Who Was The Real Dick Turpin?

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Dick Turpin is without a doubt, Britain's most famous highwayman.
But, exactly who was Dick Turpin, and why is he so famous?
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Dick Turpin (Highwayman) timeline:
1705 Born, Hempstead, Essex
1725 Married & set up butcher's shop in Buckhurst Hill, Essex
1734 Member of the Essex Gang / Gregory Gang poaching in Epping Forest.
1735 First report of Dick Turpin as a highwayman
1737 Operating with Matthew (Tom) King
4th May 1737 Kills Thomas Morris, flees to Lincolnshire
Oct 1738 Arrested for shooting a game cock
Identity uncovered.
22nd March 1739 Trial
7th April 1739 Dick Turpin hanged at York
1834 Features in William Ainsworth's novel "Rookwood"
1866-68 Features in a Penny Dreadful series, which establishes his legend.
Chapters
0:00 Dick Turpin
2:09 John Hind
2:50 Claude Duval
4:11 John Nevison
5:35 Gentleman Robbers
6:28 The Wicked Lady
7:07 Gregory Gang
8:53 Not So Dashing
10:41 Gregory Gang Smashed
11:16 Highwayman
12:22 Killer
14:19 Black Bess
15:34 John Palmer
16:21 Arrest
17:38 Horse Thief
18:37 Twist of Fate
19:40 Dick Turpin hanged at York
22:02 Birth of a legend
23:59 Stand & Deliver
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@etiennesharp Ай бұрын

Immortalised in every pub in this country when someone is charged for an expensive pint: "At least Dick Turpin wore a mask!". Great video, Chris.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@johnscarr70 27 күн бұрын

If you visit York, his memory is kept alive by the banditry immortalised in their car parking charges. Touching gesture.

@TheJon2442 24 күн бұрын

@@johnscarr70er have you ever bought a pint in York!!!!!?

@johnscarr70 24 күн бұрын

@@TheJon2442 one or two! I tend to get done by hotel bar prices. Got a free one in the Hole in the Wall a couple of years ago!

@johnscarr70 22 күн бұрын

@@TheJon2442 one or two! My local stocked York Brewery Guzzler until recently. My York based drinking seems to happen in hotels, so not the best judge.( I did get a free pint in the Hole in the Wall a couple of years ago!)

@davidponseigo8811 18 күн бұрын

I'm American and my grandfather was one of the last horseback riding lawman or as he called it Riding Posse. He was a Sheriff in Louisiana from the early 1920's -50's and much of Louisiana was very rural and even though he did have a Model T the roads were so bad horseback was easier. He led a Posse to capture a man who killed a deputy and they went on horseback and captured him and he was the last man hung on the courthouse square. In 1934 he assisted with crowd control when Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed. He is even in many of the famous photos. He was not in the ambush posse but after at the scene and in Arcadia , Louisiana.

@TheHistoryChap 16 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching my video & for sharing your very interesting family story.

@aegontargaryen9322 15 күн бұрын

He really lived an interesting life and even took part in historical events . Hats off for your dad David

@jasoncornell1579 Ай бұрын

He's the Dandy History Chap that academics are too scared to mention he spends his time assembling facts and grabbing ur attention 😂

@sirloin8745 Ай бұрын

It’s kind of tough to tell a scruff, The big mistake he’s making?

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@SafavidAfsharid3197 27 күн бұрын

@@TheHistoryChapcan you cover Henry Avery loot of mughal fleet and the backlash it has on EIC

@j7bsecond540 24 күн бұрын

Bravo sir, bravo 👏

@kennyhagan5781 17 күн бұрын

Love the Ant music.....

@kaoskronostyche9939 Ай бұрын

Isn't it interesting how we glorify murderers, serial killers, robbers and all sorts of other nasty rubbish but completely ignore good people, good works? Thank you for another great story.

@bigblue6917 Ай бұрын

True. But we are talking of a period of English history which was extremely repressive towards the poor. As an example there is a record of a young girl hanged for stealing a gentleman's handkerchief. While at the same time a chimneysweep whose brutal actions caused the death of his young apprentice was only deported to Australia. So a gentleman handkerchief had more value than that of a young boy. There is also a record from the early 19th century of two young girls being hung, or more accurately slowly choked to death, for being in possession of forged banknotes. Their only crime being that they were sent by some person to take these fake banknotes to another person. So as far as the poor were concerned these were people striking back at their repressors.

@kaoskronostyche9939 Ай бұрын

@@bigblue6917 You are absolutely correct and well said too. I am a bit of a history buff so I am cognizant of the horrible treatment and the inequities. The connection I did not make was to the idea of rebellion or striking back. Thank you for pointing that out. Cheers!

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@Jaymark-gk4li Ай бұрын

I worked and lived out in Essex where he was infamous, having said that people were still banging on about how honorable the Kray family were 😅😂

@WarblesOnALot Ай бұрын

G'day, Ah..., Would ye be, perhaps referring to Warrant Officer Ben Roberts Smith, VC. Australian Federal Court-Proclaimed Multiple Murderer & War Criminal..., Decorated by QE-II for his Atrocious behaviour in Afghanistan...? D' y' mean THAT kind of British Commonwealth Fighting "Hero " ? And, why do you believe that Modern "official Heroes" are any better Morally, than any other Armed Bandit - Killing Strangers for profit while Armed & In Company - Exercising the "Right" conferred by their "Might"... (Which was the same Crime for which Hitler was later sentenced, in absentia, To Death...; By all they who Abrogated the "Right" to so sit and Judge one of their Fellow Human Beings...). EuroPeons appear to have a highly partisan, and malleable "View" of Morals & Ethics ; and why whatever any Brit can "get away with" Is "Obviously" Good and great in the eyes of God.. Because The Universal Creator Godtheory is, of course, assumed to be A (rich) White English Man...(!). Apparently... Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

@tomrowe6432 22 күн бұрын

You're right. The Adam and the Ant song is now stuck in my head.

@TheHistoryChap 20 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching my video

@sharonrigs7999 18 күн бұрын

I would much rather have a dandy highwayman make fun of my clothes and musical taste than....you know act like actual highwaymen

@williamfogarty4001 16 күн бұрын

As a teen in the early 1970s, living in Epping, I and friends had great fun exploring around High Beech, where Dick Turpin was reported to have hidden in a cave, some remains of at least one cave are true and we spent time looking around the area. It is still a nice place and not too spoilt by relentless development. Regards to all who have enjoyed this part of the world. Bill Fogarty.

@TheHistoryChap 16 күн бұрын

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@Lilyofthevalley377 7 күн бұрын

I lived in Long Sutton, Lincolnshire for 25 years. You tell the story of Turpin in the town where a pub was named after him 'The Dick Turpin' in earlier days the building had been a 'Butcher's' I believe with a slaughter house behind. New owners of the pub refurbished it, they found that the roof had been thatched so reinstated it. The pub is now called 'Palmers'. Not far away is 'Swap Coat Lane' where Turpin changed coats with the Blacksmith in his bid to flee. Thanks for the video 🎥

@TheHistoryChap 7 күн бұрын

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@leanneevans3000 3 күн бұрын

British history is often brutal and blood thirsty but always fascinating. A great program

@TheHistoryChap 2 күн бұрын

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@PatriciaHarrison-mr2xj Ай бұрын

There was a highwayman, William Buxton from Derbyshire, who was first caught in London when he asked the lady whose purse he had just stolen, if she had enough money to pay the coachman and as he fished in her purse for some coins for her, the coachman hit him. He then escaped from a prison hulk and made his way back to Derbyshire. He carried on robbing the stage coaches and eventually was caught in Ashbourne, having been spotted by two farm workers. He was hanged in 1780s at Derby. I love the stories of highwaymen, and of course, the highwaywoman who lived just up the road from me. Thanks Chris. Great talk as usual.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@dancingdingo 29 күн бұрын

I'll definitely check that out! Thanks 😊

@harryshriver6223 Ай бұрын

A really well done production, Chris. I really liked it and learned all about the highwaymen of England. The funny thing is that when I was in the army, my vehicle which I was assigned I named The Highwayman. I think you should do something about a female highwaywoman, it would be interesting to see the other side of the coin.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching & for your interesting story.

@Sarah-JaneR32 Ай бұрын

Great video Chris, an ancestor of mine was a highwayman, hanged on Wimbledon common, my sister is doing our family tree and found it, I think it was the London to Brighton coach so went for the big one :) take care

@mathewgurney2033 Ай бұрын

When one branch of your family tree is a gibbet, heh many such cases.

@Sarah-JaneR32 Ай бұрын

@@mathewgurney2033 there was a poacher as well who got caught, not a successful heritage I have :)

@mathewgurney2033 Ай бұрын

@@Sarah-JaneR32 That's ok, it's getting positively medieval around here again, i'm a speech criminal probably due to have my tongue legally torn out by the root any minute now.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it & thanks for sharing your family story.

@johnscarr70 27 күн бұрын

Seems a bit unfair just for making good use of the things he could find...

@jeningle8288 Ай бұрын

Growing up in Papworth Everard on the Great North Road, and being horse mad i often imagined Black Bess thundering past on her way to York. Another illusion shattered! Great story well told Chris, thankyou.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@johnhorse5551 16 күн бұрын

There's a documentary out it's old but I've seen it, they got one of the top endurance horses of the world at the time, put him on a treadmill and put him through his paces picked an Arab for their Endurance sorry don't know the name of the documentary

@johnhorse5551 16 күн бұрын

i❤🐴 2 x

@georgeamanor-boadu6771 Ай бұрын

Growing up, a cousin of mine learnt about Dirk Turpin and was so fascinated that he named himself Dirk Turpin. Now we know where he got the name from.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to share your family story.

@buckodonnghaile4309 16 күн бұрын

I went to school in Canada decades ago with a guy who's surname is "Turpin". I had no idea why many called him "Dick". Apparently it's a historical reference and not a measure of his personality.

@thedisabledwelshman9266 Ай бұрын

brilliant as always chris. enjoyed it.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@diremond3700 Ай бұрын

Very interesting. Thanks for the upload.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@RailfanDownunder Ай бұрын

Fascinating .. superb work again sir 😊

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@davidwoods7720 Ай бұрын

Thanks so much Chris

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@andysvehiclehistorychannel 3 күн бұрын

I'v been waiting for this video!

@FranciscoPreira 28 күн бұрын

A great video indeed, great info thanks for sharing.

@TheHistoryChap 27 күн бұрын

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@MrJayuk88 19 күн бұрын

Great video as always ! Thanks

@TheHistoryChap 19 күн бұрын

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@markjones6564 15 күн бұрын

Another great video👍I thoroughly enjoyed it👌

@TheHistoryChap 12 күн бұрын

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@stuartmiller8053 Ай бұрын

well told as usual and an interesting bit of history that I haven't paid much attention to. thanks

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@karlchance3717 Ай бұрын

Bloody brilliant!!!

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@paulgibbons2320 Ай бұрын

Good delivery. Good watch👍

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@user-pi5kt4ox3g Ай бұрын

A very interesting story ( and well told ). Thanks, Chris!

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@stevesloan7132 18 күн бұрын

You are just the best! Keep up the good work. And thanks

@TheHistoryChap 18 күн бұрын

Thanks, will do!

@mediapartners9950 29 күн бұрын

Another very interesting video, many thanks 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@TheHistoryChap 29 күн бұрын

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@hotmechanic222 Ай бұрын

Another great video, keep up the good work

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Thanks, ill do, glad you enjoyed it.

@andrewsteele7663 Ай бұрын

Thanks again Chris, another brilliant telling, Cheers

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@christopping5876 21 күн бұрын

Chris as usual, You stood and delivered! Many thanks for another great video.

@TheHistoryChap 20 күн бұрын

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@retriever19golden55 Ай бұрын

Great story, Chris! And quite a change from the wars...

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@barrywebber100 Ай бұрын

Wonderfully related story of interesting facts. Thank you very much, it was very enjoyable!

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@timothywebb5100 27 күн бұрын

This was very interesting and informative,nicely done sir.

@TheHistoryChap 27 күн бұрын

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@paulwilson7234 Ай бұрын

Excellent video.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@bunchofgrapesorafig 7 күн бұрын

Just catching up with this now, absolutely brilliant account, many thanks, stand and deliver ❤

@TheHistoryChap 6 күн бұрын

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@gordonpeden6234 26 күн бұрын

Thanks Chris, another fascinating tale, well told. (as always)

@TheHistoryChap 26 күн бұрын

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@chriskirschten203 Ай бұрын

Fantastic story! Thank you for digging into the truth of it!

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@Mirkwood50 13 күн бұрын

This is a great channel. Well done Sir 👍

@TheHistoryChap 12 күн бұрын

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@nix1059 8 күн бұрын

I just love your enthusiasm Chris, you present in such a warm and interesting way and are so capivating to watch thank you for all the interesting things you bring to us.

@TheHistoryChap 8 күн бұрын

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@annwilliams6438 15 күн бұрын

Oh well done. That was so interesting. Thanks for a nice vid.

@TheHistoryChap 12 күн бұрын

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@agamemnonhatred Ай бұрын

Another smasher, Chris.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@user-hg9fl7ep1v Ай бұрын

Thank you for the true history, I was a fan of the series..

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@markwright7021 6 күн бұрын

Great, loved this

@TheHistoryChap 5 күн бұрын

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@simonhunter9136 28 күн бұрын

Thank you for the clip. We live next door to where Mr Nevison used to live.

@TheHistoryChap 27 күн бұрын

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@ludwigderzanker9767 22 күн бұрын

Thanks a lot for this Chris, Germany had got at this time no highways and highwaymen anyway, all our robber heroes worked afoot... The tv series were here to but stand no chance against Robin of Sherwood, coming out nearly in the same week, maybe produced in different years, in Germany. But the name (brand ?) Dick Turpin itself sounds absolutely badass . All the best, Ludwig.

@TheHistoryChap 20 күн бұрын

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@sharonrigs7999 18 күн бұрын

The German states have a very interesting history of poaching.

@ludwigderzanker9767 18 күн бұрын

@@sharonrigs7999 Yes ma'am, we have. Many of them poached for survival, some mixed it up with robbery and any do it for sports until today, especially in Bavaria. Around WWI were bitter fighting between them and the foresters. Best regards Ludwig.

@DarkFire1536 16 күн бұрын

I just found your channel. I love your voice and enthusiastic presentation. I just subscribed.

@TheHistoryChap 16 күн бұрын

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@orthoff123 18 күн бұрын

GREAT WORK!

@TheHistoryChap 18 күн бұрын

Many thanks.

@billmccarthy9689 Ай бұрын

Another great video Chris. While visiting York many years ago I visited his grave recording the same picture as in your video. I remember being confused by the name Palmer but never looked it up. Your video clarified that for me. The only other highway man I remember fom school was KIng. Many thanks.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@jockster5525 Ай бұрын

Awesome stuff thanks for your efforts and sharing your knowledge

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@gilmills Ай бұрын

Thank you for this very informative post on the life &times of the highway robbers

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@brendanmallon1479 20 күн бұрын

Brilliant again Chris love from Ireland ❤

@TheHistoryChap 20 күн бұрын

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@erracht 6 күн бұрын

Great video, History Chap. I knew most of this already, but you presented it in an excellent entertaining way that gets to the crux of the matter. Turpin's story is indeed a very ironic one. And double irony that he ended up being immortalized as a gentleman thief by popular role, whereas in real life he appears to have been a sadist who had trouble controlling his impulses.

@TheHistoryChap 6 күн бұрын

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@Snoozzzzzze 17 күн бұрын

What a great story, well researched and really interesting.

@TheHistoryChap 16 күн бұрын

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@joeritchie4554 29 күн бұрын

Another great installment of Britain's awesome history.

@TheHistoryChap 29 күн бұрын

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@skyflash.ainsley1483 4 күн бұрын

Nice one! Please do one on Spring Heeled Jack..and if you haven't already.. Jack the Ripper, Robin Hood and the Pirates..how love to hear about these the way you present a story..

@tracydodson9997 16 күн бұрын

Just found you and I am hooked 🎉

@TheHistoryChap 16 күн бұрын

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@dennischannells5683 21 күн бұрын

An excellent presentation.

@TheHistoryChap 20 күн бұрын

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@stevestannard6004 25 күн бұрын

Comprehensive explanation of Dick Turpin. Thanks Chris 🤜🤛

@TheHistoryChap 19 күн бұрын

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@dokkenratt Ай бұрын

Another thoroughly enjoyable episode. Fantastic work. I remember seeing Turpin's grave on a school trip to York in the early 80s.

@dokkenratt Ай бұрын

Oh, and a video on Scottish bandit/cannibal Sawney Bean would make a great watch!!

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@gm006b4 24 күн бұрын

Lovely stuff 🙂👍

@TheHistoryChap 19 күн бұрын

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@blacksquirrel4008 Ай бұрын

My introduction was in Far From the Madding Crowd.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@Svvithred 29 күн бұрын

You have a new subscriber, Sir! Brilliant video, very informative and interestingly, my maternal grandparents owned a non-functional farm in Essex (which I vaguely remember back in the early 80s), it was very old and it was a huge local rumour that Turpin used it as a hideout.

@TheHistoryChap 29 күн бұрын

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@davidjackson7715 Ай бұрын

Well done, good story

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@nigelmorroll3343 28 күн бұрын

Another good nugget of British history.

@TheHistoryChap 27 күн бұрын

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@billevans7936 Ай бұрын

That was an excellent story...I'm learning

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@canary_in_a_coalmine 27 күн бұрын

As a change to your battle stories, I have much enjoyed this tale of the notorious highwayman. You are a great storyteller Sir!

@TheHistoryChap 27 күн бұрын

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@paulgreen7906 Ай бұрын

I see one of your videos come up and I stand to attention. You always deliver Chris. Well done from a fellow Worcestershire man. Perhaps the history of the Worcestershire Regiment might be worth a look....

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Will add your suggestion to my ever growing list.

@raymondthomadwormald9621 17 күн бұрын

Enjoyed that

@TheHistoryChap 16 күн бұрын

Thanks

@raymondthomadwormald9621 16 күн бұрын

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@Fred-px5xu Ай бұрын

Sir I enjoyed the semi comical video on Turpin and fellow highwaymen. Absolutely brilliant and masterfully told. Bravo!

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@meesterbee Ай бұрын

Thank you, I had wanted to find out more about highwaymen and voila, you obliged😂

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@__sirena__ 2 күн бұрын

Thank you for sharing your interesting video. I visited Dick Turpin's birthplace, and where he grew up. When I visited the UK with my friends. It's a public house called the Bluebell Inn in the village of Hempstead in north-west Essex. It is an interesting place to visit. The landlord of the Bluebell Inn told us that Dick Turpin did not actually have a horse called Black Bess. There's no contemporary evidence about his horse's name. If you visit the Bluebell Inn, look above the fireplace in the main saloon room, you will see two holes cut into one of the wooden ceiling beams. So the story goes, according the Bluebell Inn's landlord Dick Turpin used to watch patrons of the Inn through the holes, and if they looked wealthy, he would follow them as they left and rob them. The staff of the Bluebell Inn said that Dick Turpin's spirit is said to ride past the Inn on certain nights of the year. But it is supposed to be unlucky if you see the apparition. ^^

@TheHistoryChap Күн бұрын

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@__sirena__ Күн бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap It's my pleasure sir 💕 ^^

@walterbrown9651 15 күн бұрын

Thanks for a lively telling of Dick Turpin! In Jesse James And The Coward Bob Ford,Jesse uses Dick Turpin as an alias-hilarious!

@TheHistoryChap 12 күн бұрын

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@1gerard47 12 күн бұрын

Well done ,you are a great storyteller 😂 listened to this in bath ❤

@TheHistoryChap 12 күн бұрын

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@hensonlaura 16 күн бұрын

Like an upbeat, confident & animated Mr. Mosely. Very interesting & likeable.

@TheHistoryChap 16 күн бұрын

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@robert-trading-as-Bob69 29 күн бұрын

Thanks for the lead to Horrible Histories... got me laughing despite my anger at my neighbors overly loud music. Monday I'll buy me a decent sound system and play him Horrible History songs at full volume. He's working nightshifts this week, so the day shall belong to me.

@TheHistoryChap 27 күн бұрын

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@DonArmandoRobles 21 күн бұрын

Subscribed from Philadelphia,USA

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@derekp2674 Ай бұрын

Chris, thanks very much for another informative and educational video. But never mind all that... I want you to hand over all the the lupins you've got Look I happen to know that this is the the Lupin Express... :)

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@markbartolo6545 24 күн бұрын

Absolutely brilliant 👏 👌 😀

@TheHistoryChap 19 күн бұрын

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@maxreed2343 Ай бұрын

Hahaha, now this sure was a good bit of fun breakaway from all the seriousness of war and military campaigns you always wow us with usually, Chris old bean, and wow, my god does this figure, Dick Turpin, again YOU are the one who's only just now literally given me the name, have quite the story to him, one of big untruths spewing myth and legend and of bizarre outcomes to whatever. Quite the 18th century pockmarked faced more thuggish Robin Hood figure, I'd say perhaps, lol. Seriously, just HOW d'you keep this all, eh, History Chap chapper, wowing and amazing us with the facts you give as your video topics? Am SO damn happy I found you last year thanks to one of your Dad's Army uploads, can't wait for the next one- make sure it's another battle/war, or of course a high ranking military individual, else ya might get some low rating, LOL-, and I'm gonna try and damn well get more of your earlier videos seen and enjoyed at last, including those about General Charles Gordon and the Africa expeditions leading up to the Battle of Omdurman in 1898

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video & for your interesting comments. Glad you enjoyed it.

@AxelPoliti 29 күн бұрын

Great story on a long story: the Turpin metastory🎉

@TheHistoryChap 27 күн бұрын

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@mac7040 28 күн бұрын

Nice to see some non-military history 👍🏻 Hope you do some more like this .

@TheHistoryChap 28 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Would certainly like to explore other stories from British history.

@brianspendelow840 Ай бұрын

Thank you Chris for this fascinating story. I knew the name but few details about his life, all of which I now knew were wrong. Another one on the list of people whose fame far exceeds their accomplishments'.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@davehooper5115 Ай бұрын

How Interesting to find out the truth of this legend from the past, no other account of this man has been told so thorough as this one, great stuff

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

@lewislewis4240 Ай бұрын

Highway men always kinda reminds me of the cowboys from the old west. The stories and myths about them are kinda similar, I wonder what a highway men’s fist full of dollars film would be like?

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@philhawley1219 Ай бұрын

Thanks Chris, an interesting tale debunking myths about a pox-ridden mugger. I would like you to research the life and times of our great Shropshire hero Mad Jack Mytton . Born in the late 18th century he inherited an estate of £300 thousand pounds. A nice amount of money today but a veritable fortune then. He gambled and drank every penny of it in a few years and died as an insane pauper. I have just returned from the Mytton Arms after a pint in a pub in a village he owned, thus keeping up a fine Salopian tradition. A good friend of Squire Mytton wrote a posthumous biography under the nom de plume Nimrod. Well worth reading, how many people do you know who ride a bear around their dining room whilst awaiting the housemaids to bring in the pudding?

@samrodian919 Ай бұрын

Yes please Chris! I've heard of this gentleman and his bear. There must be more good stories about this guy!

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video & I will add your request to my ever growing list.

@arthurmcgonnell1179 5 күн бұрын

give thanx ! great yarn.. Essex 4 Eva x

@TheHistoryChap 5 күн бұрын

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@FelixstoweFoamForge Ай бұрын

Kings of the road? Bloody Armed robbers.....Good video!

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. The British, along with many other nations, seem to love elevating criminals into heroes.

@FelixstoweFoamForge Ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap Strange isn't it? Perhaps it's the whole "defiance of authority" thing? But Turpin? I mean, sitting an old lady on a fire? Bit much if you ask me.

@samrodian919 Ай бұрын

Hi Chris another great story! I was born and still live live very near Buckhurst Hill, Essex ( about three miles away ) two things, one you have confused me by saying that the highwaymen were preying on travellers on the Great North Road, hiding nearby in Epping Forest. Well the Great North Road is nowhere near Epping Forest so you have me confused. It does however lie across the London to Cambridge Road later called the A 11, which of course also is the road to Newmarket and its races. I suppose that riding from the GNR to Epping forest wasn't out of the question, but there would be ample opportunities for the authorities to apprehend those travelling through, Middlesex and Hertfordshire to Epping I would have thought. Now the second thing is that the supposed grave of Dick Turpin in York actually says he was executed at Tyburn and not up in York ( as if Yorkshiremen didn't do that sort of thing lol) Keep them coming Chris!

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@bobcosmic 21 күн бұрын

Subscribed 😉

@TheHistoryChap 20 күн бұрын

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@petem7118 Ай бұрын

I now have the urge to go and watch the film Plunkett & Macleane 1999, apart from Carry On Dick I think it’s the only film or tv show I have watched about highway men….. I have watched a good few of your videos which I thoroughly enjoy but whenever I do I always think how much you sound like someone else but I could never think of who it was but today the name dawned on me…. Julian Richards who had a series called Meet the Ancestors….. Thanks for another very interesting video…

@TheHistoryChap 27 күн бұрын

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@polmick Ай бұрын

Excellent thanks 👍😁👏👏

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@simonnoble7589 Ай бұрын

Hi Chris , i live just down the road from where Dick Turpin was hanged .... there is a plaque with his name on . many a time i sit there on the bench with my dog ... it feels strange sitting there Thank you Chris for your hard work .... Cheers Simon

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@simonnoble7589 Ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap have a nice weekend

@davidlancaster8152 12 күн бұрын

Interesting report. Thanks for your time, skills and knowledge. Stand And Deliver is a movie starring Edward Olmos. A true story. Its also a term used in boxing. The story is about a teacher teaching underprivileged high school students calculus. Excellent film

@TheHistoryChap 12 күн бұрын

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@davidlancaster8152 12 күн бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap You are most welcome. If you like interesting guitar work and strange true stories please check my new episode 2 of Weird Blues Tales. I would be honored. Thanks 😊

@Lemma01 10 күн бұрын

Straight from here to Adam Ant - perfect! ❤

@TheHistoryChap 8 күн бұрын

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@Katmando376 Ай бұрын

Well done Chris. Dr Sam Willis covered Dick Turpin in BBC'S Britain's Outlaws: Highwayman, Pirates and Rogues. But your an avid storyteller. You should have your own programme on TV!🐴💂‍♂️👍

@resnonverba137 Ай бұрын

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@Katmando376 Ай бұрын

@@resnonverba137Yes?

@resnonverba137 Ай бұрын

@@Katmando376 'You're', is a contraction of, 'you are.'

@Katmando376 Ай бұрын

@@resnonverba137 Stop talking nonsense!

@Katmando376 Ай бұрын

@@resnonverba137 Stop posting nonsense!

@paulgibbons2320 Ай бұрын

'Stand and deliver' 'Money or your life'. His grave is in York. Gets more visits than any of the forgotten nobility he robbed from 😂

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Love your last line, so true. Although in fairness, Turpin never robbed a noble. More likely people like you and me!

@paulgibbons2320 Ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap Thank you. Good luck with the channel.

@paulgibbons2320 Ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap my home literally overlooks the knavesmire. I'd be very interested in what other characters enjoyed the short drop there.

@zippy5131 Ай бұрын

Adam and the Ants............ Hells teeth i've still got the Album.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@MrSuperJensen 16 күн бұрын

I watched and loved the serie, I even got the book, and loved that as well. When my friend and I was fencing with sticks, he was D’Artagnan and I was Dick Turpin. And now you tell me that my childhood hero was a lie 🥲

@TheHistoryChap 16 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching my video & for sharing your family story.

@danjf Ай бұрын

Great video however I wonder if you had found any information (or may just be fiction) about Turpins activities around Plumstead/Abbey Wood, SE London, near the old Roman Road (Watling Street) that goes over Shooters Hill (Shoot up Hill). Nearby you will find Bostall Woods and Kings Highway. In Bostall Woods iwas/s a cave apparently used by Turpin and known as "Turpins Cave". This has clear line of sight across to East Wickham open spaces, where the White Horse public house was situated. Legend has it that the landlady "Fanny" would light a lamp when it was safe to come out from hiding in the cave. To locals this area is still known as "Fanny On The Hill".

@TheHistoryChap 27 күн бұрын

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@oldgitsknowstuff Ай бұрын

I heard that Dick Turpin rode to York on his course called Black Bess. Apparently both he and his horse were hanged. My illusion has been shattered by your accurate account of his demise. Another enlightenment, proving beyond all doubt that you're never too old to learn. Did his horse actually wear a mask aswell ? Or is this another tall story. Lol.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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