“Are you in Skegness or Chernobyl” never had a truer word been said

@monotonehell

Ай бұрын

Skegness is SO bracing!

@danielcrud9345

Ай бұрын

I'd rather go to Chernobyl than Skegness

@Michael_Brock

Ай бұрын

Chernobyl please, but just visiting.🤣

@handlesarefeckinstupid

Ай бұрын

The people are glowing at Chernobyl. The ones at skeggy are grey, or beetroot red and pissed.

@MINKIN2

Ай бұрын

"50 thousand people used to live here" Now they just exist.

A feature of the flat boring Lincolnshire roads is that whatever speed you are doing, the car behind you will overtake you, then drive at the same speed you were doing or slower.

@Zeem4

Ай бұрын

An example of my usual experience is being aggressively overtaken while I'm doing 59mph in a 60 limit, often approaching a blind bend or when there's a lorry coming the other way, not seeing that car again for 20 minutes or more, then pulling up alongside it at the Wragby Road roundabout on the Lincoln bypass.

Can we all agree this man needs to be on the TV?

@trentr9762

Ай бұрын

He is worth much more then TV ever will be

@hairyairey

Ай бұрын

No way, he'd fall off! 😂

@k.r.baylor8825

Ай бұрын

You can't curse on TV, and that honesty is part of John's enduring appeal.

@kieronmarshall2658

Ай бұрын

@@k.r.baylor8825 you can

@elelegidosf9707

Ай бұрын

Not at all; TV is a dying medium. More importantly, he'd only have some production company telling him how to run his shows. He belongs online.

Hospitals started out as a place where pilgrims and travelers could stay for cheap, the medical association with the word came from needing to treat the sick and injured on their journey. That's why you have the word hospitality.

@HAL9000.

Ай бұрын

Came here to say that and then you beat me to it with some red hot etymology.

@garethaethwy

Ай бұрын

@@HAL9000. ditto

@punksci6879

Ай бұрын

@@HAL9000. The Time Team taught me everything I know.

@decb

Ай бұрын

We also got hostel from hospital

@paulketchupwitheverything767

Ай бұрын

I chuckle when people talk about 'working in the hospitality sector'. I can't remember the last time I was greeted by a cheery inn keeper.

That filling station/shop is brilliantly quirky!

@gbhxu

Ай бұрын

It's not self service either. You get Keith Storr serving you

@Dean256

Ай бұрын

I never knew about the petrol station at wainfleet and I live just down the road… that’s crazy.

@cirian75

Ай бұрын

old station pumps like that tended to have a few liters in the hose, my father when a teenager would go to some of them in his town just after the shops closed and get a few liters for free in his motorbike.

@hujiproductions8457

Ай бұрын

Great find

@tonys1636

Ай бұрын

They were very common in Ireland until quite recently, often the village shop or pub. Two pumps, one petrol the other agri diesel (green).

"Oh. The A1111. It's like the A1 but four times the fun" Thank you John Shuttleworth for this little gem.

Fish & Chips and then fight the seagulls. Yep that is the true British experience.

@BromideBride

Ай бұрын

My friend bought fishcake & chips with his last bit of cash and, back then went to the public telephone. When he bit his fishcake - and a genuine fishcake, not an orange potato disc, it was still frozen inside. He returned to the chippy and they apologised by giving him a large cod. As he got to his car.... Yeah, your already ahead of me - popped it all on the roof and........ Not even the battered nub on the end, didn't get a single bite and half his chips were scattered everywhere. We just fell about laughing and still taunt him to this day by ducking and pointing to the sky when he buys takeaway.

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

@Brettnet

Ай бұрын

This is the way.

I hope everybody appreciates the vast amount of effort you put into these videos John. Excellent research and gunfire delivery spiced with comic comments. Don’t look now, but I think your videos are getting better.

Boston, where the bypass goes right through the middle of town.

@fumthings

Ай бұрын

so that hacking cough from the exhaust fumes is... more than a feeling...

St Botolph's Church Tower is known far and wide as the 'The Boston Stump'.

@matthewtrueblood408

Ай бұрын

And apparently if you draw a line on a map from Boston Stump to The Alps, there’s nothing taller. My old college lecturer in Lincoln told me that in 1991

@hairyairey

Ай бұрын

@@matthewtrueblood408 On a similar vein High Barnet is the highest land between London and York. Yes, it's quite flat around here.

1:41 "I assume today some sort of voluntary donation is required, which is why I'm stood outside." :D

@brianartillery

Ай бұрын

I donated blood once. Never again! The questions I was asked - Why was there so much of it? Why was it in buckets? Whose was it? 🤔🤔🤔

@77smp

Ай бұрын

@@brianartillery boom-tish!

Thank you John for a tour through my home area. Although born in king’s Lynn (I don’t know why) I moved to Spalding when my mum took me home from hospital. For the next 21 years I walked, cycled and drove over every stretch of the roads you covered - some very fond memories indeed. At an undisclosed age I had my first kiss on the banks of the Coronation Channel and yes, I know how to pronounce Ayscoughfee Hall - it’s Ass Coffee. On my 40th birthday my late father-in-law took me aloft in his Cessna and flew a full 360 around Boston Stump. As for Lincolnshire Sausages they are by far the best in the U.K. - especially those made on my youth by George Bark in Deeping St Nicholas, and you might have passed through that totally ignoring it. Fantastic video thanks again.

@Andy-185

Ай бұрын

I was just about to post the exact same phonetic pronunciation of Ass-coffee. I'm sure that as a kid we used to go to Ayscoughfee Hall to watch the fireworks on bonfire night.

@roysmith9733

Ай бұрын

@@Andy-185 John should have found time to go in sand explore the witches hill. Used to sit on the wall alongside to watch the flower parade.

@davem9204

Ай бұрын

Does Ass Coffee feature in the lyrics of Agadoo?

@Summers-lad

Ай бұрын

I assume you were born in Kings Lynn because your mother was there at the time.

5:37 - the nice straight road in question was built over the top of what used to be the Lincolnshire loop line, a direct railway linking Spalding to Boston.

About 10 years ago I went to Pripyat, later that year I went to Skegness and thought to myself: "I wish I was in Pripyat." That radiation really did have a warming affect.

Damn it, I KNEW I saw the Saab parked up near Scotgate last week. Missed the opportunity to say the videos are wicked sweet awesome in person.

Great to see you covering the often-forgotten part of the country, the Lincolnshire Fens. We do love our sausage…

@andywright1634

Ай бұрын

Forgotten for good reason. The....errr....ummmm..... no, it's gone.

@tgheretford

Ай бұрын

The Fens is to Lincolnshire what Bassetlaw is to neighbouring Nottinghamshire. Forgotten by TV, radio and the media and if we do get covered, it gets called "Nottingham" or "North Nottinghamshire".

@BostonUnitedFM

Ай бұрын

@@andywright1634 Well we grow a lot of the country’s food… the fields aren’t there for decoration 👀

@maryginger4877

Ай бұрын

The real question is how many fit local girls like sausage... LOL.. I'm teasing, got nothing to do with the size of your wallet.

I don’t find south Lincolnshire boring at all. I adore the flatness of the Fens. The sky becomes the landscape.

@MorrisPV

Ай бұрын

Agreed... it makes for some wonderful sunrises and sunsets...

@davebicker8618

8 күн бұрын

I lived in Gedney near the Wash for a number of years. The skies were outrageous, as were the winds directly from the Urals. A wonderful place. If it'd been closer to That London, then it would've been ruined by rich media types.

I think most of Lincolnshire is beautiful.

Hitting the nail on the head. Almost all seaside towns are depressing. They are stuck in a time warp from 70+ years ago. If you're looking for plastic dolphins, locals with skin like leather and no where to park - it's a great day out.

If Jon is where I think he is at the start then he is stood in a narrow strip of Northamptonshire between Rutland and Cambridgeshire - not even signposted on the A1!

I love being in those wide big sky open spaces of Lincolnshire. This was a really good video! Thanks Jon.

I'm surprised The George in Stamford never got a mention. Dated someone from Deeping St James. Used to cycle from Whittlesey to Crowland. Family outings to Skegness....all happened 30 plus years ago. I feel old now but don't live in the fens anymore, so good news 🙂

@maryginger4877

Ай бұрын

Keep quiet.

Excellent. I grew up near skeg. Yeah i agree a very flat and boring place to drive round at times. At Wainfleet the Batemans brewery is also worth a mention.

FYI Storrs is not self service. The bloke in the glasses filling un the car is Keith Storr co-owner of the shop. You missed out Bateman's Brewery. I'm sure Stuart Bateman would have given you a personal tour round (and possibly a free bottle or two of their fine products. Combined Harvested is really good) You could have mentioned Barkham Street. Legend is that plans for the street got mixed up with those of a street in London. London got the 2 storey row of houses, while Wainfleet got the 3 storey houses. You could have mentions that Willian of Waynflete (an alternative spelling of Wainfleet), founded Magdalene College Oxford. With an offshoot in Wainfleet. The ancient cross is what is locally known as The Buttercross.

@frankmitchell3594

Ай бұрын

Oh yes Storrs! Even at this distance I could see the sign reads Attended Service.

@whyyoulidl

Ай бұрын

A similar long-since disappeared shopfront filling 'station' was Cherry's on Nightingale Road in Hitchin; Oh, the delighful memories of sniffing the pink paraffin on the way home...

@hairyairey

Ай бұрын

I once filled up at a similar garage in Husbands Bosworth (I think - might have the wrong village) - attended service is so rare!

Hillary Brock's garage in Olney used to be an absolute force of nature. They were one of the top Ford dealers despite not being a gin palace. They sold too many cars for Ford to cull them. They also had those fuel pumps . They will be missed 😢

Welcome to Spalding. We locals pronounce Ayscoughfee as Askerfy. The Hall dates back to the 1450s and the gardens are well worth a visit.

Nice to see the tower at the former RAF Wainfleet. As a Met Office engineer based in Watnall (Nottinghamshire), Wainfleet was one of our stations, with a Met enclosure in a field and the displays in the tower itself. One visit there saw me almost overcome by the desire for hotdogs. It was only on the way home I realised why - Wainfleet was surrounded by fields of ready-to-harvest onions! Well... you can guess what I had that evening!

@user-pq1gy2xx9v

Ай бұрын

Good fart I imagine

@davebicker8618

8 күн бұрын

Watnall - 12 Group HQ. I spent many a day as a spotty lad underground in the Filter Block 😊

"Have a fight with some seagulls." They're taking over I tell ya.

Ahhh Skeggy, many a night in our late teens early twenties we'd look across from Hunstanton.. then decide for no other reason than boredom and the journey itself, to drive around to Skeg, get some food, check out the Skeg lasses, do a one wheel peel, drive home at 2am.

@highpath4776

Ай бұрын

really says a lot about Hunstanton that a good night out is to go to Skegness

That sea wall in Skegness looks like they've nicked the panels off an old tardis interior - lol

As always, great video! 👌 If you have more of Lincolnshire to visit, Tattershall would be a great addition. Never mind the boring castle, the local scrap yard has the Lockerbie plane wreckage, easily visible via satellite!

Skegness Raceway is definitely worth a visit for some quality oval motorsport 👍🏻🏁

Fab video. Cheers. Wouldn’t be a Sunday without you

The Chernobyl reference had me in fits! 🤣 🤣

I went to the Wainfleet bombing range some years ago when it was operational. Started off in the tower where they would control aircraft coming onto the range. I think it might have been Jaguars dropping practice bombs (smoke and flash) and their cannons. We then went out to one of the wooden scoring huts mounted on stilts where hits would be triangulated with the view from another hut further up the coast. It was during winter and bloody freezing standing outside the hut waiting for aircraft to be directed in but the huts had massive lights on them which would get turned on when an aircraft was doing runs, so they didn't attack it, although apparently some had in the past, mostly Americans. The light was of the incandescent type and actually provided a bit of warmth. Practice bombs would occasionally be recovered and I have one in my possession. A hollow plastic body with fins and a lump of metal at the front where the "warhead" was.

@JohnSmithShields

Ай бұрын

Good to see the American stereotype is well earned still.

@David_Crayford

Ай бұрын

It is so good that peace has broken out and nobody needs to practice fighting any more. Oh, wait...

Love the self-loathing England seaside town hate. It's what we all come for.

After being a fan for over a year, you've finally stepped foot into my home town of Spalding. Hope you had your trusty stab vest on you! And don't worry, even we don't know how to pronounce Ayscoughfee. I went to secondary school in Market Deeping and I agree that it's quite boring, but it does have a pretty active night-life with 5 pubs basically right next to each other in the town centre. Entertaining as always, John!

@user-se7es6uc8v

Ай бұрын

He didn't go on the Royce road estate so he was fairly safe!

@whyyoulidl

Ай бұрын

​@@user-se7es6uc8vI really hope this road has a 'car wash' 😆

There is the Boston Sausage. Worth a try. Thank you for visiting my village as you used the old A16 to Boston, which is now mostly B roads and a bit of A152.

@johnd6487

Ай бұрын

Boston sausage.. that takes me back. We were very friendly with our next door-but-one neighbours, and they still had family near Boston, they never visited (not a massive journey, we live near Nottingham) without bringing back sausages. It almost seemed more important to them than seeing their relatives 😂

Love your videos dude. I feel the Fens get overlooked as a part of the country that can be breathrakingly beautiful. The sunsets here are georgeous as you have so much sky, the ever changing farmland landscape through the seasons, and one of the sunniest areas of the UK.

Finally you reach my hometown of Stamford. Tourists love it. I remember the days before hundreds of coffee shops and inconsiderate parking. Oh well another great informative video.

@renrutmat

Ай бұрын

I remember the first coffee shop sometime around 1975. Tiny little privately owned place not far away from the Stamford boys school. Coffee was good unlike most of the stuff in the UK at the time.

@martynpatrick

Ай бұрын

"Stamford is home to over 600..." I was expecting Jon to say "coffee shops"...

@robe3836

Ай бұрын

or charity shops

I can’t wait for your Southend special

Think I'm going to press the button specifically for liking this video

Once again taking us places and asking the questions that no one will ever ask. Thank you for your service 🙂

Whenever I hear about Lincolnshire I think first of "Lincolnshire Poacher". But you'd need to involve "Ringway Manchester" for taking that route.

As Jon says "there are only three things you do in a failing seaside town" the missus says "a 2p slot machine?!!". A few seconds later she screams "Yes!!" in a way I've not heard for several years.

@rogerlill

Ай бұрын

Not called Lassie is she?

@cameronashton7150

Ай бұрын

@@rogerlill Gotta love a Porky's reference!! 🤣🤣

Experiencing the boring roads of nothing much with occasional farms is a distinct "welcome to Lincolnshire". Much of it is just that. I live in Spalding (and it's pronounced As-coffee) and while it suffers from thedecline that all small towns do, it could be far worse. Living along the river is pretty ish so I like it. As for the Boston to Skeg road, yes it's MUCH better now though far from perfect as Lincolnshire does like to build single carriageway roads where they should have dual. I do have a soft spot for the old days of the old road during the 1980s and tearing through those bends on my motorbike. So it was nice for something. Bloody frsutrating otherwise.

@Bakabakaonichan

Ай бұрын

As a fellow Spalding resident, it boggles my mind as to why on earth they continue to build single-lane carriageways when they have so much open land to work with, the A17 between Boston and Sutton Bridge is an absolute NIGHTMARE when it comes to farm traffic that you can never overtake. Same goes for the new A16 between Spalding and Peterborough, I've never reached 60mph on there in the 5 years I've been using the road, just a solid 53 at best on a good day. The town has declined a lot in the centre areas, but it seems funding is being redirected to where it actually needs to be. Bringing back the flower parade was also a huge boost for tourism cash.

@hairyairey

Ай бұрын

@@Bakabakaonichan Money - remember when the "Crowland Bypass" was built? It's still very poor. But remember Lincolnshire had more railways removed than any other county and it's paying the price in congestion now. Several lines would be viable now on freight alone if reopened.

Jon, standing in a shabby field near a busy road, or in a piss-stinking graffitied concrete underpass. Highlight of my week...

Market Keeping was popular (and probably still is) with the more senior level Engineers at Perkins Engines on account of not being Peterborough but still close enough for an easy drive into work. When I used to visit Perkins I used to stop in the Deeping Stage public house after having had a couple of really shit stays in Peter's Bog Horror.

There's a fourth thing you're meant to do in a seaside town, John - have an ice cream. Specifically, a 99 - the flake is essential to the holiday experience.

I've been at that crossing in Tallington when it's broken before, for a good hour.

Sunday just aren't Sunday's anymore without Jon's latest video.

Im Sri Lankan, my uncle is called Ottoshinanigan!

@whyyoulidl

Ай бұрын

Fo' real 😂😂😂

Hi John, I believe the A16 from spalding is the former east lines railway which closed in 1970 Cheers Russ

Chernobyl, where people from the failing seaside town of Weston Super Mare go on holidays. The fuel station at the shop is great. There were loads of those places about when I first started driving in the 1970s. Now we have to endure Service stations and drive thru's. Motoring definitely lost the charm over the years and became a chore.

Market Deeping is a commuter town, it’s close to Peterborough and spalding but nicer than both, it’s close to Stamford but not as expensive

Have a great week ahead yourself John. Thanks for making Sundays fun.

Brilliant railway video with a bit of road, keep up the great work Jon!

Skegvegas and medieval market crosses designed by CAD… we are blessed!

That auto shop & petrol pump is really amazing.

I used to frequent Skegness’s nightlife back in the 70’s .. & haven’t been back since & don’t intend to either..

Somewhere else that's in Lincolnshire and is awesome - Mablethorpe! Love it there. ❤️

That Chernobyl line is class.

I know it's fun to diss failing seaside towns but that garden area at the end was rather nice-looking from a distance.

A less well-known fact about Stamford is that in the Medieval era, it briefly had a university: a group of academics from Oxford decided to set up shop there after some kind of dispute with other Oxford academics. This was back when Oxford and Cambridge were the only universities in England (they had a few in Scotland). It didn't last very long because they couldn't get their students' papers marked externally, the result being that the dons had to close their college and patch up their difficulties with their old colleagues in Oxford. I always wondered why they never tried to revive it when the red-brick universities started opening in the 19th century. I once did a truck driving job that involved a daily run to Boston (namely the big sandwich factory on the eastern side of town). I was amazed that they'd built this nice new straight road up from Peterborough, but didn't bother building it around Boston. A few years ago this TV show visited Boston where they tried to get people to leave their cars at home and use public transport; they found everyone convinced that the reason Boston was choked with traffic was through traffic and that the solution was a bypass. It was easy enough to get from the Peterborough road to the factory, but getting anywhere else (like out to the A17 west to get to Newark) was a nightmare.

@hairyairey

Ай бұрын

Remember that Cambridge was a breakaway from Oxford - so you could call it Oxford University in Cambridgeshire. Which clearly reduces the number of possible winners of the Boat Race...

Oooh skegvegas.. good video as always John

It’s quite a trip seeing Jon in my hometown (Boston)

That was a remarkably interesting video. I never knew southern Lincolnshire was so fascinating.

My autism loves your videos

Ooh Stamford, nicest town I've ever lived in. There's a disused bit of road between the A1 and Colsterworth near there. I think it used to be a bypass or something, idk. Was a nice place to walk as a teen stuck in a village.

Thanks for the video having visited Bracing Skegness in the past, it's a never to be forgotten experience! Here's a clue to where we stayed, courtesy of Mr. Richard Stillgoe. Ve don't vant to escape Ve don't vant to get out For ze red coats are loving und kind, Ve don't vant to escape Ve don't vant to get out Even venn it is Colditz just fine!

Oh, cute! Old Boston!

"Medieval CAD drawing" - Giggled hard to this one.

This is the best video I've ever seen about anything

I stayed at the Tower at Wainfleet…….. it was indeed….wicked, sweet and Awesome👍

The reason it's called a hospital is due to the word then meaning a place that provided care of any type of person in need: So they would look after the poor, orphans, widows, and the sick. It wasn't until about the Victorian era that hospital became a term for caring for the sick only.

@xr6lad

Ай бұрын

Bingo. It has nothing to do with the modern meaning of hospital.

@garethaethwy

Ай бұрын

@@xr6lad correct, that was an infirmary, sanatorium, or the like...

My family’s originally from small villages about 10 miles from Skegness, which was the bright city lights then, and possibly still is. In the last 20 years I was mostly going back for funerals or to visit my gran with dementia during the long grey winters. I only came once in the summer, and the coast was much more lively and cheerful, though I understand why my mum and dad didn’t move back from Bracknell when they retired…

Skegness has one thing that is growing and doing well. The stock car track is going from strength to strength while others are closing

I remember my first sighting of entering skegness for the first time was a lorry sidewides at and angle reversing into a (then) new car with the owner coming out of the shop to witness it.

Can you imagine the French seeing skegness

I was in Spalding for a couple of days a few years ago (Ministry of Ag course) and someone booked accommodation for me for the night . . . in a massage parlour! Those footpaths along the waterways are quite a pretty walk when you're avoiding going back for the night!

@nst1981

Ай бұрын

no happy ending then?

I grew up in Boston. When Jon is filming the Maud Foster windmill, he's standing about 50 yards away from my childhood home.

This has by far been my favorite GBRJ episode. Educational, hilarious, sarcastic, and interesting. I hope this guidebook is a long one!

I never thought it sounded like a disease until you said and it does ! An interesting video, 👍

My record for getting stuck at tallington is 35 minutes

Never been to that part of the country but your videos are joyous, 12 minutes of perfect escapism & assorted history.

Yes! 🤣😆👊😎👍

Just what Sunday needed 👏🏼

There was a concrete works near Tallington crossing which made concrete railway sleepers from 1943 until about 2010. Millions of them. Looks as though there's still a rail connection to the main line.

Very informative, liked that petrol shop, and agree about Skeggy.

Yes Jon with another great vid. 👍🏾👍🏾

"This (road) will take us along the River Welland and, wait a minute, is that an old railway bridge?" I thought this was quite funny...until this great one-liner; "Are you in Skegness or Chernobyl? You just don't know" 😆😆😆 Now thats a laugh and a half 😂 Nice one, Jon

You do make me chuckle.

Should have stopped by and seen the Coupland Collection whilst in Boston 😁👍 Dad would have even put the kettle on

Love it Jon, smoked many a joint on the Skegness coastline and still do! :)

Yay - Sunday and a video from Jon. 🎉🎉

started in my home town, nice video hopefully you will pass by another time edit: with the spalding flooding they built flood defences with some old buffalo amphibious vehicles, one of which was dug up and is being restored

As a Market Deeping...er, I never thought it was boring. But now, with no abandoned road, unfinished junction or disused railway, I feel the place may indeed be distressingly bereft. 😢

Always a brilliant video John ⚓️🧲👍

I have seen a shop/filling station in The Hague. Didn’t take a picture unfortunately. The new A16 between Spalding and Boston was built on the former East Lincolnshire railway. Which will make life difficult if they want to reopen the line.

@hashbrown4325

Ай бұрын

Can’t they just build next to the new A16?

@JimGDMAC

Ай бұрын

Can't manage a shop/filing station but in rural France I did find a petrol station with a bar instead of a supermarket inside.