Every time I see an abandoned theme park on KZread I notice how quickly they return to nature. Then I think about how often I see abandoned theme parks returning to nature on KZread.

I love how this channel has evolved from just random roads to full on history lessons 😂I'm not complaining though!

This channel has become one of the best parts of my weekend. I don't even drive either 😂

@willtricks9432

28 күн бұрын

Then you are served well by John. He is a star.

I can’t believe you drove through Faldingworth and missed the 1950s atomic bomb storage base, and THEN drove through Caistor and missed out the 1960s Thor nuclear missile launch pads! All still in place and visible from the roadside.

Bloody hell Jon I grew up just off Monce Close! And my mum was a teacher at RAF Scampton. Fun fact, it’s named after the French village of Monce’ on Belin, in which Welton is twinned with. Monce’ on Belin is situated just off the Le Mans race track and we spent many summers staying with our twining family there. Another fun fact, the former air base RAF Dunholme Lodge was briefly a race track in the late 1940s and early 1950s and was where Sterling Moss won one of his early victories!

For the first time this year, watching from a warm, sunny garden. Fantastic.

@jimmyhackers8980

28 күн бұрын

screen glare?

@paulbyrne2893

28 күн бұрын

Same here!

@jlcgaming8178

28 күн бұрын

@@jimmyhackers8980 i had to find shade. It was more or less an audio book in the sun 🤣

@PiggyPower

28 күн бұрын

Me too 😂

@timowagner1329

28 күн бұрын

Meanwhile I'm on day 4 of pretty much constant rain

I love these videos. And johns dry sense of humour is legendary

Enjoyed that thoroughly. A slightly intersting fact about Grimsby/Cleethorpes is that if you look at the town boundaries, Grimsby Town Football Club is in Cleethorpes and Cleethorpes Town Football Club is in Grimsby.

@bombercountyblues

22 күн бұрын

Yeah.. when growing up here, we were constantly told how grimsby is the only team that never plays at home.. wich once you start going to away games, you discover isn't even remotely true.

I love the ending where Jon acts like a local to Grimsby/Cleethorpes and chases the local wildlife

@Dan23_7

28 күн бұрын

Did you hear him say “Grimsbeh” at the start ? 😂

@clovermark39

28 күн бұрын

Yes caught that! 😄

@mistymisterwistyjones9668

28 күн бұрын

​@@Dan23_7 No Cleethorpes/Grimsby local would ever pronounce their hometown name in such a 'Yorkie' way.

@DashCamSheffield

28 күн бұрын

@@mistymisterwistyjones9668 For me its always been Grims-Be, but I'm not local (dads from Cleethropes however)

@Dan23_7

27 күн бұрын

@@mistymisterwistyjones9668 Last year he covered the M65 motorway, he pronounced “cuerden valley” as “kwerden” 😂 Us locals say “cureden”

Security had their eye on you filming outside RAF Scampton...

@BromideBride

28 күн бұрын

There's a bloody great hole in the fence so I guess they get random visitors from time to time.

@dj_dazzy

28 күн бұрын

Isn't it closed now?

@TheCardiganR

28 күн бұрын

I think its full of dinghy people.

@Zeem4

28 күн бұрын

@@dj_dazzy It is. The main attraction now is the fun-looking camp of people outside, with all the "save our Scampton", "beep your horn" and "why not pop in for a coffee" signs.

@MorrisPV

27 күн бұрын

​@@dj_dazzyThe Red Arrows were the last to use it but they've relocated to Waddington... The site is currently being prepared to hold asylum seekers...

I love the uncomfortable eye contact whilst using fitness cycle, 4:46 perfect timing

@willtricks9432

28 күн бұрын

I was trying to eat a banana when "The Glare" bore down on me, I didn't blink but did put down my banana.

@wickmesh

27 күн бұрын

Jon made that edit just enough too long without talking to be both uncomfortable and extremely funny. It's moments like this that make this channel a must watch.

I lived in Grimsby for a while. I can still hear the screams....

My Sunday is now complete. With Jons humour makes a Sunday a better day. Please don't change

I remember feeling the earthquake and panicking, jumped out of bed shoutint about it and got under the doorframe. Parents didnt feel it and insisted Id dreamt it until they heard about it on the radio next morning.

@MorrisPV

27 күн бұрын

It was a weird experience as it woke me up from a deep sleep and took a while to grasp what was happening, though I realised it was an earthquake. The spire on a nearby village church at Leasingham was damaged...

@SteamTrainsNStuff

27 күн бұрын

@@MorrisPV I was just drifting off when the sound of my old boxy telly on a bookshelf bouncing against the wall woke me right up and I could feel the weird oscillating movement through the floor. It was surreal at first before I started thinking the house might collapse and I got scared. I still have a copy of the local paper with the earthquake headline, lots of puns in the papers that morning like "Wakey Quakey"

@bombercountyblues

22 күн бұрын

Imagine working a night shift at the time on one of the local oil refineries and seeing all the pipes and structures start shaking.. especially as one of em had suffered an explosion just a couple of years before!

For a sec there at the end I thought "oh no he's finally had enough" and was off to do a Reggie Perrin.

I remember that earthquake well… I was at home near Boston and it was late at night I was sat in bed back on the wall and all of a sudden my back was thrown forward and then hearing all of the house alarms going off, it was definitely an experience

I, for one, would like to see Jon visit an amusement arcade on a pier while eating a bag of chips. I'm sure that Jon would find the experience exhilarating and fulfil his three life ambitions in one go!

Grimsbeh! Perfect pronunciation Jon

@KevOXO

26 күн бұрын

Also a funny movie

The Grimsby dock tower, at a height of 61 meters, looks like a very nice place. My comrade says it is worth visiting!

@robertwilloughby8050

25 күн бұрын

So who is the enemy of Putin that lives in Grimsby? (Ps - inject em' full of Sodium Citrate - not easy to trace!)

I worked at pleasure Island Theme Park for three seasons 2002-2004, I was ride operator on the gallopers, cycle monorail, tinkaboo water ride and second operator on the graviton. While working at Pleasure Island I got the chance to work at our sister park Flamingo Land when Pleasure Island was closed I was second operator on a rollercoaster and I operated a few kids rides. James May and fatty Clarkson visited Pleasure Island while driving in electric cars. Papas fish and chip shop on Cleethorpes Pier is the biggest fish and chip shop in the country.

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw

27 күн бұрын

That's interesting. I have never tried their fish n chips. In Cleethorpes I bought fish and chips from a place among the sea facing shops. They would be eaten in the car 🚗 in the parking of the leisure centre, cum swimming pool, looking out to sea. They usually were pretty good.

@JourneywithSmee

24 күн бұрын

As someone who lives just up the road I can confirm that Grimsby and Cleethorpes are sh*tholes.

@chriswalford4161

23 күн бұрын

What did you do in the winter seasons when the parks were closed?

@LIJVHAZ

22 күн бұрын

loved the gravitron, boomerang and alakazam, i went all the time as a kid in early 2000s

I love how driving and roads are completely tangential to Jon just demolishing everywhere he visits with understated dry humour.

Another great video, love the new format and always find the little references like "Second small disagreement" absolutely hilarious! 🤣♥

Nice to see you on my home turf. In Caistor there is a road called Navigation Lane, named after the canal navigation that never quite made it.

Interesting fact Jon wears his hat even when the sun shines 😊

Your next drive in Lincolnshire could be Caistor High Street, Start in Kirmington and end in Horncastle

I used to goto pleasure Island pretty much every other wknd. It was absolutely amazing in its prime! I love your videos and now you've featured an old haunt of mine. I've officially made it in life 😂👍

Fanny Hands Lane, off the A631, is in a village not far from Market Rasen.

@desenadesign2036

28 күн бұрын

Hahaha love that lane! lol

@JESTERFISH1

28 күн бұрын

Ludford

@andrewhaines3259

27 күн бұрын

I knew it existed! We drove past it back in the 90's whilst out in the van, selling lighting! No one believed us!

My friend lives in Market Raisen. It’s a pleasant county to be fair but yes very flat, great video Jon

Another brilliant video... how many of us are hoping that one day we'll see Jon in our local town??

He's clearly mellowing an becoming an historian. He's doing a good job, very interesting...

2:01 awesome looking yellow ford mustang

@orwellboy1958

28 күн бұрын

I missed that, thanks for the time stamp.👍

@Dan23_7

28 күн бұрын

Great shout 👍🏼 Cheese on wheels (I own a yellow beetle)

@edwardburek1717

28 күн бұрын

All Ford Mustangs are awesome - especially yellow ones

Best part of the week by far.

There is an element of Cleethorpes you could have touched on, what with your love of names and everything; Grimsby Town FC play in Cleethorpes...not, as you'd think, Grimsby (they played there for 21 years before moving, and never going back - and never thought to change the name?)

I lived in Welton as a Kid and My Dad was stationed at Scampton till we move with the withdrawal of the Vulcan that my Dad used to work on. That was 82 and we moved away just be before the little scuffle in the Atlantic when someone decided to try and pinch something that belonged to us.

@andrewhaines3259

27 күн бұрын

My dad used to work on the Vulcan bombers back in the day. Must have been mid to late 60's as he passed away in 1975. Awesome planes. My mum recalled when they did a low fly over the quarters, I think at Scampton. Possibly got into trouble for doing so! My brother is or was part of the restoration group for the Vulcan. Lives in Lincoln.

@Simon_W74

27 күн бұрын

​@@andrewhaines3259 I think my Dad was on 27 Squadron. I have one of their mug with Dumbo on it somewhere with my name on it. I still love to see Vulcans and sadly never got to see 558 fly after restoration, although we did see it at Bruntingthorpe and got a closer than normal visit when my Dad started talking about working on them and 558 as it was said to be the most radioactive kite that they had in the fleet. As he worked on it when it took over as Display Flight from XM624 if I remember rightly. He was then based at Waddington for the AEW Nimrod that got scraped, and as he didn't have anything to do he would help out on 558. They certainly made a hell of a noise when they opened them up and climbed. I remember seeing 558 doing just that at the Waddington Airshow in 86, setting of car alarms, on new fangled cars that had them back then. Did your Bother work on 558? There is another Vulcan that they are restoring, but it is just ground runs that they do with her.

the thing I like about Lincoln the most is that the prison is right on a major road!

@SimonDraper42

28 күн бұрын

don't forget the bus stop just across the road ;)

@brantnuttall

28 күн бұрын

@@SimonDraper42 I don't know Lincoln that well. but that really wouldn't surprise me! lol

@robjames5228

28 күн бұрын

Right opposite the hospital...

My dad was stationed at RAF Scampton when I was born. (I was born in the RAF hospital at Nocton Hall). While my mum was busy giving birth to me, Britain's Vulcan nuclear bomber force was on the runway at Scampton, engines running, waiting for the order to take off and nuke Russia. That was way back in 1962. How times have changed!

Raised in Grimsby and went to school in Caistor, so this week's really taken me back....

@dominicskelton3031

28 күн бұрын

Pleasure Island was the first place I ever applied for a full time job. Turned me down. No wonder they failed....

Very nice too.

I like this video so I pressed the button specifically for that 👉🏻

@Lloyd0705

28 күн бұрын

This made me chuckle....

@mrlister2000

22 күн бұрын

That was thwicked, sweet, awesome of you

Please please please cover Sleaford to Horncastle The New York straight is...an interesting road despite being straight. Many a local will happily chat about it too.

As an aside, Grimsby has a 4th tier football club called Grimsby Town who play in Cleethorpes. Which is distinctly not Grimsby because it's Cleethorpes. Cleethorpes has a non league club called Cleethorpes Town. They play in Grimsby.

9:17 - the tower's functional nature was hidden by the architect James William Wild, who designed it to look like the Torre del Mangia in Siena.

@Gordanovich02

28 күн бұрын

Oh how I wish modern structures were made to look good. So much unimaginitive concrete, steel and glass shite.

Oh I forgot to mention. Interesting fact about Market Rasen you could have included was that Elton John’s song Saturday Nights alright for fighting was written by Bernie Taupin who lived around Market Rasen and was the inspiration for that song.

My childhood summed up. Shitty brown beaches with the tide a mile out. No imagination but a concrete sea defence and miles of flat land. With the constant sound of the wind in your ears. I am NEVER going back!!!

Great host, great camerawork, great videos! I'm really enjoying this quirky series.

Cleethorpes was my family’s holiday destination about sixty years ago with fish and chips in Grimsby after our day out .😊

Grimsbeh! :D

@cheesedoff-with4410

28 күн бұрын

I love the way the 'Translate to English' function truly does work on this phrase.

@jonc4403

24 күн бұрын

@@cheesedoff-with4410 For me it translates to "Grimsby! :D". The spellchecker says Grimsby is spelled wrong.

2 things i know about Grimsby and Cleethorpes is that Grimsby town FC play there home games at Blundell Park witch is in Cleethorpes and Cleethorpes town play at Linden Club and thats in Grimsby

"Grimsbeh" LOL classic

Difference between a JCB and a giraffe is the JCB has hydraulics whilst the giraffe has high bollo....

Jon unlocked a memory from childhood watching CITV. I remember that advert. Had no idea that pleasure island theme park was in Cleethorpes. 😂.

Thank you for helping me to discover the magic.

I saw what you did with the word Grimsbeh in the intro!! 😂😂😂 very droll John -keep up the great work

I remember being shaken awake by that 2008 quake, 27 miles away in Hull.

@alanelesstravelled8218

28 күн бұрын

Woke me too.

@dominicskelton3031

28 күн бұрын

Me too, in Sheffield. About 2am wasn't it?

@MikeyDunn

27 күн бұрын

Just before 1am according to records.

You just made Lincolnshire interesting.

@willtricks9432

28 күн бұрын

Then you have not been there when the Tulip carnival was on.

Always good to see Jon working out on one of those weird hand bike things and chasing seagulls 😆

The subject matter in these videos has no right being this funny, this interesting and this well made. And yet...they are.

It's the time of the week where i have to press the button specifically for liking a video

I escaped Grimsby in 1999, love your accent correct pronunciation of “Grimsbeh”, where the men grow birds 😂

Had a wee in Lincoln Cathedral. Blows my mind that such a historic & holy place has toilets inside.

@gwishart

27 күн бұрын

Even Christians have bladders.

I imagine they left the Grimsby tower there as an aid to Luftwaffe led demolition in order to begin post war improvements.

Glorious! The highlight of my otherwise dull Sunday.

I remember the whole family going on holiday TWICE to Cleethorpes in 1976 and 1977 at Beacholme; simple, cheap and innocent fun. It's now the Pearl Holiday Park. We used to take the train that ran from near Beacholme into Cleethorpes and then go to Wonderland where I got terrified riding the Mad Mouse

This was a welcome break from spending about 2 hours of my life I won't get back, battling with council websites and the council departments that don't answer the questions you ask. For a time I lived in Scunthorpe, a place called Winterton. I was living in a farmhouse and from there you could see the Humber Bridge because the land was as flat as f*ck. I went with my ex-dickhead into Leeds and Lincoln, though I don't remember much about it apart from the very big Cathedrals. I also went to Grimsby, and he took me up one of those rare hills and showed me a neolithic site where there was spiral work carved into the stones. Thank you for those good memories, though the ex-dickhead isn't such a good memory.

Their wing tips collided. "Due to a technical fault" 😂🤣😂🤣😂

4:25 bloody hell, I can remember that earthquake - at the time I lived in Normanton, West Yorkshire (60-70 miles from the epicentre), and could feel the house shake

Another cracking video Jon, been following the channel since before it exploded into big numbers of subscribers. Pleased to see you have been true to it's origins it's great fun to watch and always unexpectedly educational

Non related to the video but his dry sense of humour is brilliant. I can imagine him dealing with scammers and getting them to rage

I lived not far from Grimsby / Cleethorpes. Cleethorpes is still nice on a sunny day... Up far end near the bird sanctuary.

We use to visit Pleasure Island every summer as as day trip from a camp. It was nether pleasurable, or indeed and island. So I wasn't suppressed to hear it closed.

Ironic twist in the tale being just yards from Steep Hill and not showing it then later referencing hills are a rare sight in Lincolnshire.

I grew up in the UK, watching your vlogs reminds me how bleak, cold and wet it is.

@petergardner5002

27 күн бұрын

That's climate stagnation.

Ah yes virtual tourism is good this year - went all over uk by way of this show for one thing and seen many strange sights, glad we have these journeys .)

I remember going to the Pleasure Island as a kid, much time spent there begging my parents to go on rides with me, sad to see it in such a state now but thats what its like living in Grimsby and Cleethorpes

Gloucester reminds me of Lincoln in how its laid out!

Elton John wrote a song about Grimsby . Not all Lincolnshire is flat: visit the Wolds . Also visit Louth , Horncastle and Woodhall Spa for charming towns . I’ve enjoyed several holidays in Lincolnshire and avoided Skegness! Great video ❤

Imagine coming home to a calling card left in the loft by the red Arrows of a red Arrow!!

I loved Grimsby when went there for sainsbury touring all food factories lovely people.

WOW what a tour…… your Sarcasm is off the chart 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 😂😂😂

'"m assuming at some point a jet fell on it" made me buckle

I went to Grimsby once. What was it like? Well, the main clue is in the first four letters of it's name. Cheers, Jon. Another top video. 👍👍👍

@andrewhaines3259

27 күн бұрын

Couldn't agree more! Don't know if it's improved since the 90's!

@marksby77

26 күн бұрын

Nearby Scunthorpe has similar nominative determinism.

@brianartillery

24 күн бұрын

@@marksby77 - Not many! 😆😆😆

Lived in Cleethorpes in the 90s, some good nights out, but it was in decline even then. Sad times for nearby Grimsby now all the fishing and food/chemical factories are gone. Also played the 9 hole at Market Rasen golf course a few times. Go back occasionally as my Dad lives a few miles south.

Holy hell, the arch is just down the road from my house 😲

9:17 That's a lot of new cars to be delivered at the Port of Grimsby

Thanks heaps from cloudy Sydney. 🔱🏳‍🌈

Got to wander round Pleasure Island a few years ago when they were auctioning off the attractions. Bought a few bits of signage and props as souvenirs.

Nice. Abandoned fairgrounds always seem a bit spooky to me....

I've spent far too many days of my life in Grimsby. Nominative determinism at its best.

My chimney was one of those damaged by the Great 'Quake 😂 Also, at night you can see the Caistor Beaver. Well, you used to be able to see it. The roadside vegetation has blocked the view. I used to work at Pleasure Island. It wasn't a bad job lol The top of the Dock Tower is in a poor state of repair!

Cleethorpes is my local seaside in effect (though I'm Doncaster based) and many days of my childhood were spent there in the caravan belonging to my mum's parents. with my mum's parents. which we weren't allowed to leave until Grandma had cooked lunch, much to my annoyance. another interesting aspect of Cleethorpes are the sea forts out in the estuary that were built for ww1 I believe. but then they're not road related so probably not a great subject for road journeys. I also booked a goth festival there some years ago which lost me a fortune as the venue closed before it happened. such is life! I still love Cleethorpes and its mini train along the err bit after the leisure centre. such a nostalgia based place for me.

5:00 "it's called a hill" lol 😂

Hi Jon, I absolutely love how you do incidental history like this. I bought a '67 Spitifire some years ago and my wife and I enjoyed blasting through the north Kent towns towards the coast using my 1911 Micheln guide book. I am also trying to be a jazz pianist, and I can't help but notice your incidental music features jazz piano, leading me to speculate that you are a fan...?

A hill, in Lincolnshire? Well I never 😆

@alanelesstravelled8218

28 күн бұрын

Most people think Lincolnshire is flat and boring. Some of it isn't flat.

@robjames5228

28 күн бұрын

Come and visit the Lincolnshire Wolds, not a flat view in sight.

@simonfoster8170

27 күн бұрын

It's mainly the southeast of the county that is flat but also happens to be not much there and the A17 covers pretty much all of it to Kings Lynn... Which makes the flat bit seem bigger than it is 🤣

Used to drive that road a lot at the turn of the Millennium whilst working at Grimsby or Lincoln driving coaches to London

I always comment about my nationwide delivery job to kitchen studios and joinery workshops, today is no different 😂 On your opening shots with the archway you can see the Chinese “food” place behind you, just next door to that is “Krantz design”. I deliver there 😂 My van doesn’t fit through that archway being 10’5”. If you walked a bit up Chapel lane off Bailgate you can find Lilicrap court, the name makes me chuckle every time. Cheers Jon 👍🏼

Another awkwardly charming thrill ride through the country. Best tours in the world! Same time next week?

9:55 I’m glad they decided not to demolishit after all too 😅

You know you're in the flatlands of England when you are surprised to encounter, "a hill"... :P

I love watching you, you have a way of making me laugh @auto Shenanigans

A lot of effort goes into these video's.

@JonosBtheMC

28 күн бұрын

More effort that people put into knowing how to use an apostrophe.

@anthonybragg

28 күн бұрын

@@JonosBtheMC There's always one.

@sixcylinders6346

27 күн бұрын

@@anthonybragg Actually you’re wrong Anthony, in this instance there shouldn’t be one 😂

@anthonybragg

27 күн бұрын

@@sixcylinders6346 Who cares

@sixcylinders6346

27 күн бұрын

@@anthonybragg I don’t think you quite caught the gist of my joke there 😐