A tour of the former A. Cheer and Sons Ltd shop in Boston where a series of fascinating historical discoveries have been made by its new owner as he works to give the building a new future.
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02:34 Okay, so we've got a layer of paper onto the chipboard,
02:40 which had an additional layer of thick paint,
02:45 and then we have up to eight layers of wallpaper,
02:51 which was attached to the Hessian sack,
02:56 which was tacked to the paneling.
03:01 And up at the top.
03:04 And then we've got the, well, as far as I can tell, the original wallpaper,
03:10 which is some sort of fabric.