A Special Birthday Tour of Shrewsbury's Darwin House.

Transcript

00:00 [Music]

00:12 Hello, I'm Maggie Love. I'm a guide here at Darwin's birthplace, Darwin's house, the Mount.

00:21 This is the room that Charles Darwin was born in 250 years ago today. How special is that?

00:30 We've just enjoyed sharing this house with six children who also share their birthday with Charles Darwin in February.

00:41 One of them even had his birthday today, making that very special.

00:47 We all sang happy birthday to Charles Darwin. We visited the rooms that he sat in and had breakfast,

00:54 the rooms that he enjoyed reading in, and the rooms that he played with his children.

01:00 But most especially, the grounds, the gardens where he went to do his research, his observations, and his recordings.

01:09 The beginnings of the young naturist that we understand, the great modern scientist that he became today.