I do believe that the people of Great Britain have got to be the most prolific documentarians in the world. The island population probably couldn't throw a stone without hitting a presenter, sound man or other part of some crew busy doing what the British are so keen at doing. I firmly believe that the whole world are the beneficiaries of this passion. I know that I am. One of the very best of these assembled casts of professionals is Time Team. Tony Robinson and his colorful cast of archeologists conducted interesting, informative and always satisfying 3 day archeological adventures for 30 years. I can't say enough of not only the passion and enthusiasm of the team and how they draw you into their trenches and finds with all the wonder of them, but also their almost super-human ability to always carry on their high level of work , consistently, for 30 years. 30 years! Not to mention all of the wonderful and meaningful contributions they've made to British Archeology, History and cultural understanding. Time Team. I know that being a fan and having watched the majority of their shows that I have learned much more than I might realize. I am so very grateful to them and all the unseen people who have made them possible. Thank you.

It's saddening that it was all forgotten and buried but also brilliant that now it's being appreciated, history has to be preserved

@alexhayden2303

Жыл бұрын

Our Millions of New Citizens will have not the slightest interest in this. And you, too busy working to pay for their needs, will have no time or strength to follow the subject! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fougasse_(weapon)

Loved it. My mother and father often mentioned the air defences on Shooters hill, but i had little understanding of what it meant. My grandmother lived in one of the streets on the north side of the hill from 1934 to the mid 70s, so she used tell me stories too, but i never dreamed that i would ever see any of it. And now i have. Thank you so much.

@flashgordon6670

Жыл бұрын

These paper mache defences are just a facade, to reassure the public into thinking they’re safe. The Germans would’ve breezed through them, had they ever been allowed to make a successful landing. Thank God the RAF tore the Luftwaffe to ribbons and thank God the Russians won the Eastern front.

I am a changed woman!! I have watched just about every episode at least once, some several times. But, I typically look for Time Team episodes about Romans because, well it was so long ago and they usually find lots of relics. At 55 years old in the US, WW2 really hasn't interested me much. But this episode has really changed me!! It made what I learned in school and what my grandparents talked about (usually about rations) come alive!!

23:38 Those odd pipes are serving 2 roles. It's not just the siding to keep the dirt where it needs to be, but also camouflage netting anchors. I seen similar things found on mainland Europe and even in the pacific.

@bob_the_bomb4508

Жыл бұрын

There’s no British military picket like those. And if it’s indeed a civilian air-raid shelter there’s no need for a cam net, which would be a fire hazard in an air raid.

Good to see Private Pike and Private Frazer in uniform again. "We're doomed!"

So interesting!! I love watching Time Team/Timeline. I've watched every episode that I could find... so far. ❤ from Canada 🇨🇦

@evensteven510

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@jacquelinechristian9090

3 жыл бұрын

You guys need to find some older Time Team productions. Ones in which Tony has long(ish) dark hair pulled back and an earring!

@cracked_walnut

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacquelinechristian9090 Yes! I always recommend people check out the Reijer Zaaijer channel.

The wooden plugs in the shelter are not there for a bench, it is there to hold the slip form together at the first pour, as they were poured in sections. The form was slid up and filled to build it up. It's normally done in 12" sections.

@flashgordon6670

Жыл бұрын

Oh really? I thought the concrete slabs were prefabbed and somehow hoisted into position. I couldn’t think why anyone would waste so much time and resources, building a shelter that can’t withstand a direct hit. I mean if they were pouring the cement on site, it would be just as easy to make the walls thicker and able to take a hit. Come to think of this, how did they pour the cement for the roof slabs?

Love the dad's army Easter Egg. I loved time team as a kid in the 90s. Wonderful

the sheer enthusiasm! brilliant episode.

during WW2 My Grandma worked on the Lancaster Bombers that was used by the real Dam busters and she was part of the team that worked on the bracket than carried the bouncing bomb

@johnswoboda9809

2 жыл бұрын

That's fantastic! My grandmother was a blueprint drafter in one of the facilities that developed radar for the RAF and knew about the existence of radar before the US government did. Her father was in a Pioneer's regiment in the Great War and in the Home Guard during the Second World War, and her brother was a medic with an Army rifle company that missed the evacuation at Dunkirk and spent two months behind German lines in occupied France until they managed to get snuck out somewhere near Marseilles by the French Resistance.

@derekhaddon4622

Жыл бұрын

My great uncle was project head for some testing called the British rail flying saucer, and had a lead design role in the harrier jump jet later on down the track, then he went to California to work in a university.

@allandavis8201

Жыл бұрын

At last, someone else who had a relative that was part of the team that helped modify the Lancaster to carry the bouncing bomb, my grandfather was part of the team that modified the bomb bay’s the bomb rack and the equipment needed to “spin the bomb up” before release. He was a apprentice for A.V Roe, or Avro as it was more commonly referred to, before the war, and became an RAF technician later in the war, I am the proud owner of his technical manuals that he was given by Avro for his apprenticeship, and they helped me when I joined the RAF in 1979, mostly for the fabrication methods for pipe bending and sheet fabrication. So glad that someone else is aware of what was needed to make the Dambusters operation a success and turn 617 Sqn into legends. Per Ardua Ad Astra. Lest We Forget.

@williamwilson2270

Жыл бұрын

Barnes Wallace drew up a design for the British Concorde, that was a helluvalot smarter looking And quieter than Concorde. It may never have crashed either. Nice appreciation for all that Wallace did for us when they booted out his idea. It was far nicer looking than Concorde ever was.

@dessmith7658

Жыл бұрын

The bouncing bomb was basically a depth charge

I lived near this amazing Hill all my life. Shooters Hill has a long history going way back beyond modern times. tons of history we don't even know about I am sure? The name of the hill is even special. It was named this because of all the Highway Men whom loved this hill for robbing the horse drawn couches which went over the hill from the big old pub at the base of the hill near Welling's border with the hill. The pub had big stables for the horses to be fed and watered as the couches would stop at this pub called even now the "Anchor In Hope" the name meaning they stop there and hope to get safely over the hill. So there they would change over the horses and even add another full set to help get over the hill as it is most likely the tallest hill in Kent being a 10 in 1 hill in fact I learned that when the Romans came here they were taken aback how tall the hill was and they never went around hills they always went straight road wise, so they had to dig the top part off the hill changing it from a 12 in 1 hill into a 10 in 1 hill, it took them 10 years using local labor and pick axe and buckets to move tons of earth and rocks and gravel off the hill top. That's why the hill is flattered at the top where the Memorial Hospital is now! The tall water tower there is I was told by my mother not for pumping water over the hill top but to pump water out of the top of the hill because of the hills many springs and under ground streams without the tower the top of the hill would be flooded. In fact there was a very old big water wheel on the top of the hill at one time hundreds of years back due to the big amount of strong streams of water there.

@rhythm242able

Жыл бұрын

@@quercus8833 yes definitely, if you look at it on a map you can see

@flashgordon6670

Жыл бұрын

Horse drawn couches? That sounds like fun!

@johnnunn8688

Жыл бұрын

@@flashgordon6670, Mr Bean had one with a petrol engine, IIRC.

23:50 footing for long poles to suspend camouflage netting overtop!

I was born in 1965, twenty years after the war (so it felt like ancient history, although my grandparents lived through it). I also happened to live in the Shooters Hill area in the early 1980s (still, just 40 years after the war). As I get older, I realise just how recent it was. I used to explore this area as a teenager and there was still a sense of the conflict with a few post-war prefabs in places, and back in the 1980s the councils were trying to get rid of them. With regard to that 'resistance bunker', I remember one just like it in Abbey Wood (not too far away) in 1985 on the corner of McLeod Road and Bostall Lane.

One of Time Team's best: different and funny.

I literally jump and watch anything Time Team when new stuff drops! I only wish you'd post the entire 215 plus episodes that are available.....especially the first 6 seasons......pretty please?????‽

@Yvolve

3 жыл бұрын

Reijer Zaaijer has uploaded everything Time Team, even a couple of American TT episodes.

@kaptainkaos1202

3 жыл бұрын

@@Yvolve American TT episodes? As they were digs in the US? Gonna have to look this up.

@Yvolve

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaptainkaos1202 Yes, it was news to me as well. It's in America, with American hosts about American history. Quite entertaining, although you have to remember how short the history is there. The people in North America before white colonisation didn't leave many archeological traces unfortunately, so no big digs.

Great video ! I could never imagine what our parents went through. My Dad was in the Pacific theater and my uncle was on the D Day invitation. And what they lived through is incredible that they made it. I have been watching videos on the sites through out England and seen a glimpse of what they went through. Thanks for the video and information.

My Granddad was a veteren hit by shrapnel in WW1, and took to coal mining in WW2. He told me that each little community in Britain had secret five man units who were to destroy all local road signs and telephone or radio facilities in their area of operation. They mostly had commando daggers and small arms, but they had a silenced point 22 sniper rifle and orders to pop off the local Policeman, Vicar and publican as they would have local knowledge of use to the invading Nazi's. The five chosen men were to remain secret at all times and had to build an underground base in the woods near each community to strike from. They were Churchill's final resistance groups and top secret

@williamwilson2270

Жыл бұрын

I know it was really secret, but my Granddad was a clever man and he was an expert coal miner and helped these men dig a base, but he refused to tell me who or where either the unit was or where there base was.

@suzyqualcast6269

Жыл бұрын

The bases you mention still exist, in places.

@willowhofmann7409

6 ай бұрын

P

From an American point of view, the three most re-watchable British shows are: Time Team Doctor Who Fawlty Towers (Oh and It Crowd)

@albow4oops5

3 жыл бұрын

Um, the Jezza, hamster and CPT. Slow top gear needs to be in that list

@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft

3 жыл бұрын

Add Downton Abbey to the list, and you've got it right, m8.

@CL-vz6ch

Жыл бұрын

@@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft rubbish

@CL-vz6ch

Жыл бұрын

Add "The Thick Of It"

"Wriggly tin" The height of British technospeak

@Ubique2927

3 жыл бұрын

All profiled roofing sheets are 'wriggly Tin' no matter the type or shape.

That was fascinating. Not what I expected.

We used to live on Shooters Hill in the early fifties just west of Eastcoat Rd,I was six.

One of the most enjoyable I have seen.

My Canadian parents (doctor and nurse) were in London when the war broke out and stayed on running a first aid centre and Dad was in the Home Guard. Two of my sisters and I were born in the UK and my brother was adopted there. We returned to Canada in 1948.

Oh Time Team, this program was addicting. Nice to be able to (re)watch some episodes here on YT! Groeten uit Nederland!

Thank you.

when i was about 5 years old, I uncovered some .303 rifle ammunition in the front garden of my home in brixton. i had no idea what it was, and it was only when my mother saw what I had that the bomb disposal teams were called in.along with the ammunition was a partly decomposed .303 lee enfiled rifle. as it was obviously useless and totally rusted, we were allowed to keep it in he house as a keep sake. it remained in the loft until around 1986, when I was the last member of my family to live there. i have no idea if it still remains. it still amazes me I wasn't killed by the bullets I was playing with as I was hammering them off stones to get the soil off them. the address atr the time was 16 winterwell road, brixton. hopefully this information can help the archeaology

I used to watch Timeteam religiously great program!

@CL-vz6ch

Жыл бұрын

No, that was Songs of Praise after it...

Greetings from across the pond. finding the secret, secret history is the real find. Keep up the great digs.

This is fascinating because not much evidence exists(photos and bunkers) to be seen. And those who were there, are fewer every day. Very few today can understand what true fear is, especially in a modern city. The fear of an army hellbent on routing you out of your home, by any and every means. And you are prepared to fight to the end. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." And I pray we never have to repeat it.

@ClevelandSteamer0

Жыл бұрын

I’m sorry that this comment has not aged well. Uncertain times.

In the great siege of Malta (1565) the Knights Hospitaliers also used fuggasses against the invading Ottomans! Some tactics work in any era!

I used to watch time team,it's a pity it's not on anymore

I enjoy ww2 stuff as much as any of the other ages and, for what it's worth, I think the entire time team would have fought to the end. My relatives are from NE England, and I still know some are there to this day. We had moved a lot of us to the New World early and fought in every conflict since the war of 1812. I wasn't able to serve, regretfully but my half brother did. He misses kis visits to london and germany and served along side UK troops in desert storm/shield

Nice goin Tony and crew! Thanks! You probably all sorta working in England but after the Gibraltar discovery, inside the mountain, its been thought for many years theres all these tunnels and stuff under Ballarat. Used in WW2 as storage or hospital or something but nobody knows where..

I've always wondered why the Germans never attempted a land invasion in Britain - now I understand the challenges that would present. And being the "Home Guard", their plans, defenses and positions were probably not secret. They served as a very effective deterrent and their installations no doubt saved many lives from air raids.

@landsea7332

Жыл бұрын

After the defeat of Belgium and France and the BEF was evacuated from Dunkirk , and the second evacuation from Brittany , the Wehrmacht looked unstoppable. There was fear in Britain of an invasion - especially after the most of the British Army's weapons were abandoned in France . However the truth is the Kriegsmarine had been pummeled in the Norwegian campaign. There was no way German army divisions were going to get across the English Channel in converted river barges with a 2 foot draft. They had no chance against the Royal Navy's home fleet .

@11geosno

Жыл бұрын

Operation Sea Lion was cancelled because the nazis needed to control the air over Britain before landing. The Battle of Britain obviously stopped this

@ianmoseley9910

Жыл бұрын

Apparently every attempt to"war game" Sea Lion ends up with the Germans losing. A commercial mapbased wargame was published but the publishers admitted having to meddle with the rules to give the Germans any chance. In fact one of the German problems was that they still relied on horsedrawn transport for a lot of supply functions.

@mystified1429

Жыл бұрын

@@landsea7332 The Channel , the Navy and The Few saved us.

@johnhall7850

Жыл бұрын

The germans never wanted to invade England. They wanted them to stop.... just like the US did with the Japanese.

Yay a new doc

In my area of California, there are considerable fortifications and bunkers that were built before and during WW2. Most were built to protect San Francisco. Mostly forgotten, some traces can still be located if one knows where to look.

@pilsplease7561

2 жыл бұрын

They had artillery guns on the coast near where I live, They didnt have enough guns so they literally painted telephone poles and put them up to fool the enemy lol.

@bethbartlett5692

2 жыл бұрын

Great share. Beth Tennessee, USA

@timothywalker4563

Жыл бұрын

Painting light poles to look like guns, during the Civil war, they called them “Quaker guns” at a distance they look real but are fake.

@TomGodson95

Жыл бұрын

@@pilsplease7561 Funny 😂 reminds me of when britian fooled Germany with a fake invasion during ww2, they put up inflatable tanks and veichles lol

@pilsplease7561

Жыл бұрын

@@TomGodson95 To be fair we really did have a threat being that a lot of fuel and oil was moved onto ships in the local harbor so it was very much a target for japanese submarines. They managed to sink a few tankers off the coast, and they actually shelled a few oil fields near me with the deck gun of a submarine.

The Home Guard trousers Buttons and webbelts we're still being issues in 1971 until teh Lighter trousers replace them. Far later than WWII. Shooters Hill was just a small point in the defense. Its a pity that the whole area from Falcon Wood up to Shooters Hill, Woolwich Common had bunkers of sorts, as well as the Academy. Plus teh Greens areas Hönig to Plumstead Common, Wings Common, Bostal Woods down to teh Marsharea Now Thamesmead, important to defend due to according Shooters Hill. I Hope thats Time Team on its return can look more into this Area of interest.

Excellent.

There used to be balloon anchor blocks near Kidbrooke Station Just over the road where the balloons were constructed in fact

@dessmith7658

Жыл бұрын

@@terrymurphy2032 The pillbox you mentioned was near to the Balloon anchors, there was another pillbox on top of the train tunnel The steam loco that worked at the depot is now preserved along with another narrow gauge engine named "Kidbrooke" The other one was named "Aldwyth" and you can see them online. The loco shed was next to the tunnel near where I lived.

@dessmith7658

Жыл бұрын

@@terrymurphy2032 Yes, I've been on them a few times on my way to school at Falconwood, the extra passenger seating was achieved by the use of smaller wheels! They were very unusual and only two four car sets were made, one of them still exists somewhere I think. The Quaggy runs through Lee green, the one you was playing in Is the Kid brook

Very interesting documentary. No doubt that countries still invest in security forces comprising ordinary citizens.

There is an amazing invention called a sod cutter these people really should invest in one it’s much faster at removing the top layer of sod and won’t disturb the soil underneath they could just roll up the sod and lay it back down after the excavation is completed.

@moendopi5430

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, that does come up in one episode. Sometimes they are limited in using them though. No idea why they didn't on this site.

@timtimmh

3 жыл бұрын

In fact, remember: the original Time Team episodes were made between 1994-2013. The sod cutter wasn’t available until some time during these series.

@jamieanaya6483

3 жыл бұрын

Or the producers were tightwads hiring Mexicans is cheaper..oh wrong country but surely the U.K. Has their own cheap labor that business exploit for less pay like here in the US if anyone could tell me I’d love to know out of curiosity and do you pick them up at a Home Depot or something like that in the Uk

@urgreatestenemy3044

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamieanaya6483 The U.K. does have a lot of illegal Eastern Europeans typically when you have a rich country someone is being exploited for cheap labor. It’s sad that there are so many people that are uninformed in America many are against migrant workers but have no problem consuming the cheap goods they help produce. They also ignore the billions of dollars they contribute to our National G.D.P. by doing the jobs Americans refuse to do like picking strawberries without immigrant workers a lot of fruits and vegetables would be rotting in the fields not helping spur our economy. People also don’t think of all the money immigrants spend in our country buying goods and services. Take into consideration that they do not receive any money back from taxes and you’ll see that they are actually make the government money. People also think they are reviving some kind of government assistance this is not true. It’s vary different to get assistance without a social Security number it’s funny the anti-immigration people I have talked to believe it’s easy until I tell them to try and get government assistance without giving a social Security number or proof of citizenship. If it was so easy to cheat the government out of money there would be KZread videos on how too do it.

@donaldhoult7713

Жыл бұрын

@@jamieanaya6483 Yes; lots of them. They are called the " British working class " - exploited throughout history.

"Auxiliary Units", 6-8 men, highly trained, approximately 4000 men from Jonh 'O' Groats to Lands End, each "cell" isolated. Raised by Churchill 1940, Top Secret, better equipped than regular army. Similar to Gibraltar Rock's secret "walled-in" unit. The Shooters Hill bunker seems too exposed compared to other cells ie, in the crypts of church ruins, trap-doors with tunnels from river banks etc, there was some very sophisticated and innovative technology used to conceal such places, and many remain hidden to this day!

@suzyqualcast6269

Жыл бұрын

Auxiliaries, absolutely..... Re : See Wiki, Brigadier 'Billy' Beytes. Who still worked at MoD, Lansdowne House in the late 60's.

@rdbjrseattle

Жыл бұрын

“Stay-behind” bunkers, after everyone else evacuated an area men would stay behind to sabotage behind enemy lines.

Could the pipe work/ revetments items have been used for the bases of camouflage netting supports.

Great episode! Nice to see it in HD, but someone went a bit overboard with the image smoothing. Looks almost fake at some points.

bloody interesting, when is the follow up dig for that Bronze Age stuff on the same site?

I really don't think that there were no military architects to tell them what was everything for. Not to mention construction plans ;-)

Not the greatest fans of these more “modern” digs, they often seem contrived, but this one I really liked.

I really enjoyed this episode and must say that it was something that I had never imagined.. I am wondering if the underground room may have been some sort of communication or operational bunker. It is just a thought as there seems to be too much electrical work for a mere bunker.

I bloody miss this program

I'm torn on all of this, always have been. It wasn't until I was in my 30s that I saw the bigger picture. At first I was kind of jealous that I didn't live so close to history but as I got older I was glad. After WW2 the Americans packed up & went home to a country that wasn't bombed like Britain was. The Brits had to rebuild their country whereas America had a post war boom. I can't imagine having a young family in Europe or Asia during WW1 & WW2, it must have been horror. I guess it's a minute consultation having history like this do close to home.

Hi guys the shelter in the garden was ARP of AFS THE. bulbs were the warning of a aproaching raid and how many services were in use when i was posted to Croydon we uncoverd one of the same design If you like to see a GHQ pillboxes then i surgest you go check on 2 one west of Sheffield Lock (the only one photograpghed underconstruction and one on a hill overlooking the Crofton Beam Engines which took a cromell tank

Why no Royal Engineer consultant?

You might like to research the Royal Observer Corp whose prime function was passive recording and reporting. They were usually linked into a network of others by line of sight or with radio communication to share information on troop movements and also Nuclear fall out. Some larger ones are now open to the public. BREDE valley water pumping station in E SUSSEX for example.

Very interesting. But the spigot is not the metal fitting protruding from the concrete block (which is the mounting lug on the pedestal). Rather, the spigot is the part of the mortar (Blacker Bombard) inside the tubular casing that Phil slides the projectile onto. TFP

There are still a few bunkers along the River Lea (which was the LCC boundary at the time.

Dan Snow love you’re documentarys, but did anything happened at poland meaning tunnels under obersalzbergen.. or lost train tunnel, really was amazing and interesting..

@Tom-uv7ry

Жыл бұрын

This isn't a Dan snow documentary it's got nothing to do with him this is an episode of Time Team retitled for this KZread channel

I am sure that the term fight to the death would have been applicable as the royal artillery barracks is very very nearby

it actually surprised me. - every - castel, bronze age barrow or hill is being investigated and a - protected - area. but things that do really matter are just left to rot away.

I enjoyed this episode years ago, but very stimulating to view again in light of what goes on in Ukraine today...

an installation like that would have a generator, to run search lights and equipment, the generator may well have been installed in an underground bunker . One trouble with using the design of a bunker to decide who built it... the person who builds an air raid shelter may have got the design from , or made the design for, the army ... . The bunker under the rockery, that may be a prototype, a demonstrator, of such a bunker , for example. Basically it was where the boss guy lived, and justified the expense as being the prototype rather than extravagance.

@suzyqualcast6269

Жыл бұрын

There exists rockery bunkers/air raid shelters in the roadside facing gardens of the bigger houses at Richings Park, along the road which led to the Hawker factory at Langley.

@CL-vz6ch

Жыл бұрын

Power maybe fed discreetly from the house.

At one time in my radio engineer career I looked after the radio site on Shooter's Hill.

What structure is Tony’s observation point at 1:05?

I live right by Shooter’s Hill, so mad

OMG - I know the guy who did the bomb talk at the start - we used to be mates then just lost track. worked together at Alchester a couple of seasons. Weirdly he's not wearing his glasses...wonder if he got contacts.

I know where that is, shooters hill, I used to live near there, way back 50-odd years ago. It leads down to welling where I once went to school.

Yes

Weird seeing your local area in a KZread thumbnail about ww2😂

The garden rockery bunker would not have been a stay-behind position. There is too much electrical and communications gear which make me think it's more of a command post for local defence during the invasion.

Lived a few miles south, then just north in Beckton, since 2013, had house on Shooters Hill. Houses opposite and just downhill from us destroyed by bomb just 3 years after built. Our house had front blown in. Close neighbour was a child here at the time. My grandparents' house destroyed by bomb... in deepest, rural, house on its own Sussex

Two members of the WW2 Home Guard were professors & authors J.R.R. Tolkien, and his friend C.S. Lewis. Both were combat veterans of WW1. After Dunkirk, the British Army was severely under-equipped. Fighting alongside what regular forces the UK did have on the ground (plus the Home Guard & resistance) would have been the one full-strength army division which was in Britain in 1940.. the Canadian 1st. 🦫 🇨🇦💪🏻

The pipes in the ground supported camouflage frames.

The explosive flame weapon was not for tanks but for infantry that moved up behind the tanks

That Blacker Bombard anti tank spigot mortar was designed for the Regular Army and was used in the Western Desert. Although the Home Guard were the major users. If it hit a tank it would destroy it.

@bob_the_bomb4508

Жыл бұрын

And they continually imply the ‘spigot’ is the post on which the Bombard is mounted. The ‘spigot’ in a spigot mortar fits down the centre of the bomb.

@tonyferrari3784

Жыл бұрын

@@bob_the_bomb4508 apparently they were infamous for firing the wooden spigot straight back at the user upon impact. They only had an effective range of 100 yards so S.O.P. was to leap up out of your trench, fire the mortar (it was fired horizontally) and immediately jump back in the trench to avoid the explosively propelled wooden spigot (and potential enemy fire too I guess). I researched these when working at Welwyn Hatfield Council and a cache of spigot mortar bombs were found on the Hatfield Aerodrome Site when building a new hotel. Apparently the Home Guard were tasked with the airfield defence and at the war's end lots of unused munitions were just chucked into trenches and they were then filled in. We used to find lots of Sip 69 grenades when building work was done around the Borough, these were bottles of benzine with a lump of white phosphorus inside, the grenade was thrown, breaking the bottle, at which point the phosphorus spontaneously combusts on contact with air and ignites the benzine. They were professionally made molotov cocktails and even sixty years after the war although the benzine had long ago soaked into the ground the phosphorus was still dangerous when unearthed! We had contact with a former Home Guard member who was able to identify several sites where trenches had been used to dump munitions but the decision was made to leave them well alone unless we knew building work was proposed at these sites.

I liked the Owen machine carbine

Dad's Army was funny, but it was about a dead serious reality.

I found a large stone age crystal spear head/astronomy marker near the top of shooters hill

When I saw that thumbnail I was so confused I was thinking "he's been dead for about 10 years"

See, Time Team doesn't always do ancient history. Just almost only.

What we have forgotten that the home guard where veterans of the First World War and in many respects had more experience the regalia’s

Thank God 4 the Home Guard

@suzyqualcast6269

Жыл бұрын

Auxiliaries.

More and more is disappearing related to ww2. I hope you will be able to preserve. Ww2 history is in a a lot of countries hot.

Dan Snow's "own" series, but done by others. Notice he spent almost exactly 30 seconds plugging. And a lot of these are years old.

Those flanged steakes were not for an abutment, they were footings for a vertical structure. Such as a tower for communication lines for example.

It was obvious that the metal spikes were some sort of retainment, even without the dig.

It's strange that is easier to find 2000 years roman things than 80 years military things.

24:0 it’s the base plate for some sort of antennae, mast, whatever.

What’s he doing with his hands at 28:01 ?

Phil is always a riot

Definitely a command bunker 👍

12:40. 38 pattern belt slide.

I don't get it, why is it always "we only got 3 days" to do dig and search the area...

The big bunker is likely a Local Command Centre. The spikes are probably camouflage net support poles.

My Grandfathers Nickname Was Bomber Because Of Our Last Name (Lancaster)

Helen!

Wonder where Tony was during WWII? Surprised he wasn't familiar with what was going on in his home country. I remember my father telling me later in life what he had seen in England as he was preparing to deploy on D-Day.

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff

2 жыл бұрын

Tony was born in 1946.

@jaymac7203

Жыл бұрын

Lool how old do you think he is? 😭🤣

@dylanmilne6683

Жыл бұрын

Funnily enough he's a presenter and is asking questions he knows the answers to.

The interesting part of this video is that it shows the possibility of an invasion was taken seriously . But after the BEF was rescued from Dunkirk, and a weeks later Brittany, why wasn't the regular army holding these positions ? In the summer of 1940 , there was little chance of getting German Army divisions across the English channel in converted river barges with a 2 foot draft . The Royal Navy's destroyers would have just sailed over them . Here is great analysis concerning the possibility of operation Sea Lion succeeding . As Bernard points out , to be successful , the Wehrmarch would have had to have captured an intact port , to keep the army supplied with tons of food , equipment and munitions required each day . kzread.info/dash/bejne/i6KE0ZmPYJbUkrw.html A panzer Mkii weighed 8 tons , didn't the Kreigsmarine have ships capable of getting these across the English Channel ? . The actual serious issue was that the Wehrmarch was laying siege to Britain to cut it off of the food , materials and munitions required each day . This is why the Luftwaffe bombed the ports of Portsmouth , Bristol , the London Docks , Cardiff , Liverpool , Glasgow and Belfast . .

Funny episode as a whole

It wouldn't just have been Dad's Army protecting Britain, the British Army would have ferociously fought to the last man, fighting to the last bullet. I know because my Grand Dad would have been one of them and he would have given everything he had.

@suzyqualcast6269

Жыл бұрын

See Wiki/Brigadier 'Billy' Beytes, and what he'd heloed to organise per the defense of the British Isles, had Sealion and the Krauts made it over.

@CL-vz6ch

Жыл бұрын

Had he been in combat?

Just figured out that Phil most likely plays an instrument

@katerinakemp5701

2 жыл бұрын

That he does guitar.