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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Part three of My Return to Dudley Castle.

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<v Speaker 1>In this final episode, Amy takes me around the castle

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<v Speaker 1>grounds themselves, guiding me through some of the locations most

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<v Speaker 1>closely linked to reported paranormal activity, from shadowy corners to

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<v Speaker 1>open spaces with long memories. This is where the stories

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<v Speaker 1>we've been discussing throughout this series truly come to life. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>so you join us now in a section of the

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<v Speaker 1>castle undercroft. Amy has been kind enough to stick around.

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<v Speaker 1>Actually I'm keeping her way longer than she should be

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<v Speaker 1>here for, but she's been so incredibly kind to have

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<v Speaker 1>a wander around and give us a description where we

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<v Speaker 1>are and what we're going to be doing here.

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<v Speaker 2>We're actually what they call castle Creatures, which is the

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<v Speaker 2>old visitor centric It's part of the undercroft, so Celerich

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<v Speaker 2>so undercross are above grown storage areas, which is where

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<v Speaker 2>we were before. This one is directly under we're under

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<v Speaker 2>the anti chamber at the moment, but it runs right

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<v Speaker 2>under the castle, the medieval castle. He is also clusters

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<v Speaker 2>one of the most taunted areas right here.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, okay, so.

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<v Speaker 3>We're in the what we call the vestibule.

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<v Speaker 2>So this is the entrance and we're looking at our

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<v Speaker 2>four fathers of the castle. So we've got models of

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<v Speaker 2>Anscorf of picking Ay, the very first Norman Lord Roger

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<v Speaker 2>Dissummary the second, who is quite important because he actually

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<v Speaker 2>founded the priory. He also founded the marketplace. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know if you know that Dudley has got one of

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<v Speaker 2>the oldest markets in Europe.

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<v Speaker 1>Again, didn't know that that wasn't a creaking doorphin Spirits,

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<v Speaker 1>that was a creaking door because it's extremely.

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<v Speaker 2>Windy, and obviously saying my one of my favorite barons,

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<v Speaker 2>John Sutton the sixth, who was the guy I told

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<v Speaker 2>you about, very good diplomat, awful soldier.

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<v Speaker 3>That was human. And we've got Sir John.

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<v Speaker 2>Dudley, who is the most famous baron. He was Duke

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<v Speaker 2>of Northumberland and it was his plot that put Lady

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<v Speaker 2>Jane Gray on the throne of England for nine days.

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<v Speaker 1>Fascinating characters. Fascinating characters. And you've got obviously the dates here.

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<v Speaker 1>So one of the dates represent do these represent their

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<v Speaker 1>livesan no nose.

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<v Speaker 2>These actually represent when they took the baronet ten seventy

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<v Speaker 2>for Alan Scorff to approximately ten eighty. We know by

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<v Speaker 2>ten eighty six because of the Doomsday book which we

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<v Speaker 2>are in that his son was in charge of his land.

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<v Speaker 3>So by that time he passed away.

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<v Speaker 2>He's gone twelve thirty five is when Roger took over

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<v Speaker 2>to twelve seventy two. He was killed in a hunting

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<v Speaker 2>accident at Pen's Neet.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow Okay, Wolverhampton.

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<v Speaker 3>Pens nature because it was a chase.

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<v Speaker 2>It was the hunting ground for the Barons of Dudley

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<v Speaker 2>and it's where Elizabeth the First went hunting when she

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<v Speaker 2>stayed here at the castle in fifteen seventy five.

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<v Speaker 1>That's fascinating.

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<v Speaker 2>And John Sutton longest serving baron, so he was barren

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<v Speaker 2>from fourteen twenty two to fourteen ninety seven. He was

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<v Speaker 2>actually born in fourteen o one. He's buried. He was

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<v Speaker 2>buried at Dudley Priory and he was given quite a

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<v Speaker 2>big like the Pope gave a two digrace.

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<v Speaker 3>You had to say prayers for him.

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<v Speaker 1>An important god.

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<v Speaker 2>Very important and underrated in English history. And of course

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<v Speaker 2>John Dudley he was here from fourteen fifteen thirty seven

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<v Speaker 2>to fifteen fifty three. He was executed in August fifteen

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<v Speaker 2>fifty three and he basically come the castle out of

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<v Speaker 2>his cousin as head. He basically arranged a mortgage on

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<v Speaker 2>the castle. The baron then defaulted on the mortgage and

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<v Speaker 2>he basically went out, Its mine.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, nice guy.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but John Dudley is probably our most important baron

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<v Speaker 2>because he was so he done the Sharrington Range, things

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<v Speaker 2>like that, He built that. So yeah, he is quite

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<v Speaker 2>important to Dudley Castle.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, where are we going to move to? Now?

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<v Speaker 3>I think we go through here.

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<v Speaker 2>This is what we If you visitors have ever been

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<v Speaker 2>to Dudley Castle and done investigations, that would have been

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<v Speaker 2>in this room. This was This is the old Zodiac

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<v Speaker 2>row okay, and now it's we call it the monopoly room.

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<v Speaker 2>But he has got a fantastic model of what the

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<v Speaker 2>castle would have looked.

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<v Speaker 1>Like and it is spectacular. I've got to say it is.

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<v Speaker 3>So this is one of the haunted areas of the castle.

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<v Speaker 3>People often get quite scared in here.

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<v Speaker 2>Especially when it's dark. I will openly say I like

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<v Speaker 2>being in here on my.

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<v Speaker 1>Own, and this is the room, the backroom that.

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<v Speaker 2>I can manage this room, because I think the problem

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<v Speaker 2>with this place is you've quite a way away from

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<v Speaker 2>the doors when you're getting further in. This is part

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<v Speaker 2>of the Tudor Palace, and a lot of servants would

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<v Speaker 2>have been marying about in this area, and people have

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<v Speaker 2>picked up on keys, they've picked up on cold spots,

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<v Speaker 2>they've also and I'm not a big believer in.

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<v Speaker 3>Sorry, I'm not a big believer in at all.

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<v Speaker 2>Because you take a picture in here, you'll see thousands

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<v Speaker 2>of orbs because of the dust. But the one I

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<v Speaker 2>did really did spout my interest is we were in

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<v Speaker 2>the corridor and was walking along and there was a

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<v Speaker 2>light picked up on someone's phone and it was about

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<v Speaker 2>head hot about this high, halfway three or four feet off,

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<v Speaker 2>five or six feet off the ground. And I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>that's interesting, because if that is spirit, it's going to

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<v Speaker 2>be a little And then I figured it out because

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<v Speaker 2>in the back wall you'll see the corbels, which is

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<v Speaker 2>stones which jut out, and it's the floor level.

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<v Speaker 3>So we're actually walking between floors.

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<v Speaker 2>Here, right, Okay, so if we move into the corridor.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, sure, there's also some interesting visitors here, isn't there.

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<v Speaker 2>We've got bats, We've got bats, we've got mice, we've

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<v Speaker 2>got the.

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<v Speaker 3>Rats, wow, black rats. All these things would have been

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<v Speaker 3>in castles.

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<v Speaker 2>Black rats are our native rat and they are blame

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<v Speaker 2>for the bubonic play. But it wasn't actually the rats.

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<v Speaker 2>It was the fleets that were on the rat the

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<v Speaker 2>course problem. Right, So these the rats would i mean

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<v Speaker 2>rats would have been on your table in the kitchen.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so you'd have had them all through the places.

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<v Speaker 3>Sorry, that's a sound effect.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we do have sund effects. So if you were

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<v Speaker 1>listening to you're hearing farm animals though you're.

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<v Speaker 2>Actually one female rat can have up to twelve twelve

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<v Speaker 2>babies every twenty two days twenty three days, so they reckon.

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<v Speaker 2>For every one yewman, that's about six to seven rats.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm actually watching these black rats climbing the grill

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<v Speaker 1>on the ceilings, so they could literally.

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<v Speaker 3>Get everywhere everywhere.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so the fleas would bite the rat and the

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<v Speaker 2>rat would die, and the fleet they needed to get

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<v Speaker 2>another sauce of food. Fair food was blood, so humans

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<v Speaker 2>nice and warm. The flea would drop dromp onto the human,

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<v Speaker 2>bite the human, and that's how.

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<v Speaker 3>The plague spreads.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, Okay, so it wasn't actually their fault.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a bad rap.

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<v Speaker 2>And these are the corbels.

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<v Speaker 3>So that's the level of the floor, so that.

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<v Speaker 2>All came that way.

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<v Speaker 1>See what you mean about the heights of it.

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<v Speaker 3>Now that's the top of the head.

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<v Speaker 2>That is spirit. It's going to be the top of

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<v Speaker 2>the head. Like I say, I'm not a big fan,

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<v Speaker 2>but that one did interest me because it was it

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<v Speaker 2>went in a direct line. It dust, animals skip about,

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<v Speaker 2>but this went in a direct loin as if it

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<v Speaker 2>was walking.

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<v Speaker 1>Towards Yeah, fascinating.

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<v Speaker 3>So we're still here.

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<v Speaker 2>We're still in the tudor a part of the building,

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<v Speaker 2>and people do get horrible feelings in this part. They

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<v Speaker 2>do feel sick and things like that. This is this

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<v Speaker 2>right here we've got Actually, I should point this out.

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<v Speaker 3>This is a.

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<v Speaker 2>Memorial because we've had both Queen Elizabeth's visit. So we

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<v Speaker 2>have Elizabeth the first the eleventh of August fifteen seventy five,

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<v Speaker 2>and then Queen Elizabeth the first visited Klarding.

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<v Speaker 3>Elizabeth the Second visited to.

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<v Speaker 1>Us in Jude That is fantastic.

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<v Speaker 3>Nineteen ninety four.

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<v Speaker 2>She actually opened this area when it was the visitor center.

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<v Speaker 2>So when you get to this archway, you're going to

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<v Speaker 2>travel back two hundred years without the aid of the Tardars.

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<v Speaker 2>Because you're going from Tudah to medieval. Wow. So this

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<v Speaker 2>is where John Dudley got to. This is where his

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<v Speaker 2>building stops and the medieval building started.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>The undercroft, as I said to you earlier, was Prosser,

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<v Speaker 2>is possibly the oldest surviving room, complete room of the castle.

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<v Speaker 2>The undercroft where we were before, predates the keeper.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow. I mean this the wall, it sounds be so thick.

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<v Speaker 3>It's huge.

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<v Speaker 2>The thing was those lovely Victorians who did a lot,

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of damage to places like castles, bashed through

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<v Speaker 2>walls up here because there was a room locally that there.

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<v Speaker 3>Was treasure being.

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<v Speaker 2>Building ransacks, so they bashed through a lot of the walls,

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<v Speaker 2>including this one.

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<v Speaker 3>Right okay, So again in.

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<v Speaker 2>Here you're coming through. You're coming through too. And that's

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<v Speaker 2>that ramp I was telling you about where I saw the.

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<v Speaker 3>Little girl, right okay, So it's not only seen.

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<v Speaker 2>Her here, there was a hooded figure stood in the corner.

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<v Speaker 2>I've seen that a couple of times. So this is

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<v Speaker 2>possibly one of the more haunted areas. And we get

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of mediums picking up on children and children

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<v Speaker 2>would have been in this area. Servants started here quite young.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, right, Okay, so you join us back and where

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<v Speaker 1>we're going now.

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<v Speaker 3>Just going up to the ramp.

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<v Speaker 1>The back room fantastic.

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<v Speaker 3>So this is the room I really really don't like.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know what it is about this room, but

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<v Speaker 2>it always gives me the creeps when I'm in there.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not the nicest rooms.

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<v Speaker 1>Now again, it's bright and it's airy. For someone just

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<v Speaker 1>walking in here, it's bright, it's airy, it's I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what it is.

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<v Speaker 3>With this room.

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<v Speaker 2>I think there's just something about it. I think because

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<v Speaker 2>of having the little passageway there and he's far away

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<v Speaker 2>from the doors.

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<v Speaker 3>I think that's what it is. Because if something happened,

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<v Speaker 3>it'd be.

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<v Speaker 2>Hard to get out, right. Okay, So I've had experiences

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<v Speaker 2>in this room. I mean children have been I mean

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<v Speaker 2>ghost grips will tell you. When I used to do

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<v Speaker 2>the ghost lines, they call me in this room and

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<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't come in and we're not coming.

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<v Speaker 3>It took a lot for me to come in here.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, And I'd like say, it's one of those rooms there.

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<v Speaker 1>It's getting to your now, yeah, yeah, I can see

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<v Speaker 1>it's getting to you, actually getting to do you not

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<v Speaker 1>like it? I mean quick description of the room. I

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<v Speaker 1>five thirty feet square something like that. It's it is imposing.

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<v Speaker 1>It's bare stone walls, lots of lots of pictures of animals,

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<v Speaker 1>lots of information about the animals. But yeah, I can imagine.

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<v Speaker 3>We have to stand them back towards.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, it's really yeah okay, okay, And we've got the

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<v Speaker 1>bats through.

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<v Speaker 3>There, yeah, we've have.

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<v Speaker 2>But that's the Old Castle gift Shop and that's where

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<v Speaker 2>I was saying earlier.

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<v Speaker 3>There was a lot of paranormal.

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<v Speaker 2>Activity and poltergeist activity was quite every.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, okay, right, where do you want to move on to?

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<v Speaker 1>Now we go through the sure yeah, yeah, right, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>This is going to be really dark. I'm afraid because

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.

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<v Speaker 3>So this is the Old Castle Shop.

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<v Speaker 2>And like I say, if any of your audience have

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<v Speaker 2>washed the most Haunted from Dudley Castle from two thousand

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<v Speaker 2>and three, it was the very first live they actually

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<v Speaker 2>did came from here. This area was quite prominent in

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<v Speaker 2>it because Derry Cocoura came in here and I did

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<v Speaker 2>see the top of her head going down behind some shelves,

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<v Speaker 2>and he picked up on the name Alice. I've got

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<v Speaker 2>a mat I'm not big derry Coclera found but that

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<v Speaker 2>name is relevant to the castle.

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<v Speaker 3>And she was.

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<v Speaker 2>And he also picked up on one of the most

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<v Speaker 2>famous ghost stories about this area because back in the

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<v Speaker 2>eighties this the castle was holding a medieval festival and

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<v Speaker 2>there was a fancy dress There was a fancy dress

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<v Speaker 2>competition and the lady who won it looked like nobody else.

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<v Speaker 2>She was in sackcloth, she had sackcloth shoes, dirty.

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<v Speaker 3>Hair, bedraggled.

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<v Speaker 2>They went to give the prize to her and she

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<v Speaker 2>disappeared and nobody could find her. There was security on

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<v Speaker 2>the gates, nobody had left, so they didn't know where

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<v Speaker 2>she was. And then Derrik Kora picked up on this

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<v Speaker 2>spirit who literally said, I'm glad I won the prize.

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<v Speaker 1>So, but.

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<v Speaker 2>The skeptic in missays did he do a little bit

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<v Speaker 2>of fishing on the internet because that is one of

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<v Speaker 2>the most prominentes of the castle, or did he actually

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<v Speaker 2>pick up on that, But he did give the name Alice,

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<v Speaker 2>and not a lot of people because she was a

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<v Speaker 2>baroness here, but she was married into the family and

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<v Speaker 2>with the barons, the baronesses, A lot of people wouldn't

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<v Speaker 2>go back that far. Roger the second whose busts down there.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, it was his mum. I mean it's a

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<v Speaker 1>bit of a strange room, very atmospheric.

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<v Speaker 2>The things with this this room now, because it's the

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<v Speaker 2>back room, it is quite imposing because it's dark.

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<v Speaker 3>When it was the castle shop, it was quite light

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<v Speaker 3>and area.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a massive room and you'd have all stock

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<v Speaker 2>here stopped, get moved about, right, okay, one hundred percent.

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<v Speaker 2>And staff did have experiences in here. Yeah, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>people who saw things. People witnessed the keychain wracking going

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<v Speaker 2>across the built from are here, come out there and

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<v Speaker 2>cross there.

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<v Speaker 1>So how long has this been here?

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<v Speaker 3>The bats? Yeah, twenty twenty.

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<v Speaker 1>Forty and then the shop was obviously moved to its.

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<v Speaker 2>The shop was moved, the shop disbanded and moved out

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<v Speaker 2>so we could put the bats.

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<v Speaker 1>In, right, should we move on?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>Where are we going to go to now?

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<v Speaker 3>I think we'll go down to the cottage and the waters.

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<v Speaker 1>Are okay, right, okay, So we are back outside now,

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<v Speaker 1>and where are we are?

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<v Speaker 2>We're at the main gateway. Now, this is the triple gate. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>this is a mishmash of time, right, okay. And I

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<v Speaker 2>said to earlier about archaeologists have a special work called features,

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<v Speaker 2>So when the colleagues arelaging something, it's the feature. And

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<v Speaker 2>this gateway is actually full of features. So the two

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<v Speaker 2>inner walls, I believe it or not, are older than

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<v Speaker 2>the two gateways.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>So at one point this had six defenses to it.

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<v Speaker 2>So you had you draw you had your motor obviously said,

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<v Speaker 2>then you draw bridge, then you had behind the drawbridge

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<v Speaker 2>was a pity. So our drawbridge was strange because if

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<v Speaker 2>all you're up and only it was one that you

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<v Speaker 2>could take literally lift up and take away right okay, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>but it would cover the pit. So if you were

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<v Speaker 2>inviting people in, yeah, they could come over the pit.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>And then you've got your pork coullis backed up by

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<v Speaker 2>two big og doors and the same where we.

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<v Speaker 3>Stood just here.

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<v Speaker 2>But this this gateway, there's two outer walls are actually

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<v Speaker 2>older than the two pork cullis gates, right, so they

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<v Speaker 2>remains of possibly the second castle. I mean, if you

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<v Speaker 2>have a look, we've also got these walls here which

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<v Speaker 2>are probably where they started to rebuild and then thought,

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<v Speaker 2>now we'll do it a different.

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<v Speaker 3>Way, right okay, and left it.

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<v Speaker 2>And then in the roof you can't see no, because

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<v Speaker 2>of this scaffolding. There is the remains of the pork cullis.

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<v Speaker 2>But another interesting one is this doorway here, and we

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<v Speaker 2>don't know what that's for.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, okay, stepping back a little bit, I noticed this,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think this was what you were saying about

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<v Speaker 1>the the one this one defense that may have this

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<v Speaker 1>one defense that may have come down here. That's the

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<v Speaker 1>poor cullige that would have been the location of the No.

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<v Speaker 3>The murder hole is it actually in the middle.

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<v Speaker 1>So you were trapped between there and there?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, So what if you were not an invited guests

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<v Speaker 2>from you fight your way up the hill, get to here,

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<v Speaker 2>and that bridge would be wide open. Poor Coullie would

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<v Speaker 2>be white, wide open. As soon as you made a

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<v Speaker 2>place for that courtyard that would drop and then you

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<v Speaker 2>turned run.

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<v Speaker 1>Back and they're going to.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, you're literally trapped in here like rats in a trap,

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<v Speaker 2>and say, we don't know what this is for.

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<v Speaker 3>It's where.

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<v Speaker 2>The remains of a doorway, or it could be what

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<v Speaker 2>they called a porter's window. So you could literally the

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<v Speaker 2>gatekeeper wild bee to the side.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and he could literally look through there and see

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<v Speaker 3>who using the gateway. Right, Okay, but we're not one

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<v Speaker 3>hundred percent sure.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's the old thing with Dudley Castle, and it's

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<v Speaker 2>one of the reasons I think people should visit.

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<v Speaker 3>It is a mishmash of toyme.

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<v Speaker 2>You go from Norman to medieval to Tudor to the

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<v Speaker 2>Civil War.

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<v Speaker 3>It's just amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>Again just looking at those four figures in the well.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't remember the name of the room that we

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<v Speaker 1>were in.

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<v Speaker 3>The vestible.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, as you say, the span of time that that

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<v Speaker 1>that that goes over and this is so atmospheric, this

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<v Speaker 1>is amazing.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, the triple gateway unfortunately was part of the slighting.

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<v Speaker 2>But upstairs where we see now there was probably a

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<v Speaker 2>platform like a balcony with what they're called miulations in

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<v Speaker 2>so there would be holes so you could drop things through.

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<v Speaker 2>As you walked in, they'd be dropping things on you.

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<v Speaker 2>And the drawbridge. When we did the archaeology digs, we

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<v Speaker 2>didn't actually know where the point of the drawer, the

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<v Speaker 2>plant for the drawbridge where we came down to, but

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<v Speaker 2>we found it and it was just there where the

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<v Speaker 2>elephant statue is.

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<v Speaker 3>And I said about the tunnel.

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<v Speaker 2>Tunnel runs under here, all right, okay, so it runs

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<v Speaker 2>between these.

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<v Speaker 3>These two were barbecane terrors.

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<v Speaker 2>So there are big, big reund terrors that would stretch

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<v Speaker 2>right the way up possibly to where the stoney is

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<v Speaker 2>just up there, and maybe you'd fill in with your archers.

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<v Speaker 3>And one of the brilliant.

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<v Speaker 2>Features if we just go here, and if you get

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<v Speaker 2>a photo of it to show your listeners, this is

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<v Speaker 2>an arrow slit. You remember I said the ground had

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<v Speaker 2>been raised up right, they ain't gonna shoot at your ankles.

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<v Speaker 1>How deep are we talking about?

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<v Speaker 3>One hundred and fifty four we reckon over the years?

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<v Speaker 3>One hundred and fifty feet, Yeah, over the years.

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<v Speaker 2>It can see the steps that would have gone up

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<v Speaker 2>and these would have been filled with your archers to

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<v Speaker 2>protect your gate.

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<v Speaker 1>That's astonishing, that's astonishing. Yeah, we'll get some photos of

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<v Speaker 1>that in a sex that is I cannot believe how

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<v Speaker 1>as you say, yeah, you're not going to have an

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<v Speaker 1>archer that's firing out that so.

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<v Speaker 3>Fifty feet roughly one hundred and fifty feet. So we're

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<v Speaker 3>going to head down now to the cottage.

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<v Speaker 2>Because the cottage has one of the more macarb stories

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<v Speaker 2>to it and a lot of people will know about

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<v Speaker 2>the cottage. And then we've got the Wards Arch, which

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<v Speaker 2>is where the drummer was shot.

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<v Speaker 1>And again we still don't know who fired that shot.

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<v Speaker 2>No, we don't know if it was someone on our side,

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<v Speaker 2>twitchy fingers, someone on our side, Yeah, playing daylight and

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<v Speaker 2>just fired or didn't.

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<v Speaker 3>Hear the drum, because the drum would have called.

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<v Speaker 1>For a truce, and someone ignored it, and.

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<v Speaker 2>Someone totally ignored it and just fired. But the guy

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<v Speaker 2>was shot with probably the worst weapon ever invented, which

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<v Speaker 2>was the muskit, so inaccurate, and he was felled by

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<v Speaker 2>that at that distance.

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<v Speaker 1>So we're walking past the reptiles, past our little friends

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<v Speaker 1>to make cats, and again you kind of get a

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<v Speaker 1>sense when you do come here to visit, you kind

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<v Speaker 1>of get a centers you're walking up this section and

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<v Speaker 1>just how imposing all of this would have been. You've

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<v Speaker 1>got the cannons sat at the top.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the cannons are actually Russian right from the Sebastival

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<v Speaker 2>siege during the Crimean War.

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<v Speaker 3>The then Earl of.

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<v Speaker 2>Dudley was actually a great supporter of that war. Sent

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<v Speaker 2>it sent ships out with food and clothing for the troops,

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<v Speaker 2>and then of course he as a reward, Queen Victoria

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<v Speaker 2>was like eager mate, have two cannons, because there was

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<v Speaker 2>four hundred cannons. Of those the naval cannons that were

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<v Speaker 2>taken during that battle, to most of them, some of

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<v Speaker 2>them are giving out the places like Dudley Castle, Ludlow

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<v Speaker 2>as a sort of thank you for your support of

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<v Speaker 2>the war, and the rest were melted down and made

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<v Speaker 2>the Victoria Cross.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, okay. What's the history of this pos.

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<v Speaker 2>The cottage where a lot of people claim it's Victorian,

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<v Speaker 2>it isn't. Actually it goes back way after before. Because

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<v Speaker 2>we have got the first print of Dudley Castle from

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<v Speaker 2>the sixteen nineties and the cottage is actually on it.

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<v Speaker 2>But it's not a cottage at the time. It's a

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<v Speaker 2>barn and it's actually part of two. It was in

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<v Speaker 2>an L shape and if you look the world, so

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00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:07.400
<v Speaker 2>the second cottage would have run straight down. The cottage

433
00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:13.240
<v Speaker 2>became home to the castle groundskeepers after the castle was

434
00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:19.000
<v Speaker 2>left in seventeen fifty and a family came to Dudley.

435
00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:20.799
<v Speaker 3>This is local legend.

436
00:25:20.880 --> 00:25:24.039
<v Speaker 2>I suppose a family came to Dudley with two daughters,

437
00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:27.559
<v Speaker 2>and the daughter the one daughter got married, got pregnant

438
00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:30.359
<v Speaker 2>out of wedlock. Now even in the eighteen hundred reiving

439
00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:36.720
<v Speaker 2>Dudley did they do that. When her father found out,

440
00:25:36.920 --> 00:25:39.680
<v Speaker 2>he didn't like throw her out or anything. He simply

441
00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:41.880
<v Speaker 2>dragged her into the brick bath house to the side

442
00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:46.599
<v Speaker 2>and slit her throat and she was murdered. People often

443
00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:51.599
<v Speaker 2>report quite a negative feeling in there, and she has

444
00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:55.839
<v Speaker 2>been seen in the bathroom area rocking backwards and forwards.

445
00:25:56.279 --> 00:26:01.279
<v Speaker 2>The guy apparently, again this is local legend, went and

446
00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:04.880
<v Speaker 2>hung yourself up in the foot top room, and people

447
00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:08.480
<v Speaker 2>have seen the image of a bald man in that area,

448
00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:12.880
<v Speaker 2>guising out quite an angry looking man. The image apparently

449
00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:17.440
<v Speaker 2>has been photographed. I've never ever found the photograph. Now

450
00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:19.559
<v Speaker 2>you can said to me, well, come off it. That's

451
00:26:20.119 --> 00:26:24.440
<v Speaker 2>you could be staff in there. The actual cottage was

452
00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:30.039
<v Speaker 2>only restored in twenty thirteen. Top floor actually collapsed in

453
00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:34.160
<v Speaker 2>the mid eighteen hundreds. In the mid nineteen eighties, sorry,

454
00:26:34.519 --> 00:26:37.759
<v Speaker 2>and for thirty years it was just a derelict builded.

455
00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:41.319
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you would not guess that that kind of

456
00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:43.160
<v Speaker 1>trauma has took place in this, I will take a

457
00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:45.880
<v Speaker 1>photo of this. It just looks like an absolutely lovely

458
00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:47.240
<v Speaker 1>little country cottage.

459
00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:50.720
<v Speaker 2>But that image of that man who was seen also

460
00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:53.119
<v Speaker 2>the nineteen eighties, nineteen nineties.

461
00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:55.160
<v Speaker 3>And early two thousands, right, so.

462
00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:58.319
<v Speaker 2>There was no way that because like side, the floor

463
00:26:58.359 --> 00:27:03.880
<v Speaker 2>collapsed and it was only readone in twenty thirty. This

464
00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:07.599
<v Speaker 2>is now home to our curators and bosses of the Zero.

465
00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:10.119
<v Speaker 2>So if you do come to the zoo and see

466
00:27:10.119 --> 00:27:11.799
<v Speaker 2>an angry looking bold man, that's probably in.

467
00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:13.160
<v Speaker 3>Boss to be fair.

468
00:27:15.559 --> 00:27:18.759
<v Speaker 2>But like I said, the cottages, I mean the cottage

469
00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:21.799
<v Speaker 2>is mentioned in Eli.

470
00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:22.359
<v Speaker 3>Blew It's book.

471
00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:27.279
<v Speaker 2>He was the first to describe the Black Country as

472
00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:31.759
<v Speaker 2>the Black Country. Eli Blue wrote the book in the

473
00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:37.640
<v Speaker 2>eighteen hundreds. He was an American travel writer basically very

474
00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:41.119
<v Speaker 2>well known in America, and he visited Dudley Castle and

475
00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:44.680
<v Speaker 2>he mentions the cottage and to our people living in

476
00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:48.000
<v Speaker 2>the cottage with their daughter who were the grains keepers,

477
00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:51.640
<v Speaker 2>they made him tea before taking him up to the castle.

478
00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:56.640
<v Speaker 2>And to have that sort of that it's mentioned is

479
00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:01.119
<v Speaker 2>amazing when you're doing We call Thiset's cottage because this

480
00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:06.359
<v Speaker 2>is where Harry Hatch lived the first yeah, the first yeah,

481
00:28:06.839 --> 00:28:11.480
<v Speaker 2>and the cheeta would have been buried over the area. Yes,

482
00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:15.759
<v Speaker 2>so we we call it hatchet this corner because it's

483
00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:16.920
<v Speaker 2>quite a steep corner.

484
00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:19.519
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we call it Hatchets corner.

485
00:28:20.079 --> 00:28:24.119
<v Speaker 1>That's fantastic. So this is where that cheeta would have a.

486
00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:27.559
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he exercised it all through.

487
00:28:27.759 --> 00:28:30.599
<v Speaker 2>He used to bring it over dignitaries to stroke and

488
00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:33.440
<v Speaker 2>stuff like that. But he raised many animals. You can

489
00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:36.640
<v Speaker 2>see all the buildings, but he would have raised many

490
00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:37.599
<v Speaker 2>animals in this.

491
00:28:38.839 --> 00:28:41.960
<v Speaker 1>Stunning, absolutely fantastic right where we are to.

492
00:28:42.039 --> 00:28:45.279
<v Speaker 2>Next we'll get to the wardens unlest do you want

493
00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:47.279
<v Speaker 2>to see the entrance to a tunnel?

494
00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:49.559
<v Speaker 1>Oh, that would be fantastic.

495
00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:55.319
<v Speaker 2>So not many people get to see this, so it

496
00:28:55.440 --> 00:29:00.279
<v Speaker 2>is one of the off rock area.

497
00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:03.839
<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's a beautiful cottage.

498
00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:07.720
<v Speaker 3>I love it. I won't want to live there, definitely

499
00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:08.759
<v Speaker 3>wouldn't want to leave.

500
00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:13.720
<v Speaker 1>In it. But yeah, again it just looks like your

501
00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:19.799
<v Speaker 1>little typical, beautiful English country cottage, the nice pumpkins outside.

502
00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:25.279
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we're getting ready for Halloween obviously, But just up

503
00:29:25.319 --> 00:29:30.960
<v Speaker 2>here one of the secret areas, I suppose it's is

504
00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:32.240
<v Speaker 2>the entrance to the tunnel.

505
00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:41.559
<v Speaker 1>And is this where is this where Richard, which so roughly,

506
00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:44.319
<v Speaker 1>how far are you thinking that this was would stretch?

507
00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:48.759
<v Speaker 2>It's originally would have stretched right over to the little round.

508
00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:50.119
<v Speaker 3>East Watch.

509
00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:55.680
<v Speaker 2>Was a calas about halfway through when they put the

510
00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:58.720
<v Speaker 2>steps in fantasy and local legend say is that.

511
00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:02.000
<v Speaker 3>Worker was killed underneath?

512
00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:03.000
<v Speaker 1>Right?

513
00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:05.720
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So whether that was true, I don't know, but

514
00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:07.559
<v Speaker 2>that was the local legend.

515
00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:10.119
<v Speaker 1>That's brilliant. Thank you so much for showing me that

516
00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:25.359
<v Speaker 1>that is right. We're sat on a bench now, and

517
00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:25.880
<v Speaker 1>where are.

518
00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:31.640
<v Speaker 2>We We're outside the Warden's arch, or some people might

519
00:30:31.680 --> 00:30:34.559
<v Speaker 2>have hearded this as the drummer boy arch. Try right,

520
00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:37.720
<v Speaker 2>As they explained earlier, drummer boys didn't really exist.

521
00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:40.960
<v Speaker 3>They were trusted soldiers. They were men.

522
00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:44.920
<v Speaker 2>They were giving a message and beating the drums should

523
00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:48.880
<v Speaker 2>have come for a seasfire between two posing sides.

524
00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:52.240
<v Speaker 3>So his or their story, because there was two.

525
00:30:53.400 --> 00:30:57.119
<v Speaker 2>Their story connects with the Gray Lady story because they

526
00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:00.799
<v Speaker 2>were bringing the message up about her funeral. I'll just

527
00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:03.920
<v Speaker 2>explain about the arch itself. This arch was only put

528
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:07.480
<v Speaker 2>on because of Queen Elizabeth. The first it was to

529
00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:10.920
<v Speaker 2>make her entry into the castle look a little bit grander.

530
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:13.839
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So they built all of this for.

531
00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:16.880
<v Speaker 2>That, yeah, just for that, just to make her the

532
00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:19.680
<v Speaker 2>thing was the Earl of Dudley, the Baron of Dudley

533
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:22.880
<v Speaker 2>at the time, got winded. She was staying here, coming here, right,

534
00:31:24.039 --> 00:31:26.599
<v Speaker 2>and the castle was in at that time a bit

535
00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:29.160
<v Speaker 2>of a state of disrepair. So just to make it

536
00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:35.039
<v Speaker 2>look a little bit nicer, if put on this new archway, right, okay.

537
00:31:35.079 --> 00:31:38.119
<v Speaker 2>And when she came she was look at the archway,

538
00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:39.960
<v Speaker 2>built it off for you, and she was like, yeah,

539
00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:43.079
<v Speaker 2>look at your castle on off. And she literally stayed

540
00:31:43.160 --> 00:31:48.359
<v Speaker 2>one night and theft. But she probably was diverted here

541
00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:50.880
<v Speaker 2>because there was an outbreak. She was on her progress

542
00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:54.160
<v Speaker 2>and there was an outbreak of small pox. So she

543
00:31:54.279 --> 00:31:57.480
<v Speaker 2>was probably diverted here because of this outbreak.

544
00:31:57.000 --> 00:31:58.240
<v Speaker 3>Of small pox.

545
00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:02.880
<v Speaker 2>But the arch where it has so many legends attached

546
00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:07.799
<v Speaker 2>to it, people have often seen woody figures coming through.

547
00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:10.200
<v Speaker 2>This would have been the main entry into the castle.

548
00:32:10.920 --> 00:32:14.079
<v Speaker 2>So as I said to you, the monks from the priory,

549
00:32:14.119 --> 00:32:18.200
<v Speaker 2>which were clooney at monks and black robed months, would

550
00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:19.119
<v Speaker 2>have been here daily.

551
00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:22.920
<v Speaker 3>They had come to take the church services.

552
00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:25.720
<v Speaker 2>They have also come up here as well to teach

553
00:32:25.720 --> 00:32:26.799
<v Speaker 2>the children of the baron.

554
00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:31.640
<v Speaker 1>So again there was a close, close relationship.

555
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:33.960
<v Speaker 3>Very close, and I mean the stone.

556
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:37.960
<v Speaker 2>You can see how much Sterney's here, So that stone

557
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:41.160
<v Speaker 2>type theory of them coming dially.

558
00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:44.920
<v Speaker 3>You know, but the main gat story around the art

559
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:46.160
<v Speaker 3>is that of the DRUMA.

560
00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:48.960
<v Speaker 1>You also mentioned that the stone that built the cottage

561
00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:50.480
<v Speaker 1>would come from.

562
00:32:50.279 --> 00:32:52.759
<v Speaker 3>The two from the two parts of it would have

563
00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:54.480
<v Speaker 3>come from the two ruined terrors of the key.

564
00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:59.680
<v Speaker 1>So again they've wasted nothing, no a even back then,

565
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:00.799
<v Speaker 1>should we move on?

566
00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:05.400
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and we'll go to the little east what it's

567
00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:09.240
<v Speaker 2>called the East watch Tower. And this is a little

568
00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:14.079
<v Speaker 2>watch tower, and this is where the tramp because that

569
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:19.759
<v Speaker 2>tunnel you've just seen, the tunnel you used to it's

570
00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:24.759
<v Speaker 2>actually this as well. Should point out was possibly the

571
00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:25.839
<v Speaker 2>plague burial.

572
00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:27.359
<v Speaker 1>Pits right here.

573
00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:35.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because places like Dudley Castle relied on bringing things in.

574
00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:39.680
<v Speaker 3>We're not although we're look close to the canals.

575
00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:43.079
<v Speaker 2>People would have come and brought their wares and things.

576
00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:46.839
<v Speaker 2>They didn't want to stop that so when the plague happened,

577
00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:51.960
<v Speaker 2>you don't want people knowing that you've got the plague, right, Okay,

578
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:56.119
<v Speaker 2>So this was probably where they're buried. A bitter lame

579
00:33:56.519 --> 00:33:59.079
<v Speaker 2>with Chalcolme on them bodies of God.

580
00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:03.480
<v Speaker 1>So again you dig down, yeah deep here you are.

581
00:34:03.559 --> 00:34:06.400
<v Speaker 3>Well we've been when they did the archaeology digs. They

582
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:07.519
<v Speaker 3>were told not to dig.

583
00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:11.920
<v Speaker 1>Too right okay, And again you've got some amazing views

584
00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:12.360
<v Speaker 1>from here.

585
00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:15.840
<v Speaker 2>Well, from the top of the keep and that's the

586
00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:20.079
<v Speaker 2>top of there, you can see thirty miles in all directions. Now,

587
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:22.199
<v Speaker 2>when you get to the top of Dudley Castle, keep

588
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:25.599
<v Speaker 2>your next highest point to land if your head west

589
00:34:26.199 --> 00:34:26.960
<v Speaker 2>is in Rush.

590
00:34:26.760 --> 00:34:27.639
<v Speaker 3>Out of the Urals.

591
00:34:28.159 --> 00:34:28.840
<v Speaker 1>Wow.

592
00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:32.519
<v Speaker 2>So you're at one of the highest points, not only

593
00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:33.880
<v Speaker 2>in England but in Europe.

594
00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:36.320
<v Speaker 1>Again, that answers my question when I was saying about

595
00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:38.519
<v Speaker 1>driving up, Yeah, how far you can? I mean I'm

596
00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:39.480
<v Speaker 1>looking out here.

597
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:43.480
<v Speaker 2>And Dudley Castle was close to the Welsh Marshes. That

598
00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:47.480
<v Speaker 2>was what John Dudley really wanted the castle for, even

599
00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:51.159
<v Speaker 2>though it was the fact ancestral barony. Hope, it's close

600
00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:54.239
<v Speaker 2>to the Welsh Marshes. If Edward the Six had beencome

601
00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:58.559
<v Speaker 2>and have lived, yeah, took over a pairis on all

602
00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:02.519
<v Speaker 2>on his own. He's plan was to retire here constable

603
00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:07.039
<v Speaker 2>at the Welsh Marshes, right, okay, because it's I mean

604
00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:09.480
<v Speaker 2>that's why Dudley Castle was built. He was part of

605
00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:13.639
<v Speaker 2>that chain to sort of protect from the Welsh invasions.

606
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:17.199
<v Speaker 2>And I said to you earlier, if one of those

607
00:35:17.239 --> 00:35:21.679
<v Speaker 2>invasions by Glynn Williams had have worked, Dudley Castle would

608
00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:22.760
<v Speaker 2>have been a Welsh castle.

609
00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:26.960
<v Speaker 1>Wow. Again we spoke about that little twist and turn

610
00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:32.159
<v Speaker 1>of fact, yes, that would have put an entire difference picture.

611
00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:36.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so this is the little watchtower, so he would

612
00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:38.079
<v Speaker 2>he would have literally set.

613
00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:39.719
<v Speaker 1>Up little business.

614
00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:42.559
<v Speaker 2>He's in there, a little cobbling business, and he would

615
00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:46.320
<v Speaker 2>come and go through the tunnel, unbelievable.

616
00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:48.719
<v Speaker 1>And he would have traveled down into the town.

617
00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:53.639
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, picked up his shoes, mended and brought him back.

618
00:35:54.920 --> 00:35:55.599
<v Speaker 3>That's mended.

619
00:35:56.400 --> 00:35:59.880
<v Speaker 2>But whether he was part of this coin foraging gang

620
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:08.679
<v Speaker 2>of the discussion. So we were proutching the keep and

621
00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:11.239
<v Speaker 2>the cobbles that were walking on they were putting.

622
00:36:11.239 --> 00:36:12.519
<v Speaker 3>In the eighteen hundreds.

623
00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:16.960
<v Speaker 2>We did have a wet moat, so the wet moat

624
00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:20.119
<v Speaker 2>would have come in and surrendered the keep, so the

625
00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:25.639
<v Speaker 2>keep looked like an island. And the best example can

626
00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:28.840
<v Speaker 2>give you is to look at Nunning Castle in Somerset.

627
00:36:29.880 --> 00:36:34.320
<v Speaker 2>That castle used our castle as a sort of print.

628
00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:38.239
<v Speaker 2>So the keep is the third one, as I said earlier,

629
00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:41.719
<v Speaker 2>to be on site, possibly the third one.

630
00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:44.639
<v Speaker 1>It's a formidable building, yeah.

631
00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:48.280
<v Speaker 3>I mean the walls are about eight nine meters thick. Wow,

632
00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:50.280
<v Speaker 3>you can see.

633
00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:54.239
<v Speaker 2>I mean anyone who's visited here, the keep is iconic.

634
00:36:54.760 --> 00:36:58.320
<v Speaker 2>It's what you think of Dudley, you think of that building.

635
00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:03.599
<v Speaker 2>And it would of host originally in the modern bailey,

636
00:37:03.639 --> 00:37:07.960
<v Speaker 2>the Wooden Castle. Quite possibly a score of Leaver would

637
00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:10.440
<v Speaker 2>have lived here. We know there was a manor house,

638
00:37:11.119 --> 00:37:14.639
<v Speaker 2>so the majority of the family would have lived. The

639
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:17.800
<v Speaker 2>baron and his main family would have lived in the

640
00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:21.320
<v Speaker 2>manor house, and the constable of the castle, who was

641
00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:24.840
<v Speaker 2>in charge when the baron wasn't here, would have lived

642
00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:25.440
<v Speaker 2>in the.

643
00:37:26.559 --> 00:37:29.639
<v Speaker 1>It's the engineering as well. It's where you quarry this

644
00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:31.960
<v Speaker 1>amount of stone salmon here.

645
00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:37.800
<v Speaker 2>The stone is from your local baggage stone would have

646
00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:38.679
<v Speaker 2>been used as.

647
00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:42.079
<v Speaker 1>Well, baggage Yeah, yeah, okay.

648
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<v Speaker 2>Most of the zone is like I say, the much

649
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<v Speaker 2>Lane Wenlock series, and he's from Silurian period, so before

650
00:37:54.199 --> 00:37:59.039
<v Speaker 2>even before the castle, thousands and millions of years ago,

651
00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:05.840
<v Speaker 2>Dudley was wall. This has been filmed over thousands millions

652
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<v Speaker 2>of years.

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<v Speaker 1>Again, fascinating and you do.

654
00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:13.000
<v Speaker 2>Have around If you look at some of the stone,

655
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<v Speaker 2>there is fossils in the stones.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, yeah, they say a lot of the limestone

657
00:38:19.960 --> 00:38:21.880
<v Speaker 1>that a lot of the banks and stuff were built from.

658
00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:23.320
<v Speaker 1>If you look closer, you can.

659
00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:27.079
<v Speaker 2>See you can see fossils in the stones. And Dudley

660
00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:28.239
<v Speaker 2>Castle is well known for that.

661
00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:29.920
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's well known.

662
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:32.519
<v Speaker 2>We have the Dudley Book of you say, the Trial

663
00:38:32.599 --> 00:38:35.800
<v Speaker 2>of Ice, all right, and there is some fossils that

664
00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:40.760
<v Speaker 2>are here on side, especially in the cabin behind the

665
00:38:41.199 --> 00:38:44.440
<v Speaker 2>chair lift, that you don't find anywhere else in the world.

666
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<v Speaker 1>Wow. Okay, So as you can probably hear, there's a

667
00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:54.119
<v Speaker 1>lot of wind. It's very windy. You might hear the

668
00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:56.760
<v Speaker 1>there's a clanging noise. We're over the a little bit

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00:38:56.800 --> 00:38:59.119
<v Speaker 1>over the other side from that, and that is the

670
00:38:59.159 --> 00:39:02.559
<v Speaker 1>flag that's flapping like an absolute lunatic at the moment.

671
00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:04.480
<v Speaker 1>So we're up at the top of the keep. It's

672
00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:07.079
<v Speaker 1>really windy. Oh yeah, iconic.

673
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:09.199
<v Speaker 3>Icony and like that.

674
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<v Speaker 2>You can see thirty miles in all directions from the

675
00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:15.559
<v Speaker 2>top and the next highest point to land in Europe

676
00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:17.880
<v Speaker 2>is the Ural Mountains in Russia.

677
00:39:18.119 --> 00:39:21.280
<v Speaker 1>That's fantastic. So this is the scene of one of

678
00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:23.159
<v Speaker 1>the most famous ghost sightings, isn't.

679
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:26.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah the top of the Keepe the law people have

680
00:39:26.119 --> 00:39:29.360
<v Speaker 2>often seen and these people in the town as well,

681
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<v Speaker 2>And in nineteen ninety eight or eighty seven it was

682
00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:37.800
<v Speaker 2>reported in a newspart in the Expression Star that people

683
00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:41.400
<v Speaker 2>at the event saw a hooded figure walking across the

684
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<v Speaker 2>top of the law the top of the walk where

685
00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:47.280
<v Speaker 2>I should say, yeah, and who who this is?

686
00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:51.360
<v Speaker 3>We don't We don't really know. We've got an idea.

687
00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:55.400
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, megay.

688
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<v Speaker 2>In the in the thirteen fourteen hundreds as a woman

689
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<v Speaker 2>apparently living in one.

690
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<v Speaker 3>Of the houses on site.

691
00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:08.599
<v Speaker 2>Now Dudley Castle has got lots of little round houses.

692
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:13.559
<v Speaker 2>You'll see one next to the gift shop where you

693
00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:17.000
<v Speaker 2>came in and living in there, and people believe she

694
00:40:17.159 --> 00:40:22.519
<v Speaker 2>was a witch and it said there's some teenagers Kate

695
00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:27.239
<v Speaker 2>broke in on site, took her to the top of

696
00:40:26.039 --> 00:40:31.119
<v Speaker 2>the keep and threw her off or hunger over it

697
00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:34.360
<v Speaker 2>as because she was a witch. The other story is

698
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:36.840
<v Speaker 2>they broke in, went to the top of the keep

699
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:40.000
<v Speaker 2>and found her about to fly off to the sabbath

700
00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:45.880
<v Speaker 2>or whatever, and they hunger from the top. So this

701
00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:48.119
<v Speaker 2>is who this sudden figure is supposed to be.

702
00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:52.559
<v Speaker 1>We're looking down from the top of the keeper onto

703
00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:56.159
<v Speaker 1>the cannons, the iconic cannons that you can see from.

704
00:40:56.199 --> 00:41:03.079
<v Speaker 2>Miles miles And recently we've discovered these guys are naval cannons.

705
00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:06.760
<v Speaker 3>And they would have been used on a Russian.

706
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:11.440
<v Speaker 2>Naval a naval ship, and they were taken during the

707
00:41:11.440 --> 00:41:15.440
<v Speaker 2>Battle of Sebastable. Each one has got a number. Unfortunately,

708
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:18.679
<v Speaker 2>the one on my left hand side, Yeah, that one

709
00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:22.639
<v Speaker 2>we can't meet because of the weather and the disintegrated

710
00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:25.039
<v Speaker 2>we can't make out the number, but we can on

711
00:41:25.079 --> 00:41:25.719
<v Speaker 2>the right one.

712
00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:29.000
<v Speaker 3>And he proved that they were They were forged just

713
00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:34.800
<v Speaker 3>south of peters and Petersburg. Wow, so all the way

714
00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:37.039
<v Speaker 3>from Russia to Dudley to.

715
00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:43.400
<v Speaker 1>Beg windy up here. We better get back down. Okay, okay,

716
00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:45.960
<v Speaker 1>we're down from the castle keep. And where are we

717
00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:47.679
<v Speaker 1>going to to finish Well, we're.

718
00:41:47.480 --> 00:41:50.480
<v Speaker 2>Going to finish off in the Gray Lady tavern or

719
00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:55.920
<v Speaker 2>courtyard cafe today now, no, but as we're walking down

720
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<v Speaker 2>the pathway here is one of the most famous sightings

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00:41:59.440 --> 00:42:00.000
<v Speaker 2>of the Gray Line.

722
00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:00.840
<v Speaker 1>Right.

723
00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:05.800
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so back in the nineteen nineties early two thousands,

724
00:42:05.960 --> 00:42:09.400
<v Speaker 2>there used to be the Dudley ghost talk that went

725
00:42:09.519 --> 00:42:12.760
<v Speaker 2>round Dudley and people had jumped out.

726
00:42:12.599 --> 00:42:14.679
<v Speaker 3>At you telling you.

727
00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:18.239
<v Speaker 2>Different ghost stories, and there be people dressed up dumping

728
00:42:18.280 --> 00:42:22.599
<v Speaker 2>out and they used to come up here. We had

729
00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:26.280
<v Speaker 2>someone dressed as the Gray Lady. He up here and

730
00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:30.800
<v Speaker 2>as they walk up, gray Lady appears and one of

731
00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:35.119
<v Speaker 2>the members on this particular walk, Oh, that's very interesting.

732
00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:36.360
<v Speaker 3>But who's the lady behind?

733
00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:39.800
<v Speaker 2>And there was a lady up here, so we think

734
00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:41.920
<v Speaker 2>there might be a sighting of the Gray Lady.

735
00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:45.159
<v Speaker 1>And it was from here as well that I'm looking over.

736
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:47.559
<v Speaker 1>I'm assuming that one of the this was maybe where

737
00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:49.000
<v Speaker 1>the photo was taken around.

738
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<v Speaker 2>You see the big gray window, it's the doorway next

739
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:55.920
<v Speaker 2>to it on the left, and that's where, Yeah, she

740
00:42:56.199 --> 00:42:59.800
<v Speaker 2>was taking photos from the top of the key, just

741
00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:00.440
<v Speaker 2>you do.

742
00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:03.159
<v Speaker 3>Got home, went to a husband.

743
00:43:03.639 --> 00:43:07.039
<v Speaker 2>There's a lighting in one of them rooms and he goes, Dubby, daft,

744
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:08.599
<v Speaker 2>there's no roof, there can there be a light on?

745
00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:11.559
<v Speaker 2>And then they decided to prove it up on the computer,

746
00:43:12.079 --> 00:43:12.920
<v Speaker 2>drew it in.

747
00:43:13.199 --> 00:43:15.000
<v Speaker 3>Dropped it down to the doorway and the figure was

748
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:15.679
<v Speaker 3>in the doorway.

749
00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:18.199
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I find that even more fascinating that they've

750
00:43:18.199 --> 00:43:20.559
<v Speaker 1>got no idea what their photographed at the time.

751
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:26.280
<v Speaker 2>We always say on ghost nights, a good ghost group

752
00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:29.280
<v Speaker 2>will say, I never took one photo. Always take a

753
00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:32.079
<v Speaker 2>burst of photographs because what you pick up in one,

754
00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:35.400
<v Speaker 2>you may not pick up in the others. And that's

755
00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:45.239
<v Speaker 2>interesting then. So they're just approaching the Gray Lady what

756
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:48.440
<v Speaker 2>they used to call the Gray Lady Tavern. It was

757
00:43:48.559 --> 00:43:52.119
<v Speaker 2>named after the Gray Lady because most of us sightings.

758
00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:52.920
<v Speaker 3>Were in this area.

759
00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:56.440
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so the Gray Lady Tavern or now caught your

760
00:43:56.519 --> 00:44:00.679
<v Speaker 2>calf is actually the last building built on site. It

761
00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:03.360
<v Speaker 2>was built in sixteen ninety and it was actually a

762
00:44:03.400 --> 00:44:04.679
<v Speaker 2>stabling block.

763
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:08.599
<v Speaker 3>For horses. Guess what's been heard in there?

764
00:44:09.519 --> 00:44:12.800
<v Speaker 1>Horses and people have actually heard them.

765
00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:17.119
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I heard the feet, the hoofs, and also heard

766
00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:22.320
<v Speaker 2>the name sounding there. But it's it was basically this

767
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:26.519
<v Speaker 2>building was built just to fill a gap because it

768
00:44:26.559 --> 00:44:29.119
<v Speaker 2>would have been the original war walk up to the castle.

769
00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:34.159
<v Speaker 3>So obviously where we're standing we be drowned in now

770
00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:35.440
<v Speaker 3>because we're in the moat.

771
00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:39.280
<v Speaker 2>So, like I say, it was put in just to

772
00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:43.920
<v Speaker 2>fill the gap left by the slighting in around sixteen ninety,

773
00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:48.079
<v Speaker 2>Earl of the Baron of Dudley then did fill in

774
00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:52.960
<v Speaker 2>bits here and there, possibly rebuilding parts and walls and

775
00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:56.880
<v Speaker 2>things like that. The stoney is from the terrors and

776
00:44:57.039 --> 00:45:00.079
<v Speaker 2>the two towers that were ruined. But there's been a

777
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:03.519
<v Speaker 2>lot of hauntings in here that people have and I

778
00:45:03.559 --> 00:45:07.119
<v Speaker 2>mean staff, I mean one of my favorites is one

779
00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:09.639
<v Speaker 2>of the members of staff was actually working in here

780
00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:13.199
<v Speaker 2>cleaning up, put all the tables, all the chairs on

781
00:45:13.239 --> 00:45:14.840
<v Speaker 2>top of the tables to mop the floor.

782
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:16.840
<v Speaker 3>Went to get the mop bucket come.

783
00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:19.840
<v Speaker 2>Out on all the chairs were back on the floor.

784
00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:29.280
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, So this area has a history of sightings

785
00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:33.039
<v Speaker 2>and things like the paranormal things happening if you do

786
00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:35.840
<v Speaker 2>a ghost night and up here this is one of

787
00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:39.360
<v Speaker 2>the areas. It's very good for your things like weiboards,

788
00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:42.440
<v Speaker 2>right okay, and it is intelligent. I'm not a big

789
00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:44.599
<v Speaker 2>fan of reagibles, I'll be honest, because I think you've

790
00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:46.920
<v Speaker 2>got unconscious movements.

791
00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:50.360
<v Speaker 1>Motor response.

792
00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:52.840
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you've got.

793
00:45:54.599 --> 00:45:58.800
<v Speaker 2>Like I said, you've got unconscious movements, but things that

794
00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:03.519
<v Speaker 2>have been up in here of intelligent things and things

795
00:46:03.519 --> 00:46:10.280
<v Speaker 2>that maybe your Ordrey ghost hunting visitor I won't actually know.

796
00:46:10.360 --> 00:46:13.800
<v Speaker 2>So why would that pushing yeah to there.

797
00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:16.920
<v Speaker 1>Well, I've got to say thank you so much, not

798
00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:20.199
<v Speaker 1>a problem for taking up literally all of your day,

799
00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:22.760
<v Speaker 1>and I've just got to say that this was supposed

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00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:24.760
<v Speaker 1>to be Amy's day off as well, so we have

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00:46:25.039 --> 00:46:28.760
<v Speaker 1>dragged hiing to do this. Thank you so much, Amy.

802
00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:31.840
<v Speaker 3>Anytime you want to come back in welcome.

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00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:34.679
<v Speaker 1>Thank you very much. Please come and visit Dudley Castle

804
00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:37.599
<v Speaker 1>and we look forward to you listening to this episode.

805
00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:42.599
<v Speaker 1>Thank you again, Amy, not a problem. And that brings

806
00:46:42.679 --> 00:46:45.559
<v Speaker 1>us to the end of Part three and the conclusion

807
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:49.199
<v Speaker 1>of my visit to Dudley Castle. A huge thank you

808
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:52.880
<v Speaker 1>to Amy for all of her time, knowledge and generosity

809
00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:55.760
<v Speaker 1>throughout this series. I'd also like to thank all of

810
00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:59.239
<v Speaker 1>the staff and management to Dudley Castle and Zoological Gardens

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00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:01.800
<v Speaker 1>for a com a dating me last September and for

812
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:05.519
<v Speaker 1>making me feel so welcome during my visit. If you've

813
00:47:05.559 --> 00:47:09.360
<v Speaker 1>never been, I'd highly recommend paying a visit, whether it's

814
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:13.519
<v Speaker 1>for the history, the wildlife, the atmosphere, or the stories

815
00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:17.559
<v Speaker 1>that still echo throughout the grounds. Thank you once again

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00:47:17.559 --> 00:47:21.519
<v Speaker 1>for tuning in, and until next time, stay safe and

817
00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:22.039
<v Speaker 1>take care.

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