Honestly is my first show host or whatever he is, he is the best! I love how he actually try’s all these things, and he’s just got a great personality.
He is best known for playing Baldrick in the Blackadder miniseries. The character is a lot like what you see here; a downtrodden commoner forced to do the most demeaning tasks by his masters. Probably why he got chosen to host this show.
Paul Adams to politically correct the first comment, we Americans don't call ourselves yanks anymore and we like this guy only because 95% of us believe this guy is Mr. Bean.
Tony Robinson and Mike Rowe need to team up and do a historical vs modern day worst jobs ever show. I saw Mike Rowe go down with some modern day sewer workers. They basically had to clean the machinery that keeps a city sewer system functioning. It was absolutely horrible work! Some things have not evolved much at all. That would be a great show with their two zany personalities.
As someone with pet rats when he pulled the rat out of the hay stack and the rat was just like •-• it made my day because they really are just squishy and confused lmao
Many men in my family worked on the railroads during this era up until WW1. I glad this shines a spotlight on some of the work they did. Same with the farmers. I also have farmers in my family.
I think they should have included Tony Robinson in the "farm vids" team of Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, Alex Langlands. Or borrowed him for the Railway series.
That why rock brakeing was given to prisoners to do. 🤔 it seems the more I watch of these the more I hear sayings and curses we use now. Like "I've got a bone to pick with you."
Yes, obviously, popular culture goes a lot deeper than people think. There´s the history of the rich, but the language contains the real, deeper history of the people as a whole. As Napoleon said, ´history is just a set of lies agreed upon´ and he was pretty right... Nothing ever got written down about the commoners. In our language (Flemish, which is officially Dutch but it´s totally not because of it´s historical content being different) we got the same ´feudal´ background mixed. That´s why I try to keep a record of what is a slowly dying language: proletarian dialects, so to speak.
I watched David Starkey series on British history and they were good! But I think Tony Robinson making a series on it from A to Z would be witty, enjoyable and insightful! Thank you for these series and keep up the good work! Cheers!
As they described the Thames in Victorian times, with sewage, trash and dead animals, I suddenly thought of the Mighty River Ankh from Discworld, and began to wonder if the water back then was polluted enough to be flammable...
Ankh-Morpork is definitely heavily inspired by London (as well as a bit of New York hence the nickname the great Wahoonie, a play on the big apple and the great wen (London)), so I'm pretty sure that the Ankh is the Thames. I'm currently read Raising Steam again and this is such a fitting episode to watch.
Not so much the explosion, but the concussion combined with the fear of being buried in pitch black. Doesn't take much, especially in a confined space. Even having a tyre burst at 30 PSI is quite shocking and disorienting.
@@MrAngry3232 I've seen every episode they've made. I'm requesting they expand beyond that. There are still plenty of eras (my examples of bronze age and ancient haven't been done) and cultures (they haven't done any others at all) they could use.
@@DreamBelief the problem with going that far back in time is that we simply don't have enough information about everyday life to make programmes like this. Much as I would love to see it myself, they're would be too much guessing going on to make it particularly informative. P.s the reason they didn't cover other cultures was because this series is about British history. P.p.s these were filmed more than a decade ago, I don't think they're still taking requests.
I’m surprised that Robinson (and the other chap) were allowed to clean out that “ashpan,” on Health and Safety grounds. Getting that dust into your lungs would not be conducive for your longevity.
I thought he was going to say "One for the rock, one for the crow, one to rot and one to grow" was an old saying Victorians had about their kids, not about their crops
3:24 - With the way the furnace is designed, it looks like it has two eyes, a nose and the opening makes the mouth. Not seeing Tony but hearing his voice come out of the furnace makes it look like the furnace is talking. I nearly choked on my food with laughter 😂😂😂
It's total garbage . They put Tony's voice-over on top of other conversations . I can't understand a word , it gives me a headache . Every episode is like this.
I know that tannery smell. I lost my home after high school, and had to live near one for a couple weeks. X( It's the worst smell I've ever smelled, even above the Washington District of Columbia city morgue, and we had two corpses in the back seat of the hearse. Still, I'm seriously blessed compared to the peeps in the Victorian period. I at least finished high school, and was fed! :D
We are definitely better off. I would've likely died in a workhouse. No youth refuges and disability pension back then. Even when I lived on the street for a bit I could still get food, water and other necessities without having to do such awful jobs
I am just a mom doing the best I can My step dad was a coal miner all his life staring at 12 using a horse and cart to help pull carts of coal out of the mine. He was born in 1912. He's been through mine explosions several times seeing his family members and close friends die in the mines. He'd tell stories and I couldn't believe what kids had to do then even tho it was outlawed it still went on. He developed black lung from all the coal dust. I imagine those children sweeping out the chimney's did as well. Makes me really appreciate the time I live in. No matter how bad I think I have it it definitely could be much worse.
I have done mud larking at the Thames and it was quite fun, I was looking for fossils, jewellery, sailor clay pipes, etc. and found all sorts of things but I have to admit after a while doing it your skin feels dry and itchy because of all the chemicals going in the water, you can find tons of videos here in youtube of people doing it.
dude when he disappeared into train boiler reminded be of Alice an wonderland of Alice going thru door an straight disappears an all u hear is talking lmaoooooo
I've been enjoying your videos. They have a lot of great information on how things were done back in the day, some of the jobs actually look like fun. However, you need to boost the audio bigtime. It's really quite weak and a detriment to enjoying these otherwise fine videos.
They are fun if you do them for 5 minutes, but not when you do them for 12 hours in a confined space, ill fitting shoes, (assuming you had them), and your hands would be red raw and end up like leather mittens with cracking skin etc. then add someone screaming at you to go faster...
@@Cheepchipsable everyone's different. What some find intolerable others can quite enjoy. Yes, things like bad shoes make it harder, but you can still legitimately find some fun even working every day for your entire life
I layed asphalt for two seasons. They have all the big equipment for the people doing whole roads, but I was on a patch crew. A busy day for us was 24-32 tons shoveled and raked by hand.
i went to the bluebell railway with my dad and we enjoyed our visit when i watched the first part of this i can imagine tony robinson character baldwick from blackadder doing some of those jobs in this episode.
Herring caller doesn't seem to shabby. If I was one back then I'd just bring an easel and take up painting if I could. Or if I was literate write poetry or stories (maybe see if I couldn't get my hands on a typewriter or something) while looking out over the landscape. Would be pretty serene especially if I could put up some sort of shelter for bad weather.
This series is addicting. Greetings, from South Dakota to our brothers across the pond. Been a lot of talk about white privilege in politics lately. Watching this series you realize that was far and few between. The last bit about the tanner was tough to watch.
I worked at the Detroit sewage treatment plant when i was an apprentice. The plant employees could have been considered Toshers. They had a stick and chair, they would watch the conveyor belt go by and watch for "prizes" to go by. One guy collected rubber balls to take to his grandkids.
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I love the train conductor just constantly laughing at him as he suffers. The dude's an angel.
I found it profane and stupid. Not meanng the guy, rather the editor basing the entire scene on this and hardly anything else.
@christian Yeah, it would’ve been nice if they stuck a lamp in there and filmed the inside of the engine. That’d be interesting, I think
yaa
I think the man has probably done it himself enough to have that privilege.
Divorce? Hahahahaha
Tony Robinson may be the best sport in human history. I have the highest admiration for him and all those involved in this show.
I thought you said tommy Robinson for a second
just watched him eat some sort of worm soup in another video - have to agree with you.
Love it when he’s blinding his staff and officials with the big light at 14:35
Mike Rowe too.
i like how he shines the spot light like directly in that guys face lol 14:46
Chuck Aule right?!
I just saw that and had to look for this comment😂 straight in their faces!!!
That little boy looked so uncomfortable but immediately he brightened up when Tony teased him, so cute, Tony's awesome
"What are you doing up there?"
"I'm cleanin'!"
I love how Tony is always enthusiastically happy after he's done whatever is being demonstrated.
Honestly is my first show host or whatever he is, he is the best! I love how he actually try’s all these things, and he’s just got a great personality.
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You’d probably like the show “dirty jobs”. It was really cool to see the host trying all of these modern jobs that you still get your hands dirty in.
Definitely
@@gabrielapollard9684 yep ..Mike Rowe is very charismatic and fun to watch...he can sing remarkably well, also.
He is best known for playing Baldrick in the Blackadder miniseries. The character is a lot like what you see here; a downtrodden commoner forced to do the most demeaning tasks by his masters. Probably why he got chosen to host this show.
Tony is a national treasure, don't even try to tell me he's not.
He's so great even us yanks love him.
As a Canadian I vote to make him a treasure of the Dominion.
@Jeremy Brookes well tony has the right kind of knighthood, he has the one seen as a stepping stone to lordship, not the lower one given to stars etc.
Paul Adams to politically correct the first comment, we Americans don't call ourselves yanks anymore and we like this guy only because 95% of us believe this guy is Mr. Bean.
He's brilliant
that engineer laugh is so awsome and hearty .
Tony Robinson and Mike Rowe need to team up and do a historical vs modern day worst jobs ever show. I saw Mike Rowe go down with some modern day sewer workers. They basically had to clean the machinery that keeps a city sewer system functioning. It was absolutely horrible work! Some things have not evolved much at all. That would be a great show with their two zany personalities.
As someone with pet rats when he pulled the rat out of the hay stack and the rat was just like •-• it made my day because they really are just squishy and confused lmao
Was most definitely a pet rat. A wild rat would try to get out of your hand as soon as possible.
I've had rats in the past and that made me so happy too! I miss my ratties, but I am broke and have no space to keep them
That rat was pretty passive. A feral one would have bitten him to the bone.
My rat used to curl up on my neck under my hair and doze off. She lived to be nearly four!
@@QueerCripple wdym just let them loose in your house they'll be fine
"A jolly good bang though you've got to admit"
Saucy minx.
Exactly what I was thinking....I'm going to remember that one!!
Oi m8!! Care fo' a spot o' tea good chap?
Oi govna I'm Bri'ish
She enjoyed that bang it seems
@@Ancientcaptain Ello govna!
Geez, all that lethal, backbreaking work, I'd take being a herring caller any day!
Seriously, sign me up.
Emily Roberts Is that an episode that I’ve missed??
Ah hah!
amen sister
Just bring a book to read and look up now and then.
I'm so glad this is uploaded to youtube
Many men in my family worked on the railroads during this era up until WW1. I glad this shines a spotlight on some of the work they did. Same with the farmers. I also have farmers in my family.
What did you end up doing for work?
I might have missed my calling as a herring caller
I work in IT in a school, any Herring Caller jobs going? I'd sign up
Yeah, perfect for meditation!
You get fresh air and Cannabis was widely avail medicinally since 1700, so write a couple Sea Shanties and float away.
Well, I guess we now know why Victorians were big on flowers! The every day stench of the city must have been incredible!
Perfumes in general were used to douse the stench, and lime. Wasn't till the houses of Parliament stunk so bad they decided to clean up the Thames.
I like Tony Robinson as the presenter.
SIR Tony. He got knighted . Well deserved. First intro to him was on first series Time Team. Funny. Got to watch him age.....gracefully
Suddenly, breaking down boxes in a supermarkets warehouse doesn't seem that bad... XD
"I don't think ... we can imagine it Tony " *mournful reflection * "
"explosion time"
How can you not just love Tony Robinson, he's such a good sport.....I wouldn't want to try any of these old jobs.
Wonder what people 100 years from now will think the worst jobs of 2018 were?
joemackey1950 probably lower middle class xD
I can think of a couple:
1) Call centre worker
2) Slaughterhouse worker
3) Bin man
4) Dishwasher
5) Anything on a zero hours contract
jobless?
joemackey1950, About 100 years from now, robots might be doing all the work, especially if and when a technological singularity happens
Police officier is my first guess
I actually had to pick rocks as a kid for my grandparents' farm. It does suck, but I did find some cool quartz rocks doing it!
I think they should have included Tony Robinson in the "farm vids" team of Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, Alex Langlands. Or borrowed him for the Railway series.
never knew i'd be so happy to hear Baldrick narrating and presenting a documentary.
He's done millions of them. Hosted Time Team for over a decade.
That why rock brakeing was given to prisoners to do. 🤔 it seems the more I watch of these the more I hear sayings and curses we use now. Like "I've got a bone to pick with you."
I am just a mom doing the best I can yeah that’s very true
Yes, obviously, popular culture goes a lot deeper than people think. There´s the history of the rich, but the language contains the real, deeper history of the people as a whole. As Napoleon said, ´history is just a set of lies agreed upon´ and he was pretty right... Nothing ever got written down about the commoners. In our language (Flemish, which is officially Dutch but it´s totally not because of it´s historical content being different) we got the same ´feudal´ background mixed. That´s why I try to keep a record of what is a slowly dying language: proletarian dialects, so to speak.
Are you really doing your best?
48:16 -- so true, so true. Nice tribute, Tony
Omg that train conductor, he's lovin' it 😹😹😹
Thanks!
I watched David Starkey series on British history and they were good! But I think Tony Robinson making a series on it from A to Z would be witty, enjoyable and insightful! Thank you for these series and keep up the good work! Cheers!
As they described the Thames in Victorian times, with sewage, trash and dead animals, I suddenly thought of the Mighty River Ankh from Discworld, and began to wonder if the water back then was polluted enough to be flammable...
Some definitely were flammable. The Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire at least a dozen times from the 1860s to the 1969.
Ankh-Morpork is definitely heavily inspired by London (as well as a bit of New York hence the nickname the great Wahoonie, a play on the big apple and the great wen (London)), so I'm pretty sure that the Ankh is the Thames. I'm currently read Raising Steam again and this is such a fitting episode to watch.
She was right. You couldn't imagine what the explosion would be like. The "special effects" proved that statement out quite well.
Not so much the explosion, but the concussion combined with the fear of being buried in pitch black.
Doesn't take much, especially in a confined space. Even having a tyre burst at 30 PSI is quite shocking and disorienting.
My grandfather worked as a tanner by the river. It's shutdown now, but you could smell it in parts of town depending on the wind
Please expand this series to other time periods (ancient, bronze age etc) and cultures (jobs, technology and the way things were done differed a lot)
They have
@@MrAngry3232 I've seen every episode they've made. I'm requesting they expand beyond that. There are still plenty of eras (my examples of bronze age and ancient haven't been done) and cultures (they haven't done any others at all) they could use.
@@DreamBelief the problem with going that far back in time is that we simply don't have enough information about everyday life to make programmes like this. Much as I would love to see it myself, they're would be too much guessing going on to make it particularly informative.
P.s the reason they didn't cover other cultures was because this series is about British history.
P.p.s these were filmed more than a decade ago, I don't think they're still taking requests.
Washing my dishes doesn't seem so bad anymore, thanks for the motivation.
The way he held that rat... poor rat, all he wanted was the nibble and be loved
I’m surprised that Robinson (and the other chap) were allowed to clean out that “ashpan,” on Health and Safety grounds.
Getting that dust into your lungs would not be conducive for your longevity.
That train conducter is a savage 😂
Lmao I love how the first guy just repeatedly laughs at Tony, non stop. "Oh you liked that did you".
"they got stuck and couldn't get out, it was a tragic life"
won't be very long tho if they can't get out
I thought he was going to say "One for the rock, one for the crow, one to rot and one to grow" was an old saying Victorians had about their kids, not about their crops
Same actually. It seems to fit both ways.
I've never been happier that smellovision hasn't been invented yet.
XD shines everyone directly in the face except for the park inspector
All of the Tony Robinson videos are among the best on the web.
But the sound mixing is just inexcusable.
I must do say , you get right into everything ! Impressive !
3:24 - With the way the furnace is designed, it looks like it has two eyes, a nose and the opening makes the mouth. Not seeing Tony but hearing his voice come out of the furnace makes it look like the furnace is talking. I nearly choked on my food with laughter 😂😂😂
Doing what you did in the hay. Sticking your hand in there blindly then locating and picking up a rat. Man to man, that took crazy balls!
That little boy just looked happy going up the chimney
yeah because it's for fun
5:18 “jolly good bang”
My American ears have never been happier to hear something so horrendously British
15:19 British people are hilarious without even trying
Ahh, an oldie but a goodie.
HistoryMarche quite literally
I’m getting claustrophobic just watching him getting into the engine . No amount of $ could make me do that
My thoughts too
I love Tony! What a trooper!
This is simply amazing. Love it and Tony Robinson is a national treasure.
a jolly good bang
The last time I heard from Tony, he had a brilliant plan.
I think you mean cunning plan 🙃
Fire your sound engineer
It's total garbage . They put Tony's voice-over on top of other conversations . I can't understand a word , it gives me a headache . Every episode is like this.
Using headphones improves the bad mixing, at least I was able to hear Tom.
I think instead of clip-on mic, they were using sound boom to record the audio
The mixing is so bad, music louder than voice, people talking over each other. like wtf?
Aquatarkus It's probably to avoid the copyright
I know that tannery smell. I lost my home after high school, and had to live near one for a couple weeks. X(
It's the worst smell I've ever smelled, even above the Washington District of Columbia city morgue, and we had two corpses in the back seat of the hearse.
Still, I'm seriously blessed compared to the peeps in the Victorian period. I at least finished high school, and was fed! :D
We are definitely better off. I would've likely died in a workhouse. No youth refuges and disability pension back then. Even when I lived on the street for a bit I could still get food, water and other necessities without having to do such awful jobs
26,000 rats at 3d. apiece works out to 309 guineas and 11 shillings. That's a big rat bill.
"A jolly good bang though, youve got to admit."
Twas Christmas Day in the Workhouse.
The Master called down the halls
"Do you like your Christmas Dinner?"
The inmates answered "BALLS!"
Breathing soot is really bad and so claustrophobic in a chimney. Eyes went bad too.
I am just a mom doing the best I can My step dad was a coal miner all his life staring at 12 using a horse and cart to help pull carts of coal out of the mine. He was born in 1912. He's been through mine explosions several times seeing his family members and close friends die in the mines. He'd tell stories and I couldn't believe what kids had to do then even tho it was outlawed it still went on. He developed black lung from all the coal dust. I imagine those children sweeping out the chimney's did as well. Makes me really appreciate the time I live in. No matter how bad I think I have it it definitely could be much worse.
What a Star Tony Robinson is! 👍👏👏👏
wood ash can also be used to make lye for cleaning
Lenore Van Alstine yes
As someone who did irrigation for a couple years I must agree, digging gets old pretty quick!! That train conductor!😂🤣
Reminded me of Rory from Who Dares Wins.
Tony: visibile suffering
Train conductor: *happy laughter*
I have done mud larking at the Thames and it was quite fun, I was looking for fossils, jewellery, sailor clay pipes, etc. and found all sorts of things but I have to admit after a while doing it your skin feels dry and itchy because of all the chemicals going in the water, you can find tons of videos here in youtube of people doing it.
Tony goes above and beyond to give us a real historical experience.
dude when he disappeared into train boiler reminded be of Alice an wonderland of Alice going thru door an straight disappears an all u hear is talking lmaoooooo
I've been enjoying your videos. They have a lot of great information on how things were done back in the day, some of the jobs actually look like fun. However, you need to boost the audio bigtime. It's really quite weak and a detriment to enjoying these otherwise fine videos.
They are fun if you do them for 5 minutes, but not when you do them for 12 hours in a confined space, ill fitting shoes, (assuming you had them), and your hands would be red raw and end up like leather mittens with cracking skin etc.
then add someone screaming at you to go faster...
@@Cheepchipsable everyone's different. What some find intolerable others can quite enjoy. Yes, things like bad shoes make it harder, but you can still legitimately find some fun even working every day for your entire life
Boy am I glad we don’t have to smell the smells poor Tony did while filming this episode! Excellent show!
That was no wild rat! I worked in steel mills where there were plenty of rats.
Let's say, a mildly peeved rat.
Of course not. They're not gonna make him stuck his hand in there and grab a wild rat that will likely bite and could make him sick
That herring call made my day XD
Thanks for these incredibly interesting videos!
Oh my lord this man is hilarious! So glad I stumbled on these documentaries!
Baldrick! (inside train's fire box) What are you blathering on about?!
I layed asphalt for two seasons. They have all the big equipment for the people doing whole roads, but I was on a patch crew. A busy day for us was 24-32 tons shoveled and raked by hand.
7:22 Interestingly digging a trench is one of the only jobs where you actually get to "start at the top"
Haha
i love the evil cackle of the train driver. gold
Sir TR is such a good sport for trying these jobs at least 😁👍🏼
The soundtrack overwhelms the narration at times. Terrible sound!
i have no doubt the moment i was old enough to work out how to kill myself id of been off
i went to the bluebell railway with my dad and we enjoyed our visit when i watched the first part of this i can imagine tony robinson character baldwick from blackadder doing some of those jobs in this episode.
Don't forget Mr Ploppy and his wife.
Herring caller doesn't seem to shabby. If I was one back then I'd just bring an easel and take up painting if I could. Or if I was literate write poetry or stories (maybe see if I couldn't get my hands on a typewriter or something) while looking out over the landscape. Would be pretty serene especially if I could put up some sort of shelter for bad weather.
Lol, the way he blatantly shines his Hi-Beam into the crews faces.
seeing tony in distress with some of these jobs is satisfying 😅 guy gets stuck in absolute legend
The dehairing of leather is the most satisfying thing to watch...
Very good song by the band Genesis about a group of Navies building the railway called driving the last spike.
ITS BALDRICK FROM THE BLACK ADDER !!!!!! I’m LOOSING IT I AM A FAN. FAN GIRLING RIGHT HEEEERREEEEE !!!!!!!!
I’m 23 years old but watching him in the black adder opened a whole new world for me really. I am so happy. Literally off of my rackets
Check out a Time Team then.
It’s Baldrick, by the way
I have a cunning plan
@@icecoldlemon2462 who tf cares
22:45 The revenue works out to be £780 in one year, which seems to me to be a curiously large amount of money to be paying for vermin.
This series is addicting. Greetings, from South Dakota to our brothers across the pond. Been a lot of talk about white privilege in politics lately. Watching this series you realize that was far and few between. The last bit about the tanner was tough to watch.
lol the train guy is cracking me up he's awesome
3:50 That laughter is my top 1 laughter ever. "Enjoyed that, did ya? ha ha ha Ha HA!"
I worked at the Detroit sewage treatment plant when i was an apprentice.
The plant employees could have been considered Toshers. They had a stick and chair, they would watch the conveyor belt go by and watch for "prizes" to go by.
One guy collected rubber balls to take to his grandkids.
I was pleasantly surprised to see tony Robinson, a true man of culture.
Tony is such a sweetheart ❤️
Great show😃
So Herring Callers we’re essentially the Walmart Greeters of Victorian England 🤷🏻♂️
Coo, coo.
My oldest ancestor with a known profession other than yeoman farmer, was a... tanner in a small French town in 1784.
I just finished watching 24 hours in the past.
Can u send me links plz been looking for ages
The engine cleaner jobs makes me feel claustrophobic
I’ve had to do the dibbing thingy on a farm but with a little shovel ad it truly is the worst