WEBVTT 00:00:01.870 --> 00:00:12.750 This is Likely Used with Adam and Karen. Welcome 00:00:12.750 --> 00:00:15.789 to Likely Used, episode 32. Very different to 00:00:15.789 --> 00:00:18.350 what we had planned. It was going to be a daytime 00:00:18.350 --> 00:00:21.070 ghost hunt, but I woke up this morning feeling 00:00:21.070 --> 00:00:23.329 like shit, so we're doing a much more cobbled 00:00:23.329 --> 00:00:26.789 -together episode instead. Sorry. No, I don't 00:00:26.789 --> 00:00:28.309 think we should apologise. We're going to have 00:00:28.309 --> 00:00:30.960 a guest and everything. Semi -professional paranormal 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:33.539 investigator was going to be on this show. Which 00:00:33.539 --> 00:00:35.899 I am looking forward to still. We'll do this 00:00:35.899 --> 00:00:37.960 at a later episode, I promise. I'll reschedule 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:39.939 that episode for a daytime ghost hunt. Yeah. 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:43.619 Today's Cobble Together episode is for local 00:00:43.619 --> 00:00:45.520 folklore, something I wanted to do for a little 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:49.799 while. Today, we're at St Mary's Church in Swansea. 00:00:50.380 --> 00:00:52.600 Renovations to St Mary's Church began in the 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:55.859 1890s. The local unnamed architect's designs 00:00:55.859 --> 00:00:58.670 were rejected. And so Arthur Blomfield's designs 00:00:58.670 --> 00:01:01.049 were used instead. And he's a bit of a la -di 00:01:01.049 --> 00:01:03.409 -da type fella. It's always about the money. 00:01:03.649 --> 00:01:06.510 Still always about the money. Also, his father 00:01:06.510 --> 00:01:09.969 was connected to the church. I think he was a 00:01:09.969 --> 00:01:13.030 bishop of the Anglican church. Oh, so he was 00:01:13.030 --> 00:01:16.849 a nepo baby. And his father was part of rebuilding 00:01:16.849 --> 00:01:19.310 the church. And in this case, literally, his 00:01:19.310 --> 00:01:22.780 son rebuilt the church. With his own hands. Well, 00:01:22.859 --> 00:01:24.920 he was the architect of it, so they chose the 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:27.700 big la -di -da architect to go with instead. 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:31.680 But years later, the local architect, still a 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:35.280 bit missed and slight, the local guy, choose 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:38.560 me. Across from where we're standing is the Quadrant. 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:41.079 A couple of years after the church was built, 00:01:41.219 --> 00:01:43.239 there was a row of cottages there that went up 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:45.640 for sale. Right. The local architect bought them 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:48.340 and demolished them. Okay. And instead built 00:01:48.340 --> 00:01:50.959 a building of his design. a red brick building 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:53.079 which became the offices for a local brewery. 00:01:53.620 --> 00:01:57.459 I did find out what that was once, and then I 00:01:57.459 --> 00:01:59.299 lost that bit of information. I can't find that 00:01:59.299 --> 00:02:01.060 page on the internet anymore. It's not one of 00:02:01.060 --> 00:02:02.719 those random facts that's stuck in your brain. 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.480 Likewise, the architect. Not credited anywhere. 00:02:06.859 --> 00:02:08.900 This local guy, the main guy behind all this 00:02:08.900 --> 00:02:13.639 story, not named. Not at all. He bought the row 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:16.860 cottages, demolished them, in its place. built 00:02:16.860 --> 00:02:18.699 a red brick building which became the offices 00:02:18.699 --> 00:02:22.180 for the local brewery and perched between the 00:02:22.180 --> 00:02:26.460 two upstairs windows facing the church a rather 00:02:26.460 --> 00:02:30.379 distinctive sculpture it was a wooden devil a 00:02:30.379 --> 00:02:35.139 devil you say a devil and it's reported or legend 00:02:35.139 --> 00:02:38.319 possibly more likely that the architect said 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:41.000 when your church is destroyed and burnt to the 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:46.069 ground my devil will remain laughing Took a few 00:02:46.069 --> 00:02:49.750 decades, but the prophecy came true. There was 00:02:49.750 --> 00:02:52.810 a three -day blitz in 1941. Much of Swanview 00:02:52.810 --> 00:02:56.430 was destroyed, including St Mary's Church. The 00:02:56.430 --> 00:02:58.990 whole church? Most of it. Right, okay. It was 00:02:58.990 --> 00:03:01.849 really badly damaged. The roof completely went. 00:03:01.990 --> 00:03:04.270 Some of the walls were bits of remaining, but 00:03:04.270 --> 00:03:06.810 it wasn't usable. Don't look like Henry VIII's 00:03:06.810 --> 00:03:09.449 have had a go at it. Across the road, though, 00:03:09.509 --> 00:03:13.379 absolutely untouched. The devil stayed perched 00:03:13.379 --> 00:03:16.860 on the building, smiling, smirking, overlooking 00:03:16.860 --> 00:03:19.639 the smouldering remains of St Mary's Church. 00:03:19.740 --> 00:03:22.360 Was the unknown architect actually the devil? 00:03:23.379 --> 00:03:28.560 Mr. B. L. Z. Bub. Yeah, that's the one. The devil 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:30.860 stayed perched there, and that was until 1962, 00:03:31.219 --> 00:03:33.159 and the offices were destroyed to make way for 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:35.180 the Quadrant Shopping Centre. Oh, goddamn the 00:03:35.180 --> 00:03:40.219 60s. In 1964, Lynn Lewis, who is a local telephone 00:03:40.219 --> 00:03:43.050 electrical engineer, He found the statue in a 00:03:43.050 --> 00:03:46.169 Hereford junk shop. He recognised it from passing 00:03:46.169 --> 00:03:48.669 by the brewery offices when he was a lot younger. 00:03:48.830 --> 00:03:52.050 He bought it and stored it in his garage. And 00:03:52.050 --> 00:03:54.550 in 1982, the South Wales Evening Post then put 00:03:54.550 --> 00:03:57.090 out an appeal to find the statue. And local historian 00:03:57.090 --> 00:03:59.409 Chris Rowley brought the statue back and placed 00:03:59.409 --> 00:04:01.530 it inside the shopping centre where I remember 00:04:01.530 --> 00:04:03.610 seeing it as a kid. Shall we go over there now? 00:04:03.750 --> 00:04:06.870 Yes, let's walk and talk. Literally across the 00:04:06.870 --> 00:04:09.319 road. We should have recorded over there a bit 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:12.219 closer. No, there's God Bother Us singing about 00:04:12.219 --> 00:04:14.860 how Jesus is going to save everybody. Yeah, there 00:04:14.860 --> 00:04:17.600 is a PA system blaring out. Yeah. We tried walking 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:19.500 away around the other side and there's some generator 00:04:19.500 --> 00:04:24.259 buzzing away. I mean, for anyone that regularly 00:04:24.259 --> 00:04:27.220 records outside, well done you. Congratulations, 00:04:27.300 --> 00:04:30.339 because it is so difficult, number one, to walk 00:04:30.339 --> 00:04:32.540 around talking to yourself and not feel like 00:04:32.540 --> 00:04:35.750 a complete lunatic. But number two, try and find 00:04:35.750 --> 00:04:37.509 somewhere that you can actually talk where the 00:04:37.509 --> 00:04:39.709 ambient background noise doesn't take over the 00:04:39.709 --> 00:04:41.910 words that you're trying to portray. We tried 00:04:41.910 --> 00:04:43.970 starting three times. Every time there was a 00:04:43.970 --> 00:04:45.810 person coming, there was a child starting crying 00:04:45.810 --> 00:04:48.269 as we walked past. Ooh, Anne Somers has got a 00:04:48.269 --> 00:04:53.589 sale, 70 % off. Limited I'm only. The sale might 00:04:53.589 --> 00:04:57.009 be over by the time you hear this. So we've just 00:04:57.009 --> 00:04:59.569 walked down the steps out of the churchyard and 00:04:59.569 --> 00:05:04.019 now we're on the main thoroughfare. by Prime 00:05:04.019 --> 00:05:07.600 Arnie outside the Quadrant Shopping Centre. Heading 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.839 towards the White Hall's entrance. Ah, well done 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:13.120 for knowing the name. Pigeon attack. Well done 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:16.459 for knowing the name. I saw recently, actually, 00:05:16.540 --> 00:05:19.459 on Swansea Scoop, shout out to Swansea Scoop 00:05:19.459 --> 00:05:23.120 of Instagram, that the entrances to the Quadrant 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:25.439 and the market around the outside of the Quadrant 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:29.600 are being done up. And I think the winning design 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:32.529 is all made of copper. which makes sense because 00:05:32.529 --> 00:05:37.230 Swansea was pretty much the Copperopolis. There 00:05:37.230 --> 00:05:39.649 is a copperworks not too far away from here that 00:05:39.649 --> 00:05:41.490 they've done up recently and they've put a gin 00:05:41.490 --> 00:05:44.470 distillery in there I think, or whiskey. We'll 00:05:44.470 --> 00:05:46.009 have to go down there for us to pull at some 00:05:46.009 --> 00:05:48.569 point. We'll sit back in the industrial revolution. 00:05:48.689 --> 00:05:53.170 It's Swansea, it's copper, and it's tin. Oh, 00:05:53.250 --> 00:05:57.189 so that's why it's Tinopolis and Swansea is Copperopolis. 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:01.259 Copperopolis is a much nicer sounding mouthfeel 00:06:01.259 --> 00:06:08.160 word. So apologies for plenty of background noise, 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.839 we are now inside the shopping centre which is 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:17.420 full of people. Years ago, I think the shop used 00:06:17.420 --> 00:06:19.519 to be slightly different but there was a bend 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:22.180 here and around about this high there used to 00:06:22.180 --> 00:06:25.939 be... where the signs are, there's little trellis 00:06:25.939 --> 00:06:28.720 going across with flowers and plant pots in it. 00:06:29.060 --> 00:06:33.000 And around here on the corner, this is where 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:37.279 Old Mick was perched. I'm going to take a photo 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:42.800 of you pointing. Your crotch is out of shot. 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:46.439 I'm tucking my gut away underneath my hoodie. 00:06:46.819 --> 00:06:48.819 But yeah, that used to be roughly there, it was 00:06:48.819 --> 00:06:51.670 where. Nick was perched overlooking the church. 00:06:52.750 --> 00:06:57.589 There was a lot of controversy getting the Saint... 00:06:57.589 --> 00:07:00.089 Old Nick, Saint Nick. Saint Nick, that's Christmas, 00:07:00.290 --> 00:07:03.670 right? There was a lot of pushback from the church. 00:07:04.050 --> 00:07:07.509 But I think South Wales Evening Post had a big 00:07:07.509 --> 00:07:11.930 campaign to get this reinstated. From being perched 00:07:11.930 --> 00:07:16.189 a bit, he was eventually moved. I don't know 00:07:16.189 --> 00:07:18.870 how much of it was part of the refit. of the 00:07:18.870 --> 00:07:21.990 shopping center or people complaining that eventually 00:07:21.990 --> 00:07:24.689 he was put in a staff only area which is on the 00:07:24.689 --> 00:07:27.370 gantry overlooking the shopping center but again 00:07:27.370 --> 00:07:31.569 facing the church so when people were walking 00:07:31.569 --> 00:07:35.069 in old Nick was still overlooking he's still 00:07:35.069 --> 00:07:38.810 going haha i'm still here motherfuckers just 00:07:38.810 --> 00:07:41.949 casually see how much this coat is oh it stayed 00:07:41.949 --> 00:07:45.620 there until 2019. Oh right, you nearly hit that 00:07:45.620 --> 00:07:47.259 man in the face there. He was walking close to 00:07:47.259 --> 00:07:50.959 me. He was. Sorry, from the mid -80s to 2019, 00:07:51.459 --> 00:07:54.680 Old Nick remains in the Quadrant Shopping Centre, 00:07:54.819 --> 00:07:56.800 where they're always on display or stored away 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:59.139 at some point. Yeah. But he was over here, but 00:07:59.139 --> 00:08:02.000 he's eventually rehomed in Swansea Museum, where 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:03.879 we'll be going next. Which is only down the road. 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:07.699 And he has been painted and repainted quite a 00:08:07.699 --> 00:08:11.160 few times looking at photos. Yeah. But... Originally, 00:08:11.220 --> 00:08:14.339 I think it was a completely wooden statue. Just 00:08:14.339 --> 00:08:17.240 plain carved wood. When I saw him in the 80s, 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:19.620 when he was up here, he was painted red. He had 00:08:19.620 --> 00:08:22.920 a kind of pinky belly. Right. Flesh -coloured 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:25.579 face, black hair, and some of them put glass 00:08:25.579 --> 00:08:28.879 eyes. So it was glass, beady glass eyes of the 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:31.259 devil when he was up there watching people. That 00:08:31.259 --> 00:08:33.240 really freaked me out. This sounds horrifying. 00:08:33.659 --> 00:08:35.899 As a grown -up, it was about the height that 00:08:35.899 --> 00:08:37.960 you could reach and touch him. Oh, really? As 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:43.940 a kid. He was just there. He was just out of 00:08:43.940 --> 00:08:46.059 reach of a child. That's funny. Again, that's 00:08:46.059 --> 00:08:47.779 probably another reason why he's not there anymore. 00:08:48.259 --> 00:08:50.240 Yeah, probably. Someone would have been bound 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:52.440 to have nicked him anyway if he just nicked Nick. 00:08:53.139 --> 00:08:56.559 I like what you did there. Right. To Swansea 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:59.360 Museum? Okay, let's do it. We will be back on 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:03.399 the microphones shortly. Tattie bye, Tattie bye. 00:09:13.230 --> 00:09:15.950 Okay, so we're now just inside Swansea Museum. 00:09:16.110 --> 00:09:18.490 We've just gone greeted by the host. I was going 00:09:18.490 --> 00:09:20.649 to say, guess who I've seen straight away. I 00:09:20.649 --> 00:09:22.909 just saw your reaction. I literally just spotted 00:09:22.909 --> 00:09:25.450 it from the corner of your ear. That's why I 00:09:25.450 --> 00:09:28.669 stood there to talk with you. Clever. So we're 00:09:28.669 --> 00:09:31.730 in Swansea Museum. We're in the World War II 00:09:31.730 --> 00:09:35.629 and Swansea history section. We're the only people 00:09:35.629 --> 00:09:39.490 in here, which is quite nice. and uh oh no there's 00:09:39.490 --> 00:09:44.029 another lady who's walked in so nick is sat on 00:09:44.029 --> 00:09:49.029 top of a display cabinet in the corner stroking 00:09:49.029 --> 00:09:53.009 his chin like a cheeky old chubby i'm just going 00:09:53.009 --> 00:09:57.610 to um get my camera up so you can have some super 00:09:57.610 --> 00:10:00.309 duper high resolution photos oh he's still got 00:10:00.309 --> 00:10:08.539 his weird glass eyes three feet high Oh, I can't 00:10:08.539 --> 00:10:10.279 zoom in on high res. Hang on, I'll put it on 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:15.559 portrait mode. Give me to hold the camera closer 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:18.299 if you can't zoom in. No, actually, that's a 00:10:18.299 --> 00:10:21.419 pretty decent picture. I'm proud of that. Oh, 00:10:21.419 --> 00:10:27.220 yes. The Sponsor Devil History. But again, the 00:10:27.220 --> 00:10:31.769 local architect. Unnamed. Isn't named. Arthur 00:10:31.769 --> 00:10:35.370 Bloomfield, who didn't design the building or 00:10:35.370 --> 00:10:39.149 the statue, yet he's mentioned. Oh, I should 00:10:39.149 --> 00:10:43.309 get my K2 out. Bought a K2 meter just in case. 00:10:45.230 --> 00:10:50.889 Let's switch this on. Okay, we're on green, which 00:10:50.889 --> 00:10:56.370 is normal, 0 to 1 .5 millivolt. Let's see if 00:10:56.370 --> 00:10:58.129 we can get any closer to Nick. Sorry, I probably 00:10:58.129 --> 00:11:00.549 put my hand on your photo then. No, it doesn't 00:11:00.549 --> 00:11:05.929 look like Nick has got any active spirits. K2 00:11:05.929 --> 00:11:12.370 refuses to shift off green. Maybe we have to 00:11:12.370 --> 00:11:15.009 say something to him. He's quite impressive. 00:11:18.330 --> 00:11:20.830 I'm kind of sad that his horn has been made into 00:11:20.830 --> 00:11:24.360 his hair, though, with the paint job. I think 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:26.139 he might have always, but I don't remember his 00:11:26.139 --> 00:11:32.960 horns being a different colour. Got a little 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:36.100 quote here from Derek Thomas of Town Hill. The 00:11:36.100 --> 00:11:38.059 Home Guard would go and parade every Sunday. 00:11:38.139 --> 00:11:40.279 It was like watching something out of Dad's army. 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:48.480 That's funny. Oh God, you know, I'm surprised 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:50.960 we don't have Make Do and Mend campaigns now. 00:11:53.190 --> 00:11:57.049 Touch. I wasn't rubbing. Just a touch of patina. 00:11:57.149 --> 00:12:00.149 Just a gentle poke with the tip. There was no 00:12:00.149 --> 00:12:03.129 friction. Just the pads of my fingers. I was 00:12:03.129 --> 00:12:06.549 touching my nails. Oh my God, is that a gas mask 00:12:06.549 --> 00:12:10.509 for a baby? An entire baby in there. Holy shit. 00:12:11.370 --> 00:12:15.850 It is an entire baby suit. With a lappy sort 00:12:15.850 --> 00:12:20.470 of bit. It's like a leather sack with a mask. 00:12:21.610 --> 00:12:28.570 And a baby tied into it. So, let's see if I can 00:12:28.570 --> 00:12:35.970 get a shot of that. I'll just put my phone on 00:12:35.970 --> 00:12:38.350 top of the display cabinet so I don't upskirt 00:12:38.350 --> 00:12:43.049 the baby. Oh, there's a little blurb. It says... 00:12:44.169 --> 00:12:46.929 Gus mask for children under two years old. This 00:12:46.929 --> 00:12:49.929 mask would have totally enclosed the baby so 00:12:49.929 --> 00:12:52.389 that the head was inside the steel helmet and 00:12:52.389 --> 00:12:54.950 the inner straps were fastened with its legs 00:12:54.950 --> 00:12:59.909 dangling free below. Christ. I must have weighed 00:12:59.909 --> 00:13:05.230 a ton. It's like 90 % metal. I've been checking 00:13:05.230 --> 00:13:08.289 out some of the propaganda. What have you found? 00:13:08.409 --> 00:13:12.090 Oh, it's a swastika. The German liars in the 00:13:12.090 --> 00:13:15.110 newspaper. Tum -tum, going under first. For laughter 00:13:15.110 --> 00:13:18.450 serves to win for us the war of nerves. Editors, 00:13:18.570 --> 00:13:22.529 The Fury, Dr. Goebbels, General Boring. Nice. 00:13:24.330 --> 00:13:26.730 I like it. That's all they had to draw for Hitler 00:13:26.730 --> 00:13:29.289 was the cracked hair and the shitty tash. And 00:13:29.289 --> 00:13:32.129 the tash. That's all they have drawn. Yeah, it's 00:13:32.129 --> 00:13:35.570 like one of those iconic, unfortunately, iconic 00:13:35.570 --> 00:13:39.149 images that you just put two black blobs together 00:13:39.149 --> 00:13:41.879 in the right... place and you know exactly who 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:45.299 it's referring to when i was doing much of some 00:13:45.299 --> 00:13:47.779 random thought from the past when i was doing 00:13:47.779 --> 00:13:50.500 my a -level art in its old school in shift when 00:13:50.500 --> 00:13:53.340 i first started it the project i was working 00:13:53.340 --> 00:13:57.279 on was how few marks can you make in order for 00:13:57.279 --> 00:14:00.259 the same image to translate and it was really 00:14:00.259 --> 00:14:02.820 really interesting um and i was loving it and 00:14:02.820 --> 00:14:04.659 i was making this massive piece it was like home 00:14:04.659 --> 00:14:08.669 on the wall it was like i don't know maybe 18 00:14:08.669 --> 00:14:12.750 a2 paper all taped together with a projector 00:14:12.750 --> 00:14:16.590 and all this and it was just fascinating and 00:14:16.590 --> 00:14:20.889 then we moved and then i didn't do that i carried 00:14:20.889 --> 00:14:23.750 on doing our a level but my teacher was a cunt 00:14:23.750 --> 00:14:31.490 she failed me nearly she didn't like that i liked 00:14:31.490 --> 00:14:35.000 architecture and art Whereas everyone else was 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:37.240 like, oh, I'm going to do dead stuff. We're into 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:41.320 vampires and grim and guts. And I'm like, I'm 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:44.500 too placid for this shit. So yeah, I got marked 00:14:44.500 --> 00:14:46.340 down for not being creative enough. There we 00:14:46.340 --> 00:14:51.320 are. Not bitter. Gosh, these photos are insane. 00:14:53.940 --> 00:14:56.620 The German plane was flying low enough for me 00:14:56.620 --> 00:14:59.019 to see his face. I could see his head in the 00:14:59.019 --> 00:15:02.519 cockpit. Mary Duffy of Town Hill. Town Hill was 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:04.320 one of the areas that got hit quite badly, wasn't 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:08.299 it? I think where I lived, I think where I lived 00:15:08.299 --> 00:15:11.679 on Gomer Gardens, the sort of like quarry kind 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:15.159 of green area to the side, I think that was like 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:18.519 a landslide from a bombing. Not actually a quarry. 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:28.360 Moulded green glass beer bottle with the name 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:31.899 Bradford Swansea said to have been found. In 00:15:31.899 --> 00:15:34.379 this melted state following the three -night 00:15:34.379 --> 00:15:37.779 blitz of 1941, Bradford's was a wine and spirit 00:15:37.779 --> 00:15:41.539 merchant at 11 Oxford Street. I'd read it to 00:15:41.539 --> 00:15:44.539 you in Welsh, but we won't go very far. Shall 00:15:44.539 --> 00:16:02.950 we try? Bradford Swansea. There we are. I'm giving 00:16:02.950 --> 00:16:09.009 up. Very disrespectful. I'm not very good at 00:16:09.009 --> 00:16:13.049 Welsh. I'm English. What can I say? But yeah, 00:16:13.190 --> 00:16:17.389 Nick is definitely an imposing character. I'll 00:16:17.389 --> 00:16:22.250 take a slightly wider shot. I thought there was 00:16:22.250 --> 00:16:24.750 a way out here. It's not. It's a dead end. Or 00:16:24.750 --> 00:16:27.889 there's a lift. I thought there was a way out. 00:16:28.940 --> 00:16:31.379 That probably was in the fog. That lady who must 00:16:31.379 --> 00:16:33.240 have come out of the lift earlier. Or she was 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:38.159 a ghost. So that is Swansea History and the Second 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:46.700 World War in a very brief rundurund. Do you want 00:16:46.700 --> 00:16:51.360 to go downstairs? We'll go to Natural History. 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:58.539 Thank you. We'll toss some fool's gold. Oh, fossil 00:16:58.539 --> 00:17:03.539 shark teeth. I always feel like it's an obligation 00:17:03.539 --> 00:17:06.000 of some kind to buy something from a shop in 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.839 a museum. And it has to be like the daftest thing 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:11.940 you can find. And then you have to gift it to 00:17:11.940 --> 00:17:13.440 somebody who you know really won't appreciate 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:16.140 it. But we'll say thank you anyway. Oh my God, 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:20.720 there's a dead giraffe. Well, the neck and head 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:27.579 of a dead giraffe. Okay, we are in. Oxfam t -shirt's 00:17:27.579 --> 00:17:30.099 pretty cool. A little section. Oh yeah, it is, 00:17:30.099 --> 00:17:37.140 isn't it? Oxfam Walk 69. That's very cool. Model 00:17:37.140 --> 00:17:41.099 trains and Swansea had the first passenger railway 00:17:41.099 --> 00:17:45.319 in the world. Did they? Swansea to Oystermouth, 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:50.299 you know, on the... The track. Yeah, that's all 00:17:50.299 --> 00:17:53.660 been redone for the seafront walk and everything 00:17:53.660 --> 00:17:59.049 and the bike track. Yeah. I didn't know that. 00:17:59.690 --> 00:18:04.289 My one bit of trained knowledge. Nice. Right, 00:18:04.390 --> 00:18:09.410 let's have a look down this section. We're adjacent 00:18:09.410 --> 00:18:11.470 to the natural history, so I think this is the 00:18:11.470 --> 00:18:17.130 archaeology. Did she say? This is the big stones. 00:18:18.890 --> 00:18:23.930 The knoll stone. The stone's part of a Celtic 00:18:23.930 --> 00:18:27.910 wheel cross carved during the 11th century. The 00:18:27.910 --> 00:18:30.630 figure is a Celtic priest wearing a short pleated 00:18:30.630 --> 00:18:34.109 kilt. He has his hands raised in prayer. Above 00:18:34.109 --> 00:18:36.670 the priest is the bottom section of the wheel 00:18:36.670 --> 00:18:39.690 cross. As I've read that out, I should take a 00:18:39.690 --> 00:18:44.369 photo with him. He does look like he's muscling, 00:18:44.390 --> 00:18:47.690 doesn't he? Thank you. It's alright. Oh wow, 00:18:47.730 --> 00:18:51.049 look at this. The light in here is brilliant. 00:18:51.269 --> 00:18:56.549 Look at that. That's impressive texture. It's 00:18:56.549 --> 00:18:58.670 good that I occasionally remember my phone can 00:18:58.670 --> 00:19:04.329 do clever things. Oh, there's some stairs. That 00:19:04.329 --> 00:19:07.210 was the lady. I thought it was the girl. Yeah, 00:19:07.210 --> 00:19:09.450 but the lift is there. Have they just come out 00:19:09.450 --> 00:19:13.970 the back? It makes no sense. This place is... 00:19:13.970 --> 00:19:18.339 There's the quote from Dead Time. What? I'm so 00:19:18.339 --> 00:19:22.099 confused. Okay, so you could get out of Nick's 00:19:22.099 --> 00:19:24.019 room. We stood right by him and didn't see the 00:19:24.019 --> 00:19:26.559 exit. Oh, we did go back over there to look at 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:28.539 the other bits in the exhibit, mind you. That's 00:19:28.539 --> 00:19:32.559 very true. We got lost in the first room. That 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:35.119 didn't take much to get lost, to be honest. Not 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:43.799 for me, anyway. Ooh, this is a nice room. They 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:49.099 have green and two -tone green. Could almost 00:19:49.099 --> 00:19:56.700 be insipid. Not quite. Sorry, I thought there'd 00:19:56.700 --> 00:19:58.200 be some... I didn't know it was going to fall 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:03.220 that far. You noisy sod. I thought I'd put some 00:20:03.220 --> 00:20:05.500 money in donations in, but it doesn't sound like 00:20:05.500 --> 00:20:08.559 anybody else has. Or it's regularly changed. 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:12.220 You know what this room is missing? Strangely? 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:15.480 No, the particular colour scheme is making me 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:18.240 think of a film that you made me watch. And there's 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:21.460 a certain woman who lives in a very green room 00:20:21.460 --> 00:20:25.420 slash flat wearing a very purple, very tight 00:20:25.420 --> 00:20:30.079 bodysuit. And she has a white cat and the detective 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:35.259 has gone to see her. Oh my God, this is the one 00:20:35.259 --> 00:20:38.059 that Cheap Show did that you made me watch. Oh, 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:41.940 Dangerous Davies? Yeah. Who's the woman in it? 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:43.480 I can't remember her name. Eli's got a thing 00:20:43.480 --> 00:20:45.500 for her. Maureen Lippman. That's it. Maureen 00:20:45.500 --> 00:20:47.220 Lippman is the only thing missing from this room. 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:49.660 Yeah, you know, you mentioned the green spandex. 00:20:49.779 --> 00:20:52.539 No, she was in purple spandex. The room was green. 00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:56.619 I don't remember that. I do. I could be wrong. 00:20:56.740 --> 00:21:02.539 We'll have to re -watch it. Which one of us is 00:21:02.539 --> 00:21:05.680 remembering the inverse of the colour of what 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:08.640 she was wearing? God only knows. Oh, Torbjork. 00:21:09.859 --> 00:21:13.480 Puzzle jokes. The characteristic feature of this 00:21:13.480 --> 00:21:16.279 period was the manufacture of puzzle jugs. Puzzle 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:19.119 jugs were always considered amusing. All the 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:22.240 Swansea puzzle jugs work on a suction principle. 00:21:22.779 --> 00:21:26.279 Before you can succeed, you must cover with three 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:29.059 fingers a small hole concealed in the handle 00:21:29.059 --> 00:21:35.200 and two of the three spouts. Only then can you 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:50.410 drink or pour the jug. That's cool. I'll be honest, 00:21:50.549 --> 00:21:52.569 I wouldn't want any of these in my display cabinet. 00:21:53.190 --> 00:21:55.170 Not that I've got a display cabinet. You'd have 00:21:55.170 --> 00:21:58.549 to get the entire set. It's too much, eh? It's 00:21:58.549 --> 00:22:08.950 too busy. Oh, I like the piggies. Where are we? 00:22:09.930 --> 00:22:14.269 You wear me pig, early 20th century. Earthenware 00:22:14.269 --> 00:22:18.619 pig, charmingly modelled as a seated pig. of 00:22:18.619 --> 00:22:21.640 generous proportions in dark red clay covered 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:24.920 with a cream slip beneath a honey -coloured glaze 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:31.779 inscribed in sgraffito mochin to or gunry fat 00:22:31.779 --> 00:22:37.980 pig of wales and they are quite cute though let's 00:22:37.980 --> 00:22:41.140 get a little snappy schnapper these little sausages 00:22:41.140 --> 00:22:49.279 oh you can get out side to the big metal works 00:22:49.279 --> 00:23:07.900 oh toilet push there's one of them all right 00:23:07.900 --> 00:23:10.980 so now we are outside the back of the museum 00:23:10.980 --> 00:23:13.900 massive water pump where there's a couple of 00:23:13.900 --> 00:23:17.519 prefabs oh there's a red telephone box And we've 00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:24.559 got a Periant Pumpio Tunnel Havren, which is 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:27.240 a seven tunnel pumping engine. I'm guessing these 00:23:27.240 --> 00:23:32.539 are connected. Yeah, presumably. Gosh, that's 00:23:32.539 --> 00:23:35.980 a big old pump as well, isn't it? Right, let's 00:23:35.980 --> 00:23:39.839 take some photos. Because, you know, content. 00:23:45.609 --> 00:23:49.630 OK, so to update you, we've been in the museum 00:23:49.630 --> 00:23:51.529 far longer than we thought we had. It closes 00:23:51.529 --> 00:23:56.269 at four o 'clock. It's ten past four. So we've 00:23:56.269 --> 00:24:08.670 escorted ourselves out of the side gate. Thank 00:24:08.670 --> 00:24:11.410 you for listening. We were trying out some Bluetooth 00:24:11.410 --> 00:24:15.259 microphones. Turns out... I wore mine way too 00:24:15.259 --> 00:24:18.740 close to my mouth. Sorry about that. I know it's 00:24:18.740 --> 00:24:20.440 a bit of a shorter ep than planned, and there 00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:23.500 was no real structure beyond us talking about, 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:26.720 then going to see an old wooden statue. In my 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:28.819 defence, I thought we had 20 more minutes in 00:24:28.819 --> 00:24:33.279 the museum. We might have somehow managed to 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:36.200 do a proper ending from whatever we may have 00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:40.480 recorded. Possibly, I'd like to think. An addendum, 00:24:40.519 --> 00:24:44.259 though, to the tale of the statue. Shoulda, woulda, 00:24:44.259 --> 00:24:47.559 coulda. We checked on a map, and Old Nick is 00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:50.960 still positioned, looking at St Mary's Church. 00:24:51.579 --> 00:24:54.900 Photos of the church, the Helios Science slash 00:24:54.900 --> 00:24:57.640 Art installation that they were hosting, the 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:00.240 statue of Old Nick, and a few more pieces from 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:02.839 the Swansea Museum can be found on our blog. 00:25:02.980 --> 00:25:05.359 Links to all our socials can be found on our 00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:09.599 website, lightlyused .co .uk. And I'll ask Karen 00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:11.759 to put all the photos that we each took on our 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:13.740 Instagram feed for you to check out as well. 00:25:14.220 --> 00:25:17.099 And since recording the out and about bit at 00:25:17.099 --> 00:25:19.079 the museum, we've come back from watching Cheap 00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:22.319 Show Live, the Cheerful Earful podcast. Absolutely 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:25.859 fantastic show. We laughed loads and we tried 00:25:25.859 --> 00:25:28.970 some truly terrible crisps, I think. Leighton 00:25:28.970 --> 00:25:32.289 J was to blame for those. Also hello to A Pint 00:25:32.289 --> 00:25:35.150 of a Cthulhu Podcast. Your pin badge is absolutely 00:25:35.150 --> 00:25:37.829 amazing. Your shiny stickers pride of place on 00:25:37.829 --> 00:25:42.609 my tat in the box. Box of tat. Yven from Cheap 00:25:42.609 --> 00:25:44.890 Show Magazine. The brains and the brawn behind 00:25:44.890 --> 00:25:46.849 it. Hello to you as well. You were absolutely 00:25:46.849 --> 00:25:49.029 swarmed but Karen did manage to get a chance 00:25:49.029 --> 00:25:52.789 to say hello as well. Now I'm on the spot. I'm 00:25:52.789 --> 00:25:55.009 pretty sure I'm forgetting to mention others 00:25:55.009 --> 00:25:58.579 from our parasocial pod squad. becoming a lot 00:25:58.579 --> 00:26:01.140 less para now that we've met each other in person 00:26:01.140 --> 00:26:05.160 a couple of times. Anyway, we are part of the 00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:08.099 Studio Channel 84 network of independent podcasts. 00:26:08.660 --> 00:26:11.559 There's the Variety Show with TJ and Rob, the 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:15.119 Untitled Sci -Fi Show with Rob and TJ, Who Takes 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:17.599 the Socks Off? and the spin -off minisode series 00:26:17.599 --> 00:26:21.740 Socks On or Off? with Ross and Simon, and Super 00:26:21.740 --> 00:26:25.940 A to Z with James. Also, the Land Before Prime 00:26:25.940 --> 00:26:29.519 five -minute micro -movie review podcast. All 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:33.960 can be found at channel84 .co .uk. We'll be back 00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:53.890 next month. Thanks again for listening. Renovation 00:26:53.890 --> 00:26:57.069 to St. Mary's Church began in the 1890s. This 00:26:57.069 --> 00:26:59.250 is over the years. Bits have fallen down due 00:26:59.250 --> 00:27:01.710 to bad weather. Did it get hit in the war? There 00:27:01.710 --> 00:27:05.089 we are. I've been interested. The punctum of 00:27:05.089 --> 00:27:09.349 the entire story is that's a bit... Sorry. Over 00:27:09.349 --> 00:27:11.509 the years, the church has been... Oh, fuck, there's 00:27:11.509 --> 00:27:13.569 people coming now. Well, we are outside. It's 00:27:13.569 --> 00:27:27.529 going to happen. This was a studio channel 84 00:27:27.529 --> 00:27:30.950 network show to find more head over to channel 00:27:30.950 --> 00:27:33.970 84 .co .uk now.