Governor's Green (Portsmouth) | Series 17 Episode 9 | Time Team

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A park just behind Portsmouth's Tudor naval defences is the site of one of the city's oldest buildings: a hospital built by monks in 1212. A small part of it still stands, converted to a beautiful church, but no one knows where the rest of it was or what it looked like. Armed with geophys equipment and some of the oldest maps in Britain, the team set about unearthing Portsmouth's medieval past.
Series 17, Episode 09
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[@walterlegere1403]

I literally came across this show completely by accident last year during the height of the pandemic and I must say, it has become my most favorite show I've ever watched on television and on KZbin! It just absolutely astounds me the sheer amount of history that exists on the British Isles! This team of specialists, professionals and experts all work so well together and they really seem to have fun and it's clear to anyone with a brain that they love what they do. They brave all kinds of weather and the elements to find real answers to the questions they ask and those that ask them to solve. It's educational, informative, entertaining and I love how they involve children and the people of the communities they investigate. What a wonderful treasure this show really is. I have to admit my favorite personality from this show is Phil! I've never seen someone so enthusiastic and eager to put a shovel and trowel into the ground as he is. He really knows his stuff and it's a load of fun to watch him take the Mickey out of Tony when never he gets the chance! I watch this every chance I get. Thank you Time Team, for making these wonderful shows available for us all to watch, enjoy and belly laugh at! And thank you Tony for being such a wonderful host and making it fun and enjoyable for us all!

[@mazdaman2315]

One other show I recommend watching after youve watched every time team episode that’s history related is ww2 air crash investigations there are only 5 episodes but they are good

[@amyogden7376]

If you want more information on medieval hospitals, look into the Hospice at Beaune in France. It is amazing as a museum originally built to serve the poor and those with the plague. When they spoke of how the beds were lined up in this hospital, that’s exactly how they were in Beaune. Wonderful place to visit - they raise money through wine auctions.

[@jackhoyne6240]

Some call it fate I call it the algorithm

[@joshschneider9766]

Also, every episode has an official archaeology report filed with the British government for it. They are filed at Wessex archaeology and can be viewed as a PDF on request if I'm not mistaken.

[@walterlegere1403]

@@joshschneider9766 Thanks for the info. That doesn't surprise me at all. Make it "official"

[@alisterx8698]

The beauty of not growing up with this TV show is now I can watch all these episodes and they’re all new to me 😁

[@martinpacker1616]

Seeing them again - as I am - is very nice, too.

[@ghomerhust]

im american, so we didnt get any cool programs like this. finding them on youtube is like an entirely new thing. it's so awesome.

[@Trebuchet48]

This one wasn't all that new, because I watched a differently edited version a few months ago. Dear Time Team Classics: Don't do that!

[@AndrewMartinIsHere]

I watched many of them when they were first shown, but I’m now forgetful enough to experience them as if new as well 😅

[@leifvejby8023]

Allister Bridge You lucky sod, I'm re - re viewing them a third or fourth time! ^_^

[@brothermaleuspraetor9505]

You'll never find banter as wholesome and genuinely loving as you see in this crew. Time Team really is a national treasure of its own. 'I think we've got a wall in 'ere Tony!'

[@aowi7280]

I swear I see Tony and Phill in those illustrations. Those drawings are some of the best parts of this show.

[@hansdorst3005]

And Mick as well! Completely agree with you, Victor's work was a major contribution to this show!

[@natalieg90]

Rest in peace both of them mick and victor. It would be nice to think now and again victor added Tony and phill in his drawings sneakily 🤣

[@mikedaniel1771]

13:37 I thought the same thing - the two standing on the left are Mick and Phil, with Tony penciled in to their left...

[@musical3lottie]

Victor did often include members of the team in his drawings; in some of the earlier programmes it was explicitly commented on - though watching these ones on KZbin I'd actually forgotten about it, until reading your comment.

[@joshschneider9766]

Not only was Victor a prolific illustrator across like eight different genres but he was an extremely generous teacher who wrote several how to books on various types of drawing. Google his name and you will find his Wikipedia he was an astoundingly accomplished man.

[@MORGUEZSZ]

I’ve lived in Portsmouth my whole life, and Gov’s Green and the church were a huge part of my childhood. It’s truly enchanting to see my home carefully examined and its rich history brought to light. Thank you so much for this.

[@jamesrivis620]

My step grandfather, 'Pop' Goldsmith' was head foreman at the Portsmouth dockyard during WW2 and had a few tales to tell. He would have enjoyed this thoroughly ! He and 'Mum' lived on Wadham Road in the old North End. All the streets ran parallel . Mum spoke of walking home one dark winter's evening when the siren went off warning of yet another German air raid. Passing the entrance to an underground shelter where hundreds were dashing down to safety, she chose to take her chances and walk the last few hundred yards home. An attacking bomber dropped a string of bombs across all the parallel housing, hitting each street in the #50 ,killing the residents instantly. Pop and Mum lived at #49 Wadham Rd.At the very moment which could have been their last, the pilot turned off left to head for the naval dockyard, sparing my relatives. However, one heavy bomb headed, by chance, down the shelter's steps which Mum had chosen to pass by shortly before, the bomb killed several hundred unlucky folks and their families the moment it exploded. Such were the vagaries of wartime experience. This was the only wartime experience anyone ever told to me as a young boy.

[@verysurvival]

5 bombs were dropped on Oriel Road that is parralel and the next road north of Wadham road hitting the houses in a line , 10th March 1943. It was probably this raid that is remembered. A

[@jamesrivis620]

.......Wow...and I was born in Scarborough 1.29.43 to my WAAF Mum !!

[@Bungiman]

I think luck plays a big part 🤔 sadly we never know when or where .

[@michelleboots4093]

My mother in law did the same thing one night....folks in the shelter died due to a ruptured gas line... I'm not sure where in Portsmouth she was living at the time but she was bombed out 3 times.. I told her many times what an amazing woman she was...her answer was always the same..."we just did what we had to do" ❤

[@JH-lh9hr]

As an avid lover of Archeology, this show is amazing. It helps me stay calm and helps me with my anxiety. I love this crew! Tony is so cheeky.

[@lmtt123]

Need a millennial hug for your ADHD?🙄

[@sandrasmith9617]

I'm enjoying how Victor is using Phil and other crew members in the drawings 😁

[@natalieg90]

Ikr a fan for years and I only just noticed that. Wonder how many more pictures feature the crew and we had no idea. Will have to rewatch all episodes again to see how often he was being sneaky. . . What a legend

[@Happyheretic2308]

@@natalieg90 watch for Victor’s drawing of Viking raiders leaping off their longships (can’t remember the episode, sorry!) …😀

[@BunzJackson]

Yeah, I actually giggled out loud when I noticed that. Victor’s art is always great.

[@joshschneider9766]

In addition to being a prolific illustrator across several genres (look up his drawings of the Somerset downs for example) Victor was the author of a bunch of books on the topic of how to drawml. He was such a a kind and generous soul.

[@joshschneider9766]

He did that from the start of the show.

[@ninakronesfranzen3851]

This is so addictive. Whenever I see a field or hill with some stones or bumps now I wonder where to dig the first trench! And I do not even live in the UK….

[@elenavaccaro339]

😄🙃🤭😂🤣😅😆😄🙃🤭😂🤣😆 The same here! Only I might find Native American cemeteries. A bit further south, Mounds from the Mound Builders.

[@scottzehrung4829]

Lumps and bumps!

[@tango6nf477]

Oh how I miss this show and the great people in it.

[@imapaine-diaz4451]

I lived just across the green from here (46 Osbourne road) in the early seventies and walked by every day to my job in old Portsmouth and to work on our sailboat in the Portsmouth sailing club boatyard on tower street. Good times in the Still & West with my mates after a hard days work also. Ahhh, to be young, newly married, and doing the thing I loved again!

[@abigailgerlach5443]

Nice to see Alex Langlands digging away. His programs living a life as a medieval farmer etc is one of the best on television!!!

[@54mgtf22]

Love Phil and Mick in Victor’s drawing 😂😂

[@1066gaz]

I must have watched every single episode of time team since the nineties. Would like to see a new series in the near future.

[@nbk9372]

13:45 take a closer look and see if you're able to recognize the characters in Vic's painting. Vic honors his colleagues in many of his artwork, what a gift to leave with TT family and its viewers!

[@joshschneider9766]

I addition to being an amazing illustrator he was also the author of half a dozen books about how to draw. The. Man was truly as giving as he was skilled

[@gozznut]

Lol I was literally about to write a comment here saying that Vic's sketch looks like Mick and Phil were staying in the hospital, then saw your comment ❤️ (Tony looks like he's there in spirit as a ghost 😅)

[@crowjr2]

At 14:05, that's obviously Mick, Phil, and Tony. Such a great touch by the artist!

[@benediktmorak4409]

don't know how many i have watched two or three times already over the years. and they are still - new - to me.

[@workingguy-OU812]

One of the best episodes for seeing the current environment around England.

[@malcolmformosa1772]

Hi my eldest daughter Amber and Dad we are all watching the Time Team from all the way down under from Mount Gambier in the State Of South Australian, our 24th times Great Grandfather was King John I. 🥇🇦🇺🦘⚜️👑⚜️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@jpavlvs]

48:30 the Picture of the hospital by Victor is wonderful. Mic with the crutch , Phil next to him and Tony standing beside Phil. Great but of inside art by Victor.

[@Maywyn]

This show would be a hit aired a PBS channel in America.

[@kreiner1]

I think its so cool to live near a place that you could find runes like that. I just find that fascinating.

[@Kittycats26]

Domonic was my tutor when I was at Portsmouth Uni! I lived there 4 years and didn’t know the history of the church despite it being a regular passing point on summer walks

[@lmtt123]

After 4 years at University you didn't learn how to spell Dominic?🙄

[@AvaT42]

I do not remember this episode, it was good to see. I had to chuckle when they had already uncovered the medieval floor and did not realize it, poor guys.

[@quokka0.0nraven]

I sit in amazement watching and learning history at the same time😊😮❤

[@TheDiveO]

43:35 love the joke about Phil Harding & company being contemporal guests of the infirmary.

[@SharonD369]

Oh wow i remember this, i live just up the road from this church and green 👌👌

[@rebeccacamacho-sobczak4282]

Phil is the happiest man alive when it comea to archeology

[@willowmoon7]

Gods I love the affectionate bickering 😂❤

[@lizzy66125]

one of the best episodes.thank you.

[@sicktodeath0_0]

I don't know if this is the case in the UK, but I've seen many instances of property owners not wanting "official" archeological surveys done on their property because it's usually a long, drawn out process, and might end in legal troubles. Even if the survey isn't done or if they find nothing, the property owner's rights can be suspended until the process is concluded. I see real value in having a show like Time Team do a three day archeological survey, because you don't have to wait for a bureaucracy to get arround to doing it, you don't have to report anything if you don't find anything noteworthy, and you don't have to pay for it yourself. ♥️✌️

[@b-positiveginny]

Nicely made!!!

[@sheilawhite8314]

just checked my google and it is the old Haslar Hospital you said Portsmouth they say Gosport lol. All of my family went there they were so upset when the MOD decided to close it down as the nearest one was in Portsmouth QE etc. Sorry this one is very close to my heart as i was born in Portsmouth brought up in Fareham.

[@PompeyChris71]

What a shame they couldn't carry on and uncover it all. In the past two years though, work on the nearby promenade uncovered many parts of the fortifications. Some of which were left uncovered and you can now walk around.

[@Moongirl12121]

2:44 not the dude dodging how he got permission for them to dig, just like how politicians dodge questions XD

[@AvaT42]

Omg! Not a chance I could have been as brave as Stewart! Omg!!🤦‍♀️

[@tanithmessenger3581]

All those years of my school using the green for sports and we had no idea what was below our feet!

[@YvonneWatson-ff5ex]

As much as I love every one of these videos, I also find the comments very interesting. I’ve watched so many of them that I can’t ever remember which ones I’ve seen but usually if I read the first comment I’ll remember whether I’ve previously seen it. It doesn’t really matter though because I’ll gladly rewatch them if only to once again live vicariously as an archeologist. Oh, to be able to do it all over again and follow my true love of archeology instead of settling for something that someone else wanted me to do. Sigh 😔

[@colinsaunderson6682]

love time team ..it never ages

[@paddy1952]

I love Time Team. Having watched it with, and without, Tony, I have to say that I don't miss him when he's absent.

[@sheilawhite8314]

I lived in Portsmouth came to Australia in 1989 been back for years so it is really great to see this episode. Is this Hasler hospital my Father was a Royal Navy guy and we but I don't think it is which is the same

[@bainfinch]

29:25 another example of Ian's exceptional big digger skills.

[@sekhmara8590]

He could scrape the icing off a cake with that thing… no problem. Excellent skill.

[@bainfinch]

@@sekhmara8590 There's a video of Ian picking up a grape and dropping it into Paul's open mouth.

[@sekhmara8590]

@@bainfinch Seriously? That’s really amazing, and not surprising at all.

[@sadurkee5]

There’s a clip somewhere where he literally peels a banana with the teeth on the bucket.

[@bainfinch]

I saw that one a while back. One episode they digging in clay and Ian taking thin scrap the whole length of the digger.

[@Simonsimps]

43:35 Victor has drawn Mick, Phil and Tony on the left of the fire. At least that's what I think anyway lol edit* damn someone else spotted it first, should have read the comments......

[@annk.8750]

My uncle had a dog that was given to him by a naval officer in Portsmouth when his ship departed. Because of the bombing in WWII, "Goofy" could tell the difference in sound between British planes and German planes, and when he started to whine, EVERYBODY headed for shelter.

[@BC-ui9yt]

How interesting! Makes sense though. Thanks for sharing this tidbit.

[@annemouse6788]

What is interesting is that leaches can be used to reduce large bruises.

[@annk.8750]

When they were trying to determine the right position for the trench (circa 26 minutes) it looked very much like the walls on the geophysics were all on an entirely different alignment from those on the superimposed map. Nobody mentioned that at the time, but it looked very obvious to me. Were they finding things from a different period in history?

[@barbarabird3827]

This infirmary- chapel combo makes me think of the Hospice de Beaune - likewise well-endowed- perhaps mostly with vineyards?

[@thomasjunkins]

Love this. My dream would be able to come to one of your excuvations.

[@joshschneider9766]

There is a group called digventures in the UK that does archaeology as tourism and you can actually participate in a real life archaeology dig, it's not time team but it's for real archaeology all the same you should look them up it might end up being the trip of a lifetime for you.

[@henrybeenh7076]

Mick is slowly turning into Gandalf.

[@joshschneider9766]

Mick died about nine years before you posted that of a brain hemorrhage.

[@RoseCarroll-pk6mt]

Best time team

[@rosecedar8484]

Sounds like the intro tune is improved with bass for depth! Nice.

[@daveseddon5227]

First aired 24th October 2010 UK

[@margomoore4527]

All those lovely floors fragmented and competing! The flagstone one and the one with greenstones are things I’d love to have a copy of in my house, but there’s nothing complete! The dissonance is very bad feng shui-makes me shiver!

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

The various floors were from various times. Does your "feng shui" time-travel?

[@martinmarsola6477]

Another fantastic video. Thanks! 🇬🇧😊👍🇺🇸

[@deltadom33]

We put it trenches to find out what those walls and lines mean , Phil commenting on the geophys

[@forsakenarkhamasylum8160]

Thanks for uploading another episode that is already available on this channel.

[@Trebuchet48]

I think they may have re-edited it, but yeah.

[@delboytrotter2042]

A leech named John Gator.. just a perfect reply lol. Ainsworth is a comedian.

[@JendoB]

I briefly lived around the corner from this church back in 99.

[@kevinquist]

I find it amazing. British do archaeology with diggers and backhoes. Americans dig with puddy knives. tooth picks and tooth brushes.

[@StormwatchDruid]

Got a brew on, Will be good to welcome you back to Pompey once again. Poor Stewart with John Gater on his arm #spoiler

[@vicmclaglen1631]

Some of Tony's favorite words; "Meddy-YEEE-Vul, Posh, Status, Hall"

[@karlgieseler740]

At time 40:54, Helen Geake (British Archeologist and long-time member of Time Team) reads a list of the important people who attended the 4-day party, one of which was one "Prince Platoff". She then remarks that she doesn't know who Prince Platoff was. Prince Platoff is in reality Count Matvei Ivanovich Platov (8 August 1753 - 3 January 1818) was a Russian general who commanded the Don Cossacks in the Napoleonic wars

[@PuraVetus]

13:44 I'm pretty sure that's Phil and Mick.

[@raymondlovelock1437]

Henry the 8th has a lot to answer for when he closed down the churches and other places of worship. Particularly as people were being cared for both spiritually and physically.

[@SuperOverlord666]

Damnit I want to have a pint or 6 with Phil... someone send me a plane ticket and set it up!!! 😁

[@joshschneider9766]

Phil's in his eighties and doesn't drink anymore 😂

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

​@@joshschneider9766I'll drink for him then 😅

[@funnyriverred2501]

Tony and Phil makes this show I have to say.... I love the archeology and many of the cast, but its harder to watch the new shows without the banter between these two characters.

[@SmilingBirdNest-vh1ds]

Grew up here ❤

[@vondur.kottur]

Historia est magistra vitae

[@vonny10096]

13:44 looks like Tony, Phil and Mick!...unless im missing the point and it is them, painted for this episode! silly me.

[@davidrenton]

i think the sailor who made the ring had been at the 4 day party and maybe had'nt completey recovered

[@54mgtf22]

The old walls are visible on the ground in the current image on Google Earth

[@JimPinch-te9vq]

I like this

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Pause at 14:04 on Victor's picture. Who do you see?

[@Jadzeer]

Most children were evacuated by the train load, for years at a time. They were living with complete strangers.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Some of them found Narnia...

[@francescalittle4414]

Was Mick’s sweater a thing? The rainbow scarf reminds me of it…was this done on purpose?

[@raytrevor1]

I read somewhere that after the first episodes Mick was asked to wear something distinctive, so he wore a brightly striped sweater. It was really a bit of a joke, but he was asked to continue with it. I've no idea how true this is.

[@sekhmara8590]

@@raytrevor1 I also read that they wanted him in something more colorful, so he wore that sweater as a joke, then it became a thing.

[@paulnutter1713]

Need to fit another 40 minutes of adverts in

[@AnthonySinclair-Wellings]

America was interested in making money from supplying equipment and only Pearl Harbour bought them into the war. Britain took until 2006 to finish paying America for that equipment

[@alexisdespland4939]

why is the other bay justeasy of portsmouth not also have a big port

[@joshschneider9766]

It does for fishing boats. It's just never been a military bastion mate.

[@MikeWhiskyTango]

43:55 the artist drew Tony on the right.

[@bcpatterson012]

Premier a Repeat...Cool idea..unfortunately a lot of TV Programs are Repeats but not Premiered like Time Team...

[@margomoore4527]

The church is so well-preserved generally, why don’t they completely restore it, roof and all?

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

first aired 24 October 2010

[@sergarlantyrell7847]

33:08 - I wonder why there was a Danish patrol ship in Portsmouth.

[@BC-ui9yt]

I noticed a naval ship- perhaps a corvette (the brief look seemed too small for a destroyer, but I'm an old grunt so what the hell do I know)- but assumed it was RN.

[@joshschneider9766]

The Danes routinely cross train with the British navy which has current port facilities just north of governors green

[@harbourdogNL]

@@joshschneider9766 RN showing them how it's done. 🇬🇧

[@msfrred1st]

We very often see naval vessels of other countries visit Portsmouth just as our naval vessels visit foreign countries.

[@alexisdespland4939]

hpw old is portsmouth

[@manmaje3596]

Over 800 years

[@rimibchatterjee]

Whenever I see the geophys people pacing, I think, ‘bematist’.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

wow

[@emmanueldenizon6493]

like the pretty start fort from tutor time strangly enough i was thinking that was vauban who come with this kind of fortification if we follow your scholar narative , or maybe vauba was born way before his time and built all the start fort arounf de world , japan russia usa , indis etc,,,, maybe one of you will explain it to me THX

[@archstanton1628]

Historical reenactors should all be rounded up and exiled. Other than that, decent episode 👍

[@joshschneider9766]

16:20 just the visible marble in the trench at that moment has got to be like a years wages for a craftsman. God the conspicuous wealth of the church in tha time period lol.

[@lmtt123]

Zzzzzz

[@joshschneider9766]

​@@lmtt123get a life.

[@omallyster]

Please can someone sort out the silly advert breaks? I get you need to have ads but surely just put them in the original breaks rather than mid-sentence every 5 minutes? Very off-putting and disengaging,

[@sekhmara8590]

KZbin decides where the advertising goes, and it never makes sense.

[@michaelmage9627]

Land of my birth.

[@anotherbrickoutthewall9237]

Ohhh arrre Tony... Want to play pirates,no bomb squad tho.. Stone the crows!

[@The_real_Wayninsky]

What is it with Phil and those claws?

[@juliaforsyth8332]

Very good musician. Guitar player.

[@terrytowelling1807]

it saves him from buying a comb

[@christopherdrekr1078]

He uses them for scraping but they all have "special uses" the long thin one on the pinky he uses as a pointer. What kind of woman is ok with his Swiss Army knife approach to his nails God only knows.

[@greywater3186]

Stuart is the ideal

[@carolynallisee2463]

Well, now we've got some idea of what Henry VIII did with some of the churches and monasteries he appropriated during the Dissolution- turned them into armouries and military stores!

[@siliconjim2554]

A lot better use of the resources.

[@carolynallisee2463]

@@siliconjim2554 maybe, from his point of view. But whilst he was busy kicking monks and priests out of their churches and monasteries, and either selling the buildings off or stuffing them full of swords, he also destroyed a working support system for ordinary people.

[@lmtt123]

That's what they'd like you to think. It's called propaganda. Illiteracy increased as did poverty and disease. The Church provided structure, culture and care for the poor, sick, elderly and homeless.

[@lukeshepperd6252]

Love this but also hate this. I’m from Pompey and kept shouting out “what about the relation to the spur redoubt?!” So I’m now watching this alone without annoying the girlfriend

[@jonbarwick4881]

Just a heads up but tuis is episode 10 😇

[@joytothworld]

I'd be beautiful too see history of walks restoration done. Here in America it would be discarded as dumpster trash.

[@amcgowan1970]

The Great Hoffman (Dr. Hoffman of Stuttgart: owner of the largest leech farm in Europe}

[@siliconjim2554]

Danny B 303. I'd rather be a quack than a ducky.

[@judithmacfadzen9516]

Quite a few whiners here. If you don't enjoy watching, go away! And, enough of the american "political" b.s. commentary. 🙄🙄

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

True on there from a USA citizen 😊

[@Fush1234]

Isn’t ageing cruel …

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

Nope, I love it. Growing older is a privilege few 😊get .