Inside a Medieval Castle | How Tamworth survived 800 years of history.

Yanno hanging out in the forest away from people most of the time just making brooms all day soubds fantastic.

Lard from the backfat of tamworth pigs makes outstanding cakes. Such an absolutely brilliant pig brewd and unlike many of its heritage breed peers it too survived as a breed. The bacon off it is amazing.

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Tamworth castle is awesome. It's a shame the the town is not the same a real dump of a place

Another old story I've heard about rope beds is that during the 15th and 16th centuries and probably even into the 17th it was bad luck to let a musketeer stay in your house because they would steal the rope from your rope beds to use to make quick match for their matchlock muskets. I still haven't come up with a good recipe for quick match for mine, you'd think sticking a burning match into a pan of powder would obviously ignite but it's not so. I've heard that hemp rope soaked in a mixture of salt peter and water and then dried is the way to go. But it's hard to find hemp rope here in the states as it was illegal until recently.

Absolute wow! Great stuff.♥️👍🏼

lol! I loved the wardrobe story? it tickled my funny bone! 🤣and how their food was prepared? 🥰

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Please please please go to Pevensey Castle in East Sussex. It’s beautiful and when I went as a teenager I didn’t appreciate the history of it sadly. Planning to go back very soon!

Aside from Henry VIII destroying all the monasteries the Civil War of 1642 was the other most destructive era of destroying England's heritage.

Very proud of living in our town and having this castle standing tall

Excellent presentation

I think the whole enclosure on top of the mount would have been called "donjon" by the Normans (from latin dominio, the "dominating"), not just the corner tower. Please show other castles from England, you are lucky to live in a castle rich country.

The only school trip I remember from Primary School is the visit to Tamworth Castle. Fascinating!

I still have some brooms like that that my grandmother made, everybody made his own in Hungary, it's no big deal, but she didn't use bamboo like on the ones we see here in Tamworth castle (made in China perhaps).

Please make more of these castle videos, they are great! A remark though about "donjon": it does not mean "stone tower", it means "dominating" from Latin "dominio": dominate or "dominus": master. For short, it was the tower or other great building of the guy who was in charge. It was often just called "great tower" or "the tower" when it looked like a tower. Sometimes it was more a symbol than a real inhabited tower.

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Cracking video - so much History going on in bonkers England. I’ll visit this Castle one day looks amazing.

As a proud Mercian I've always wanted to go to Tamworth Castle.

Ah. Sergeant Hicks. Good to see you again.

Solid presentation, thank you.

I'm not even big into this early of history. His personality is just very entertaining. This history is starting to grow on me.

Such a great video mate I often find that so many castles especially the ealier medieval period are these great big fortresses and then as castles progressed castles went from just fortresses and also a more of a home and this castle is such a great example of that they became more like palaces than castles and they were just beautiful and how the architecture often advanced and i just love to see the beauty and the progression of medieval castles great video Kevin and thanks for your service ❤👍

Very informative video

Great video! I notice how small everything was. Since the average height is much smaller than it is now.

the castles great just a shame the once great town is now a wreck

i remember visiting Tamworth castle 60 years ago when i was in high school, so this was a nostalgic trip for me. One of my aunts had a pair of "Staffordshire dogs" which you can see on the mantlepiece in the Georgian room

These castle videos get me as excited as waking up early saturday morning in the 1980s to watch cartoons. This guy has T.V. host written all over him.

I really enjoyed that tour, thank you. There was so much history from all different time periods inside that castle.

This was so incredibly-like taking a trip back in time. Fantastic job!

Well done!

Hello again Sir Steven from Alabama again. Thank you for such a Great tour.Its wonderful it has been able to survive in such good condition. The Latt and plaster there. Did they use horse hair to strengthen it? By mixing it into the wet plaster? I'm curious as to how old that idea is. My house was built in 1870. They also used the same method and added horse hair. When I added a new light switch and cut out the hole. Some much of the plaster that broke into various sizes was held together by horse hair. They sure had wonderful building methods over the years. All the roof joist and attic structure is held together with mortis and tenon with a one inch diameter dowel driven through a pre drilled hole. There isn't a single nail in the whole structure. Though I am from and now live in the U.S. My Dad was a Sargent in the Army.While stationed in Germany. This being so. I to have a fond memory of a castle with my Dad on the Rhine River, Castle Hoping . The family took a boat tour that stopped at different castles. Im pretty sure I saw my 1st ghost there. I was on my Dad's shoulders as we went down this breeze way that was open on one side to a small grassy area. The grass would of been waist high, head high to myself. At the edge of this area stood a lone tree and standing next to it was this man. He wore chain mail at least as far as his arms because he had a red tunic covering his chest down past his middle he wore a belt with sword. I remember smiling and I think I waved. He just looked at me. I thought perhaps I was remembering some sort of special day. But he was the only person I remember nobody else and the fact he just looked so somber. He didn't return my smile nore wave. We just stared at one another. Thinking back I think he was a ghost.

Cursed swords to poopy armchairs. I love these videos :D

Love love love it!!!!!! Thank you once again, Sir!

That was amazing Kevin. I can't help but think about that woman who had 16 kids. If her portrait is correct, she was very attractive. Her and husband must have had there hands full during this period, with kids and young teenagers running around the castle.

Okay… I’m an addict now!!

Feel like I've had a day out!
Thanks so much for your work 🐱

The castle ones are definitely my favourite ones

You are a legend, love your video's!👍

The upper windows were part of salon where the rulers family lived. The windows provide a view of the great hall where the estate workers and the farm animals stayed during bad weather around a central fire centuries prior to separatel kitchens.

I thought beheading was only for nobles condemned to death. Was Tamworth around a number of such nobles?

Thank you Kevin, you are the best at this.

Thanks so much for this amazing history you are the Best greetings from Mexico city

Thank you for a fantastic video. I am a Townshend here in New Zealand and it's great to see and hear about the history that my ancestors were involved in.

where's the safest place to have a chug Kevin?

I’ve just recently discovered this channel and omg I am in love. I especially love these exploration videos - they’re so interesting and Kevin is the best story teller!