A Day At Historic Roman Baths In England - Sally Lunn's Afternoon Tea House / Ghost & Graveyard Tour
Bath England June 2025
Transcript
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Today's adventure begins as the
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recording of this Sunday, June 29th,
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2025
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here in Bath, England.
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Yesterday, I was up on top of the
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cathedral roof up there, Ba Abbey.
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Today, I'm going to do other things I
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have not done yet here in this amazing
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city.
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And later this evening after dark or
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around dark, I'm going do a ghost tour.
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That's not for a while though. And a few
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other things on the agenda as well.
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Really love the streets through here.
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You just walk around. Today's kind of a
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nice overcast
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day. Yesterday was a little warmer than
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it is right now.
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Very enjoyable. Nice breeze in the air.
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The thing on the agenda is to go into
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the most popular tourist attraction here
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in Bath, the Roman baths.
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I would imagine that's probably why the
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town got its name. Or maybe it's just an
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interesting coincidence. I'm staying in
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a hotel in this general vicinity. So,
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all of this is walking distance
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yesterday and today. Going to go on a
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little bit more of a stroll after going
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inside
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the pump house and the bath house.
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We're going to go over to a historic
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cemetery.
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here
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wearing an appropriate t-shirt
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and having a coffee that is shedding a
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little bit of a tear. I'm inviting you
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to join me throughout the course of the
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day. Shall we? Everyone standing here.
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Well, not standing this guy. Well, this
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guy's riding a bike. He's writing this
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little courtyard where this gentleman's
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playing a violin or was playing a
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violin. But the Roman bass or the bath
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house is right over there. You can see
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people are already up in there. Yes.
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Just strolling through the quaint little
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streets of England. I like this
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courtyard over in here. Definitely
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really beautiful, peaceful vibes through
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here. Yeah, it's more or less in the
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shadow of the cathedral. These hot
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springs were used by the Romans as early
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as the first century. It says right
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there,
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"The remains of the magnificent are here
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disclosed." Oh, wait. The remains of
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their magnificent are here disclosed. In
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the area in grandeur and completeness,
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the baz of the aquasulus were unequaled.
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I'm sure I just completely butchered
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that. Look at this. This is like a a
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fish man.
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because it's like water.
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And these are put here so people don't
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sit because if you sit on this that
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would uh that would cause some damage.
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There is even a Roman bass shop
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right here.
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It's very busy down here, too. Very
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busy.
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King and queen baths.
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says right there. Now, the entrance is
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in the Abbey Church courtyard.
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So, you don't go into there at this
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direction.
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Standing in front of the pump room,
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he's got water.
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He's pouring water in front of the water
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pump. Even though it's very busy down
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here, not too not too lengthy of a line
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to get in the Roman bass
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at this at this time frame. Anyway,
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this is a big tourist attraction.
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The number one here in this city.
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All right, with the price of admission,
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you get an audio tour here. Audio things
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put us up to your ear. Standing on the
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terrace completed in 1897. The great
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bath below is just one part of the Roman
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site which includes extensive bath and
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major temple complex built around the
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hot spring.
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This is the architect and the sculpture
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George Anderson Lawson and John Brighton
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designed all the sculptures down from
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the second level into the hot springs.
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no longer an active pool. So, you can't
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just, you know, pay a couple dollars and
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then hop in. I don't believe they're
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allowing that anymore. Even though it's
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kind of murky, slightly tempting, but
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also very murky. And uh look at that.
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It's got a little buildup on it right
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there. For example, down there, there's
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like a really tremendous buildup of uh
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just whatever that is in the corner, the
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corner of the pool there, the springs.
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This is showing a listing of who the
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different statues are over there in the
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corner, the far corner. Hey, that is
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Julius Caesar. So Caesar
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has the shadow of the cathedral. So
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Caesar's right there amongst those
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people. They're standing right next to
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Caesar. They might not even realize it.
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It is really neat how the little
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sculptures here are looking down upon
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the pool itself. You got the He's like
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almost kind of looking down saying,
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"Enjoy the enjoy the warm bath. enjoy
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the the nice
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nice hot water down below.
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Interesting from ground level outside
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over there when you're walking around
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the cathedral courtyard and all that.
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You wouldn't even know that this was
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like tucked away down inside here. It's
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like lower lower level than the sea
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level would be cuz ground level is like
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here. Well, a little bit below there
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like right about there. And then this is
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you know down below even that. Oh yeah,
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right there. This guy got his sword
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there. It's hammered. Now he's got his
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sword kind of overlooking the pool.
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Yeah. Standing here. This is ground
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level. And I guess back in the day used
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to have like an archway around it, but
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the archway has since been removed.
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This is a a little model of the entire
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property here and the different springs,
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the pool, the hot springs bubbling up
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the boiling water. Well, not boiling,
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but very, very warm water.
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You can track where the water flows
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through the different
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this little
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guy.
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Take a look at this. It has the
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inscriptions of when the bass
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originated, dating back to 76 AD.
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Fespian
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Espasian
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became the emperor in 69 A8.
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So there's the original domed roof since
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been removed.
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This predated the abbey by many years.
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This is before the town even got its
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name.
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Back when it was Aquasulus.
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This was a tombstone for a man from
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Aquasulus.
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It was reused in the medieval town wall.
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Now it's here in this little museum.
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It's the headstone of one of the priests
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and one of the main
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people here at the springs.
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Gorgon's head mask over her stomach is
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what that says. Head mask over her
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stomach.
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These are the stones that made up the
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temple courtyard here or at least an
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interpretation of the stones.
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looking at it a little more. I think
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this is the original original section
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here.
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This little area, this museum portion of
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it's built kind of right on top of it.
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Yes, I was definitely
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incorrect at first about it. That that
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section was not a recreation. Now that
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I'm seeing all this is the original
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foundation.
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So I am here the entrance the temple
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courtyard. So it's it's just not what
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you see when you're walking around
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outside. It's all this other remains
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that's in here. So, it's just a lot more
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expansive than I originally first
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thought. That's what it would have
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looked like back then. And this is what
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it looks like. Modern day.
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There's an altar here.
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This little section here was an altar.
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some uh things happened on there that
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probably were not fun to watch. This is
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kind of neat how they give you this
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description of what it would have been
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like then. And uh
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so you kind of know what you're looking
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at looking at this. But if you could go
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back in time, that's what it would have
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been like back then. There's the little
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box there with the where they were
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having the sacrifices.
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steps leading up. Columns would have
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been here. And there's that box over
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there, too, as the same box.
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Amazing.
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Yeah, steps are still kind of here.
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It was just one step, two step, then you
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had the columns.
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column there, column there, and then you
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would go in
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steps of a temple. You see the steps are
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still there. And then they're just
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showing how the steps went up and then
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the pillars would have been there.
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This is really, really incredible. This
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is way better than I thought it was
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going to be. I thought it was just going
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to be seeing a pool in a hotring, but
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this is really well done. This is the
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head of Sulus Manurva.
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Look what that is. Now through here is
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the hot bubbling spring. Different than
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the first pool I showed.
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If you look closely, you can well kind
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of hard to see from here. Yeah, you can
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see you can see the
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the bubbling up, the heat, the water
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bubbling up there.
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This is a sacred springs overflow.
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Oh, that is warm. I can feel the heat.
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Wow, that is You can feel the heat
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coming off of that. You got the main
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drain, the sacred spring into the great
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bath, which is the heated. Then you got
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the cold plunge.
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So when I was in Ecuador, I did a a
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heated a heated bath and then I
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immediately jumped in the cold plunge
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and it was really invigorating.
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It was a little miserable for about half
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a second, but after you got used to the
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cold plunge, it felt pretty good.
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Here's
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the here's one of the drains from the
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the sacred spring to the great bath.
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Must be aware of the uneven paving and
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the gullies.
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The Great Bath.
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Just imagine a time when there was a lot
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of people in this. I don't know how many
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people they would get in at one time,
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but probably get 100 people in here if
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you wanted to. just crammed in here
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gossiping, having their conversations,
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talking amongst themselves, and enjoying
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the hot bath
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or whatever else they were doing in
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here. There's probably some frivolous
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things. Pagan rituals,
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enjoying the the probably the pleasures
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of the flesh going on in here, doing
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their doing their their things right
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here amongst
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Caesar up top there. than the the chapel
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off in the distance. Just a what an
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amazing piece of history and and really
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nasty water. Nasty water. Over here was
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more or less like a mud bath where you
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get like a massage. You get mud taken
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over your put over your body then washed
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off. Kind of like the spa if you will.
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Someone would lay right there. They
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would
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layer them down with the mud and then
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wash it off cleansing the pores.
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back in 1754. Here is the immersion
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pool.
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It's just amazing really to think about
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like you know you're looking at things
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present day. It's like a museum of
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sorts. You pay some money, you walk
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through, you get a little history.
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But to people that were living during
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that time, they didn't know that I would
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be here walking around listening to an
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audio guide
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and walking out and buying souvenirs
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from a gift shop and a magnet
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afterwards. Makes me think like what
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current day is happening,
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you know, that a thousand years from now
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or 500 years from now or 100 years from
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now or 5,000 years from now are people
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going to look back on as a tourist
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attraction, just something that we do in
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our normal everyday lives and don't even
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think secondary of of it being anything
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magnificent. Is it going to be looked
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back upon as a historic thing? Things
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that are being documented or built or
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shown or I don't know. I just if you if
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you try to wrap your head around it, you
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can kind of go a little little insane
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thinking about it. This was the gold
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plunch right here.
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Now it's just kind of like a dark dank
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pit.
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It's like a mosquito breeding pool.
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Better little peek here at the heated
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springs themselves.
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Oh, there my uh audio guy just kind of
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like the being pressed up against the
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the brick right here kind of leaning
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over getting a Oh, you can definitely
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feel the heat from here to here as well.
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There's a pigeon right there.
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This was the heated room. These pillars
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of tile supported the floor
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in the room in the bath house. Hot smoky
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air was drawn from a fire in the stove
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hole. You can see beneath the glazed
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floor and circulated around the pillars.
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The smoke from the charcoal charcoal
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fire escaped through a series of small
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vents in the roof. So, it's kind of
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almost like a It's like one of those
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rooms you go to in a spa, like a sauna.
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It's like the sauna room right over
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there. And then it would like go through
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that little little escape tunnel almost
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over there. So, these are like spa spa
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tiles, like
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nonmodernday spa tiles. In fact, here is
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what it what it looked like then.
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luxurious.
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The tile was built over.
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So this this was elevated. So the the
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floor was over the top of these. So they
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remove the floor to see. So you get the
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heat underneath there and the heat would
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emulate up through the floorboards. Of
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course, exiting through the gift shop. I
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could have got this before I went
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through. It would have been a different
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experience if I'd have been wearing this
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as I would have walked through a lot of
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the stuff here in town. Got the Royal
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Crescent. I walked past there yesterday.
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We got over the the bridge. Went through
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that yesterday. Kings. I went to the top
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of that yesterday as well. Yeah. Seeing
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quite a few things. Kind of a neat
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little little bag there. All right.
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After walking around the bath house,
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going to stop by this very historic
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place, this eating house called Sally
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Luns, who lived here in 1680. According
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to this, Sally Lived here in 1680, but
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it's the oldest house in town, dating
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back to 1482.
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And evidently, this is a very historic
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place. They have a certain treat. You
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can really only get in here. These these
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little buns that they have down here.
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They also have a museum, a kitchen
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museum. Skip the queue and head
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downstairs. But I think I might get a
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cup of tea and one of the historic buns
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from Sally Luns. A Lun's
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bun.
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Yeah, why not? All right, looking at the
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menu, I think I'm gonna get a hot sweet
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half bun over there. They have a They
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have jam on it. Buttered and served with
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a generous pot of strawberry tripree
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jam and queen shorts of jam. Now, this
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is my afternoon tea. Well, the tea is in
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here. It's uh 1:30, which is perfect
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time for afternoon tea. And this is it.
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This is a lun bun right here. Look at
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this thing right here. A half a lun bun
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right here. It's got the jam. It's got
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some butter right over here. I got my
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got my tea over here with a little milk
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and a little a little sugar, a little
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spoon full of sugar. Helps the medicine
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go down the most delightful way. And
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this is the I guess world famous. Well,
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not world famous, but famous enough for
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this area here in Bath, the Lun Bun.
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After finishing the meal, walking down
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to a little museum which shows
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kind of the history of the the bun
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place.
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Yeah, I really enjoyed that. I usually
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don't eat bread and jam and it wasn't
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butter. It was more of like a a cream
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that they have around here. It was
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definitely a little better tasting than
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than the butter was and the jam. But I
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don't know, last time I had like jam and
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jelly on a like a biscuit or anything
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like that, but it was more it wasn't
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really a biscuit. It was more kind of
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like this. They took this and they
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sliced it and they give you a sliced
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portion of it here. And here is
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There she is making the Mrs. Lung making
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the making her buns right there in the
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oven. It's kind of warm down here in
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this little museum, but this is
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underneath. This is also free.
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Obviously, the food you got to pay for
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the food, but the museum's free. You can
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just come down here and check it out.
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You got the oven here. And then you got
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where the
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fire steam goes up there. And there she
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is making her world famous buns right
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there in the the oven.
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This is what they look like here. This
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look like they're kind of like those
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already have some cream on it as well.
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Oh, look at the pot there. The pot's
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brewing. Watch.
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I can hear people walking above it.
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All right. I'm glad I did that. That is
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definitely one of the things when you're
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here in town that is on a to-do list.
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It was tasty. It's like there's multi
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floors. I was on the second floor.
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Looks like there's four four floors
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there.
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A very popular tourist spot. I'm glad I
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got in there when I did before I got too
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The Sally Lun House
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in the basement is where she would cook
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all her famous buns. They're still going
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to this day. It was similar to other
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things I've eaten, but but also
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different in its own way. Very tasty.
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It's kind of like a soft bread, and I
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really like that. What I thought was
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butter, but it was more of like a cream.
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like a cream and the jam mixed together
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was a good good combo.
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Okay, going to enter St. John's
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Cemetery.
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St. John the Baptist Church.
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It's the one that runs this. Oh, I'm
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incorrect. It's St. Mary's Churchyard.
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How cool is this? Look at this place.
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Now, the interesting thing about this
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property is they encourage people to
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walk around and learn
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who was laid to rest here. In fact,
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there
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are little signs
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with information about
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current residents this
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graveyard.
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For example, as this butterfly goes by,
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Dame Elanora,
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1741 to 1823. She was the mother of the
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founder of Brisbane, Australia.
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William Lamplier
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was an Army Inspector, General of
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Hospitals.
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He was also the doctor to the court of
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the king of Morocco.
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This used to be an old chapel here as
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well. overgrown.
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In fact, you can see a lot of the grass
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and the weeds growing up here.
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Right next to here is a pub called the
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Ptony Arms named after the bridge Pony
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Bridge.
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Charles G. Jones
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was the founder of that.
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Colton arms.
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He only aged 45 years.
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It's a very interesting
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setup.
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Oh, look at this. This headstone
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is the same, you know, dimensions of
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what the casket would be. It's like an
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above ground casket version of a
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headstone.
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Also, one thing I'm noticing is the size
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of the headstones. Very tall, very big
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in comparison. Usually, you know, in the
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States, in the US, most headstones are
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about that size, but these here are
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ginormous.
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April 13th of 1816. The dates on these.
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Passed away in 1816.
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That's way before my time, way before
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any of our times. All right, walking up
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on the back side of the chapel door
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here. Well, this Oh my goodness. Look at
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this. says evil
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inside right here.
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This is Mary Gilbert.
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Well, at least where her final resting
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place is. You notice the rock here on
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top. Kind of different style than you
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see on the normal normal crypt. But she
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was a an army wife twice widowed and she
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survived a shipwreck.
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This is a very
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This is a very interesting one right
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here. Look at this.
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Not really sure the
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what that's supposed to represent or
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what that's supposed to be.
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And then this one is just basically a
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pile of rocks.
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And I would imagine that a lot of the
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ceremonies, a lot of the funerals that
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these people had took place right inside
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that building.
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Their loved ones showed up to pay their
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respects and say their goodbyes. The
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Mortuary Chapel, there's a photo of it
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here back from 1863.
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Shows it right there.
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shows the fees that you would pay for
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the a wall grave, a tomb, flat stone.
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Here's 1851 artist rendering
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of the chapel in the churchyard.
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You could see some of the some of them
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had the metal rod iron around then.
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Since then, those have all gone away.
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According
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to the pamphlet and the ticket, supposed
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to meet up with the guide at 10 minutes
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until 8. It's 7:47.
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And I'm seeing who I think might be the
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ghost tour guide over there in front of
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the cathedral, in front of the abbey.
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Again, this place is really cleared out
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dramatically than it was earlier today.
29:16
I mean, it's very dramatic difference.
29:25
by this. Well, perhaps, my friends,
29:25
perhaps she was one of the many hundreds
29:28
who lost their lives here because this
29:32
is the Bath Gallows tree, the hanging
29:35
tree. It was from this main branch here
29:37
that the good citizens of Bath hoist the
29:40
many thieves who infested the city at
29:42
the time. Because if you were poor
29:45
during the 18th century, someone came
29:47
around and stole from you. What would
29:49
you do? No police for rules until 1835.
29:54
Interesting. When he walked up, I was
29:55
thinking that's what this would have
29:56
been.
29:58
You kind of picture the mob mentality of
30:01
people bringing someone over here
30:03
without any correct jurisdiction. You
30:05
know, no court system or anything. They
30:07
just take the criminal and do their
30:09
business back in the day. There's a hot
30:11
air balloon up there.
30:23
quite a well-known antique store in its
30:23
day antiques featured twice on
30:27
it old trip that one but nevertheless
30:32
this building has been as you see it
30:34
today vacant empty seemingly unsellable
30:37
for the past nine years incredible as
30:41
that seems
30:42
n years. Much to the frustration of the
30:44
woman who owns the building and the
30:46
business as was a woman who we happen to
30:50
know. And she explained to us the reason
30:52
for this difficulty is because of a
30:56
because of a serious problem with
30:58
polterist
31:01
scratches upon the face by unseen hands
31:04
drawing blood. And this is all from the
31:08
horse's m as it were. a woman who, as I
31:10
mentioned, we happen to know indeed so
31:13
bad
31:15
would things get here that she decided
31:17
to call in the Catholic Church to
31:20
arrange for an exorcism.
31:23
The guide was just telling a story about
31:25
how underneath a bridge, they would try
31:27
witches by dunking them in the water
31:31
back in the medieval days
31:34
and they would try the witches and put
31:36
them to death.
31:43
And there used to be a slide that they
31:43
would have the animal remains when they
31:45
were using the animal parts. They would
31:47
slide down into there and the trying of
31:49
the witches would happen underneath that
31:51
slide underneath the bridge for a couple
31:53
of years in fact a few years now. Uh but
31:57
nevertheless this place the M the Royal
32:01
Mineral Waters Hospital it is a very old
32:05
hospital an important part of Bat's
32:07
history founded in 1739
32:11
or 38
32:12
and that long history has of course seen
32:16
perhaps more more than its fair share of
32:18
death and dying and the great nurse
32:23
haunts this place.
32:27
connects to a tunnel, an underground
32:30
tunnel which runs under the road and
32:33
joins up with that building on the other
32:36
side over there. That building was
32:38
originally the leper house where people
32:41
suffering from that dreadful disease
32:43
were quarantined. Hence the tunnel leper
32:47
house
32:50
was there to stop the disease tunnel
32:53
runs underneath this road. the disease
32:56
did the morning after their shift.
32:59
Whether to cross the road here at ground
33:02
level and risk being accosted by some
33:06
wayward reveler on the way back from the
33:08
pub or to take their chances underground
33:13
through the tunnel and risk being
33:15
accosted by one of the dead.
33:19
Of course, the tunnel itself wasn't
33:21
always it was always dark.
33:22
closer and closer, faster and faster
33:26
till she and then cease. And at that
33:31
moment, you knew that the gray nurse had
33:36
you
33:37
carried away there, but you rock solid.
33:40
This building right here used to be the
33:42
leper house where the lepers
33:45
were tempted to be cure. And this wall,
33:48
he was just saying, was where during the
33:50
bubanic plague, they would throw people
33:52
who were passed on and live people who
33:54
had the plague over this wall. Hundreds
33:57
of people were cast right in here. And
33:59
you can't get to it cuz this is locked
34:01
up. But there is a plaque over there
34:03
talking about it. Pretty interesting
34:05
story actually. Pretty interesting
34:07
stories guy has to say. Obviously, I'm
34:09
not really filming much of it just
34:12
because he doesn't want to
34:19
have everything on camera, but just
34:19
filming kind of the experience.
34:22
The screaming flyer concerns a happy
34:25
married couple who came here during the
34:28
1740s to enjoy
34:43
who had two male lovers that were
34:43
fighting over her. They fought each
34:45
other in here. One killed the other. And
34:48
then when she found out, she came back
34:50
and out of her being distraught, jumped
34:53
out of the top window,
34:56
she perished.
34:59
And she still haunts these grounds.
35:01
According to the guide,
35:23
used to be a little boy that lived up in
35:23
this window over here and he would draw
35:27
a figure that would look at him every
35:28
night called the man, tall man in the
35:30
black hat.
35:33
There's been many accounts of him being
35:35
seen right here
35:37
walking along here. They say if you walk
35:39
along this path alone, you'll see them.
35:41
It's why most people are walking.
35:42
Perfect. Perfect with groups. So Elise
35:45
has made it, which is great news for us
35:47
all, isn't it? And it is now safe for us
35:50
all.
35:52
Let's join. My child has been used as
35:54
bait.
36:00
The last account was eight year eight
36:00
years ago.
36:06
And he's said to been seen walking down
36:06
here. and then he'll get to this step
36:09
and then vanish into thin air. The tall
36:11
man in the black hat, he says
36:20
there's an account of an elderly woman
36:20
that saw him. The tall man passed
36:23
through her body and then she fainted or
36:26
or fell down. Paraphrasing what he said
36:29
right in this spot right here next to
36:30
this pole. Judicially sanctioned illegal
36:33
hands that took place here. And this
36:37
magnificent
36:39
cypress tree here. Nice approximate
36:41
location where there was originally
36:43
erected a jibbit, a large hanging
36:45
apparatus capable of supporting a number
36:48
of muses. And we know that on at least
36:52
one occasion, the whole family were put
36:54
up to death here because, as I
36:56
mentioned, these were judicially
36:58
sanctioned legal hangings. And we have
37:00
all the records, the names, the dates,
37:03
the crimes committed. And these were
37:05
men, women, and stationary sort of
37:08
standing stark still and just staring
37:11
out
37:12
the bride of death. Also in this area
37:15
behind this door, the foil, the
37:17
reception area,
37:19
you see the settling stairs, all
37:22
standing motionless.
37:25
This is John Wood's impressive
37:27
townhouse.
37:29
He had designed and had built this
37:32
entire terrace and it was this was his
37:35
home address and it was to this address
37:37
that Francis came
37:40
and she lived more or less as a member
37:42
of the family here with with John Woods
37:45
and before long it became known and
37:47
quite a scandal that the relationship
37:51
between John Wood the elder and Francis
37:54
Bradock the maid had gone beyond the
37:57
professional
37:58
the stairs up the stairs to the top
38:00
floor, the little room at the back that
38:03
was her room, the man's room. And she
38:06
threw the rope over a beam
38:09
and she did indeed hand herself and she
38:12
didn't make a great job of it.
38:22
That was very interesting. I'm going to
38:23
have to look up some of the stories he
38:24
was talking about. But I get I didn't
38:26
film too much of it just because I
38:28
didn't want to, you know, kind of ruin
38:30
the vibe of what he had going on. But
38:31
that was that was really good. All
38:32
right, that's going to do it for today.
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Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the
38:35
next video. The vlog is over.