If you’ve never seen Yeoman Warder Bill Callaghan doing his tours, they’re great. He has since retired but he can still be enjoyed on KZbin.
@polky5010 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful character, a great way to teach young, and old visitors, all about our amazing history. Smashing guy. Have been a few times to the tower ,he makes me want to go there again, to catch up on what I missed
@chillycheeks53187 ай бұрын
Our first tour was with Bill Callaghan who was fabulous but now retired. We have had several tours since with other Beefeaters who are all excellent. They work hard at their craft and are interesting and entertaining. If you visit the Tower be sure to take the tour. You will be well rewarded, it’s a great 45 mins. They bring the Tower and it’s associated British history to life! We look forward to another visit, hopefully.
@vincentlefebvre92557 жыл бұрын
This guy is simply fantastic ! Cheers from Canada .
@TheHypernaught6 жыл бұрын
great guys. veterans and funny. Super heroes of Britain.
@margaretpreston67966 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this. I have a photo of our young sons taken with this guy when we visited.
@cherylthorpe40875 жыл бұрын
Just got started with this, and I can tell this man is a showman! He's great!
@billygnasher Жыл бұрын
Even I would have enjoyed History lessons with this guy absolutely Brilliant.
@antowens62763 жыл бұрын
He is brilliant! Love his delivery, obvious vast knowledge and passion for passing it on.
@Secretorder134 күн бұрын
You've got to be an ex soldier to be a beefeater
@Ranillon10 жыл бұрын
When I visited the Tower in September it was this exact same beefeater who gave our tour. He was just as good then as this video.
@ronlamanna890810 жыл бұрын
cool...
@sarahwhitehead24387 жыл бұрын
Big Bill will always be me favourite!
@Thecollegeadmissionsconsultant9 жыл бұрын
I know this guy!!! He came to me, and told me to get my 2 year old son... he was in the gates with the ravens!!! And then, he had to go get him for me, because I could not get into the gate.
@ianwyj16 жыл бұрын
Excellent tour; he's got a touch of Edward Fox in his presentation.
@factnotfictionpeople13138 жыл бұрын
Scripted or not - and so much of it I reckon is not - these people are superb teachers of history!
@theodoremaximillios17973 жыл бұрын
@Kane Ismael tf my guy
@marklatimer73333 жыл бұрын
Finding a sergeant with a sense of humour is up there with the labours of Hercules.
@richardmeyer4183 жыл бұрын
Get them away from their duty to mould troops and some are extremely human - and funny.
@angelapugh48813 жыл бұрын
If my school history teachers had been anywhere near as good as these guys I'd have learned a lot more. Brilliant presentations by well versed presenters. I can' wait to visit Londonium again
@Secretorder134 күн бұрын
Exactly..You'll remember this..
@cogidubnus19538 жыл бұрын
Had to smile at "severance pay"...and later on love that kiddy... I think I like Bill Callaghan's commentary the best, but this is a wonderful (and very different), alternative...
@SuperBurlesqueGirl8 жыл бұрын
This must be one of the Royal Marines Bill mentioned ;)
@factnotfictionpeople13138 жыл бұрын
Can't be - he wasn't holding anyone's hand! LOL
@Secretorder134 күн бұрын
These beefeaters are really just actors..
@Vejur90002 жыл бұрын
He’s very good. He makes it fun and entertaining. I love the nonplussed expressions on some of the tourists....
@rambler2415 жыл бұрын
What a great performer, and what a voice!
@HamelinSong2 жыл бұрын
They are all ex military, they know how to shout 😂
@masterwebbe368310 жыл бұрын
This is an example of excellent commentary. The bar just got set high.
@hannecatton21797 жыл бұрын
Superb ! Like all the Yeoman Warders at Tower.
@magalahi028 жыл бұрын
"It could have been all yours if you'd paid your taxes"...I died! As an Royalist American I say, God Save the Queen!
@hiddenwoodsben6 жыл бұрын
would you be upset if i stood up proclaimed "god shave the queen!"?
@alan744536 жыл бұрын
Not if you`re sean connery..
@Derpasaurusrex16 жыл бұрын
An honest man has no country but his own.
@-----REDACTED-----6 жыл бұрын
You mean Loyalist American
@perperson1996 жыл бұрын
magalahi02 A proper loyalist American. The best kind
@TheHouseOfJokes9 жыл бұрын
First-rate youtube video. Thank you for revealing it.
@rhyfelwrDuw10 жыл бұрын
He's got more personality than the last video I watched lol!
@stephenh53723 жыл бұрын
Lovely entertaining video. And a guy enjoying his work. And he's bloody good at it also.
@lingofranca303410 жыл бұрын
Great guy! A marvellous example of how a real tour should be done :)
@santinoalfredo3906 жыл бұрын
great camera work dude
@stevesandford14375 жыл бұрын
It's amazing that these guys, all ex-servicemen, receive no formal training in how to present the script! (They just adapt it themselves.) Their memory and dramatic delivery might put many trained actors to shame! xx SF
@Jabber-ig3iw3 жыл бұрын
Their years as NCOs in the armed forces trains them for speaking in front of crowds in a commanding fashion.
@CAPDude446 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, Richard's deformities were very real, and not just a myth, as historians previously thought.
@shellieeyre87586 жыл бұрын
CAPDude44 - indeed; and the princes disappeared in the summer of 1483; there's really only one person culpable in their disappearance and/or death and that's the bloke who took the crown and was supposed to keep them safe.
@brontewcat5 жыл бұрын
Are you sure? His skeleton showed one shoulder slightly higher than the other not a hunchback.
@rambler2415 жыл бұрын
@@brontewcat Not a hunchback as you say. He suffered from scoliosis, severe curvature of the spine, as his skeleton showed when his skeleton showed when exhumed it Leicester in 2012. Shakespeare and many of his contemporaries didn't respect Richard, and so the "hunchback" myth was recorded for history.
@chrisohare796110 жыл бұрын
Well done Taff you haven't changed since 3RHA days
@gaiusmarius41129 жыл бұрын
Been there once I enjoyed listening to these peeps :D
@steveholmes34713 жыл бұрын
Fantastic what a lovely fella
@Angie-GoneSoon11 ай бұрын
Very entertaining!
@ronlamanna890810 жыл бұрын
Dickie Dover ripping yarns tours..he has a jack the ripper tour also..
@lordeden27329 жыл бұрын
To Jumped Up mart there is nothing wrong with calling the Yeoman of the Guard a BEEF EATER! Yeoman of the Guard is the official name and Beef Eater is a age old Nick Name used in Great affection by the Great British people.
@stevetaylor98463 жыл бұрын
As in "buffetiere".
@Nilguiri9 жыл бұрын
Great tour. How much do they charge for this?
@PhillRobinson6 жыл бұрын
History like it was
@koolyman9 жыл бұрын
how did you get the camera so stable?
@gmf1212666 жыл бұрын
Are you Americans looking forward to all the History? Could have been all yours if you'd paid your taxes! LOL
@kevinpiacente34563 жыл бұрын
No thanks.
@holdfast76573 жыл бұрын
Ha, ha. Very good.
@Bucky18363 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a sore loser 😅
@gmf1212663 жыл бұрын
@@Bucky1836Sorry but we beat you in round 2. 1812-1815. You signed a peace treaty before Andrew Jackson won the battle of New Orleans so it doesnt even count....sob sob.
@Bucky18363 жыл бұрын
@@gmf121266 yall were crying for help over them Germans 🧐🧐.....oh wait ....the windsors 🤣🤣🤣
@leod-sigefast6 жыл бұрын
I have heard that Scot free is from Old English or Old Norse 'Shott' meaning money or tax. Hence Scot free...meaning tax free
@TravelAndDiscover5 жыл бұрын
The uniform creates a strange temporal contrast with the background.
@MrDirtytricksss10 жыл бұрын
Dicky Dover ... Wonder if he's Ben Dovers dad ?
@holdfast76573 жыл бұрын
Shame my history teachers weren't this entertaining.
@darkdelta33772 жыл бұрын
Wow....
@annabarham1554 жыл бұрын
Dicky Dover? What a shame his name wasn’t Ben! 🤣😂
@kevinpiacente34563 жыл бұрын
If it took you more than 3 strokes you were no longer executioner
@kevinpiacente34563 жыл бұрын
If anyone goes to the tower where they have the memorial with anne boylen name on it she was not executed there
@dwboyle9 жыл бұрын
Lord Eden - if you don't know what you're talking about, please allow google to be your friend and discover the difference for yourself between Yeoman & Beefeaters - then you wont sound so foolish ;)
@benchscape55886 жыл бұрын
Lol
@helenadoyle10413 жыл бұрын
Wow I'm English and yet I still find him very hard to understand.
@yellowredyellow1213 жыл бұрын
Some of the Information about Richard III is out of date.
@erictaylor54626 жыл бұрын
Can you be a vegetarian Beefeater?
@koiil01486 жыл бұрын
Eric Taylor beefeater was a nickname but it grew on them and became the more common way of talking about them and you actually need the rank of at least WO2 and 22 years in her majesties armed forces
@erictaylor54626 жыл бұрын
I know the history of the Beefeaters.
@koiil01486 жыл бұрын
Eric Taylor cool I’m hopping to become one I’ve served 12 years in the light dragoons so 10 more to go
@erictaylor54626 жыл бұрын
Good luck. And like the angry guy in the song says, You have to eat your meat.
@koiil01486 жыл бұрын
Eric Taylor thanks
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@Mr0Judo0Man9 жыл бұрын
He's a Yeoman not a Beefater
@Puckoon20026 жыл бұрын
The Yeoman Warders, to use their full name, are also known as Beefeaters, but no one really knows why.