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00:00The Tower of London, a world-famous historic monument.
00:05There will be stories about murders!
00:09Over its thousand years of history, everyone who's anyone has passed through its gates.
00:15King Richard III!
00:16Catherine Howard.
00:17King Henry VIII declared.
00:18My darling Anne, I will love you for the rest of your life.
00:24Cheeky.
00:26And this year it's non-stop.
00:30With grand commemorations.
00:32Jump in, Jiminy's!
00:34At the ancient fortress, including a royal visit.
00:38I truly think that Her Majesty will be moved.
00:40We've got a ringside seat to see it all unfold.
00:43Oh my gosh.
00:44While its dedicated staff...
00:46High five!
00:47Yeah!
00:48...work to keep everything on track.
00:50You know this is the queue for the toilet, don't you?
00:52No, I'm not feeding you anymore, no.
00:54In this episode, the team must get nearly 30,000 fragile ceramic blooms safely into the tower.
01:03Obviously the poppies are very delicate, and if we drop the boxes, they will break, and that would be not a good thing.
01:09The ravenous ravens eat the beef-eaters out of house and home.
01:17Something else?
01:18Chips?
01:19Ice cream?
01:20And emotions are running high at the tower.
01:23My father was in the war, and fortunately he came back.
01:28This is a reminder of the ones that never came back.
01:34Welcome to the secret world of the Tower of London.
01:44Hello.
01:45Can we have a selfie with you?
01:46Of course you can, absolutely, yeah.
01:48Thank you.
01:49Look, we're all matching.
01:51It's 11am at the tower, prime arrival time for tourists.
01:56Look at that, Bobby Dazzler, hey?
02:00Even after years working at the fortress, its 35 Yeoman warders can still never predict what the public might ask.
02:09The question I keep getting asked quite recently, do we get Amazon delivered?
02:14I got asked one day, excuse me, do you work here?
02:16I said, I don't know, what gave you that impression?
02:19How hot are we?
02:20I'm always hot, Mum.
02:22Oh, sorry, temperature-wise, oh, sorry, yes.
02:24Yes.
02:26Despite their odd questions, the tourists are the lifeblood of the tower, with thousands of them passing over the drawbridge every day.
02:35To keep everyone safe, deliveries take place out of hours, but today the crowds are going to have to make room for a very special shipment that's arriving at the fortress.
02:46In his headquarters at the Bywood Tower, Yeoman jailer Clive Towle is watching closely.
02:54Today is a big day.
02:55We're expecting 30,000 poppies to be delivered from the Imperial War Museum.
02:59The fragile ceramic flowers are part of a spectacular display for the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
03:06Now, normally, we get all this done before work starts, but it's just not going to happen like that this time.
03:12There's too many poppies.
03:13It's going to have to be delivered during a busy period.
03:15When the pallets have been unloaded and moved, we might then just need to unwrap and get a box.
03:23Yeah.
03:24Yeah.
03:24Allie Richardson is the tower's poppy project manager, responsible for turning the plans into reality.
03:32It's a dream job, but this installation involves some formidable logistics.
03:37I think it was 874 boxes on 23 pallets, so ultimately, the buck stops with me.
03:43I've got to get the poppies into the tower safely.
03:45The poppies first came to the tower in 2014 to mark the anniversary of World War I, with a breathtaking display of almost 900,000 of them planted in the moat.
04:01Now, 30,000 are returning for a smaller but equally important commemoration for the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
04:11You're just coming down St Catherine's Way now, are you?
04:15But only if Allie can get them in, in the first place.
04:20The van's coming in here, so if I could ask you to move to that side, that would be great.
04:25The poppies are arriving in large lorries on the wharf, alongside the River Thames.
04:31Unfortunately, when the east drawbridge was built, hundreds of years ago, it wasn't designed for large truck delivery.
04:38But it's the only access into the tower for vehicles, so all 23 pallets will need to be unloaded, then transferred into smaller vans.
04:52Oh, just try not to...
04:53Coming back now.
04:54The cobbles make for a bumpy ride.
04:59I'm not sure that it's on the tail.
05:05Especially when the cargo is thousands of handcrafted porcelain blooms that took a year to make.
05:11Obviously, the poppies are very delicate, and if we drop the boxes, they will break, and that would be not a good thing.
05:25But it's not just the poppies that Allie must ensure stay in one piece.
05:30It's also the tourists.
05:32Can you just hold on here a second?
05:34Can I just ask you to wait for the van to come through?
05:36Just hold on a minute.
05:37The tide of visitors is rising.
05:41Can you just mind out for the van coming through?
05:43Hold on a minute, the van is going backwards.
05:46And threatening to scupper the entire operation.
05:50This is very difficult.
05:51The wharf is very busy.
05:52It's always very busy.
05:54Lots of visitors all moving around, and then trucks moving around at the same time is always a bit of a challenge.
06:00If you can just go that way.
06:02All 30,000 poppies need to be safely inside the tower by 5.30pm, when the doors lock for the night.
06:10Finally managed to get one in, and 22 to go.
06:16Goodness me, it's quite a tricky process.
06:24Blissfully unaware of the chaos outside on the wharf,
06:27Yeoman warder A.J. Clarke is on her way to open up the Beef Eaters Club.
06:34Forget the Queen Vic or the Rovers' return, the Keys is one of the most exclusive boozes in the country.
06:40Tucked away within the medieval fortress walls, unless you live and work at the tower, it's invite only.
06:48And even then, bar manager A.J. has some hard and fast rules to abide by.
06:53We do not do cocktails.
06:56There's no Del Boys drinking in here, no pina coladas, no margaritas.
07:00And the only true gin that we sell here is beef eater gin.
07:06So if you're going to come here for a different type of gin, you need to get yourself back down to Wetherspoons, because it's not going to happen.
07:11The Keys has been serving pints to residents for around 80 years, and was once one of several taverns within the tower.
07:20It's now the last pub standing, but its interior has become a tribute to the Beef Eaters themselves.
07:26Things like Toby Juggs, random heads of Yeoman warders.
07:29We are always looking for something that little bit strange.
07:35It's got something to do with a beef eater.
07:36Despite her love for the quirky club, A.J. has decided it's time for last orders.
07:44Six years is long enough, and it's time to hand over that mantle to one of the Yeoman that is a lot younger than me.
07:52I will miss it, but the pub is literally 25 paces from my front door, so not that much.
07:59It's 5pm.
08:01Six hours and 23 trips across the drawbridge later, 30,000 poppers have finally made it inside.
08:08It's a huge relief for Ali.
08:11The Tower of London is a nightmare location to deliver to, but we've managed it, and so the next step will be the actual installation,
08:19and that's going to be really challenging, but it's all what makes working at the tower such fun.
08:24Nice cup of tea we can go and miss.
08:26It's been a long day.
08:28Coming up, Chief Yeoman Warder Rob Fuller makes the headlines.
08:35I'm very humbled to lay the first puppy on their behalf.
08:39And there's a raven rebellion as two naughty new chicks have a peck at the boss.
08:45True.
08:45So just proof there you've got to have your wits about you at all times.
08:49It's 7am in April.
09:00Too early for tourists, but there's a buzz of excitement on the South Lawn.
09:05Today is the start of the Poppy installation.
09:08To launch the event, Chief Yeoman Warder Rob Fuller is about to broadcast live to the nation.
09:13It's an exciting moment for Poppy project manager Ali Richardson.
09:18BBC are here, which is quite a coup, and it's nice that the public all over the country will be inspired to come down and come and visit the display.
09:26Once you see Tim moving towards you...
09:28Oh, my God.
09:30Rob will have the honour of planting the first poppy live on BBC Breakfast.
09:35I was kind of jealous of the guy when we planted the first poppy in 2014, and now I get to do it myself this time around.
09:43I've just got to make sure that I can get down and get up again. That's the main thing.
09:4720 seconds. Stand by.
09:51Let's have a quick chat to them.
09:52Chief Yeoman Warder, what does it mean to you to be holding one of these again?
09:57You're a former serviceman yourself.
09:58It's quite surreal and a wondrous thing for me.
10:02I'm very privileged to be planting this today.
10:05OK, Rob, I think the moment has come.
10:08A poppy, for me, is all about the sacrifice of others.
10:12So we're putting 30,000 of them up there, but that's just a representation of everyone who gave their lives in the Second World War.
10:20And, of course, I'm very humbled to lay the first poppy on their behalf.
10:25With the early morning BBC interview over, the gates are opened and the tourists flooding.
10:45It's back to work for the Tower team.
10:48Are you on your break?
10:51Loving the bare skin, mate.
10:52Since Yeoman Warder AJ decided to step down as manager of the Keys pub, her successor, Barney Barnett, has been preparing to take over one of the most vital jobs in the Tower.
11:05Ready for duty?
11:09Can't wait.
11:10Fabulous.
11:10When's the last time you've changed a barrel, my friend?
11:12It's been a few years.
11:13It's been a few years since I've changed one.
11:16I can't wait.
11:16I can't wait to be the landlord.
11:17It's a huge responsibility.
11:19It's the hub, the heart of the community.
11:21Big shoes to fill with AJ doing it for over six years, but I'm really excited and looking forward to it.
11:28Your work here is done.
11:29Thank you very much.
11:30Easy as that.
11:32As the Keys is also a museum of beef eater memorabilia, Barney and the team are the task of restoring an old gin barrel that's been gifted to the pub by Chief Yeoman Warder Rob Fuller.
11:44It is a great piece.
11:45It will look fab in the bar, I think.
11:47To bring it back to its former glory, they've called in the Coopers, traditional barrel makers.
11:56It takes about seven years for an apprentice to learn the skill.
12:00The craft is regulated by a guild or livery company called the Worshipful Company of Coopers.
12:09Rough hewn, the staves are trimmed and hollowed out on one side.
12:13One stave at a time, the barrel takes shape.
12:15And although it contains 70 feet of unjointed timber, it's completely watertight.
12:23Once the Coopers have spruced up the barrel, it will be welcomed back to the tower as Barney holds his first party in charge of the Keys.
12:32Barney is going to be brilliant.
12:34He's got his head screwed on.
12:35We want to enhance the club itself, and there's no better way to do that than with fresh eyes.
12:40So he's going to be absolutely bob-on.
12:48Over on the south lawn, now that project manager Ali has got the poppies inside the tower,
12:55there's just the small job of fixing 30,000 of them to enormous metal structures,
13:01all in time for the grand opening in nine days' time.
13:04It's all starting to happen.
13:06To finally feel that the structures that we've only looked at in drawings are now here in 3D is fantastic.
13:12The ambitious design features a cascade of poppies tumbling from the white tower,
13:19then pouring across the lawn towards the area bombed in the Second World War.
13:24The first job is to cover the six-metre-tall metal structure called the Splash, with 2,000 blooms.
13:32They have rubber washers which sit on the spikes, and then the ceramic poppy goes over the top of that,
13:39and then a couple more washers hold it in place nice and securely.
13:42But it's a prickly job for contractors Maxwell Maldon and Mark Jacobs.
13:47I've got the four quadrants, and ultimately we need to slot them all together.
13:52They're quite spiky.
13:53Trying to slot them all together without them all getting tangled up with each other is quite a challenge.
13:59A few weeks ago, the team did a test installation.
14:03Here we go.
14:04Yeah.
14:04A little left-up slide on the timbers.
14:06But not with 2,000 fragile poppies attached.
14:11Got it.
14:12Ready, steady.
14:13Ah, ah, ah, ah.
14:14You guys need to stop.
14:16Once we've sort of got over the engineering issues, then I think it's going to look great.
14:20Yeah.
14:21That's it.
14:23But obviously there's a long way to go.
14:29Underneath the archways there, you're going to see a little bit of a glimpse of a green roof.
14:37Now that is the roof of the raven enclosure.
14:42A few paces away from William the Conqueror's white tower is the home of the fortress's iconic ravens.
14:49They are locked after by a man followed with the coolest name this side of Middle Earth, the raven master.
14:55There are currently six ravens guarding the fortress, the minimum needed according to tower folklore.
15:02But a few weeks ago, raven master Barney Chandler decided to bring in some backup.
15:08So we're delighted.
15:09Two new members of staff bring our number up to eight.
15:12So that means we've got two spare, two in reserve.
15:16Barney's been giving the new recruits round-the-clock care in his kitchen.
15:21But now they're six weeks old, practically teenagers.
15:24All good.
15:25And they're ready to take their place with the rest of the colony guarding the tower.
15:30This is a big day.
15:31The next stage in the raven's life, they're going to make their way today to their new home.
15:37I will miss them, to a certain extent, but it's been like looking after newborn babies.
15:43A lot of work.
15:46The as yet nameless chicks will follow in the footsteps of tower legends like Jim,
15:51who served until he was 44, or Grip, who survived the Blitz.
15:57All right, chaps, all good.
15:59But sudden changes to a raven's environment can cause stress,
16:03so fingers crossed the chicks will like their new home.
16:07Hi guys, there you go.
16:09Are we going to do this?
16:10Are you going to be good to me?
16:12Come on then, let's have you out, let's have you out.
16:14I know, I know.
16:16There you go.
16:17There you go.
16:19So far, so good.
16:21But they might not like what's coming next.
16:23Hi, Barney.
16:24Hi, Trace.
16:25Yeoman warder Tracey Machen has come to help with a tricky but vital task,
16:30tagging the young ravens with a plastic bracelet
16:33that tells the keepers and the public who's who.
16:36It's totally pain-free and they won't even know that they've got them on once they're there.
16:41But has anyone told the ravens that?
16:44Oh, you're going to let go.
16:46You're clinging on.
16:47Super keen to stay.
16:48Let's go.
16:48That's it.
16:49Well done.
16:49Well done, my friends.
16:50Which one should we go for?
16:51Which one?
16:52You are so good.
16:54These must be the ladies.
16:55Just a little bit of glue on there.
16:57Okay.
16:58Pop her back on the perch.
17:00One down and one to go.
17:02But raven number two knows what's coming and is having none of it.
17:06There we go.
17:07Oh, almost.
17:09And gives Barney a nasty nip to show who's boss.
17:13Oh.
17:14Oh.
17:15Trying to hold her away, sorry.
17:17Ouch.
17:18This is actually the first time it's actually gone for me.
17:22So just proof there you've got to have your wits about you at all times.
17:25The new ravens will soon be guarding some of the tower's most famous sights.
17:39Definitely see the white tower.
17:41The crown jewels if you go through this archway.
17:44We're now standing at the most famous, or should I say infamous, gates in the world.
17:48Traitor's Gate.
17:49But most tourists aren't aware that just above this notorious archway is one of the tower's greatest treasures, the medieval palace.
18:00More than 200 years before Henry VIII at Hampton Court, Henry III and his son Edward spent a fortune creating an incredible palace inside the tower.
18:10And unbelievably, it was big enough to house the entire royal household, plus their guests, around 1,000 people.
18:18Although they were built over 700 years ago, remarkably, parts of the royal apartments still survive to this day.
18:26Curator Charles Farris thinks they're some of the most extraordinary rooms in the tower.
18:32This is where the kings and queens would have lived and worked and entertained people when they were staying at the tower.
18:40To help the public understand what life would have been like in a royal apartment in the 1200s, the medieval palace is undergoing a major renovation.
18:49The next time visitors come here, it's going to look really different.
18:53We're going to have beautiful wall hangings on the walls, rich tapestries to really give the feel of what the medieval palace would have felt like.
19:01This is a really important part of the tower's history and not one that many of our visitors know that much about.
19:12Back on the south lawn, its protective gloves at the ready, in the epic endeavour of assembling and planting 30,000 poppies.
19:21I've done quite a lot of these now, not as many as some of our volunteers who have been amazing.
19:28It is quite hard. We're getting muscles in all sorts of places that we never knew we had.
19:33But it is a nice way to keep history alive.
19:35I do get emotional at times, looking at them.
19:40My father was in the war. He was out in Burma.
19:45And fortunately, he came back.
19:49So this is a reminder of the ones that never came back.
19:52Now, Anne Boleyn came down the River Thames with a flotilla of barges.
20:05It was magnificent.
20:06The King of England declared,
20:08My darling Anne, I will love you for the rest of your life.
20:16Cheeky.
20:17There are lots of famous names associated with the tower.
20:20Henry VIII, Queen Anne Boleyn.
20:23Catherine Howard, Lady Jane Grey.
20:25Princess Elizabeth and Queen Mary Tudor.
20:28For a monarch living in the tower's medieval palace,
20:31there were hundreds of people employed to take care of their every need.
20:36But finding out what life was like for the average royal servant working at the tower in the 1200s is not easy.
20:43One way to do it is to follow the money.
20:46So curator Charles is checking out the palace accounts.
20:50The clothing is really interesting because it identifies how important people were considered to be,
20:56what their status was.
20:57So you've got bannerets and knights.
20:59These are sort of like the fighting noble part of the household.
21:04But then you've got a whole load of different people,
21:06lower in status perhaps, but had really, really crucial roles.
21:10Listed amongst them is this chap called Philip de Beauvais, and he's described as the King's Surgeon.
21:17Philip's job brought him rare access to the monarch, but it was high stakes.
21:23As well as caring for the royal family's health, Philip had to follow Edward into battle in case he was injured.
21:31The King's life was literally in his hands.
21:34Philip, the surgeon, received eight marks for his robes for the year,
21:40which is a pretty substantial amount of money, the same money that knights are getting at the same time.
21:44So it was a really important role, but clearly one that he was well rewarded for.
21:49There are surprisingly few women listed in the accounts,
21:52but one, Matilda de Woutem, had a vital role.
21:56She washed the King's clothes.
21:59After a hard day's work, she probably slept on a mat on the floor.
22:04But as a laundress, she got to know the intimate details of the royal family,
22:08which had its perks when she came to retire.
22:12So her robes, we can see from the account, cost two marks,
22:15which is a substantial amount of money.
22:17And we even know that when she finally retires,
22:20he asked the monks of Bury St. Edmunds to look after her.
22:24So a king like Edward I is even looking after her in her old age as well.
22:31The details of Matilda the laundress and Philip the surgeon's lives
22:35will be revealed in the revamped medieval palace.
22:39Hopefully, the lives of these amazing people
22:41will really bring the medieval world to life for our visitors.
22:44Coming up, the medieval palace team reveal their jewel in the crown.
22:51It's an absolute miracle, really, that it survived.
22:54And the next stage of the poppy installation gives Ali a real headache.
22:58It's quite a challenge to hang things off a scheduled ancient monument
23:01without doing any damage.
23:03Just move over to your right for me, folks.
23:17Just move over to your right slightly.
23:18As the tourists form an orderly line
23:21waiting to see the tower's instruments of torture or the crown jewels...
23:25You know this is the key for the toilet, don't you?
23:28Oh, is that right?
23:28Many will be unaware that the White Tower
23:33was once the country's main gunpowder store,
23:37home to thousands of barrels of explosives.
23:41And the fortress would have used coopers or cask makers
23:45to keep the barrels in good order.
23:47These days, there are only five traditional coopers left in England,
23:54including Ewan Finlay,
23:58who is fixing up the chief yeoman warder's barrel for the Quays pub.
24:03But today, he's involved in something very different.
24:09Well done, coopers!
24:10Just a mile away from the tower,
24:13at the historic Guildhall Yard,
24:15the coopers' annual barrel race is underway.
24:18That's very quick.
24:21Traditionally, apprentice coopers were rolled in their barrels
24:25to mark the completion of their training.
24:28Nowadays, it's just the barrels that get rolled,
24:30as teams compete to be the fastest.
24:34I've got my hammer and driver,
24:35just in case these hoops fall off.
24:36They are screwed on, but you never know.
24:39Second!
24:42And it's all overseen by the worshipful master, Lee Johnson.
24:47Back in the day, the tower would have had hundreds of barrels,
24:51largely containing things like gunpowder,
24:52but also, if they were ever under siege,
24:54they had to sort of be self-sufficient,
24:56so they'd have casts full of food, water, wine, everything.
24:59So we've always had a strong connection with the tower
25:01through our trade.
25:05What a finish!
25:06That historical connection is about to be honoured in style.
25:11Our next event is all of the coopers going in procession
25:14to the Tower of London to return the wonderful barrel
25:17that we have fully restored for them
25:19to be placed back into their pub.
25:21It'll be a highlight of our year.
25:22Back at the tower,
25:26the Poppy team are halfway through their nine-day schedule.
25:30And the time has come for the most difficult part
25:33of the entire project,
25:35attaching the structure known as the Cascade
25:38to the top of the White Tower.
25:42The Cascade is probably the bit of the design
25:45that has given me the most sleepless nights.
25:47It's quite a challenge to hang things off a scheduled ancient monument
25:51without doing any damage.
25:53Time to call in the big guns.
25:55The 52-metre-high crane
25:58will lift the pieces of metal structure
26:00over William the Conqueror's 900-year-old castle,
26:04where they'll be fixed in place.
26:08See what we're like for wait.
26:10It's the first time anything like this has been attempted.
26:14We've taken every precaution we can.
26:16The last thing we want to do is put a dent in a building
26:18that's been here as long as this one has.
26:22Top of the tower, please, Lee.
26:25So, what did you think?
26:26What they can't plan for is the weather.
26:30That was a bit of a gust, didn't it?
26:31Yeah. Is that just the breeze, or what?
26:33Yeah.
26:33Up at the top, 90 feet up,
26:37the wind swirls around the building quite a lot,
26:39and it causes the basket to sway a little bit,
26:42which is a bit disconcerting.
26:44Close, but not too close.
26:45So, if you put that first just for protection,
26:47put it on the stonework.
26:48And the challenge with that is obviously
26:50getting close enough to the building
26:51to make sure that we can pass the bits of structure
26:55over the crenellations
26:56without making any contact with the fabric of the building.
27:01That's going to be tricky.
27:02Slowly, slow and steady.
27:09It's a long way up.
27:10It's quite breezy.
27:11Everything's twice as difficult
27:12when you're a long way in the air.
27:15Whilst the installation team
27:17fight the rain at the top of the tower,
27:20inside the medieval palace,
27:23a careful transformation is taking place.
27:26A little bit of water and a little bit of paint.
27:29And then on to the next bit.
27:32Specialist decorator Laura Stevens
27:35has just a few days to put the finishing touches on the rooms
27:38as they might have looked in the 1200s
27:40using a technique called block and rose pattern.
27:44People think that the medieval period was sort of dull and drab,
27:48but for the aristocracy they wanted to show off,
27:51because otherwise how do people know that you're wealthy and powerful
27:53unless you display it in the form of lovely bright colours
27:57in your clothes and your surroundings?
27:59Edward I didn't only redecorate,
28:03he was also responsible for redesigning
28:06one of the tower's iconic features, the moat.
28:10Today it's covered with grass and wildflowers,
28:13but back then he expanded it to a hefty 50 metres wide
28:18and filled it with water from the Thames.
28:20It meant none of his enemies could get anywhere near.
28:23And the canny king went one better.
28:27He had the moat stocked with fish,
28:29so it doubled as a handy food supply.
28:33700 years later,
28:35conservators Mia Robinson and Nelson Garcia Berrios
28:38are unwrapping an amazing artefact
28:41that brings Edward's clever plan vividly to life.
28:44It is an extremely fragile object,
28:47so above from being exciting,
28:49it is also very nerve-wracking in some ways.
28:53This incredibly rare wicker-work trap for catching fish
29:00is almost completely intact
29:02and was discovered in the mud at the bottom of the moat.
29:06Almost free to touch.
29:08Where it had lain undisturbed
29:09through the reigns of Henry VIII,
29:11Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria,
29:14only being uncovered in the reign of Elizabeth II,
29:17700 years after it was first used.
29:20Well, that's incredible.
29:22Is that really cool?
29:23It is highly unusual
29:28for an ordinary, practical object like this to survive.
29:32So this fish trap gives a unique insight
29:35into how tower residents were fed.
29:38It's a completely ingenious design.
29:40It's made from willow sticks that have been bound together,
29:43and it's been weighted down with two large pieces of flint.
29:46And it's an absolute miracle, really, that it survived.
29:49And it's really exciting, because it demonstrates for us
29:52that the moat was not only a defensive structure,
29:56but also a way of feeding the population of the tower.
29:59Perhaps Matilda the laundress and Philip the surgeon enjoyed fish for dinner
30:05at the palace.
30:06With the public opening just a few days away,
30:09the fish trap is 3D scanned to help the team plan how to conserve it
30:14before it takes pride of place in the new exhibition.
30:48It looks a little bit dramatic, but it's actually...
30:51You quite like it, don't you?
30:52Here we go.
30:54Ravens have two parts to their stomachs.
30:57When they swallow their food,
30:58they bring up any bones as a pellet from the first
31:01before the second grinds their meal.
31:04Come on, it's your go now.
31:05There we go. That's perfect.
31:08But the chicks need extra calcium.
31:12In the wild, the mother would push the beak into their mouths,
31:15assuming I'm using my finger,
31:16and we're pushing it past that first stomach into their main stomach
31:19so they're decomposing bone as well, which they need to grow.
31:22The new recruits will continue to be hand-fed
31:26for the next couple of weeks
31:27until they're able to eat independently.
31:30Something else? Chips? Ice cream?
31:34The raven master's fingers, perhaps.
31:41Boing it around.
31:43I reckon you could charge for rides in this thing.
31:47With the weather now calmed to a gentle breeze,
31:50the poppy team has managed to secure the cascade to the White Tower,
31:55but the historic site has not made it easy.
31:58It's amazing how irregular the wall is up close, isn't it?
32:01It looks like a flat wall, but it's actually hugely irregular.
32:05The tower's walls are not 100% straight,
32:10and that's always going to be the case with a 1,000-year-old building,
32:14but it means that drawing designs on a computer
32:17and what you find in real life are a little bit different.
32:22Luckily, the design can be adjusted
32:24to fit around William the Conqueror's brickwork.
32:27You can't be tired. You've been asleep all afternoon.
32:32In her home in the hospital block,
32:35Yomid Awarder A.J. Clarke and her furry family
32:37are preparing for VE Day.
32:40This is Mr. Wellington Walter,
32:42named after the Duke of Wellington.
32:44This one down here is Bess Lilibet.
32:47She's named after my two favourite queens.
32:49OK, thank you.
32:51We can hear you.
32:53And this is their son, Reggie Ronald.
32:55After the Kray Twins, because he has a bit of an attitude.
33:00Veggie.
33:01When you're top dog at the tower, you've got to look the part.
33:06So A.J. has had special poppy-themed harnesses made.
33:10Shall we put our collars on?
33:13It's nice to wear our poppy and wear it with pride
33:16and remember the servicemen and women that gave their all
33:19so that we could have what we have today.
33:23Shall we go in the moat?
33:24Yes.
33:25OK, good boy.
33:27Let's go.
33:31The south moat is off-limits to the public,
33:34but the sausages' new outfits still draw a crowd.
33:39I was not here at the Tower of London
33:41when the first installation of the poppy's happened in 2014.
33:45So, yeah, I'm really, really pleased
33:46that I will actually be here when they open.
33:49It's going to be quite something to see.
33:50Emma?
33:52Oh, there you are.
33:56In the Keys, new pub manager Yeoman Warder Barney Barnet
34:05and the rest of the bar team are preparing to welcome the refurbished beef eater barrel to the Tower.
34:10I'm going to chop plenty of lemons then, just so you've got a quite busy night.
34:13I think we need to check the stock as well, mate, because I think we need some more gin.
34:17Guys, we need to get changed because the coopers are going to be here soon.
34:20Of course, nothing at the tower can happen without some formality.
34:29On the wharf, the worshipful company of coopers have arrived,
34:33ready to present the chief Yeoman Warder's newly refurbished barrel.
34:38Master Cooper Ewan Findlay has painstakingly restored the cask to its former glory.
34:45The barrel itself was completely dried out, very tatty,
34:49and he had to take the whole thing apart and rebuild it,
34:52and he's done an exceptional job.
34:55As the public leave, Yeoman Warder Paul Langley prepares to welcome the barrel through the gates.
35:02You stand there, and if we could have the rest of the Yeoman body behind...
35:07As the tower is closed, anyone approaching will need to be granted entry,
35:15a long-standing tradition of the nation's safe house.
35:19The company of coopers are about two minutes away.
35:21We know they're foaming up outside.
35:23They're going to bang on the doors and state their business.
35:28Scott!
35:30Yeah, we're just rehearsing.
35:31At exactly six o'clock, the coopers begin their procession towards the tower.
35:39OK.
35:40And their entry is barred in a time-honoured challenge.
35:47Right, sir, state your business.
35:49The master of the worshipful company of coopers,
35:53here to present a barrel to His Majesty's Tower of London.
35:58With no dangers of the king or the security of the realm,
36:02the coopers and their barrel are allowed in,
36:05in honour of the thousands that would have passed this way over centuries.
36:09APPLAUSE
36:10We are delighted to return this barrel to you,
36:19the condition such that I hope it will significantly outlast us all.
36:23May I suggest that we repair to the bar,
36:27and I will be delighted to stand the first round.
36:31APPLAUSE
36:32Wow.
36:36Wow, that is phenomenal, yeah.
36:38Oh, the painter did the hard work.
36:40Yeah, I just, I'll tell you,
36:41I've got it all sound again.
36:43All right, follow me, gentlemen, I'll clear the way.
36:44I've never had to knock at the tower before to get an entry,
36:48so it's a first for me to do that,
36:50and it's their private bar that nobody can normally come to,
36:52so it's a very special day.
36:54The possession went really well.
36:55The barrel looks amazing.
36:56I'm extremely happy because it's my first function,
36:59went without a hitch,
37:00and now I might even treat myself to a gin and tonic in there also.
37:04Coming up,
37:09will the medieval palace be ready in time for its grand reopening?
37:14We've been planning for this for months now.
37:17We just want to make sure the conditions are absolutely perfect.
37:20And emotions run high as the poppy display reaches full bloom.
37:24It's an installation that does talk to people,
37:27and it moves them.
37:29So that's good.
37:29In the medieval palace,
37:47the final touches are being added,
37:49ready for the exhibition to open to the public.
37:52I can't set the light levels yet.
37:55And Charles and the conservation team are feeling the heat
37:58as they prepare to manoeuvre this extraordinary key artefact
38:02into its new home.
38:05We've been planning for this for months now, believe it or not.
38:10It's an incredibly exciting object,
38:12and so we just want to make sure the conditions are absolutely perfect.
38:15This fish trap has survived over 700 years.
38:20OK.
38:21OK, so one, two, three.
38:23But one wrong move,
38:30and this unique piece of history could be lost forever.
38:34I'm going to put it down.
38:35Yeah, put it down.
38:36I've got it.
38:37I think we want it back a little bit more.
38:40OK.
38:41Hold on.
38:41And then central.
38:43It's nice.
38:44I think that's good.
38:45I think we've got it.
38:46It's always tense to bring objects into spaces,
38:51but a great relief to have it in.
38:53It's looking absolutely fantastic.
38:56After months of meticulous research,
38:59hundreds of hours of work from tower staff and contractors,
39:03including restoring over two kilometres of wall decorations,
39:07visitors can now see what it was really like
39:10to live in a medieval palace over 700 years ago.
39:14Initially, when I stepped inside,
39:17I felt my heart stopped a little bit
39:19because it's so impressive to walk on the same floors
39:22where kings of England have walked.
39:25I love the tapestries.
39:27I like the creaking floor.
39:29I like the smell of the palace.
39:30It's just evocative.
39:32Once alive with hundreds of members of the royal household,
39:37people can step back in time
39:39and view Edward I's travelling bed
39:41that could be packed up for the king's many journeys.
39:44They can imagine the great hall
39:46crowded with servants sleeping side by side
39:48while the kitchens worked round the clock to feed them all.
39:52And it's fantastic to see visitors enjoying the space.
39:55After all our hard work,
39:57giving just a glimpse of what the medieval world would have been like.
40:00The medieval palace isn't the only part of the tower feeling the love.
40:10After nine days of blood, sweat and tears,
40:14the poppy installation is almost complete.
40:17Designer Tom Piper and the man who created the poppies, Paul Cummins,
40:21are on site to ensure everything is perfect.
40:24I've been bending the wires and making all the poppies go that way.
40:28So it looks like the explosion's rippling out.
40:31And it just looks more natural.
40:33I'm just going around adjusting the heights
40:36and trying to make the poppies feel more like a liquid that's in motion.
40:40All the boxes are now empty.
40:44This install period has been absolutely brutal.
40:47I've done 12, 13-hour days every day for nearly two weeks.
40:51I need my glass of wine tonight.
40:53Months of painstaking planning have finally paid off.
41:07And the poppy display commemorating the 80th anniversary of VE Day
41:12is ready to be open to the public on the 6th of May, 2025,
41:18with a royal visit by none other than Her Majesty Queen Camilla.
41:23It's in, it's finished, it's there.
41:29We release it to the world and see what people think.
41:35It is an amazing display, it really is.
41:38And watching it all come together was superb.
41:44The impact is just breathtaking.
41:47It really is a thoughtful, provocative design.
41:53It's very important to me that, you know, we honour the veterans
41:58and everybody has relatives who suffered in the Second World War.
42:02My father was a Japanese prisoner of war
42:05and ended up for three years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp
42:08and nearly died.
42:10So, it's an installation that does, does talk to people.
42:15And it moves them.
42:17So, that's good.
42:29Next time, it's the biggest day of the year for the Tower
42:33as the Queen officially opens this spectacular poppy installation.
42:36I can't help feel me a little bit nervous about this.
42:39You never know what might happen.
42:41One of the fortress's youngest residents
42:43prepares for a once-in-a-lifetime encounter with Her Majesty.
42:47I've been practising my bow.
42:49Would you like to see my bow?
42:51I'd love to.
42:53And we reveal exactly why Henry VIII had his uncle locked away.
42:57He loved Arthur.
42:59He imprisoned him in a cold, dark cell.
43:02He loved him in a cold, dark cell.
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