I'm a Londoner born and bred.
Three generations of my family have lived
and worked alongside the Thames.
And I want to show you how today, it's even busier
and a bigger part of our lives than ever.
Don't move.
It's very difficult...
It's difficult to keep.
...to interview you while I'm counting.
How many have you got in there now? God knows.
My journey will take me to its furthest reaches.
From the Cotswolds in the west...
Cor, some size quarry, isn't it?
...to where the river meets the sea in the east.
They're all laughing over that side.
Keep a straight face.
I'm doing me best.
I'll meet people whose working lives depend on the Thames
and who feel as passionately about it as I do.
We love our Thames.
We're so lucky.
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I'll go behind the scenes of its most iconic landmarks.
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Bang.
Ancl discover its hidden gems.
They do look sci-fi, don't they?
This is the River Thames as you've never seen it before.
Hectic.
Hardworking.
Breathtaking.
Awe-inspiring.
I can't wait.
To me, a trip down the Thames always feels a bit like time travel.
I want to show how the river is vital to our heritage.
Sometimes preserving traditional crafts and trades,
sometimes re-inventing them to keep pace with our modern lives.
I'm beginning in Greenwich, where the Thames has given
an iconic relic of London's maritime past a whole new lease of life.
Over there, just above the trees, you can see the masts
of the 280-foot time capsule
that's known as the Cutty Sark.
She was once the fastest ship in her day.
But since 1954, she's been nestled there static in dry clock.
Cutty Sark was the Ferrari of the late 18005.
She was built for speed with a sleek streamlined hull and vast sail area.
And she set world records on the epic 13,500-mile route
from Australia to London's thriving clocks just down the river from here.
It took a crew of around 20 to maintain her on the high seas,
and the work doesn't stop now she's on dry land.
Keeping a gorgeous mid-19th-century sailing ship like this
in tip-top condition is a real labour of love.
I'll bet when the ship first got here in the 19505,
they didn't do all this business.
It would just have been blokes running up and down
ladders, with fags in their mouths.
But you're well-tied-up.
Certainly, Tony, at all times.
Simon and his dedicated crew look after everything,
from the decking to the delicate gilt decorations
on the bow and stem of the ship.
What's this you're doing?
Just monitoring the corking around all this gilded scrollwork.
We did a conservation project about two years ago,
where some elements had to be re-carved cos they'd become rotten
and then a gilder came in and applied
23-and-a-half-carat gold leaf.
It's like neon lights, really.
Yeah, when the sun hits it as well,
it really kind of looks like some fire almost,
real kind of glow coming from it.
Beautiful.
Is there anything I can do here?
It's quite a specialist job but there's plenty of other things
I can get you busy doing on deck, if you fancy it?
Yeah, I'll have a go. Yeah, let's go. OK.
The thing that strikes me more than anything else
on this deck is the sheer size of it.
I mean, it's like a cricket pitch, isn't it?
Yeah, 151 feet from stem to stem.
36 foot on the beam at the widest point.
How often do you scrub it?
Every morning,
we have the hoses out.
What else do you clean?
Everything, everything.
Looking after the bright works,
deck houses.
Hang on, bright works? What does bright works mean?
Bright works. Any varnished piece of timber you see. Shiny!
So, all the shiny teak you can see.
It's like painting the Forth Bridge, isn't it?
Yeah, it's a job that will never, never end
and never be finished.
These days, all that gleaming woodwork has to withstand
a quarter of a million visitors a year.
No wonder it needs oiling.
Probably the wear and tear on it now is worse than a whole year's
worth of tropical storms.
Yeah, yeah, I'd imagine so, yeah.
So can I have a go at trying to replace
some of that tourist wear and tear?
Get some oil on it.
When I was a kid and it came to London,
it was virtually a wreck, really.
You certainly would never have thought that it would ever be
as elegant as this and that a quarter of a million people a year
would want to come and see it.
Cutty Sark first launched in 1869 to carry tea from China.
But despite her cutting-edge spec,
steamers using the newly opened Suez Canal were soon outpacing her.
So Cutty Sark turned to the Australian wool run,
where the trade winds gave her sails the edge.
Oh, Simon this is fantastic. Hi.
This is a 19505 replica of the wheel that steered her to those
record - breaking speeds.
We get a lot of people touching it
because it's such an iconic part of the ship.
Oh, what, visitors coming in and standing there like that,
yeah, I'd do that.
Like all of us when we get to 70,
it's due some TLC.
How long you been sanding this?
It's been about three weeks.
Wow.
Well, almost all by hand, is the nature of it.
It's just a big collection of curved surfaces and if you get
a machine on most of those surfaces it's going to start
squaring them off.
Where does it hang when it's done?
It's attached to the steering gear
which is at the very stern of the ship.
50 goes on here, so this bolt holds it in place. Yeah.
It's a beautiful simple piece of engineering.
The steering mechanism is a prime example of how cutting-edge
the ship was 150 years ago.
Its space-saving design maximised the cargo she could carry.
This would turn this screw, which would move these pistons,
which in turn would angle this
and then this is connected down into the post of the rudder.
What it reminds of is the fact that
we're really on the cusp of shipbuilding here, aren't we?
We've got, we've gone out of the old Georgian high-masted Navy
and we're moving towards this kind of thing. That's it.
Later, I see how Cutty Sark's iconic figurehead is being reborn upriver.
Oh, wow.
It hits you full in the face, doesn't it?
And my visit goes with a bang...
Wahey! That was a nice one.
...when I see how the Thames is helping London clean up its act.
Put a spring in my step, that did.
The Thames connects us to our past.
It's got a long tradition of doing the capital's dirty work...
...and I've come to Erith in South London,
where that's still true today.
I love sights like that - all our cars all our kitchens, girders,
cables, greenhouses,
all our civilisation being mashed up.
It's the apocalypse.
Back in the 18005, dust yards lined the river.
Women and children did the dirty dangerous job
of hand-sifting piles of toxic
coal ash for raw materials that could be sold on to the brick-making
and fertiliser industries.
Today, this vast riverside scrapyard
tells a more contemporary recycling story
on an epic scale.
300 tonnes of scrap are processed here every day...
...much of which is transported down the Thames by barge,
cheaply and in bulk, to Tilbury clocks.
Unwanted cars are one of the most important items
they save from landfill, with a massive 1.4 million of them
reaching the end of the road every year.
Their final journey starts with a weigh-in
and it's Sophie's job to work out what each car's worth.
Our prices are based on the weight of the vehicle,
the metal content in there.
How many cars do you get through a day, do you think?
Normally, on average, about 2-3 a day depending on the day.
Every day's different.
It can go up to about 10 or 11.
And after a car's been weighed...
It will go over to the ELV.
What does that mean?
ELV stands for end-of-life vehicles.
We take out all hazardous waste from it, as in oils, engines,
and we pop the airbags and things like that.
Anything that could be a hazard to our guys.
And that's just down there?
That's just down there.
Do you reckon I could go and have a look? Yeah, go ahead.
Oh, I think I can hear some metal being moved around already.
Before a car can go to the great scrapheap in the sky,
there are hazards to be dealt with.
Because inside every modern vehicle are dangerous explosives
in the form of its airbags.
And it's Jack's job to deal with them.
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Oh, put a spring in my step, that did.
Next, all the chemicals have to be drained out.
Shaun, give us a wave.
Hiya. Hiya.
It's a hazardous job, so I'm keeping a safe distance.
You're draining off all the liquids, right?
Just done the oil, going on to the petrol.
What's that noise?
Air pressure.
So, its sucking all the liquid through.
It goes all the way along the back
and then into our storage tank.
You'd think all this would be unusable,
but from brake fluid to anti-freeze, all of it can be recycled.
With this petrol, this pipe goes up,
and then you can see what fluids come out.
We got the catalytic converter here.
So, this is all to do with your emissions.
This is probably one of the most expensive parts,
ranging from £2 up to £400-plus.
So, it's worth whipping out.
Most definitely, yeah.
Just as in the days of the dust yards, where there's muck, there's brass.
But these days, we all benefit.
How much of that car is going to be recycled?
95% gets recycled.
That's impressive, isn't it?
Everything what we can.
Even down to the dirt.
What do you mean?
We recycle the dirt.
We'll build up our dirt, we'll lay it out,
it will go through a magnet
and it will be refined further and further until it comes out pure.
Everything what can be recycled, we do recycle.
You hold on to that mate, don't lose it, that's worth a few bob.
You tuck that away. No, I will. I put this on the side.
De-pollution clone,
it's time for the car to meet its maker.
This is the bit I've always wanted to see.
That's where the murdered bloke in the car goes into the crusher
and he comes out like a little cube.
OK, my imagination might be running a bit wild
but you've got to admit this feels just like one of these 19605 films
about London gangsters.
I can just hear those ominous thumps.
Hey!
There it is.
There's an arm sticking out.
No, there isn't. Only kidding.
Cor, its got that real car smell about it.
Isn't that wonderful?
Like the dust yards before it,
this place is on the river for a reason.
Once every last scrap of usable metal has been salvaged,
it's loaded on to boats and sent off to the next step
of its recycling journey.
Richard's got just two hours to get this barge
loaded before the tide turns.
It's a big old crane, isn't it?
It certainly is.
What kind of weight do you reckon it will load the boat up with?
That will load approximately about 550 tonnes.
And what would a lorry carry?
Approximately about 23-24 tonnes.
It's a massive difference, isn't it?
It is, yes.
We, obviously, when using the River Thames -
so we can send all our scrap down the river,
keeping lorries off the roads,
toll charges down,
the emissions down.
It's the same old story, isn't it?
The Thames is your lifeblood.
It certainly is, yeah, we'd be lost without it.
And there she goes,
heading down to Tilbury clocks,
from where the scrap will be exported all over the world,
to be melted down and made into shiny new metal.
The Thames offers us different ways of doing things
and that's what these guys have done,
helping to make London cleaner
and more sustainable.
As well as helping safeguard our future,
the river also does a rather good job of preserving our past.
I've travelled 119 miles upriver to a picturesque spot on the banks
of the River Thame, a tributary of the Thames.
I'm here to meet England's last professional ship carver,
Andy Peters...
...who's been given the once-in-a-lifetime job
of recreating Cutty Sark's figurehead.
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Oh, wow.
It hits you full in the face, doesn't it?
How beautiful is that?
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Much of Andy's work is restoring historic figureheads.
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They really look quite eerie, don't they?
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Everywhere you look in this room, there's some amazing treasure.
But his original commissions are equally extraordinary.
I've got to keep looking at them.
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And this one you're still working on?
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I love that all the chippings are still here.
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Once you know what you're going to carve,
is it pretty straightforward?
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Cutty Sark's current figurehead is a 19505 replica of the original.
But its almost 70-years-old, and it's beginning to rot.
Recreating this six-foot statuesque beauty requires painstaking prep.
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What does that mean?
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The figurehead was inspired by the Robert Burns poem, Tam o' Shanter.
The poem features a rather saucy witch, Nanny,
dressed only in a cutty sark,
or skimpy nightie, to you and me.
And are you going to have real hair like that?
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Andy's ready to start roughing out the basic outline
and he's offered to let me help.
This calls for a practice run.
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Listen, I am so rubbish at woodwork.
I was only allowed to do it for one year at school.
I got 8/100 and they wouldn't let me do it again after that,
but I will certainly have a go.
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There is something incredibly satisfying about doing this.
Well, I feel slightly more confident than I did quarter of an hour ago.
Are you ready to unleash me on the real thing?
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That's incredible.
So far, Andy's created a carving block made up of layers,
or laminates, of wood that have been glued together.
What is this wood?
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but where's the rest of it in the wood?
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What do you think the schoolboy Andy
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It will take Andy another three months of carving,
then a month of careful painting, before Nanny will, at last,
be ready to take pride of place back on the Cutty Sark.
I think there's something quite exhilarating
about watching a skilled craftsmen creating something beautiful
out of raw materials.
But, in the case of Andy and the Cutty Sark, it's very special,
isn't it?
This will be something that millions of people will see for
maybe 100 years.
And when they do, a few of those chisel marks will be mine.
Next...
What's behind all these big doors?
...I discover how the Thames helps provide us
with fruit all year round.
So they've had their shower, now they have their hair dried.
Well, it's not really hair, but you know what I mean.
All along the Thames,
you'll find evidence of our traditional trades and industries
and our history.
I've come to Kent on the H00 Peninsula,
which is sandwiched between the estuaries of the Thames
and the River Medway.
The peninsula's position marks the entrance to what's always been
the nation's most important trade route,
making it vital to defend against foreign invasion.
As an island nation, the threat of attack on us
from our enemies has usually come from the sea,
and the first conflict we know about that had its mark on Hoo
was the extended period of hostility between the English and French
in the 14th century.
So the locals built fortifications to protect the peninsula.
But fast forward a few hundred years
and Hoo's defences urgently needed an upgrade.
This rather dinky fort is called Slough Fort,
and it was built by a very nervous British government in 1867,
when we were having a row with the French.
Slough was just one of a chain of forts built in the 18605,
when France's developing artillery technology
and expanding navy were putting the willies up the British military.
To defend the Thames trade superhighway,
Slough was kitted out with up-to-the-minute gear.
It sounds a bit mad, but it actually had guns that were,
not like this, but with two huge disappearing carriages.
What that meant was that you would fire the cannon out to sea
and then they would sink into to gun pits.
You would rapidly reload them
and they would come up again and fire again.
They were terrifying really, really big but also incredibly slow.
They didn't stay in fashion for very long at all.
The French threat never materialised,
and by 1914,
Britain and France were allies fighting together against Germany,
and the fort was pressed in to service as a command post.
After the First World War, it fell into disrepair.
It picked up again as a defence structure in the Second World War
but no shot was ever fired here in anger and it became a ruin again.
Thankfully, it's now being restored to remind us all
of the H00 Peninsula's vital role in defending the Thames.
Moving four miles inland, I find a traditional Kentish industry
that's thrived here since the 17th century.
Fruit farming.
Warm air from the Thames Estuary and the River Medway
creates a mild micro-climate perfect for growing,
and it's within easy reach of the capital, too.
So, historically, the fruit could be transported by the river
to London's burgeoning population.
And today, judging by this epic orchard,
the fruit business is still flourishing.
Family firm Goatham's grow one in four of the British apples
eaten in the UK.
Cor, Darren, you look more like an archaeologist than a tree grower,
with all the tech in the back of your car.
Darren's worked in the fruit trade for 32 years.
We use satellite mapping to actually tell us what's in the ground,
so we know how good it is, what kind of tree would be the best
kind of tree to plant on that site.
It also tells us, when we come to feed the trees,
what areas need it, what areas don't.
We've also got soil sensors in the ground, which tells us when
we need to actually irrigate and fertigate, to keep the trees healthy.
Why are the trees so small?
Years ago, trees were much bigger rootstocks,
so they grew very big trees.
Gorgeous, beautiful things.
They were. The problem with that is they grow a lot of wood.
Now, what we're actually trying to do
is maximise the amount of fruit that we grow.
After all, that's the crop we want to pick.
So all those big branches just put energy into growing
themselves rather than the fruit?
Exactly.
By doing it this way, we can prune the tree, to let light in
all the way down the tree, so that all the fruit
colours at the same time,
makes it easier for when we actually come to pick the crop.
It's a far cry from my idea of an orchard,
which let's face it, is probably a bit romantic.
The variety we're looking at now, Gala, is grown all over the world.
So it's not just a variety that we sell,
so we have to be competitive.
Apples used to be a seasonal treat
but now we've got used to having them all year round.
Goatham's have to compete with suppliers from abroad,
so they use the latest technology to make sure the apples
they harvest in autumn stay fresh for months afterwards.
What's behind all these big doors?
Well, obviously we've seen where the fruit comes from in the orchard.
This is where it ends up.
Wow.
How many apples do you reckon there are in here?
Hundreds of thousands.
Couldn't even put a figure on it.
The key thing is, as soon as we get them from the orchard,
get them as cold as we possibly can as quickly as we can.
Most apple varieties we keep at around about half of a degree.
Obviously, that will only keep them for so long.
If you want to keep them for very, very long-term storage,
we have to change the conditions in the store.
So we have to take out the oxygen from the store,
to slow down the respiration of the fruit completely.
This is the total opposite of my childhood experience of apples,
which was about apples in your pockets, in paper bags,
in satchels,
some of them with worms in,
some bruised, some had gone a bit bad,
so you cut the bad bit away with a knife.
Here, they're all perfect.
They're all beautiful and they're all scrutinised technologically,
all along the way.
They're even put to sleep for months like Sleeping Beauty,
and then they're woken up again.
Today, a supermarket has put in an order for 86,000 packs.
The apples need to be sorted, counted and wrapped
and it's nearly all done by technology, of course.
When the apples come out of their fridges, they're brought here.
And you see those massive, green robotic arms.
They're snatched up and then they're dunked down into the water
and then they're put on this conveyor belt
and literally apple-bobbed all the way along here.
It looks like Oxford Circus in the rush hour, doesn't it?
They're all queuing up so they can go up this escalator
because then they're out of the water.
This is where people look at them and decide whether
they're the right colour, the right shape.
And all the apples they don't like go on that tiny little conveyor belt
and are never seen again.
But all the good ones continue along their way till they come to here.
And this is my favourite part of the whole process
because there they stop being a whole crowd of apples
and they're singled out to be individuals.
Each one is put into a little cup
so that it can have its photo taken.
Not just once but 20 times.
Carol, why do you have to take so many photographs of the apples?
Well, simply the reason we take so many photographs
is to actually tell the machinery here where to place the apples.
Making sure that the right coloured apples, the right size of apples
actually go together.
So every time the screen changes, it's stilljust one apple?
One apple, yes. Thank you.
That's not the end of the process, though.
Here, when they've had their photograph taken,
they carry on on their travel before they go down one of these lanes.
There's 36 of these lanes.
And this is where they all get sorted out,
depending on what kind of package that they're going to go in.
As you can see here, this is the great big queue of rosy red apples
that are going to go into the six packs.
But there's a really cute little lane up here.
See these?
These are the tiny apples that go into the children's packs.
Then, when they get to the end, where those numbers are,
they're literally sucked into a vortex of water.
And when they come out of the other side,
they're ready to be put into their packs.
And this is the very final act of the show.
Here is where they're given a final shower.
Then they go all the way along here to this huge hairdryer.
So they've had their shower, now they have their hair dried.
Well, it's not really hair, but you know what I mean.
And then they race along here. And what's happening here, Carol?
Basically we're just putting a real final visual check
just to make sure that all the fruit's absolutely perfect
for when it goes into the packs.
Yeah, yeah. So this is actually the packing machine?
This is actually the packaging machine, yeah.
Wow! All ready to go, ready to go on sale.
Here they all are, boxed and packaged, ready for the shops.
Perfectly grown, perfectly sweet and perfectly perfect.
Thanks to cutting edge tech, the rich, centuries-old Thames-side soil
now gives us English apples all year around.
As a kid, I'd never have believed it was possible.
Next, I get roped into making some of Cutty Sark's 11 miles of rigging.
My Fitbit's going off the scale this morning.
There's no better symbol of the way the Thames keeps our heritage alive
than the Cutty Sark.
Today, her extraordinary 11 miles of rigging
looks exactly as it did in the 19th century.
Thanks to a remarkable business 35 miles downriver.
Just look at the length of that building.
Inside is one of the longest shop floors in the world.
Here in this dockyard is England's last traditional ropery.
It's an enormous place.
Stretches right the way to the end of that alleyway.
And it's been going since the middle of the 18th century.
And still today, there's a small team of people
who use the old Victorian methods and the old Victorian machines
to make rope for a whole bunch of commercial enterprises,
including making the rigging for the Cutty Sark.
The ropery is part of Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust,
where naval warships were once built and maintained.
In its heyday, this place made thousands of miles of rope
and employed hundreds of men.
But today, just three staff are going to guide me
through the process of making rope for the Cutty Sark.
These are amazing looking machines.
It all starts with yarn, which is threaded through these holes
to stop it getting tangled.
And then after it's been through here, what's this called?
It's a forcing tube.
And it does what it says on the tin. Yep.
It forces the threads into these strands. Yep.
A cart will pull the strands the whole length of the workshop,
twisting them as it goes.
So by the time we get to the other end,
we'll have three twisted strands, ready to be made into a rope?
That's correct.
Simple!
How does the bloke at the other end know when to start pulling?
We signal using this bell line.
And it will ring a bell at the very far end.
Are we ready to do it? Yep.
So, that's it. Grab hold.
I can't hear a thing.
But at the other end...
BELL TOLLS
Yes!
This is still very much a working business.
But it's open to the public, too, as a kind of living museum.
I know there's only three of you now. Yeah.
But back in the old days,
there would have been loads of people, wouldn't there? Yeah.
So you're looking at between 150 to 200 men.
So it would be very noisy.
At the other end,
the three strands are taken and attached to a new machine.
Yep!
Ancl back we go.
Look - there's the rope being made.
My Fitbit's going off the scale this morning.
Bosh!
We now have our three-strand rope.
All 280 metres of it.
And a pair of aching feet!
But there's no rest for the wicked.
I'm back in Greenwich...
On deck!
...to rejoin the crew on board the Cutty Sark.
And see how new rope from the Chatham ropery
is used to maintain her authentic rigging.
Woodsy, what are you up to?
Uh, we're going to splice an eye in the halyard for the in jib.
I don't understand any of those words.
Right, OK.
That's the old one... Yep.
...which is just a little bit tired now.
So we've got to take that bit out and put a new one in.
So basically, this splicing is an elaborate form of knot
in this particular case?
It is. It's like weaving.
You've got your three strands and all you're doing
is going over and under and over and under and over and under.
There's our splice, with a bit of a barge taper on it, we call it.
So, all right, we're sitting comfortably on the deck doing this,
but do you have to splice up there?
Yes, yes.
Ancl presumably they would have done that at sea?
Yep. We've got stories of clippers like this with the...
They'd have sails blown out of them in storms.
They'd have topmasts and topgallant masts blown out of them
and you'd have seamen aloft, re-splicing it.
Cutty Sark's state-of-the-art rigging
controlled 32,000 square feet of sail.
And that helped her achieve record-breaking speeds
on the Australian wool run.
Today, Chris is manning the ropes.
So what does this little rack do?
So these ones here control the sails that are on this mast here. Yeah.
And if you want to let this rope off here... Yeah.
...just undo the figures of eights.
That's it. Yep.
And now, if you pull on that with all your might...
If you look behind you, you can see the arms moving. Which one?
Oh, yeah, I can see it. Yeah.
Blimey! Now I know why the verb is "to haul".
It really is hauling, isn't it?
There you go, and you brace around hard there.
Wahey! Blimey, it's heavy, isn't it? Yep!
That's it. Perfect.
Not all the rigging's made from synthetic fibres.
Some of Cutty Sark's ropes are actually steel
- a cutting edge material for the time -
and need a special kind of maintenance.
You may wonder why I've got this full boiler suit on.
Well, it's because that is dripping with tar.
So what do I have to do?
So all of this is steel wire.
And the last thing we want that to do is rust.
So we treat it with the Stockholm tar.
So we literally, as the others are, rag it on.
There we go. And you'll see it go nice and shiny where it is.
My shipmates are young apprentices,
who one day will take up the baton of looking after
this slice of our heritage.
Maddy?
We know each other, don't we?
Yeah, we do.
I gave her an archaeology award when she was a little girl.
I think I was about 13 in York.
And now you've ended up putting oily tar
on the rigging of ships!
I like to think it's still a little bit linked to archaeology.
It's great fun.
What do I do when my rag runs out of oil?
Well, you'd simply apply a little bit more and keep on tarring.
Oh, from my little thing.
I'm not quite sure how you do this.
Right, hang on...
I'm going to leave my rag here. Oh, you do it expertly!
Oh, lovely stuff.
There's a pretty sticky way to end the day.
But having met all the young people who work here
and having seen their dedication,
I've got to say that I'm quite confident that the Cutty Sark
will be in pretty good hands for some years to come yet.
And I'm sure that the Thames will continue to play a role
in helping the best of our past survive and thrive.
Next time...
It's like a floating Battersea power station.
I try the cut and thrust of the market.
You've got to take six at a time, Tony!
He only gave me three!
You'd better stick to that acting game, I tell you.
Meet an aspiring Paralympic rower.
Get set... Go!
Ancl win the oldest man in the yard contest.
How old are you? 72.
I'm 73.
Oh, well, I'll bend down, then! Yeah!
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