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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[walterlegere]

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 YouTube! 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!

[alisterx]

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 😁

[jamesrivis]

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.

[brothermaleuspraetor]

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!'

[aowi]

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

[JH-lhhr]

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.

[sandrasmith]

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

[ninakronesfranzen]

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….

[Maywyn]

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

[tangonf]

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

[nbk]

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!

[imapaine-diaz]

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!

[abigailgerlach]

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

[workingguy]

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

[PompeyChris]

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.

[benediktmorak]

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

[malcolmformosa]

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.
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[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.

[AvaT]

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.

[kreiner]

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