A rock chick drenched in golden syrup, and an 80s shop girl doused in custard, in photos and close-up action video!

Felicity, the rock chick, wears black high-waist combat trousers, a black Lycra swimsuit worn as a top, big black leather action-girl boots, and a black leather-look jacket, which she takes off for the gunging put puts back on during the hose-down.

Miss Pink, the 80s shop girl, wears a red and black 1980s fashion top and skirt, in bold pattern, black wedge-heel leather boots, and a black swimsuit worn as underwear, revealed in the hose-down.

There are old traditions up here. Gone from the cities now, in our modern world of shopping by convenience and try before you buy, but it was not always so. Once, the wealthy would attend the great boutique stores of the imperial cities, palaces of hushed deference and polite obseqiance, where the lords and ladies of the great houses would sit and the staff would fetch the things they thought appropriate for their exalted clientale, and though the servility might have appeared to be one-way, in a way the customers were as tradition bound as the servers, only ever being shown what the merchants thought suitable for their status.

Rituals and manners developed around this formality, including some distinctly odd ones. A great lady would sit in the seat provided for her, regardless of whether there was a tray of custard placed to receive her richly-clad bottom. Various pourables would be demonstrated on a lady's own costume, and she might in turn try her selections out on the shop assistants' uniforms too.

All this is now history of course, but as proud keepers of ancient traditions, the folk of the Hall re-enact some of them from time to time, sometimes in authentic period wear, sometimes in more modern atire, re-creating the recent past as it might have been had the old traditions endured.

And so it was that one fine morning saw Miss Pink in the role of a 1980s high-fashion store assistant, and Felicity, dressed in rock-chick-chic, take to the dungeon to imagine how shopping for pourables might have been had the old ways of a hundred years before remained in use!

Trays of gunge are sat in, much pouring is done, mainly golden syrup on Felicity's black outfit, and custard on Miss Pink's stylish bold patterned 80s gear.

Both girls end up with their outfits thoroughly drenched in gunge, and then take a long hosedown together, during which Miss Pink stips down to just her swimsuit and boots!

Technicals: The messy video is 23 minutes, tripod shot close-up for rock steady footage, and sees the camera change position to give the best possible view as each girl receives her gunge. There are also over 700 photos. The hose-down video is 13 minutes, and features a brief glimpse of Miss Pink stripping to her boots and swimsuit. It ends with close-ups of Felicity hosing herself down. There's also a hose-down photo set which features more of Miss Pink in her wet swimsuit.