Time Team - Season 0 Episode 51 Brunel's Last Launch
Nowadays, London's East End is synonymous with the 2012 Olympic Games. Cutting-edge engineering and design have transformed the Olympic Park. But 150 years ago, the world was watching for a very different reason, although the spectacle on display was as high-tech as anything on offer today.
The East End was once home to the most advanced shipbuilding industry - and best workers and shipyards - in the world.
A century and a half ago, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Britain's most famous engineer, was about to launch a ship five times bigger than any that had ever been built before, the most revolutionary vessel the world had ever seen: the SS Great Eastern.
Pioneering the transition from sail to steam and timber to iron, Brunel and East London's ship builders created vessels that were bigger, faster and tougher than ever before.
But this launch was a disaster. Brunel went from hero to laughing stock overnight as his leviathan stuck on the slipway. Brunel died not long after.
Today archaeologists are scouring the banks of the Thames to discover why launching such a big vessel proved a complete disaster. Examining the slipways, they hope to discover what went wrong and how it affected shipbuilding in London for ever.
Tony Robinson joins them in their quest to solve the puzzle. But he and the team also explore some of the extraordinary successes of this long-gone industry and a time when the East End led the world.
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: More4, Channel 4, YouTube
Director: Tim Taylor
Cast: Gus Casely-Hayford, Natalie Haynes, Carenza Lewis, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake
Crew:
First Air Date: Jan 16, 1994
Last Air date: Apr 07, 2024
Season: 21 Season
Episode: 239 Episode
Runtime: 50 minutes
IMDb: 7.10/10 by 14.00 users
Popularity: 14.657
Language: English
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Christmas Special – Much Wenlock - Much Wenlock, Shropshire
Christmas Special – Barley Hall - Barley Hall, York
The Mystery of Seahenge - Holme-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk
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The Real King Arthur - Tintagel Castle, Cornwall
The Time Team History Of Britain
The Mystery of Mine Howe - Tankerness, Orkney
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Coventry’s Lost Cathedral - Coventry, West Midlands
The Island of the Eels - Ely, Cambridgeshire
Dinosaur Hunters - Dinosaur Belt, Montana, USA
The Big Dig in Canterbury - Canterbury, Kent
Londinium, The Edge of an Empire - London
The Wreck of the Colossus - St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly
Ten Years of Time Team
Hadrian's Well
Big Dig, The Hole Story - Canterbury, Kent
Sheffield Steel City - Sheffield, South Yorkshire
The Crannog in the Loch - Loch Tay, Perthshire, Scotland
The Ten Million Pound House - Ightham Mote, Kent
D-Day - Normandy
The King of Bling - Prittlewell, Essex
Britain’s Lost Roman Circus - Colchester, Essex
Life on the Edge 1000 Years BC - Washingborough, Lincoln
Durrington, Somerset - Durrington Walls
Dinnington, Somerset - Big Roman Villa
Buried by the Blitz - Shoreditch Park, London
The Big Royal Dig - Windsor Castle, Palace of Holyroodhouse and Buckingham Palace
The God of Gothic - Ramsgate, Kent
Britain's Drowned World
Jamestown, America’s Birthplace - Virginia, USA
Secrets of the Stately Garden - Prior Park
Codename: Ainsbrook - Thirsk, Yorkshire
The Real Knights of the Round Table - Windsor Castle, Berkshire
The Lost Dock of Liverpool - Liverpool, Merseyside
Swords, Skulls and Strongholds
The Lost World War I Bunker - Flanders, Belgium
The Mystery of the Roman Treasure
Henry VIII’s Lost Palaces - England
Journey to Stonehenge - Stonehenge, Wiltshire
Dover Castle - Dover, Kent
Nelson’s Hospital - Gosport, Hampshire
The Secrets of Westminster Abbey - Westminster Abbey, London
The Real Vikings
War of the Roses - Bosworth, Leicestershire
The Somme’s Secret Weapon - Mametz, Somme, France
Looking Underground
Boudica's Lost Tribe
The Way We Lived
Brunel's Last Launch
Castle of the Saxon Kings - Bamburgh, Northumberland
Searching for Shakespeare’s House - Stratford-upon-Avon
Secrets of the Saxon Gold
The Time Team Guide to Burial
Britain’s Stone Age Tsunami
Lost Submarines of WWI
1066: The Lost Battlefield - Battle, East Sussex, England
Britain’s Bronze Age Mummies - Low Hauxley, Northumberland, England
The Boats That Made Britain - Dover, Kent
Expedition Crew: Return to the Roman Sarcophagus (Day 1)
Expedition Crew: Return to the Roman Sarcophagus (Day 2)
Expedition Crew: Hidden City (Vlochos, Greece) Part 1
Expedition Crew: Hidden City (Vlochos, Greece) Part 2
Expedition Crew: Mortar Wreck
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