Robinson in Ruins

01:08:08 could make about a tonne of paper a day

01:33:29 but several successive tenants went bankrupt.

01:33:45 By the late 17th century, the manor had been heavily mortgaged

01:33:58 one of which was occupied by the paper manufacturers.

01:34:14 a crowded express train from Paddington to Birkenhead

01:34:18 left the track at Hampton Gay when a carriage wheel failed

01:34:47 Thirty-four people were killed and 69 injured.

01:34:53 The first rescuers at the scene were workers from the paper mill.

01:34:58 Some of the injured were cared for at the manor house.

01:35:06 and a victim of the train crash is buried in the churchyard.

01:35:26 On November 7th, Robinson gave up his temporary dwelling in the suburbs.

01:35:38 Revisiting his patron near the bypass

01:35:46 and his plan for a new city in the Cherwell Valley.

01:35:56 He wrote to us, explaining who he was and what he'd been doing.

01:36:00 He knew about our work and our resources

01:36:11 On November 12th, he returned to Hampton Gay

01:36:15 where the leaves had fallen from the chestnut trees

01:36:18 and the ruins could be seen more clearly.

01:36:29 In that day's entry in his notebook

01:36:32 we found only details of the images he had made with the camera.

01:37:03 (TRAIN APPROACHING)

01:37:44 in the field beside the ruins of the manor house.

01:38:20 This is the caravan in which the film cans and the notebook were discovered.

01:38:38 were of a milestone on the Aberystwyth coach road