Brilliant as always, my local castle. The reason it is round it was hit hit, they dug a tunnel under that side and set fire with pigs fat, it then collapsed, then obviously rebuilt . Thanks, more like this please
The seige of 1215. Yes that's right. The king spent a good long time catapulting rocks at the castle which failed so he mined under the south-east corner to make it collapse. That too failed which is why he requested 40 crappy pigs from London to get the job done. I'd forgotten about the tunnel and the pigs, well reminded.
@@SubExploration excellent video, would you allow me to use silent portions of this upload in a project I am working on involving the Siege of Rochester by King John during the Barons Revolt? I would happily provide attribution. Thanks for your time!
Happy hunting ground during the 50s and 60s. Castle, Fort Clarence and its guardhouse, (we lived opposite ) Amherst, Bridgewood, etc and their tunnels. The lines and Fort Pitt. We kids practically lived underground in those days. :) Thanks for all the memories.
Well I may not have had the opportunity to see them during those decades but during the 90's, Clarence and Borstal Fort where accessible amongst other things. As you where around back then, do you know anything about the tunnels at Luton arches?
@@SubExploration If it was the ones behind the hoardings; previously houses, only what Ive read on the various forums. Which is they only go back a few yards and were used for storage. Although back in the 50s there was a collapsed entrance on The Lines at the Luton end to the south of the Memorial. But even in those days you could only crawl into the entrance as the rest had collapsed. I'm thoroughly enjoy your videos.
@@BlackfiguresSAD yes we have found one of the storage areas that you have referred to but we have heard many rumours of a much larger tunnel network being hidden there.
That is the main Keep and inner castle wall of course. There are still remains of the outer castle walls dotted around the town of Rochester that are now a part of shops and cafes. I believe there is still a part of a turret visible near the railway station and quite a bit of castle wall within private grounds. I don't know if they are as old as the Keep itself though. Although the castle is Norman there had been a Roman settlement on the site earlier but at that point in time, Rochester was known as Durobrivae which is more of a mouthful. Nice video. Great still images.
So glad you shared your tour with us! Thank you for good information and your personal touch to your narrative, being a native to that area of England. I think that made it that much more interesting. This castle is responsible for sparking my interest in all things Medieval, starting back when I was a young girl in Utah.
Stunning. Such an imposing structure with such intricate details still in place. The stills are a great way in which to finish the vid.Thanks for the tour . Cheers from Edmonton Canada.
@03:43 I recall that the double row of 'holes' were, in this case not joist holes, but were roosts for pigeons in order to provide a food supply during sieges. Also the 'rounded arches with triangular reliefs' (@06:00) are textbook classic 'Norman Arches', (n.b. I come from a family of Stonemasons and did my apprenticeship in the '80s). Every day on my way to work I drive past the church at Patrixbourne , south of Canterbury, which is one of the relatively few remaining churches in Britain with similarly untouched 11thC Norman arches. By the way: Kent has more castles than any other British county!!! Happy New Year to you and I look forward to more !
"My local Castle" ! Something us europeans say without even thinking. Warwick Castle was my local Castle as a kid, now living in France, my local Castle is Josselin. Great video... made me homesick for Fish & Chips and a fight over absolutely nothing. 👍🏻
Another great video, especially as I love castles. One of the sieges was in the film iron clad. Also a pointless fact that I tell everyone when I am showing them around a castle is that the staircases ascend clockwise so the defenders could use their weapons in their right hand while the attackers would have to use their left or leave themselves un-guarded if they used their right hand, sorry about that :)
Thanks for this. Didn’t expect you to do an above ground site. I’m in Rochester but haven’t been in the castle for years. Your great photography is very inspiring and, of course, the history stuff is what it’s all about. I’m in the castle tomorrow to soak it all in. Huge thanks for all your sharing your experiences. Love it all.
Good place to work on your cardio with all those stairs. Thank you for bringing the views because my health is bad and theres no way i can walk all those stairs. Thank you.
As a teenager I spent many happy times at the castle. Only sixpence to get in, I used to just daydream as I gazed out over the river. I tended to get kicked out of the Cathedral crypt though. It was a peaceful place to read...and daydream
Here’s another factoid. From the base of a turret looking up, you will notice that the stairs rotate clockwise. This makes it awkward for an attacking right- handed soldier to swing a sword. However the defending right-handed soldier at the top of the tower has room to get a good swing at his foe below. :-)
There are currently no "unofficial" ways in. Only way in at the moment is via one of English heritage's tours which you can find details of here: www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/me-shorts-tunnels-Oct/
Great castle! Thanks for showing us around. I'm lucky enough to live in North Wales, and so have loads of castles on my doorstep (including two within a mile!)
This is true unfortunately. Much like many towns. On the bright side we have the sweeps and dickens festivals which keep many of the old English traditions alive.
An another excellent documentary and what a beautiful place to do it, also well done on finding the toilet. Another little fact during a siege archers dipped there arrows in animal carcasses and poo, this was very clever because you do not have to actually hit someone with the arrows just s cut caused fatal infection and death
Thank you for a pleasant time warp back to the very early seventies looking over the bridges which when I was a nipper then, the old abandoned hogback railway bridge was being converted into the modern road bridge of today. As a kid I often went into work with me dad at all the signal boxes around the place as back then still most stations had their own box and sometimes like Cuxton Down Main in between stations as that was the signal box between Strood and Sole St and very pleasant in the summer looking down the gentle Cuxton slopes. My dad often when at Snodland station/crossing box used to entertain Ted from the 1970's band Judge Dread who was the first to "christen" the all new plumbed in toilet me dad put into the signal box replacing the "thunderbox" cess pit arrangement which my mum refused to use, as Ted often liked to drop in for a cup of tea and my father was a legend on British Rail for his tea consumption (22 mugs an hour he was rated at by one of his managers on BR). We were living in Riverview Park which was built on the old RAF Gravesend site, happier days back then and so much to do if you had a good bike and a sense of adventure and my old purple Raleigh Chopper was seen all over the show in Kent as I ranged out with packed lunch to all the fun places to explore :) Cobham and Bluebell woods were great summer holiday haunts especially Cobham with the old bomb craters and you could literally soar high on your chopper or grifter on some of the jumps we had going.
Have you thought about seeing what is about in what was the Nore (Queensborough) which at the time was one of the biggest royal naval establishments in the world and run down pretty much after the mutinies that hit Portsmouth as well? Its hard to think that sheltered waterway once was crammed in with ships, prison hulks, beached men o' war on their sides having their rotten keels replaced or recoppered and for many years the place that stopped invaders heading up the Thames to capture London.
The 1826 bit was probably the water supply as the well was in the middle and it ran up the centre of the castle, shame you missed the main entrance as it’s set up high and was protected by a drawbridge originally, the stairs up were believed to be set a certain way to make it difficult for right handed attackers to swing swords if you ascending the stairs, but descending the outer stairs the right handed attackers had a full swing. Being most of the attackers were right handed it seems sound. The siege where the tower was destroyed by undermining actually didn’t end there the defenders stayed behind the second wall that runs up the middle of castle for several more days and only gave up due to hunger. I used to live in area and could saw the castle everyday
Would they allow you to fly the drone over the top for a view down on the ground and castle? If they will you could do a short fly over video with some random facts.
Love the video feasts! By the way, I think the reason why the turret collapsed during a siege was because the attacking army dug tunnels under its foundations making it unstable. And one of the main reasons why castles have moats is because it makes tunnelling a hazardous :-)
`ey mate, have you considered mixing a bike vid with these exploring vids? I know I'd love one! Maybe filming the way to the location on the bike and then the exploring bit? I think that'd be quite cool.
It's about as restored as it can be without ruining the original history. Occasionally they dig up something new but it’s often hidden away from the public.
Nonsense! I live in Rochester... we don't have anything *NEARLY* this old! You must be confused! It looks like you're in Europe somewhere! ( Greetings from Rochester, NY :P )
I am familiar with Rochester NY and was amazed to see you have a Chatham and a Kent all very close by. Its almost like history itself seeing people name the places they emigrated from.
@@ashenverdict well, actually Chatham & Kent are both on the opposite side of the state, in the Hudson Valley ( ...whereas Rochester is in Western NY ). A lot of people don't realize that NY is actually larger than England! It would take somewhere approaching 4 hours to drive to Chatham & another hour to Kent... But I totally get your meaning! :] My Mom grew up in Liverpool, NY & I've spent a good part of my life in Syracuse! We've even got a Mexico & an Egypt!
I can just imagine the siege of Rochester Castle. The enemy firing there huge rocks onto a catapult and the protectors of the castle throwing hot oil on the enemy while soldiers fire there arrows with fire on there tips. Classic.
It was undermined during the Baronial Wars. That was when King John renegued on his promises in the Magna Carta and the noblemen rebelled. They bottled him up in her for a long time. If you want a movie version, check out "Ironclad". Not a bad movie. I AM one of your American friends, but I was bought up on Sheppey, so I did school trips to this castle. As Norman castles go, it's not in bad condition, but what a fabulous place it must have been in its prime.
I dunno if you would have been old enough, but was Dreamland the best day out for you as a kid as it was for us back in the 70's? Dreamland was London's Disneyland as easy to jump on a train from Gravesend where we lived or later on Bromley South where we moved to, 3/4 hr later with the sun shining we would hit the beach, act stupid with the sand and waves and then me mum would say "boys, its time" and we crossed the road and into the wondrous world of Dreamland, with all the cool rides and glass maze, ice skating, water chute, scenic railway rollercoaster, arcades and then it was waiting at the station to head on home abs knackered out. I went to Margate a few years back and it had changed so badly, stinking kebab shops and pissed up kids and no Dreamland as "someone" thought it a good idea to torch the place, maybe as a favour to allow flats and houses to be built there, and the flies and just awful stink made me very sad.
Afraid I the earliest I visited dreamland was the late 90s and it was not as you described. The big wooden rollercoster was good tho. Yes most of our old seaside towns have turned to pot. I was in Margate about 2 months ago visiting a bunker and wow it looks like crap now.
I took my younger siblings out for a day trip to them called, Bem bom brothers or something in the 80s and missed the last train home to Essex. My mum didn’t drive and had to organize someone to pick up 5 of us at 12 at night (I was only 15!) great memories. Love Margate, but not as much as chatham. Will be my final place.
You wouldnt burst into flames, God loves you and to bring us all this history means you have a good heart. I bring you love from America, Houston, Texas. Oak Ridge North actually if you want to google a more exact location.
Did you hang round for "Rod Stewart at the Castle" Bruv??? What a Geezer mate, what a fuckin' Plonka aye.... Bit of bonus footage would have been the go.....!
Looking at the signs they had up, I think they search you to make sure you don’t have recording equipment for the concerts. Not that I couldn’t sneak gear in ;-)
How many things are wrong with this video? 1 Daylight 2 Pointing the camera out windows and showing the location 3 Naming the location 4 Naming the river next to the location 5 Wikipedia link to the location I didn't realize this was one of your videos when I first started watching it.
Brilliant as always, my local castle. The reason it is round it was hit hit, they dug a tunnel under that side and set fire with pigs fat, it then collapsed, then obviously rebuilt . Thanks, more like this please
The seige of 1215. Yes that's right. The king spent a good long time catapulting rocks at the castle which failed so he mined under the south-east corner to make it collapse. That too failed which is why he requested 40 crappy pigs from London to get the job done. I'd forgotten about the tunnel and the pigs, well reminded.
@@SubExploration excellent video, would you allow me to use silent portions of this upload in a project I am working on involving the Siege of Rochester by King John during the Barons Revolt? I would happily provide attribution. Thanks for your time!
Happy hunting ground during the 50s and 60s. Castle, Fort Clarence and its guardhouse, (we lived opposite ) Amherst, Bridgewood, etc and their tunnels. The lines and Fort Pitt. We kids practically lived underground in those days. :) Thanks for all the memories.
Well I may not have had the opportunity to see them during those decades but during the 90's, Clarence and Borstal Fort where accessible amongst other things. As you where around back then, do you know anything about the tunnels at Luton arches?
@@SubExploration If it was the ones behind the hoardings; previously houses, only what Ive read on the various forums. Which is they only go back a few yards and were used for storage. Although back in the 50s there was a collapsed entrance on The Lines at the Luton end to the south of the Memorial. But even in those days you could only crawl into the entrance as the rest had collapsed. I'm thoroughly enjoy your videos.
@@BlackfiguresSAD yes we have found one of the storage areas that you have referred to but we have heard many rumours of a much larger tunnel network being hidden there.
I like castles. They are time machines for the imagination.
Thanks for showing us something a bit different today. You could make a series on showing us the older castles. I'd watch it. Stay safe!
That is the main Keep and inner castle wall of course. There are still remains of the outer castle walls dotted around the town of Rochester that are now a part of shops and cafes. I believe there is still a part of a turret visible near the railway station and quite a bit of castle wall within private grounds. I don't know if they are as old as the Keep itself though. Although the castle is Norman there had been a Roman settlement on the site earlier but at that point in time, Rochester was known as Durobrivae which is more of a mouthful. Nice video. Great still images.
There is also a very secret part of the castle which i need to visit soon in the early hours ;-)
So glad you shared your tour with us! Thank you for good information and your personal touch to your narrative, being a native to that area of England. I think that made it that much more interesting. This castle is responsible for sparking my interest in all things Medieval, starting back when I was a young girl in Utah.
Thanks for the tour. Saved me a trip to the UK. Lol. Imagine all those steps in medieval war dress. 👍👍
Stunning. Such an imposing structure with such intricate details still in place. The stills are a great way in which to finish the vid.Thanks for the tour . Cheers from Edmonton Canada.
Thank you and hello to Edmonton!
@03:43 I recall that the double row of 'holes' were, in this case not joist holes, but were roosts for pigeons in order to provide a food supply during sieges. Also the 'rounded arches with triangular reliefs' (@06:00) are textbook classic 'Norman Arches', (n.b. I come from a family of Stonemasons and did my apprenticeship in the '80s). Every day on my way to work I drive past the church at Patrixbourne , south of Canterbury, which is one of the relatively few remaining churches in Britain with similarly untouched 11thC Norman arches. By the way: Kent has more castles than any other British county!!! Happy New Year to you and I look forward to more !
Beautiful. Great video,great choice of music too.
When I was in the UK in 2007 I seen lots of castles 🏰 but I never got a chance to see this one . Thanks so much for the video it was awesome 😀
Hi Simon, such a romantic looking castle, a very intricate and well designed location. Loved the photographs at the end too. Thanks for sharing. x
Thanks sue 😉
The great siege of Rochester castle is
possibly the most famous siege of the
medieval period due mainly to the fact that its outcome would ultimately decide whether the crown of England would stand or fall. It is also the best documented of all medieval sieges.
The story really begins in the year 1204 when King John, the king of England, lost most of his lands in France including Normandy,
Anjou and Poitou to the king of France.
In an effort to regain these regions John had to raise huge amounts of money to pay his knights and also to recruit foreign mercenaries in order to do battle against the French king.
The money was raised by over-taxing his barons and extorting money in other ways such as fining people huge amounts for trivial offences.
This, and John's lack of success in France persuaded the barons to draw up a large list of complaints against him.
This list of complaints was called Magna Carta - the Great charter.
The king was forced to sign Magna Carta but, as soon as he had, he secretly wrote to the pope (Innocent III) asking that the charter be declared illegal and condemned, however, before the pope had an opportunity to write back, the rebel barons had agreed that John could not be trusted to adhere to the terms of the charter and had decided to offer the crown of England to Prince Louis, the eldest son of the king of France.
The scene was set for a bloody civil war.
King John had already taken possession of Rochester castle but under the terms of Magna Carta was forced to hand it back into the custody of the archbishop of Canterbury in May 1215.
In September the pope wrote to John announcing that Magna Carta was "not only shameful and base but also illegal and
unjust".
However, the Archbishop of Canterbury (Stephen Langton) refused to condemn the charter and was subsequently suspended from office.
In preparation for war John had been recruiting foreign mercenaries and from Dover he marched toward London, in his way stood Rochester castle.
The rebel barons had sent troops to Rochester under the command of William de Albini and when they arrived at the castle the gates were opened to them by the constable (Reginald de Cornhill).
Both John and the barons had sent envoys to the French court asking for support but the rebels had more to offer - The throne of England.
Prince Louis accepted the rebel's offer and made ready to cross the English channel from France.
Taking personal charge of military operations, King John marched to Rochester and by 13th October he was at the castle gates.
The rebels were expecting reinforcements from London but John broke down the bridge spanning the river Medway and proceeded to stable his horses at Rochester cathedral, he then sacked the cathedral and removed anything of value.
Orders were then sent to the men of Canterbury saying " We order you, just as you love us, and as soon as you see this letter, to make by day and night, all the pickaxes that you can. Every blacksmith in your city should stop all other work in order to make them and you should send them to us at Rochester with all speed".
Five siege engines were then erected, these giant stone throwing machines where intended to smash the mighty walls of the castle.
The outer walls were soon breached and the bailey was quickly captured, all that remained to do was to take the great keep.
By day and night John's siege engines battered the walls of the keep but the walls stood firm and soon John realized that he would have to review his tactics.
On 25th November 1215 John sent a writ to the justiciars saying "Send to us with all speed by day and night, forty of the fattest pigs of the sort least good for eating so that we may bring fire beneath the castle".
His men soon began to dig a mine beneath the south-east tower.
As they broke away the foundations of the tower they supported the structure with wooden props, the pigs were then slaughtered and their fat and other tinder was used to start a fire beneath the tower.
As the wooden props burned through a quarter of the building collapsed outward and John's men rushed forward into the gaping hole but the rebels fell back behind the dividing wall and defended their position.
Chroniclers tell us that a small number of the rebel garrison were allowed to leave the castle but on John's orders had their hands and feet lopped off as an example to the other
defenders.
Winter was now setting in and the rebel barons had long since ran out of food so on 30th November they had no other option than to surrender.
A gallows was set up with the intention of hanging the whole garrison but one of his captains (Savari de Mauleon) persuaded John not to hang the rebels because the same fate would almost certainly await John and his men if they were ever captured.
In the event, John hanged only one man, a young bowman who had previously been in
his service and by whom he felt personally betrayed.
The remainder of the rebel barons were taken away and imprisoned at Corfe castle amongst others.
For almost two months the rebels had held out against the king's forces inspiring the Barnwell chronicler to write "No one alive can remember a siege so fiercely pressed and so manfully resisted"
When the south-east tower was rebuilt in the 1220's it was reconstructed in a rounded form to better deflect missiles and other projectiles, this also made it less susceptible to undermining.
© Paul Hillman 2021.
That’s a spectacular castle! Thanks for the tour!
This was fun, Thanks for bringing us along!👍😁👍
Extremely well done! Thank you, my British friend.
Thank you sir!
Wow !! Very cool Simon . Please do more !
I will try to get some more castles done soon 👌
Thank you! Rochester is one of the few I havent visited over the years, so its nice to see the interior.
"My local Castle" ! Something us europeans say without even thinking. Warwick Castle was my local Castle as a kid, now living in France, my local Castle is Josselin. Great video... made me homesick for Fish & Chips and a fight over absolutely nothing. 👍🏻
Fantastic shot of the castle on your closing of the video ....as always we look forward to your videos in Michigan
Thank you 👍
Another great video, especially as I love castles. One of the sieges was in the film iron clad. Also a pointless fact that I tell everyone when I am showing them around a castle is that the staircases ascend clockwise so the defenders could use their weapons in their right hand while the attackers would have to use their left or leave themselves un-guarded if they used their right hand, sorry about that :)
Ahh yes i know about the defensive nature of spiral stairs ;-) send the left handed guy up first.
Thanks for this. Didn’t expect you to do an above ground site. I’m in Rochester but haven’t been in the castle for years. Your great photography is very inspiring and, of course, the history stuff is what it’s all about. I’m in the castle tomorrow to soak it all in. Huge thanks for all your sharing your experiences. Love it all.
Same here. I'd not been into the castle for at least 10 years.
Good place to work on your cardio with all those stairs. Thank you for bringing the views because my health is bad and theres no way i can walk all those stairs. Thank you.
Nice!...thank you, great photos as well...love to see more castles, and underground bits..
Tony, Los Angeles.
I will try to do a couple more castles in the future 👍
As a teenager I spent many happy times at the castle. Only sixpence to get in, I used to just daydream as I gazed out over the river. I tended to get kicked out of the Cathedral crypt though. It was a peaceful place to read...and daydream
Love Rochester castle 👍
Here’s another factoid.
From the base of a turret looking up, you will notice that the stairs rotate clockwise. This makes it awkward for an attacking right- handed soldier to swing a sword. However the defending right-handed soldier at the top of the tower has room to get a good swing at his foe below. :-)
Unless you send the left-handed guy first! 🤣
That’s one hell of a castle you have there, thanks for showing me around enjoyed it. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🛸🛸👍👍
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing view
I visited this castle on a school trip about sixty years ago. Only a short time in its history.
Live just up the road! I would LOVE to get in the tunnels if anyone knows how to and wants to come! Great vid man xx
Rochester Castle doesn't have any tunnels. Are you talking about Shorts?
@@SubExploration yeah I think I am lol x
There are currently no "unofficial" ways in. Only way in at the moment is via one of English heritage's tours which you can find details of here: www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/me-shorts-tunnels-Oct/
People have got lost in the caves and have had to call the fire brigade to get them out.
I went there the other week. Cool place
will be there next may 2022 really looking forward to!!
Local lad here, live in Gravesend. Seen the castle a million times but never been in it, so thanks for this!
You should go in the next time you go past.
Magnificent truly, i love the designs of the old archways
Thanks Sub Exploration. 👍👍👍👍
I've been to this castle so many times
I love Castles. Thanks. Not to many in America.
Awesomeness I wanted to go up to the top but my head was spinning with the circular stairs
Thank i really enjoyed this. I always try to imagine what life was like for them
Awesome Simon. one day i would like to visit the UK and look at the history. 👍
Hopefully you will get the chance one day 👌
Really would love to see more videos like this - I live in the UK but rarely get to visit places like this!
I will try to get a couple more castles done 👍
Sub Exploration castles! Ruins! Anything!
Enjoyed the casual history :D
Thank you 😍
Great castle! Thanks for showing us around. I'm lucky enough to live in North Wales, and so have loads of castles on my doorstep (including two within a mile!)
Ahh yes. You guys also have a butt load of abandoned mines too ;-)
Nice one !!
I see my mates boat . Love Rochester heard its changing fast sadly
This is true unfortunately. Much like many towns. On the bright side we have the sweeps and dickens festivals which keep many of the old English traditions alive.
me encanto tu vídeo del castillo rochester, seria genial que pudieras explorar las partes cerradas al publico
We have a nice slice of History here in Medway. Great vid.
An another excellent documentary and what a beautiful place to do it, also well done on finding the toilet. Another little fact during a siege archers dipped there arrows in animal carcasses and poo, this was very clever because you do not have to actually hit someone with the arrows just s cut caused fatal infection and death
Nice 👌
Thank you for a pleasant time warp back to the very early seventies looking over the bridges which when I was a nipper then, the old abandoned hogback railway bridge was being converted into the modern road bridge of today. As a kid I often went into work with me dad at all the signal boxes around the place as back then still most stations had their own box and sometimes like Cuxton Down Main in between stations as that was the signal box between Strood and Sole St and very pleasant in the summer looking down the gentle Cuxton slopes. My dad often when at Snodland station/crossing box used to entertain Ted from the 1970's band Judge Dread who was the first to "christen" the all new plumbed in toilet me dad put into the signal box replacing the "thunderbox" cess pit arrangement which my mum refused to use, as Ted often liked to drop in for a cup of tea and my father was a legend on British Rail for his tea consumption (22 mugs an hour he was rated at by one of his managers on BR). We were living in Riverview Park which was built on the old RAF Gravesend site, happier days back then and so much to do if you had a good bike and a sense of adventure and my old purple Raleigh Chopper was seen all over the show in Kent as I ranged out with packed lunch to all the fun places to explore :) Cobham and Bluebell woods were great summer holiday haunts especially Cobham with the old bomb craters and you could literally soar high on your chopper or grifter on some of the jumps we had going.
Have you thought about seeing what is about in what was the Nore (Queensborough) which at the time was one of the biggest royal naval establishments in the world and run down pretty much after the mutinies that hit Portsmouth as well? Its hard to think that sheltered waterway once was crammed in with ships, prison hulks, beached men o' war on their sides having their rotten keels replaced or recoppered and for many years the place that stopped invaders heading up the Thames to capture London.
I love sitting in these gadens and just wondering what went on inside these walls throughout the years.
This castle was featured in the film "Ironclad"....well worth a watch ☺.
The 1826 bit was probably the water supply as the well was in the middle and it ran up the centre of the castle, shame you missed the main entrance as it’s set up high and was protected by a drawbridge originally, the stairs up were believed to be set a certain way to make it difficult for right handed attackers to swing swords if you ascending the stairs, but descending the outer stairs the right handed attackers had a full swing. Being most of the attackers were right handed it seems sound. The siege where the tower was destroyed by undermining actually didn’t end there the defenders stayed behind the second wall that runs up the middle of castle for several more days and only gave up due to hunger. I used to live in area and could saw the castle everyday
I was kinda hoping that you'd say what was the other different areas in the castle...
Would they allow you to fly the drone over the top for a view down on the ground and castle? If they will you could do a short fly over video with some random facts.
Probably not but then again our drone has a range of 12km so it's not like they would catch us ;-)
@@SubExploration Well then maybe a project for the future.
Love the video feasts! By the way, I think the reason why the turret collapsed during a siege was because the attacking army dug tunnels under its foundations making it unstable. And one of the main reasons why castles have moats is because it makes tunnelling a hazardous :-)
Yes that's right. I had completely forgotten about the tunnel until another viewer reminded me hence the pinned comment.
`ey mate, have you considered mixing a bike vid with these exploring vids? I know I'd love one! Maybe filming the way to the location on the bike and then the exploring bit? I think that'd be quite cool.
I enjoyed that mate
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1:38
was that a dead pigeon? :O
castles and tunnels. my fav
Cheers from my local area, ROCHESTER, NY :)
Nice. I'm guessing that Rochester NY is probably a bit bigger than Rochester here.
Very nice video. I really enjoyed it. I'm in the US and we have no castles. Thank you for the video.
No problem, any time 👍
Very good film👍 that castle is in better condition than the one in my city 😂😂
Which castle is that?
Newport in South Wales a lot of it has fallen into the river Usk but the homeless like it 😂😂
My local castle aswell!
Cool video
They should restore it, it is a great place.
It's about as restored as it can be without ruining the original history. Occasionally they dig up something new but it’s often hidden away from the public.
what gets me is. why was a church built right next to the cathedral or cathedral built next to a church ?
Urrrrmmmmm. That's a bloody good point! I'd never really questioned that before 🤣
Nonsense! I live in Rochester... we don't have anything *NEARLY* this old!
You must be confused! It looks like you're in Europe somewhere!
( Greetings from Rochester, NY :P )
PS "first", I guess...
I am familiar with Rochester NY and was amazed to see you have a Chatham and a Kent all very close by. Its almost like history itself seeing people name the places they emigrated from.
@@ashenverdict well, actually Chatham & Kent are both on the opposite side of the state, in the Hudson Valley ( ...whereas Rochester is in Western NY ). A lot of people don't realize that NY is actually larger than England! It would take somewhere approaching 4 hours to drive to Chatham & another hour to Kent...
But I totally get your meaning! :]
My Mom grew up in Liverpool, NY & I've spent a good part of my life in Syracuse! We've even got a Mexico & an Egypt!
Ba dum dum PSSSH 🥁
my man, castle time!
I can just imagine the siege of Rochester Castle.
The enemy firing there huge rocks onto a catapult and the protectors of the castle throwing hot oil on the enemy while soldiers fire there arrows with fire on there tips. Classic.
Yes yes yes I ❤ castles and ive never been to this 1 thankyou 👌
Nice username 🤣
My mate thought it would be funny when I was out the room he changed my name 72days till I can change it 😂😂😂
This is where I live in Rochester Kent.
It was undermined during the Baronial Wars. That was when King John renegued on his promises in the Magna Carta and the noblemen rebelled. They bottled him up in her for a long time. If you want a movie version, check out "Ironclad". Not a bad movie.
I AM one of your American friends, but I was bought up on Sheppey, so I did school trips to this castle. As Norman castles go, it's not in bad condition, but what a fabulous place it must have been in its prime.
Sheppy?! Thank god you made it out alive 😉
i grew up there too, im from chatham
Who is the young girl in the closing credits?
Word 👍
Out of breath and motion sick .
Cool castle though 😮
I dunno if you would have been old enough, but was Dreamland the best day out for you as a kid as it was for us back in the 70's? Dreamland was London's Disneyland as easy to jump on a train from Gravesend where we lived or later on Bromley South where we moved to, 3/4 hr later with the sun shining we would hit the beach, act stupid with the sand and waves and then me mum would say "boys, its time" and we crossed the road and into the wondrous world of Dreamland, with all the cool rides and glass maze, ice skating, water chute, scenic railway rollercoaster, arcades and then it was waiting at the station to head on home abs knackered out. I went to Margate a few years back and it had changed so badly, stinking kebab shops and pissed up kids and no Dreamland as "someone" thought it a good idea to torch the place, maybe as a favour to allow flats and houses to be built there, and the flies and just awful stink made me very sad.
Afraid I the earliest I visited dreamland was the late 90s and it was not as you described. The big wooden rollercoster was good tho. Yes most of our old seaside towns have turned to pot. I was in Margate about 2 months ago visiting a bunker and wow it looks like crap now.
What? No Kurzel at Southend? :-)
I took my younger siblings out for a day trip to them called, Bem bom brothers or something in the 80s and missed the last train home to Essex. My mum didn’t drive and had to organize someone to pick up 5 of us at 12 at night (I was only 15!) great memories. Love Margate, but not as much as chatham. Will be my final place.
9:50 They don't want anybody poking their heads out the windows in case another castle goes past in the opposite direction
Its crazy to think that your walking on the spot a king or a knight walked, maybe even ur ancestors.
Whose playin?
LOL 🤣 I could hear the concert from my house. Couldn't wait for Craig David to STFU 🤣
That Poor Pigeon slipped and fell on those cruddy old stairs and died lol
lol
Guide books are available in the castle shop, please buy one and read it.
Your knowledge of the castle is quite poor.
You wouldnt burst into flames, God loves you and to bring us all this history means you have a good heart. I bring you love from America, Houston, Texas. Oak Ridge North actually if you want to google a more exact location.
5 mins down the road from me
Did you hang round for "Rod Stewart at the Castle" Bruv??? What a Geezer mate, what a fuckin' Plonka aye.... Bit of bonus footage would have been the go.....!
Looking at the signs they had up, I think they search you to make sure you don’t have recording equipment for the concerts. Not that I couldn’t sneak gear in ;-)
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2:43 So would I
Castles are the safe places for the filthy rich of days gone by, to day they have high tech bunkers.
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So you're not a " DEVIL DODGER " then .😈😈😈😈😈😈😈
I'm sure they would just clean the rotting carcuss and chuck them on a bonfire, don't sound legit.
Read the last bullet point...
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Castles_of_England/Methods_of_Attack
So many dead pigeons!
Lol or you could be surprised by the peace and love of God
Did i or did i not spy the bridge with the toilet under it you went to
Did i or did i not spy the russian sub you went on
lol you may have ;-)
How many things are wrong with this video?
1 Daylight
2 Pointing the camera out windows and showing the location
3 Naming the location
4 Naming the river next to the location
5 Wikipedia link to the location
I didn't realize this was one of your videos when I first started watching it.
🤣 I forgot to mention that it costs £5 to go in.
nice video folk! should have got some drone shots :D
Badger was at work and I'm not trusted with the drone 🤣 took a good little timelaps on the Osmo pocket though which is on Instagram 👍