lmao that train guy was loving torturing Tony... just laughing at him hahaha

@Thanasis_Koligliatis

2 жыл бұрын

2:56 4:04 5:43 5:49 He's laughing like a sadist

@eliotreader8220

2 жыл бұрын

he's nothing like our Fred

That thing about inmates being treated better than the destitute is STILL a thing. As a homeless teen I could have accessed loads of support if I was just willing to break the law. I lived in youth refuges, and had staff who worked in juveniles detention and adult prisons. The inmates got far better support and supplies. It's like they were trying to force you into a life of crime. I remember a youth worker literally saying as much

@maeve4686

Ай бұрын

@DreamBelief What a story of survival. You are indeed a strong individual. Who you are is because of you! I grew up in an alcoholic, abusive , neglected, child abandoned household. I just realized, due to your comments, I must have been extremely resilient. I ended up in LE, which wasn't me, into being an EMT/FF , which suited me to perfection. After an abusive marriage(of course), I got out & raised my children who became a RN & Master Mechanic, with loving partner & families, financially independent with plenty of disposable income. We are living proof that we are our own hero with what we've done, survived and become. I refuse to use the term victim, no matter what. I'm a survivor & have moved on. We're both heroes who pulled ourselves up & became human beings. A far cry from others in our beginnings who use the "Poor me" excuses to always be a victim. CHEERS !

I enjoyed some of the British expressions, too. Since I'm from "The States", when planning an early outing with a fishing buddy, I had to smile when he asked whether I wanted him to "knock me up in the morning." When I explained, he roared with laughter.

I admire Tony’s fortitude so much. Thank you.

"Right, you scruffy little irchin'..." Oh, Tony! 😄 Poor little Victorian ones 😔 Punished for being poor.

My grandad was a well built, hard working man. He reckoned he barely lasted one day trying to keep up with Irish navies on a job and that he couldn't believe how hard they could work. They put him to shame.

@eliotreader8220

2 жыл бұрын

engine cleaners also cleaned out the ash pits and some times helped with other jobs like lighting fires in the locos

lol... that rat has got to be someones pet. a wild one would totally be trying to bite you and get away.

@utej.k.bemsel3199

5 жыл бұрын

I would NEVER EVER stick my hands into a rat hole, they can bite right through your fingers! Besides they are carrying lots of deseases!

@oceanelf2512

4 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking too. Even if the handling alone of a wild rat wasn't already bad enough, the chance of getting a nasty infection or something else yould be too high. So they must've borrowed a tame rat from someone and didn't tell Tony beforehand. :)

@juliewilliams9098

Жыл бұрын

He probably knew, was most likely put in the pile from other end, so more or less handed the rat, bless him, the idea was to show you what a rat catcher had to do! 😁

@maryoleary5044

Жыл бұрын

Rats are very clean animals...twas fleas and behaviour of humans (overcrowding, sewage in streets, overpopulation, etc.) that spread disease.

I remember almost 30 years ago I was up in a Uranium mine in northern Canada. I was being toured around by a retiring miner called Cobra. He was in his late 60's. I was in my 30's. In my younger years I had been a soldier, construction worker, martial artist etc. I had gone to college & now had a desk job for a number of years. As I was walking w/ Cobra he had to pick up three hydraulic drills they use under ground. The big long ones you see in movies. He asked me to carry one of them. It took both my my arms & ALL my strength & each step I was panting & thought I would. Die. Cobra picked up the other TWO with one arm each & slung them on his shoulder & talked up a storm on our walk. He actually had to take mine as well. I checked his when we got to the location & they weighed the same. Shows you how strong you get when you are doing the hard work constantly vs a tv celebs trying it for 10 minutes. Cobra didn't even flinch or even interrupt his story about the good old days in mining. I had a new respect for these guys after this event.

@Cheepchipsable

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the exposure to uranium had given him freakish strength. Cobra sounds like a bit of an outlier. Hard work for a decade or two simply wears the body out. Into their forties many tradesmen have bad knees and backs. Of course, it could have been a bit of a setup by the guy to make you look bad. I could carry a heavy weight for a short while without much difficulty, but not the kind of thing you want to do 8-12 hours a day.

Great series. Our ancestors were a tough lot.

I have to say Tony has to be the most amazingly good sport. I love all his videos.

Urine was used to tan hides for leather all the way back to ancient Greece. If your last name is Tanner, your ancestors had a smelly but fairly steady job.

@pheart2381

6 жыл бұрын

WalterReimer I've been within 50metres of a traditional tannery,the smell will be in my memory forever.

@russellwhite3415

6 жыл бұрын

I thought they used bark

@woodslore8537

5 жыл бұрын

@@russellwhite3415 throughout history they have used things such a bark, leaves, urine, poop, ash, brains, and a number of other things to tan hides.

@woah6958

7 ай бұрын

Tanneries still smell rank even from a distance.

My father worked in the tanning industry when he first immigrated to the US in the late 1950s. Thankfully chicken and dog feces were no longer used. But he only lasted two years. Said it was the worst job he ever had as well.

Thanks for sharing this series! I really enjoy Tony Robinson's shows.

Tony clearly has never worked on the railways, I did for 3 years. It can be bloody hard work. No van to sit in if you're working especially if you're miles down track. Not everything is done by machines either. As for toilets, Let's just say it isn't only bears that have shat in the woods. Also working on a track where trains are travelling up to 125mph. It isn't one of the most dangerous jobs for no reason. Having just watched him doing the shovel packing that is hard work and bloody repetitive. Was glad when i got promoted lol

@eliotreader8220

2 жыл бұрын

he's never cleaned out a Pig shed with them still in it. when i was rather worried about up setting the Mother Pig with our Shovel. after reading Victorian Farm i was a bit worried about them as I learned how Dangerous Pigs are

@benediktmorak4409

Жыл бұрын

@@eliotreader8220 i think ANY mother animal with young around will do anything to protect them...

A modern tannery was the grossed place I have ever visited.

"A jolly good bang though isn't it?"

@elliebarnes1143

6 жыл бұрын

EnigmaticNova made me lmao

Thank you so much for adding all of these, always giving me something new to watch! You are great!

The greatest series of hard time work.

The most horrifying thing is that many people across the world STILL do such jobs, with such dangers and conditions

@Bishop0178

Жыл бұрын

Men

I want to know who figured out that chicken and dog shit gravy all heated up and aged was the perfect thing to 'delime' the hyde for the tannery!

@travisjohnson6676

7 жыл бұрын

I agree. I want to know who first looked at a hide and then a pile of dog poo and said "I have an idea!"

@worddunlap

6 жыл бұрын

Just a happy accident I suppose.

@lukelee7967

6 жыл бұрын

Pee and animal brains have been used too

@aidoniaderubermensch4754

6 жыл бұрын

I'm confident you've seen that bird shit bleaches what it lands on.

@kingjames4886

6 жыл бұрын

well if an animal dies on a farm it wouldn't be hard for it to sit around in a pile of wet crap for a few days, someone probably noticed their skin was more flexible than animals that died elsewhere.

I can't help but hear At The End Of The Day from Les Misérables playing in my head

Oh god Tony lmao he does all of it

Brilliant series!

love this guys facial expressions, made me laugh out loud!

That boy has to be 22 this year, damn.

Tony's very brave in taking on some of these jobs

I'm 68 , when we were kids our mother told us if we didn't get good grades in school the only job we would be able to get would be a Rag Picker. One summer my brother were trying to find the job because we figured we could do it. We checked the newspaper, and every where else. After that mother told it the person with the pointy stick and bag who picked up trash.

Anyone else notice the spanner 🔧 at around 34 min mark. I always wondered where all the 10mm wrenches go. Apparently they wind up in the thames, who knew?

@doctornova3015

Жыл бұрын

Losing the 10mm a thing for in the UK too? Lol. Greetings from the US.

The herring caller looks like the great job to me. To be honest so long as you don’t lose concentration or fall asleep

I was homeless as a teen. That was nothing compared to the equivalent they had to face (and many still do across the world). At least I could get a free meal once a day, and could get free clothes etc

What happened to work house people if they didn't work fast enough/meet their quota? I wonder what job someone with my disabilities would have done. I dread to think

@ACowIsHuge

Жыл бұрын

They were Fired and or punished

@woah6958

7 ай бұрын

They could've been paid "piece rate".

So funny the train guy loving watching tony do bad jobs his laughing cracked me up lol 😂

I was a Superior Court Bailiff. We had a local elderly man who would drop by in the AM & PM to pick up the half-smoked cigs "clients" left on the edges of the outside areas (buildings, planters, etc. during courtroom breaks), empty the unburnt tobacco & place the rest into the trash. I thought he should receive a tip once in a while, but it wasn't allowed. Almost my worst job ever. Full of game playing liars, back stabbing thieves & then there were those there for the court docket !...lol. No joke.

Damn GWR locos with their open Footplates! And 2:30 to 6:00 is why they were all happy, when Bulleid and Later Riddles fitted their locos with Ashpan doors and a Rocking grate! So that the Loco crews could simply drop the fire.

@AL-SH

6 жыл бұрын

LupusAries I wish I could understand what you wrote here. Mind translating bro?

@invisibleman4827

6 жыл бұрын

OK then! "Damn GWR locos with their open Footplates!" G.W.R stood for Great Western Railway, which ran from London to Wales, the west and south west of England. Many of their design of engines - including the one seen at 1:17 - were always a bit old fashioned, which meant the cabs don't have much weather protection. I've been on one myself going backwards in winter and I thought I was going to die of exposure. "And 2:30 to 6:00 is why they were all happy, when Bulleid and Later Riddles fitted their locos with Ashpan doors and a Rocking grate! " Oliver Bulleid was an engine designer on the Southern Railway of the south coast of England. He came up with new types of engine that were more modern and had engines designed where you didn't need to dig the fire out at the end of the day, you just had to pull a lever to 'rock' the grate, and it all tipped up and down onto the track, which is what is meant by 'dropping the fire'. This method is much easier and quicker than scraping it down or shovelling it out, believe me!

now I know why the writers of full house named the main character "danny tanner"

*”And an anchovy...”* 😂😂😂😂

I'm watching this series in the US. I'm learning some cool UK slang like "getting kitted up" and "its really tipping down."

@spiritedkitty

9 жыл бұрын

soslothful "Getting knocked up" means that someone knocks on your door to get you up. To be a "potholer" means that you would have a headlamp or flashlight and you would go down relatively small openings in the ground and explore these holes which often opened up into a cave(s). Even today this is done in some rural areas. If you were in a pothole and it rained heavily you could easily drown as you would not know that it was raining. "I will go and get my messages" is a term still used by older people in the north of Scotland. It meant to go and get your shopping, do your banking or any other such type of thing. "Spend a penny" meant go to the toilet. A bathroom could be known as a bog, a loo or a super-loo.

@soslothful

9 жыл бұрын

***** Ha! In the US "knocked up" is to be pregnant.

@abingleyboy

6 жыл бұрын

soslothful ....it means the same here too... The UK that is!

wow sure are lots of uses for urine... saving mine from now on :)

@josee-annejoly6896

6 жыл бұрын

The Stoned Videogame Nerd I used to work at KFC and we would have the impossible task to clean the grease off of the floor at the end of the day, maybe we should have just peed on it hahahaha

@Krizefugl

6 жыл бұрын

the british always know how to find uses for urine. ask bear grylls

@HadridarMatramen

4 жыл бұрын

You can also make blue dye with stale urine. You know. Since you're saving up anyway - thought you might wanna get some blue clothes instead of white ones! Mind you, it's a really foul-smelling job. I've only helped with it once, and we got complaints from literally all the neighbours. There was at least 20 meters between each house, and yet....

One of the worst jobs today, is working for this guy when he sticks a spotlight right in your face.

@johnblythe5731

6 жыл бұрын

killjoy

@Exquisitec0rpsy

6 жыл бұрын

blinded by arrogance.

7:19 ... 1982 Woolhampton lock (not the lock shown)... Yeah I did that... by hand for an extra £10 a week on top of the giro. 1995 got to take one of my boats through it after it was finished too.

@briarrose3687

5 жыл бұрын

Simon Broberg Nice work Simon 👌🏼

Herring caller is the best.

@robotsam1299

6 жыл бұрын

Give me my ipod, a warm coat, and a sketch book, and I'll Herring call all day.

rock picking in idaho still big business. tough work tho

How scary too while the boy is cleaning the chimney and is forgotten and goes to make a fire

Without those railways, we wouldn't have Thomas and Friends now, would we? There are even Victorian era homes still standing in the US today.

My worst job was a temp in an egg packing factory for 3 weeks, after High School. I had to pick up 3 cartons of eggs at a time & place into a steel wire crate. My hands were dry from cardboard & crates, continually cut my hands & arms, from the sharp wire of the crates...after 3 weeks, 8 hour days non-stop packing, they offered me a full-time job. I declined deciding my future lay in college education. Since my co-workers let me do all the work & never helped, I left 2 hours early, leaving them the packing line which quickly stacked up. Aahhh...payback is a , say it out loud with me..... A BEAACH....

How about the worst jobs in the 21st century. I can think of a few!

@paul6925

6 жыл бұрын

One of my buddies worked in a croissant factory. All he did all day was bend them into their signature crescent shape. Cant believe they didnt have a machine to do it. He only lasted one day.

@AL-SH

6 жыл бұрын

Paul M When Many years ago I worked as a security for a residential community (around 30 houses). My job was to sit inside a very tiny room by the entrance gates, doing nothing and having no body to communicate with, from 6 am to 6 pm. I did it for three long weeks, and I became so depressed, bored, and lonely that I literally wanted to give up on life.

@paul6925

6 жыл бұрын

Al H. I’d be the same! If I’m just sitting there doing nothing i go crazy. I need projects to work on. Good thing you got out!

@AL-SH

6 жыл бұрын

Paul M Exactly, it's amazing how dependable humans are to another, and how are minds must be occupied with something at all times. Thank you btw

Now I finally understand why the English refer to trash cans as dustbins and the collectors as dustmen.

The Lifestyle of the Victorian Policeman was particularly harsh and the pay was poor, about the same as a Farm Labourer. It was better in some City Forces.

They should have reversed that wheel barrow and built a wooden chute with outwardly sloping sides and pulled the wheel barrow up once fitted within it... or tried to devise sonething like it.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwww the rat catcher. i would die of starvation before doing that job.

after watching -TIME TEAM- now for many an episode, i have no idea why that comes up on my thumbnails once more. though still will watch it again.

So they hire some local kids to chase birds in a field? When I was 7 I would have loved that job.

@Cheepchipsable

2 жыл бұрын

For the entire day 6 or 7 days a week?

Navie is the proverbial "ditch digger" job you parents warned you about.

@maryanneslater9675

6 жыл бұрын

Navvies were well-paid in comparison to factory workers, though.

what song is playing from 40:06?

i quite like watching the sea but got to admit it would get boring after a couple of hours

I've tanned a deer hide by using ash and brain, and it wasn't smelling so bad!

When you watch this you realize how poor people suffered poor stayed poor rich stayed rich and noone had any empathy for anyone especally children so sad 😢

I saw the most depressing thing ever regarding scavenging, I was waiting for my 2nd daughter to be born and while outside on the phone a battered old car pulled up and 2 women got out, raided the ashtrays at the smoking shelter for all the ends and drove away, I dread to think why and in this day and age how disgusting it is, but poverty is real even now.

@finnericson4392

Жыл бұрын

Haha wow there really are worse things than scavenging tobacco! Sounds like you might've lived quite a sheltered/privileged life.. "depressing" that's a little insulting to people who struggle for basic necessities, tobacco is very expensive here in Australia I'm no stranger to scavenging butts myself. But I have a roof over my head, food clean water etc and I feel blessed. Lol one man's trash is another man's treasure! I wonder how you'd react to seeing REAL poverty and deprivation in the world!

@finnericson4392

Жыл бұрын

Oh those poor women in their "battered old car" I mean is it even worth living??! 😂

a jolly good bang tho

i'd imagine the herring caller could've done a second job on the side, you don't need to be watching the sea an absolute 100% of the time. i imagine

Gears of War theme?

As if u can put your hand in a straw bale and catch a rat like that .

@MusicalMissCapri

7 жыл бұрын

If he actually caught a rat in this episode, I'm willing to bet it would've been a domestic pet rat that's already used to being handled. He did say that only an idiot would put their hand in after a rat these days.

@willshedo

6 жыл бұрын

you can't. like he couldn't chop a real head off in the ep he reported about the hangman's job. is a pet rat they show here, a very well trained one I must say, it endured that crude "I've caught one" position hanging on the hind leg with every bit of grace, no sign of fear and no bite.

@NEprimo

6 жыл бұрын

It's a tv show dumbass, these bits are recreations

@mattymayhem1232

6 жыл бұрын

willshedo Same as when he supposedly ate a toad when in reality it was a "Toad Cookie".

@sophiaschier-hanson4163

5 жыл бұрын

​@@mattymayhem1232 To be fair, toad eating as a profession WAS mostly or all sleight of hand too and that episode mentioned as much.

36:50 **Phil Harding has entered the chat**

great presenter :)! A cunning plan indeed!

12:00 Mingey? As in, like a minge?

@jasongoodacre

6 жыл бұрын

No in England it mean mean "don't be so mingey" or a small amount "mingey pile".

Join the Slim like an asparagus Club ☺️

And I thought working at McDonalds sucks! xD

I do have to wonder at the inclusion of locomotive cleaners, as to feature it the production crew had to go to a preserved railway where the job is being done for no pay.....

@Invictus13666

2 жыл бұрын

None of the other jobs are done currently either...barbers don’t check your health by tasting your urine these days....moronic twat

The unfortunate consequence of decrease in childbirth deaths was, and still is to this day, increased child exploitation.

When i was 13 my first actual job was scraping dog shit. The owner gave me a garden hoe and a dust pan.

25:06 Stuart Little!!! Let him go at once you bloody feeble minded peasant!

Why did they need to do a barrow run. Surley a humanless version with four wheeled cart or a railway like system would be safer, than having a man having to carry the dratted thing.

@pheart2381

6 жыл бұрын

abingleyboy too expensive!

@richardsanchez9190

6 жыл бұрын

they stated in the doc that they did have a machine that did it but the navies didn't like it cuz they didn't get paid for it so they wrecked the machines

@Cheepchipsable

2 жыл бұрын

Why do people ask questions that have been answered in the program?

Poor Ratties 😔🥺😔..and other animals, like little donkies 😔

2:56 4:04 5:43 5:49 He's laughing like a sadist

ID GET SQUASHED BY SPACE COS THERE ISNT MUCH SPACE

Primitively man tanning hides must have not liked the job either.

How in the world did the Groom of the Stool, shape the world that we live in? 😆

I have to laugh at the wheelbarrow work. When I was a kid, my dad was a landscaper and as such, I learned to dig, fill transport and empty wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow. Dirt, rocks, mulch, horse manure you name it. I'd have been right at home in Merry old England. Except for the hot showers and toilet paper.

@DreamBelief

2 жыл бұрын

Oh please. It was a far harder life back then than you expect. You would definitely not find the life so easy

27:01

Herring caller. Cigar end collector. "Shrubber" doesnt sound so funny anymore.

is this the last video in this series?

@andrealynch2

7 жыл бұрын

+Leopararouen Aww, thanks 😊 I'll have to look for his other videos!

@andrealynch2

7 жыл бұрын

+Leopararouen awesome!! thank you and will do 😊

The train guy is annoying with his cackle and his out-of-place, smug "enjoy that, did ya?"

@LaurusHG

6 жыл бұрын

Enjoy that, did ya?

@invisibleman4827

6 жыл бұрын

He's doing it wrong as well. I'm an engine cleaner at another railway and that is NOT how you clean out an ashpan.

Britain had no George Washington Carver to teach the farmers how to conserve seeds and increase yield.

@Cheepchipsable

2 жыл бұрын

And everything Carver knew was off the back of hundreds of years of farming.

show this to young kids in school so they appreciate how f*cking easy they have it today

On the other hand, with the New Poor Law of 1834 people were able to receive free healthcare and their children were given a free education, so while it was horrible the workhouse gave something to the people working there something the poor outside could not afford.

@Cheepchipsable

2 жыл бұрын

But were they actually given those things? Even after using children for chimney sweeping was made illegal, the law was ignored.

@Name2site

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cheepchipsable Well, laws are only as good as the people willing to enforce them. So sadly, its application probably varied by region depending on monitoring and enforcement by authorities.

To sum up, the past was organic and natural. If the organic advocates had their way we would be living the same way today.

@jaymorpheus11

8 жыл бұрын

+Kenneth Florek I think natural could still have its place in the modern world.

@dhindaravrel8712

8 жыл бұрын

+Kenneth Florek natural and organic doesn't mean you'd have to go without modern health and safety or machinery, it just means doing it without poisonous chemicals and giving other species a chance to survive as well.

@wtrdawnlord

5 жыл бұрын

@@MsRowsdower And by the way, pretty much all those chemicals you listed are ... wait for it ... Organic!

@wtrdawnlord

5 жыл бұрын

@@dhindaravrel8712 Obviously you don't know what the hell organic means. Nearly all of the most toxic substances known are organic, with the main exception being radioactive substances. Nicotine used to be a commonly used pesticide for example. Just purified extract from tobacco leaves. 100% natural and organic. It's been banned in almost every country became getting just a bit on the skin while spaying the roses and trees could be fatal. The primary reason the world turned to inorganic pesticides and herbicides is because they are much safer to use and to wash away from foods. Organic substances bond much more readily to vegetables and animals because those vegetables and animals are also organic. Every venom from every snake, spider, jellyfish and every poison from every plant is organic. The problem is that people don't know what "organic" actually means. They just hear the word and basically think it's synonymous with "natural". They don't know how organic substances were used in farming previously, why their use stopped or was reduced, why inorganic substances were seen as better, etc., etc., etc. By and large people just see something labeled "organic" the same as they see "lower fat," "low sodium," "all natural" and so on. It's just a dummy label to make them feel better without feeling any need to actually educate themselves. People love to be spoon fed simple labels without actually knowing what it means just as long as they feel better about what they are eating

@sophiaschier-hanson4163

5 жыл бұрын

The Victorian era was notorious for horrible air pollution, unregulated chemical additives in everything, coal power being used in the most inefficient ways possible, and complete disregard for nature and the environment. The people you're complaining about want the exact opposite of all those things.

He makes it sound like the people doing bad jobs as charity. They got paid & were desperate to have these jobs. That's how an economy works not everyone is s celebrity.

@Cheepchipsable

2 жыл бұрын

You don't need to be a celebrity, but how about not being poisoned or maimed by your employment?

Is it just me or is the guy watching Tony clean the ash from the train an ass? He's constantly laughing at every slight misfortune. I wonder if Tony would have punched him if not for the camera.

@oceanelf2512

4 жыл бұрын

That isn't the only time Tony was laughed at during this series. Remember the rural jobs episode where he had to clean out under the thresher? The woman was explaining what was going on, but laughing at the same time, because crud was going all over the place, down Tony's front, in his ears, eyes, you name it.

@Cheepchipsable

2 жыл бұрын

He's enjoying himself a bit too much. It more about seeing the discomfort of someone who has to do jobs that real people do. I'd say it more empathetic than mocking though. The guy would have done his fair share of messy work too. Maybe he was just delighted to meed Baldrick?

@ACowIsHuge

Жыл бұрын

Or it is just a Funny Situation? Geeez

... one of the worse jobs in history ... 2013 would be Mayor of Toronto ... next yr who knows?

So is this just like British “Dirty Jobs”

How privileged they all were. Got to love while privilege

I don't feel sorry for the children that had to work, at least not in regards to the work itself. Children's imaginations allow them to enjoy or at least overcome tasks that adults find dull. I know these days we believe the opposite and our culture overstimulates and indulges children, but in reality, kids deal well with busy work.

@fergharry

6 жыл бұрын

Tell that to the children in Asia who are making your clothes and shoes. This isn't ancient history ! This is the way people still live in most parts of the world. Most children don't get to go to school, they have to work to support their family. Only a small part of the world ( the"Western world") " is rich. More than 80% of the worlds population still lives under medieval or Victorial conditions.

@Cheepchipsable

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they can imagine the still have all their finger and full bellies! That tugging of the toe isn't a rat...it's a faerie that wants you to come and play!

@siobhanlawlor247

Жыл бұрын

Behave

@KFrost-fx7dt

Жыл бұрын

@@fergharry I'm not talking about Asia. That's their problem to figure out. I'm talking about the context of this video: white Western kids, learning a trade from their parents or working jobs over the summer when school is out.