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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @G6EJD
    @G6EJD 2 месяца назад +171

    Roger, another truly excellent documentary that could stand head and shoulders with any BBC, Channel 4 or 5 variant. The cinematography snd scene composition was excellent and of course the content excellent and so well presented. Thank you.

    • @SkillBuilder
      @SkillBuilder  2 месяца назад +17

      Wow, thanks

    • @declanjoyce8640
      @declanjoyce8640 2 месяца назад +6

      Agreed, well said....

    • @metaljasex
      @metaljasex 2 месяца назад

      ​@@SkillBuilder I will 2nd those comments please consider more such videos. Far superior to any bbc stuff. Roger is an excellent presenter. Thank you for this work / film and great work Roger.

    • @kier4931
      @kier4931 2 месяца назад +3

      Totally agree. Roger’s insights are brilliant.

    • @finch45lear
      @finch45lear 2 месяца назад +2

      What a fine presentation. I learned so much. Thank you.

  • @angelamurphy9472
    @angelamurphy9472 2 месяца назад +62

    I love how you pay tribute to the actual craftsmen! Their art is the true legacy!!!

    • @reencollett6835
      @reencollett6835 Месяц назад +3

      “The horny-handed sons of toil did the hard graft”…wonderful ! God bless them !

    • @prayermanone
      @prayermanone Месяц назад

      Absolutely beautiful ancient construction artwork.

  • @Davidbirdman101
    @Davidbirdman101 2 месяца назад +47

    Greetings from the lost colony of America! I was a carpenter for 45 years and I can tell you that the carpentry skills of those days are unsurpassed in quality compare with today's world.
    I can't imagine any new home standing for hundreds of years. I'm Scots -Irish and very proud of my heritage, God bless great Britain and all the wonderful people of the British Isles.

    • @MrJimtimslim
      @MrJimtimslim Месяц назад +4

      Americans love to say they're Irish or Scottish 😅
      Most of them are actually English
      You can tell by the language they speak

    • @david9783
      @david9783 Месяц назад +3

      I'm right there with you, brother. 45 years a carpenter, now 70, stil building. I stand in awe of the guys who were doing this work so long ago, with only the most basic of tools. Carpentry is extremely labor intensive, even WITH electricity, not to mention without it!

    • @bogtrottername7001
      @bogtrottername7001 Месяц назад +2

      @@MrJimtimslim BUNK !

    • @helenamcginty4920
      @helenamcginty4920 Месяц назад

      ​@@bogtrottername70012 things. 1. English was imposed by need to trade etc. 2. Americans speak a version of English. Just like if an English northener goes south, even today, the locals find it hard to understand them. As for Scots, tv often has to use subtitles. 😅

  • @ava.artemis
    @ava.artemis 2 месяца назад +32

    Those churches and cathedrals blow my mind. I love your approach of talking about the people who actually were the craftsmen, and your common sense straightforward approach.

  • @Benehrethgir
    @Benehrethgir 2 месяца назад +24

    You're appreciation for the common working man is beautiful. Thank you for your contribution.

  • @cakeofthepan2233
    @cakeofthepan2233 2 месяца назад +18

    It’s so good to see a documentary that concentrates on the things that you personally notice when you go to these places.

  • @adrianglanvill9749
    @adrianglanvill9749 2 месяца назад +13

    I come from a family of Masons. This documentary is so special! Thank you.

  • @luish777
    @luish777 2 месяца назад +16

    Awesome show this guy is a gem. Thank you from south Texas for posting .

  • @johnfletcher9907
    @johnfletcher9907 2 месяца назад +48

    About 6 or 7 years ago I was watching this guys videos daily on how to wire a thermostat or some other random stuff while renovating a house. Now randomly a vide pops up of him talking about my home town. Pretty cool, and I have to say as somebody already familiar with a lot of what’s covered in this video he has got the details spot on and clearly taken his time with the research. Very credible bloke clearly. Fantastic video.

  • @harveysmith100
    @harveysmith100 2 месяца назад +32

    Roger, as a time served bricklayer, I would just like to thank a plumber, (yes I know, un-heard of) for supporting my profession and the other masons, the stone masons.
    Bricklayers are much maligned these days but there are still thousands of us that can do the fine work you show.
    99.9% of your viewers will live in a house built by one of my colleagues. We are important, even the 10 Downing St is build by one of us. (Flemish Bond for those that are interested.)
    Not sure why you chose Hereford but I am pleased you did.

  • @Daibenswan
    @Daibenswan 2 месяца назад +46

    These new "history series" are fascinating, thanks Roger!

  • @NeilEngland-m5f
    @NeilEngland-m5f 2 месяца назад +31

    I am absolutely with you on this one. I am heritage surveyor who came from the trades. I was an ornamental plasterer with 35 years of working on, and restoring ancient buildings I always studied the exposed with a view to imagining the trades and working out how it was done and the materials utilised. IT REALLY MATTERED. The stories I tell the interested are many. Now in my 70s I still practise. Sadly I have to state, the quality and care taken is - various, partly due to the lack of professional training of young enthusiastic trades. OK staggering off my soap box now :) Passion is the key.... I still have that.

  • @jeremykemp3782
    @jeremykemp3782 2 месяца назад +32

    I am born and bred Herefordian, and walk my dog round by the cathedral most days taking in the magnificent craftsmanship. The rest of Hereford Town has some real gems of quality builds including the recent Holmer bricks of the Victorian times. Bricks that will last a lifetime. The days when they built to a standard not a cost.

    • @SkillBuilder
      @SkillBuilder  2 месяца назад +4

      I will investigate. It is always the way with these videos, we learn more afterwards and want to do a reshoot.

  • @pitcull1046
    @pitcull1046 2 месяца назад +12

    Well done Roger, highlighting the invisible builders. The hugely skilled, the talented, the persistent the strong backs, that built/build our world... Keep up the good work Roger.

  • @AndrewLumsden
    @AndrewLumsden 2 месяца назад +19

    Fabulous!👍👏 When I retired at the end of 2020, I set myself the goal of getting around all the cathedral cities in the UK. Not very many more to do.

    • @SkillBuilder
      @SkillBuilder  2 месяца назад +3

      Have you been to Ely?

    • @AndrewLumsden
      @AndrewLumsden 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@SkillBuilder Yes indeed 👍❤️

  • @harbourdogNL
    @harbourdogNL 2 месяца назад +17

    09:26 Oh, mate, that fence to your left!! Absolutely gorgeous! Those treenail pegs, I love how they haven't been cut flush with the rails. And the alternating heights and the act they aren't dead straight. Wow. That's a piece of sculpture.

    • @andyskelton7223
      @andyskelton7223 Месяц назад +1

      Yes clocked them myself as being a Fencer.

    • @bogtrottername7001
      @bogtrottername7001 Месяц назад +2

      I'm in the Finger Lakes of New York State & I've saved pics of that fence in my "ideas" file !

  • @dufushead
    @dufushead 2 месяца назад +30

    I've watched several of your videos in a row and enjoyed them. You have a great grasp of how everything fits together that is unique, probably because you're a builder rather than an academic. Your work is on a level with the best I've seen. Thank you so much.

  • @henrythompson6350
    @henrythompson6350 2 месяца назад +8

    These are absolutely brilliant. Thanks

  • @russellsmith4638
    @russellsmith4638 2 месяца назад +10

    I'm from Australia and visited the cathedral and Kilpeck Church when I was in UK in 2015. Thanks for showing them again. The cathedral was one of the few in the world with a chained library which was the original reason for visiting Hereford but I enjoyed the cathedral for its general history including the crypt and the mappa mundi. There are chained libraries in Wimbourne Minster church and St Walbergers church in Zutphen in the Netherlands that I visited on the same trip. An interesting piece of history. Keep up the good work.

  • @janinademetriou-warburton6427
    @janinademetriou-warburton6427 2 месяца назад +13

    Love your films. History of Britain, history of materials and crafts. Thank you.

  • @davetaylor4741
    @davetaylor4741 2 месяца назад +12

    Some fantastic buildings and craftsmanship. Even back then there was no doubt a pecking order of trades. The stone carvers would have been highly regarded. I used to work on commercial shop rebuilds. We could spend months doing all the main structural work. Nobody cared, apart from hurry up. Then the shop fitters came in with cosmetic bling. The customers would go weak at the knees with how wonderful their work was. A few sheets of ply and a bit of moulding. I bet the guys laying thousands of stones for next to nothing called them some equivalent of glory boys. Our name for shop fitters.
    I always seek out religious buildings to look at the structures and the skill of the workers. One good legacy of the church being so rich.

  • @jppalm3944
    @jppalm3944 2 месяца назад +9

    Craftsmanship amazing. Always fascinating.

  • @LaurieValdez-zk3dy
    @LaurieValdez-zk3dy 2 месяца назад +5

    Thank you very much. Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸 Nostrovia

  • @Syncronizeification
    @Syncronizeification 2 месяца назад +15

    Does amaze me how they built some of these. Got a 800 year old church near me.
    . Love the subject and the way Roger told the stories. Even my wife paid attention.

  • @martindenis3356
    @martindenis3356 2 месяца назад +19

    Another really good historical video. Thanks Roger! Enjoying your work all the way from Belgium 😉

    • @SkillBuilder
      @SkillBuilder  2 месяца назад +2

      I was there two weeks ago in Brugge but it was pouring with rain so I didn't do much filming.

  • @steve-real
    @steve-real 2 месяца назад +15

    I love his architectural tours. Really cool!

  • @cantbants
    @cantbants 2 месяца назад +13

    As a fan of history who started watching your channels to help me do my house up. These videos are a real gem and so well presented. You really bring history alive, telling the story about the ordinary talented folk who built these monuments.

  • @desertpoj
    @desertpoj 2 месяца назад +22

    Another fabulous video. Thank you Roger.

  • @csmink
    @csmink Месяц назад +2

    From Alachua, Florida USA. Thank you. Hats off to the ones who actually bring the idea to life! Could not build it today. No craftsmen, too much regulation. They did it without power tools.

  • @justinepenman6081
    @justinepenman6081 2 месяца назад +4

    Dear Roger, you make me doubly proud of my heritage, how wonderful were these craftsmen . Many thanks

  • @JuliaHopewell
    @JuliaHopewell 2 месяца назад +6

    I have watched many, many of your videos, Roger; (initially due to my husbands interest in DIY). However, your down to earth approach, expert advice and high standards reeled me in very quickly! For me, these videos are the best yet. I have no religious bent either; but have always appreciated old churches and other historic structures in this beautiful island of ours. I hope that you will continue to produce these, and that you are enjoying them as much as we are. Thank you! 😊

  • @TimCully
    @TimCully 2 месяца назад +4

    Roger, keep it up. Excellent information & inspirational.

  • @ianwatkins4528
    @ianwatkins4528 2 месяца назад +10

    Hi Roger, I'm from Hereford and my family still live there. My grandad used to work in the cathedral, he was the grounds keeper. One of his jobs was to keep the fires going, as a kid I used to help him and chrismas mornings we would go and fill the fires with coal and wood to keep them going

  • @Rzarecteh
    @Rzarecteh 2 месяца назад +7

    I love the videos where you just wander about looking at stuff - it makes me look at things differently every single time. Love it

  • @alanaitcheson9403
    @alanaitcheson9403 2 месяца назад +4

    Thank you Roger for a first class documentary.

  • @tonquinb
    @tonquinb Месяц назад +1

    From the USA here and just discovered this channel. Absolutely brilliant! I share your enthusiasm for the craftsmen who did this work so many years ago, And applaud those who continue to this day.....Ill be binge watching your shows. Thanks for doing this.

  • @balluna1453
    @balluna1453 2 месяца назад +5

    WELL SAID SIR!, I feel exactly the same when, without sleight of mouth, an 'architect' becomes the 'builder' even though we know they wouldn't want to get any building site crp on their fine clothes, or drink tea with the peasants every morning.
    I subscribed because of your reaction, brilliant!.

  • @andyskelton7223
    @andyskelton7223 Месяц назад +1

    A really great piece of story telling Roger bringing our Heritage to life only the way you can, can’t wait for the next episode.
    Who needs the BBC….

  • @maximusstar9960
    @maximusstar9960 2 месяца назад +5

    Please more like this, it is so good and enjoyable

  • @Lavistaad
    @Lavistaad 2 месяца назад +8

    Greetings from New England US. Excellent video, Thank you for the insight Roger.

  • @colinnewman2000
    @colinnewman2000 2 месяца назад +3

    Absolutely superb, thank you !!

  • @benchippy8039
    @benchippy8039 2 месяца назад +8

    Brilliant, I’m loving this documentary series. Keep em coming mate

  • @madelineschultz4968
    @madelineschultz4968 Месяц назад +1

    Your video was agreat gift to me. Thank you. You have such love and reverence for the work that our ancestors built.

  • @telwood15
    @telwood15 Месяц назад +2

    Like yourself I and many others are not religious but visit these places to marvel over the design and craftsmanship which give so much character to a town.

  • @joemunkey
    @joemunkey 2 месяца назад +5

    Loved this video, great to see the stoneworkers being appreciated these days. In York the masoms work area is also visible, when I was a student there I would love to watch them working.

  • @metatron007
    @metatron007 2 месяца назад +3

    Another good episode, many thanks Roger & Team.

  • @ena6631
    @ena6631 2 месяца назад +5

    Fantastic, really interesting and historical. Unsung heroes of the building trade.

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 2 месяца назад +7

    My ancestors, thank you.

  • @robertharris8912
    @robertharris8912 Месяц назад +2

    As a time served Bench Joiner, I can't help but marvel at the work displayed in cathedrals and old churches. Like yourself, Roger, I think of the logistics, the time spent crafting those timber and stone pieces and wish I had the skills they had. But, cost is has been the price of craftsmanship, everyone wants it cheaper and most people don't want to pay the price for proper craftsmanship.

  • @XsweetstarliteX
    @XsweetstarliteX 2 месяца назад +5

    fantastic addition to the series! In my travels to different countries, I’m amazed by the incredinle buildings and statues that people in the past an ancient peoples have been able to build.
    We’d struggle to replicate some of the great sites, especially those in supposedly primitive peasant class and “undeveloped” countries. Excited to see this series continue!

  • @notsosmartmart5402
    @notsosmartmart5402 2 месяца назад +7

    Love these Roger, keep it up please

  • @lancemason7911
    @lancemason7911 2 месяца назад +2

    Lovely video Roger, thank you, shout out to the cameraman, great work🙏🏻

  • @johnhaydon4055
    @johnhaydon4055 2 месяца назад +7

    Nice one Roger fascinating stuff poking around the old historic buildings. We were in Shrewsbury a month ago for a little break, another interesting old town with stacks of history. Thanks, love these vids.

  • @patrickbarrett5650
    @patrickbarrett5650 2 месяца назад +6

    Excellent, we’re in no position to visit anymore so thank you.👍

  • @Timothy-remembers
    @Timothy-remembers 2 месяца назад +5

    Also: thank you for showing us these amazing constructions. Please show us more...

  • @guybishop61
    @guybishop61 2 месяца назад +3

    Fantastic video, it's great that the craftsmanship of these wonderful buildings is being appreciated

  • @andyvitale6071
    @andyvitale6071 25 дней назад

    I thoroughly enjoyed this informative super interesting video . The buildings are beautiful and and the fact that there still standing shows how really good these artists were. Thanks for sharing.

  • @davidberesford7009
    @davidberesford7009 Месяц назад +2

    Your ranting was justified in my opinion. Great vid!

  • @reacher72
    @reacher72 Месяц назад

    Great video. I always think about the guys building when I look at old buildings and try in imagine how there life’s were. 👍

  • @Timothy-remembers
    @Timothy-remembers 2 месяца назад +2

    I had to pause to look at each awe inspiring constructions and the amazing craftsmanship that made it possible

  • @annkelly7772
    @annkelly7772 Месяц назад +1

    I learned more from this than all my years in formal education. Thank You!

  • @lindakinchela8776
    @lindakinchela8776 2 месяца назад +1

    I really enjoyed that, love this sort of history. I have often wondered. Be good for people learning about this art. The ceilings always reminded me of boats as you stated. Be good as a holiday package too. Loved the honest approach pointing out faulty workmanship great learning. I loved it so cool even for someone like me who loves the old buildings from the dark, obviously scary ages. ❤👍🏾👌🏾🤘🏾

  • @Pugggle
    @Pugggle 2 месяца назад +1

    Absolutely brilliant! So nice to see this alternative look at the cathedrals and historic buildings, this was so interesting and well presented!

  • @howardosborne8647
    @howardosborne8647 2 месяца назад +2

    Wonderful video,Roger👌 The standard of craftsmanship in old churches and cathedrals is astonishing.
    About 20 years ago I visited Wells Cathedral for an afternoon and marvelled at the incredible detail in the carved masonry work.
    We need you to follow this video up with a visit to some of the stonemasons who restore/repair these magnificent structures.

  • @charmainepapworth9994
    @charmainepapworth9994 2 месяца назад +7

    I love your "history" type videos. :-)

  • @AB-kx4nc
    @AB-kx4nc 2 месяца назад +2

    Absolutely loving your programs. Watching from oz

  • @craigh9308
    @craigh9308 2 месяца назад +1

    Love the passion you have for your craft and the historic buildings Roger. Hopefully it’ll rub off on some young people thinking about getting into construction

  • @allanhmelnitski978
    @allanhmelnitski978 2 месяца назад +2

    Thank You! Fantastic tour!

  • @coop_coop007
    @coop_coop007 2 месяца назад +1

    Really good quality production, as good as any, thank you.

  • @jamiecurrie5828
    @jamiecurrie5828 2 месяца назад +1

    Well done Roger...a great watch and your enthusiasm for history is much appreciated 👍👍

  • @iansteel5569
    @iansteel5569 2 месяца назад +1

    Great show, I love looking at old church's.

  • @tomrees4812
    @tomrees4812 Месяц назад

    I love watching your videos about London but I never thought you’d come to my home town. Thanks!

  • @mwezimwezi9618
    @mwezimwezi9618 2 месяца назад +2

    Another really interesting and entertaining video Roger. Look forward to the next one.

  • @madayis9707
    @madayis9707 Месяц назад

    10/10 great information, engaging and light hearted

  • @hbpw857
    @hbpw857 2 месяца назад +2

    Now this is excellent content please do a series like this 👏

  • @hermesjackle5903
    @hermesjackle5903 Месяц назад

    Thanks for the lesson on craftsmen gone by , I love hearing how things used to be done, and from someone who used to do it themselves instead of listening to a paid TV talking head.

  • @jillcox6685
    @jillcox6685 2 месяца назад

    Thoroughly enjoyed your video. Thank you.
    An entirely different appreciation of the craftsmanship in our churches.
    Next time I visit a church, as I often do, will do so with much more understanding.

  • @martinpotter8064
    @martinpotter8064 2 месяца назад +2

    Excellent again, interesting and funny. Well done, Thanks

  • @egallagher41
    @egallagher41 2 месяца назад

    Thank you craftsman for noticing your peers of old, and thank you sir for presenting a different view on a familiar view, few people today (or in past times) would notice the nuances of a used, reused, and reused again familiar building unless they were a trained historian or researcher, but a builder who knows their trade! GOLD.
    Do this again, and "Time team" beware. Very well done.🤠

  • @Hew.Jarsol
    @Hew.Jarsol 2 месяца назад +2

    My home town! Back in the 60s they knocked most of Herefords best buildings down (like everywhere else). Glad you went to Kilpeck.

  • @stuartgoodall225
    @stuartgoodall225 Месяц назад

    I love your vids !, I'm an amateur photographer of 40 yrs , love history , looking around cathedrals& churches , NOT for the religious angle , but the architectural, another great vid, im from Reading , in Berks , so not much history left to look at !!!😂

  • @1x3dil
    @1x3dil 2 месяца назад +3

    Hi Roger This country has a wealth of history that is usually open for all of us to enjoy , even the climate is often not that bad . Yet many fly to foreign climes purely for the sunshine , something that just doesn’t appeal to me . Fascinating programme as usual , and reveals yet more hidden treasures which can be easily overlooked . As for the holes in the stone walls , I wonder if they may have been for defence purposes . In those days they weren’t averse to pouring boiling oil or tar on the invading army’s , even the plumbers friend lead would be boiled up to use on the unsuspecting foes . Just a thought with nothing to back it up of course 😂 Kind regards to all

  • @peterkelly1665
    @peterkelly1665 2 месяца назад

    A great presentation showing many works of really skilled craftsmen small details of national treasures a video worth a look

  • @peterjones2761
    @peterjones2761 2 месяца назад +2

    Wow, a brilliant documentary, can you do some more please, especially the cathedrals, 👍👍👍

  • @JEANNEHUNTER-q5t
    @JEANNEHUNTER-q5t 2 месяца назад +9

    Thanks to Ken Follett many of us look at the churches and cathedrals with new eyes.

    • @wilfuller1699
      @wilfuller1699 2 месяца назад +3

      Your right, pillars of earth changed my life in good way

    • @davetaylor2387
      @davetaylor2387 2 месяца назад +1

      Ken Folletts pillars of the earth and world without end are two books that are a great portrayal of bygone builders that are lost to time.

    • @SkillBuilder
      @SkillBuilder  2 месяца назад +1

      I need to add that to my growing reading list.

    • @ambassadorfromreality1125
      @ambassadorfromreality1125 2 месяца назад +3

      ​@@SkillBuilderyou might also like "sarum" by Edward Rutherford generations around Salisbury cathedral from prehistoric times to last century.
      Let Mrs b. Know before Christmas

    • @mattcartwright8272
      @mattcartwright8272 2 месяца назад

      @@ambassadorfromreality1125 Wow, thanks for the memory. It must be 35 years since i read that book. Epic in every sense of the word,

  • @andriidubinin955
    @andriidubinin955 29 дней назад

    Thank you for this amazing video! 👍👍

  • @musicallyyoshimi9651
    @musicallyyoshimi9651 2 месяца назад +6

    Talking about not being able to change anything in old buildings, there's a listed house I know of where there was a nondescript floor that the owners removed, and replaced it quickly before anyone got wind. They laid flagstones that had been recovered from some derelict building. On a surprise visit from one of the conservation groups, they were informed that they must never change that original feature.

  • @goddam9925
    @goddam9925 2 месяца назад +2

    Top video thanks roger and team !!

  • @dcarbs2979
    @dcarbs2979 Месяц назад

    Never fail to be amazed by these buildings, even with my experience of modern skyscrapers and the like. Can't imagine the wonder of people when they were new, having seen little more than a mud hut and no media other than their own experience. They may be a long time ago with simple technology, by my God they knew how to use it!

  • @markymali
    @markymali 2 месяца назад +1

    Great video Roger, This is first time I’ve commented as I usually watch watch on my TV, you never fail to hold my interest all the way to the end, keep em coming 😊

  • @robandchristheateam5053
    @robandchristheateam5053 2 месяца назад +1

    The Michael Moseley of the building world. Excellent Mr Bisby.

    • @SkillBuilder
      @SkillBuilder  2 месяца назад +2

      Hang on a minute Michael Mosley came to sticky end, can't you find another comparison?

  • @rattailJimmy
    @rattailJimmy Месяц назад

    Those heaters are a work of art. Love the work of crafts men.

  • @46spanner
    @46spanner 2 месяца назад +3

    I would recommend Ken Follett’s “ The Pillars of the Earth” as something to read after watching this excellent video

    • @SkillBuilder
      @SkillBuilder  2 месяца назад

      I have just ordered all four in the series, thanks

  • @randomconcept7856
    @randomconcept7856 2 месяца назад +1

    Really informative and interesting content it’s great your making these documentaries from the prospective of the trades
    Thanks Roger 👍🏻

  • @indymind
    @indymind 2 месяца назад +2

    Thanks Roger.
    Great video.

  • @pbfamous07
    @pbfamous07 2 месяца назад +1

    gooooood gracious. one of a kind. just amazing.

  • @wild_running
    @wild_running 2 месяца назад +1

    Loved watching this one Roger! Especially since I visit my son in Hereford and I try to catch the Cathedral mason at work. I'll check out for SAS ops when I go to visit Kilpeck now you've piqued my interest with the Norman castle.

  • @jrwoledge
    @jrwoledge 2 месяца назад +1

    Thanks Roger, another great episode. 👍

  • @JOHNOGRADY-un2ft
    @JOHNOGRADY-un2ft 2 месяца назад +1

    Brilliant post, thanks Roger

  • @realdbsoflondon3165
    @realdbsoflondon3165 2 месяца назад

    I like seeing history from a different perspective. It is down to the craftsmen's skills, that these great designs have not faded with time.