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Series 4: 7. Seaton Sluice
Ben Robinson travels to Seaton Sluice in Northumberland, home to the notorious Delaval family. These wealthy bottle makers were some of the greatest players on the Georgian party scene. Their pranks and parties were infamous at their impressive mansion, but they also brought great innovation to the area when they redesigned the harbour.\n\nBen tracks the site of the past bottle works, dubbed by locals as the ‘city’, and unearths numerous glass fragments. By using modern science to analyse their unique glass recipe, he hopes to determine if they were made in the village itself.
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