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When we were kids from notton we used to walk all over and many times visited the grave of charles waterton with the high metal railings round it but I've heard theres 2 so maybe its the real one with it having the spiked rails round the grave site very good walks around the area living and travelling around the areas on foot and excellent times with family and friends growing up

Very interesting thank you

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Really interesting! We hope to be able to head to Pontefract in the next few months, would love to experience the spooky dungeons, love the stonework! Great video :)

Why is there background music 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Great tour well done on subs

Charles Waterton first man made nature reserve

EXCELLENT video!! Thanks for sharing!!💖👍💚

Making the dungeon sound cozy af 😃

Salvia eh

lol I love it. Right from nightmare dungeon to licorice storage

Thanks for explaining it so details :)

During the first two sieges, the Queen's Tower hardly featured, other than being used by musketeers to fire at the besiegers on Munkhill. Swillington Tower on the other hand, was a hotbed of activity, including many sallies up Northgate, it also had a small cannon sited in it and even had access for horses. A good deployment for this equipment would be on the site of the two outer baileys. The site of Neville's Mount and the large King's Stable could be pinpointed and I strongly believe the bodies of some of those involved in the fighting lay waiting to be discovered.

VERY INTERESTING!! Thank you for sharing!!💗👍

Great sized plot for the UK, you really made the most of the space. Very impressive.

NONSENSE THEY USED QUARTZ EVEN MORE SO

I didn't even know Castleford had a museum?? Where is it??

Get rid of the candle...

In it’s prime it was the biggest castle in england

So interesting thank you from NZ

Dry Well or an Oubliette?

Is it true that Cromwell, Test Fired a Prototype Swivel Gun, Fresh from the Armoury at Hull from the roof of Walton Hall during the Siege of Sandal Castle?

Wow.I love your idea and can't wait to make me some with my grandkids.Thank you so much for sharing and stay safe 🙏 God Bless You and your's ❣️.MeMe

dude, this is cool

I am trying to find out if either the tops or the roots of skirret are safe for sheep to eat. Thanks!

I imagine John Grant and his fellow prisoners were greatly relieved when Parliament won and their imprisonment came to an end.

Is this the oubliette?

Can you give us the latin name?

Wasn't Richard II held there when he gave up his crown to his cousin?

Very interesting but distracting music.

I always thought it was pronounced 'Pomfret."

I was looking through my family stuff and apparently I have an ancestor who was locked up in this dungeon for a year.

I have been experimenting. Many years ago I read that soapwort was sometimes used as a gentle soap on delicate aged fabrics that needed careful cleaning. I found some soapwort in a friend's garden. (She thought it was a type of phlox) Anyway I rubbed some sap from the plant on my hands and washed them in water. Very slight lather and clean hands = result! So I grew some of his beautiful plant. I love everything about it especially the slightly musky scent (which I have seen reported as "unpleasant".) Life and work got in the way but I continued to grow a crop However it is only this year I have had time to make soap (much as you did but in the kitchen in a large saucepan with boiling water. ) I have been using it as a soap for my skin, a shampoo and soap for cleaning bathrooms - although that requires rather a lot of elbow grease too. I knew it was mildly poisonous but rinsed my skin and hair well. (I have not used it to bath my dogs) Recently I have read that it is seriously poisonous and should be kept away from water courses and amphibians etc. - I had been using the residue and waste water on the garden (it doesn't seem to have had any significant effect on the slug/snail population - but it might just have killed off the toads and frogs I suppose) I noticed that you mentioned composting - I put solid residue on my compost heap and vegetable plot. You do not mention that it is poisonous. My question is how poisonous is it? (I find it a lovely shampoo) Last autumn I was making cleanser (soap) from conkers. As children we were told not to eat them - only sweet chestnuts as they were mildly poisonous. (Not very - we made holes in them with skewers and put them on strings for the conker-playing season. I do not remember anyone being poisoned by conkers. Anyway I am now wondering (A) How we managed to survive and (B) should I stop my experiments. Surely this is something that would make a good subject for study. I expect it has been done - possibly many times- - and my playing around with plants I find here and there and bits of knowledge from grandparents etc whilst I enjoy it is not being done scientifically and could be downright dangerous. Where do I get tried and tested information from? PS. My grandparents and parents are all dead now. I am possibly next in line for falling off the perch - and I still have such a lot to learn!!

...in Ponte you mean?

Fantastic

Freaking amazing! I wonder if it can grow here in the high deserts of Southern California.

I do believe Richard 11 was murdered there

This was never open whenever I visited back in the 1980s!

Any particular history in Pontefract for archery/ warbow archery? Any arrow head finds or any literature to confirm this ?

He looks like CDawgVA lol

There is also an underground chamber which is accessed via a trapdoor level with the ground situated in the open grassy area at the centre of the castle. This was left open when I visited as a teenager, sometime in the late 60s or early 70s. I visited the castle again in the early 80s, when I found the trapdoor again, and saw that it had been padlocked shut. The chamber is quite small; in width I recall that the gap between the steps leading into the chamber and the wall opposite is less than 2', and the steps themselves perhaps 3' wide. The length of the chamber is approx. twice the length of the steps, or 6' to 8'. The walls were lines with stone blocks and the masonry was precisely cut. As this chamber was clearly too small to be a storeroom, perhaps it was built to imprison Richard II? If he was starved to death, it would have been important to isolate him so that no witnesses could attest to the manner of his death. He would have appeared to have died of natural causes and this was important when his dead body was taken to London and publicly displayed. I am surprised that the existence of the chamber appears t have been forgotten.

"We don't know what this was used for" riveting history, guys.

Do you have the items on display that Time Team found?

Been down there many times. Love it

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Brilliant. Would love to see this for myself. Can't wait until we can get travelling to castles again. Thanks for sharing.

What on earth was going on with video there, such poor filming and editing. Did the castle no justice at all, saving grace was the tour guide but come on Wakefield do better!

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