library
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reading room, the civet over in this
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area, kind of where this gentleman's
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walking in in that little area
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gives a little more detail.
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Five aby churchyard
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at the front of Bath Abbey with this
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impressive religious carvings was
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demolished in 1889 for the expansion of
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the pump rooms. By the time she left
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Bath, much of Frankenstein had already
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been finished. And during that time,
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she went over to the literary and
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philosophical society rooms to learn a
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little bit about experimental science
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and topics relating to what the book
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would produce about. I think I might
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have to go by there, too. There is a
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Fiji mermaid right there.
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Now, obviously the movie version
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was not exactly how she envisioned it.
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No one really knows how she envisioned
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it the monster to look.
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But it is amazing to think that the
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world's most famous monster ever, the
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franchise, is so huge now. It's been
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emulated, spoofed, utilized. All kind of
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Halloween haunts, all kind of Universal
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Monsters, attractions
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all started here in this town.
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There's some things not in the film,
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obviously.
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This kind of goes on to talk about how
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the creature asked Victor to build him a
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companion. Also originally called the
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modern Prometheus,
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not the doctor's name.
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Okay, there is a uh cradle
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rocking down there.
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This is a spooky room.
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Got the chandelier up top here.
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The headstone of her husband Percy
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Got to be completely honest about this
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place. I did not think it was going to
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be this well themed and detailed. This
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is really great.
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You never know what it's like to lose
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two only and lovely children in one year
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and then at last be left childless and
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forever miserable.
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1822 after the passing of her husband,
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he drowned at sea.
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And the only way that they could tell it
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was his body was 10 days after the
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storm. His body was washed up, shark
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bitten,
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and he had identification from poetry in
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his pocket. After losing three young
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children, Mary at the age of 24 was now
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a widow. Continuing on up the
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staircases, the creaky
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staircases.
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Vibe in this place is on point.
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My dream has vanished and breathless
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horror and disgust thou fill my heart.
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Oh my gosh. Yes,
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there's the creature.
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This is more of the version that she had
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for the monster here. Pearly white
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teeth, muscles emulating
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the ripped flesh
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as shown here.
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Eight feet tall,
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limbs proportion,
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yellow skin scarcely covered the work of
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muscles and arteries beneath and pearly
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white teeth.
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Little bit different than the the
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universal version, but
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pretty awesome.
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I can hear his heart beating.
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Oh, he's behind me. Isn't he
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feeder chain there?
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There's the machine
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goes across his head. You got the wires
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going across
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the electricity.
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There's a piranha.
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Creepy room award of the day goes to
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this one.
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This must be the door that the doctor
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would go in and out of.
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As far as the legacy goes,
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when young she first shrunk up the
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chilling story in the summer of 1816,
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she could scarcely have imagined the
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impact her visionary tale would have
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had. Perhaps she did, as she wrote in
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the preface of the 1831 edition, quote,
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I bid my hideous progeny,
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go forth and prosper. So, when she was
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laid to rest, not here in town, she's
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like a couple hours from here. But right
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there, it says that she ended up being
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laid to rest
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with the remains of her late husband's
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heart found in the drawer of her desk.
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Right
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now getting in more to the popular
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culture version. Popular culture
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version. This is what it's become modern
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day. Well, kind of mashup of Elvis right
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there and Frankie.
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Frankenstein 90. Tire cage full of
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paraphernelia.
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One of my favorites there. Mel Brooks.
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Young Frankenstein.
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Love it. Was famous quotes in horror.
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The it's alive, it's alive. There's also
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an area they said, "If I dared to go
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into the basement, beware, for I am
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fearless, and therefore powerful. The
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basement is dark, disorienting, and a
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maze with passages and confined
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spaces.
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Oh my gosh.
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Okay, strobe light warning. They're
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probably going to be some pretty scary
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images and strobe lights. So, if you're
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sensitive to that, just beware.
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Heat.
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Right over into the gift shop now. I
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think I'm going to get a pen. They also
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have some fingers and ears and things
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like that. Hello. Morning. How are you?
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Two old people can do.
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I have a few different books here.
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Another Mary Shelley book here, The Last
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Man. We also have this book by Robert
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Hume, which is talking about the birth
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of the monster or the doctor, the
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creator of the monster, the first 200
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years. There's also the graphic novel,
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Gothic Tales. They got the monster bag
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down here. I think I'm just going to get
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the uh the original classic by Mary
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right there. That's the one I'm going to
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get on paper
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paper back
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up through the house. You've seen
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everything in the building.
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I was scared of it. Unfortunately, we're
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building. We do have some chairs on the
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first and third.
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What's she got? You got Franken balls
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up top. Look at this. Enjoy your visit.
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I even got some candies here. Assorted
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body part candies.
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Oh, I like this. I ended up getting the
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book, the classic book. I ended up
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getting the Universal Monster
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version of Frankie there. I got a pin
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that from the house of House of
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Frankenstein. And I ended up getting
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a magnet also.
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And I must say that that museum was
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amazing. That was way better than I
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expected. I thought it was just going to
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be like one room with just a couple
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things thrown together. They did a
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really great job on that. Really enjoyed
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it. And reading something in there. Mary
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attended some classes here
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on the subject of
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you know the re eventual what she wanted
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to create reanimation
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inside this building and they're it's
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open. They got some scaffolding up but
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I'm going to walk inside here just to
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check it out. Evidently this is not the
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original spot. In fact this spot opened
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in 1932 which is here in Queen Square.
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The original spot that Mary would have
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attended was right here and it's all
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been bulldozed for newer buildings, but
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evidently there's a mural. I'm going to
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walk over and check out of the employee
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here said that was still there. Have a
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Jurassic
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exhibit going on in here. Here's a
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Jurassic fish
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from the lime regious Dorset. Just
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walking around now. I just again just
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want to reiterate how amazing this area
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is. Look at this little courtyard.
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beautiful. There is a little plaque here
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showing where the building used to be.
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The Royal Literary and Scientific
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Institution used to sit right over there
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near where the gardens are. Well, where
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the flower area is over there and it's
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shown here, Parade Gardens. I am right
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here.
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And the Royal Literary Institute was
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right there where she got a lot of her
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interest and knowledge into the source
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material which would eventually become
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the plot line of the book.
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There's a little bit of a boat or a
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yacht going through underneath the
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bridge over there.
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So, the guy with his pigs was King Ladud
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and the bath pigs. He was banished from
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the royal palace as a as a swine herd.
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He roamed the countryside with his herd
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of pigs.
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I'm doing this for them.
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Wow.
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What a weird story.
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That is a carved out of wood
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slug right there.
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This is the angle where you'd see the
32:26
assembly rooms. A little further
32:27
information on what happened in those
32:29
buildings that she attended was due to
32:32
fire.
32:33
Right there it says
32:36
assembly rooms through fire in 1820. The
32:39
fire happened. So that's why the loss of
32:42
the building. I was thinking maybe they
32:43
just tore them down
32:45
for no real reason. But evidently there
32:47
was a there was a fire which prompted
32:50
the tearing down of the buildings right
32:52
over there. Anyway, I just thought it
32:53
was interesting that right in there is
32:55
where she would have started to gain a
32:57
little more interest in the ideas which
32:59
would have turned into the book which
33:01
now has become just, you know, major
33:03
major motion pictures and a huge iconic,
33:06
you know, franchise. It's shown right
33:09
here on this mural talking about the
33:11
fire of 1820.
33:30
There it is. What it used to look like.
33:30
It's a pretty big building.
33:38
Anyway, nice little tie in. Just trying
33:38
to tie it all in together.
33:42
Beautiful park.
34:06
This is Pton Bridge erected from 19 or
34:06
1769
34:09
to 1748 right there by Robert Adams.
34:27
little tea shops,
34:27
things like that. Right along the bridge
34:30
as you walk this way.
34:34
This is going over the bridge. This is
34:36
the little shops along the little very
34:38
short bridge. Very cute.
34:49
All right, I've stepped inside the
34:50
oldest operating
34:52
pharmacy store in Bath and I'm buying a
34:56
brush. Random impulse purchase
35:14
If you go across the road to the other
35:14
side. Yeah, the store's name is AH.
35:18
Got the code of arms up top.
35:22
Nice. Really got quite the impulse buy
35:25
here. I got a Mason Pearson
35:29
brush
35:32
made in England. I also got some Marvis
35:36
toothpaste.
35:38
Both are made here in England.
35:41
Mason Pearson. Evidently, this this
35:43
brush is supposed to last like 30 years.
35:45
The shop salesman said people come back
35:47
decades later and they still have the
35:48
brush. It's made to last.
35:52
Not that I ever really brush my hair,
35:53
but yeah, I use a warehouse. The other
35:55
side of the bridge, there's the back
35:57
side of the shops right there. And I
36:00
bought the brush right over there. So
36:03
whenever I use this brush, if I ever use
36:05
this brush, I always think I bought it
36:07
on the bridge over here in Bath,
36:20
Made it back over to Bath Abbey now.
36:20
Going to be going up and doing a tour.
36:23
Going up to the pinnacle, climbing 200
36:26
plus stairs, and also getting a look at
36:29
the way the gears of the clock tower
36:31
work. Should be pretty interesting.
36:53
Going to be going up top. Way to the
36:53
top. I really like the interesting
36:56
ceiling line right here.
36:59
If you look closely, there is
37:03
like a tile sword
37:05
right in the middle there. Kind of hard
37:07
to see, but
37:14
and of course stained glass. Love some
37:14
beautiful stained glass through here.
37:26
thing about this is it's the church is b
37:28
is directly above
37:31
all the resting places of all these
37:34
people here. In fact, right down here,
37:36
this is dated 1817,
37:40
which would have been the same year that
37:42
Mary lived right outside the cathedral.
37:46
The entire floor
37:49
are headstones and remains directly
37:52
underneath them. First king of all
37:55
England was crowned
37:58
in the Saxon Abbey on the site in AD 973
38:13
where this cathedral now stands. All
38:13
right, we're now going inside the
38:15
airport. All right, made it up to the
38:17
first section.
38:20
No elevators, all stairs. I think it was
38:22
200 and I think it's 200 something total
38:26
to get from this spot.
38:30
They're continuing up. I think got to go
38:33
up there as well.
39:08
Oh, it's not going to open.
39:08
It does open. Yeah.
39:11
If you open it like that, it's a big
39:13
circle with lights that face down.
39:19
Okay. Well, welcome to the ringing room,
39:19
guys. This is where our bell ringers
39:21
will come up and ring the Abbey bells.
39:24
So, if you've been in Bath on a Monday
39:25
evening or on a Sunday morning, tomorrow
39:28
morning, you'll probably have heard them
39:29
because you can hear them about two
39:31
miles. It's actually a lot more
39:33
complicated than that, but I'm still
39:34
here. Um, and what that does is it makes
39:37
the bell swing backwards and forwards in
39:39
its cradle like that. Not ringing yet
39:42
until it gains enough momentum to swing
39:47
180° to a hammer. This time it just hits
39:50
on the outside of the bell. Also quite
39:52
quiet and we'll get away in a couple of
39:53
minutes. And the tenner bell is on the
39:55
right. I don't think that's working
39:57
currently. Um, this traditionally also
39:59
would have round the clock. It still
40:01
does. We would have had a dedicated
40:03
winder to do that for us. We would have
40:05
had to come up early in the morning,
40:08
put this into the machine and wind. That
40:11
would have lifted a metric ton of weight
40:14
that's still in the corner there all the
40:16
way up a few floors up to the very top
40:19
of the roof. They would have descended
40:21
pulling over the clock. So, we ask again
40:23
if you can try and avoid grabbing hold
40:25
with it. Let's head on over.
40:40
You didn't go in the bell room.
40:40
Sorry, you didn't go in the bell room.
40:42
No,
40:44
right. So, apologies. Uh, could you not
40:48
lean on? Look at this. Thank you. Um,
40:51
but yeah, so just where we are. So,
40:54
obviously round the clock, but that
40:56
doesn't mean a great deal overall in the
40:58
abbey.
41:00
You are just this tiny little speck
41:02
right at the very end here. Uh now, if
41:06
that's why it's so warm in here is cuz
41:09
you're basically in a leadline tube.
41:12
Luckily, we don't face Easter. It would
41:14
be even hotter. Um but the reason we
41:18
face north simply is when the Abbey was
41:20
built, that's where the main markets
41:22
were. So, we still got the Guild Hall
41:24
Market and the High Street at night.
41:27
Okay. All right. This thing is turning
41:29
ever so slowly. It's a working clock in
41:34
Oh, are you all right?
41:51
That is really, really cool. Walking
41:51
right over right over where the organ is
41:54
playing the music down below. They're
41:55
having a service. Here's
41:59
some of the original well bell ringers
42:01
from back in the day 1937.
42:04
And here's some of the scales that you
42:07
can play here on this ring the bells.
42:09
Okay.
42:15
Mhm. If you look uh right in front of
42:15
that down on the ceiling immediately in
42:18
front. So you look to the car right down
42:21
in the corner down there.
42:32
Put your head in there. Put your head in
42:32
there and you can see the you can see
42:34
into the junior down there. Yeah. Just
42:38
just down there. Oh, okay.
42:47
Oh, wow. Wow. Look at this. There's a
42:47
hole. You can see down into the church
42:50
itself right there.
42:54
Wow. Amazing.
43:04
All right, going up four stairs. 94
43:04
stairs.
43:06
What is this?
43:08
Almost there. Almost there. Almost
43:11
there. Almost there.
43:14
That's not a problem.
43:30
Yeah, one of you will get anyway in a
43:30
minute.
43:32
Yeah. No more stairs in a minute.
43:43
Everybody up by the look of it. So,
43:43
welcome to the bell chamber, and this is
43:45
where we house our 10 bells. Now, I
43:48
would like to tell you these are our
43:50
originals, but they're not. So, when the
43:52
abbey was built, we inherited the bells
43:55
from the Norman Cathedral that came
43:56
before us. So, what happened to them?
43:59
Well, Henry VII did. So, we were a
44:02
Catholic building at the time, so did
44:05
the congregation. Oh, they saw the next
44:07
day the town was still actually
44:09
standing. So someone came up to
44:11
investigate and they found that the
44:14
problem was Ethel's stay which is the
44:16
bit of uh the upright bit of wood that
44:19
keeps her going 360° had broken. So
44:24
she'd been spinning around quite
44:26
happily. Physics took over and out she
44:29
came but by some miracle she only went
44:32
down one level. In the intermediate
44:35
chamber she landed on one of these
44:36
beams. Shows you how strong they are.
44:40
If she'd been slightly off trajectory,
44:43
would have gone through the bell ringers
44:44
and right on top of the vicar. But she,
44:48
isn't it? I'm going to give you a
44:50
countdown. Do not be shy. Give it a good
44:53
whack. 3 2 1.
45:01
That was actually very impressive. Not
45:04
many people ring it that loud.
45:08
We won't be able to do the bell chamber
45:10
on tours because they would have left
45:12
the bells up.
45:14
Quite the time to get them all up. So if
45:16
they're bell ringing the a short time
45:18
after they leave them up and we can't
45:21
come in here, it's locked. Yeah. Cuz in
45:23
one accidentally down
45:27
you'd lose your hearing. Yeah.
45:30
The um all the tools, the hammers that
45:32
you described that that you can use to
45:34
bring them, they have to be taken out
45:36
when they do the Yeah. So downstairs in
45:38
the um Alakum for the Alakum handchime
45:40
which obviously are these red hammers.
45:43
Yeah. They they loosen that. Well, one
45:44
of pulling them actually. So they are
45:46
quite loose at the moment. They can be
45:48
very tight. So you only need to give a
45:49
small tug or it's like pulling like
45:51
that. Yeah.
46:09
Look at all these carvings here.
46:09
1688.
46:39
and as a UNESCO heritage site, no one
46:39
can build higher than the Abbey Tower. I
46:42
would like to say we're the tallest
46:43
structure unfortunately.
46:59
to keep in theme with the topic here.
46:59
So, Mary's house would have been right
47:03
down there where that pump house is now.
47:26
tower
47:26
because someone thought it would be a
47:27
good idea to film the Tik Tok coming
47:29
down.
47:37
That was amazing. That was so cool.
47:38
I've never been up in a clock tower like
47:39
that before or in a bell tower. like
47:42
that type of bell tower or that like old
47:44
school.
47:47
Oh, there's a drone right there.
47:50
Someone's flying a drone up here.
48:04
You got
48:32
this He's good.
48:59
All right, that's going to do it for
48:59
today. A Frankensteinesque type of
49:02
episode, which is just kind of a
49:04
morphing of a bunch of different uh
49:06
different places that I went involving
49:08
Mary Shel and Frankenstein. Thanks for
49:10
watching. I'll see you in the next video
49:11
of the vlog.
49:13
is over. And one last thing, I just
49:15
wanted to reiterate those thing I saw
49:17
earlier. Coincidentally, right here
49:18
where Mary's house used to be, in the
49:21
basement of this bath house is a voltage
49:24
charge that will power up a percentage
49:27
of the population and buildings here in
49:30
Bath. Let that sink in. There's a
49:33
they're delivering volts to Bath right
49:34
here where Mary used to live.