10:16 - "...when visiting Daventry, leave Daventry immediately..."

@YetAnotherGeorgeth

2 ай бұрын

As true back then as it is today, even if it feels like it takes forever with the stupid "bypass" north of the town!

@David_Crayford

2 ай бұрын

This seems to be a common theme. For Luton, the sole reason for the airport was to leave town as quickly as possible.

@edwinfitchett6033

2 ай бұрын

wise advice

@sputumtube

2 ай бұрын

He says these things so 'dryly' that I almost spat out my beer..!

@SMX815

2 ай бұрын

True!

Sunday has officially started!

@jasonali4122

2 ай бұрын

I am in Hong Kong, and we are currently 7 hours ahead of the UK. For me, it feels like I am wrapping up the weekend.

@kevincorby435

2 ай бұрын

Yep, in Sydney, this is my relax before bed vid.

@kelvinhill9874

2 ай бұрын

I’m in Perth Western Australia. So it is my post dinner evening entertainment. It’s almost 8:30pm now. Next up is the Jago Hazzard video.

@user-xh3lz9xt4l

2 ай бұрын

Next up Paul Whitewick at 5pm

@samholdsworth420

2 ай бұрын

Sunday funday 😊

I used to live in Weedon. About 12 of us in a house along the A45 next to the canal. We were a bit noisy there was a petition to get us thrown out, so we all signed it

@nathanw9770

2 ай бұрын

And they threw out the A45 instead. Plot twist.

@PeterSlack83

2 ай бұрын

@@nathanw9770 I will look forward to that video :D

I never thought I'd see the day Auto Shenanigans came to my town. I feel so validated. Or violated. One or the other.

@dandann8237

2 ай бұрын

probably both

@andrewthomas8370

2 ай бұрын

Me neither, even more surprised to see the village I grew up in! This now goes down as a claim to fame....... Or not!

What I enjoy most about these videos is the complex and intricate humour.

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

@sdavidb5620

2 ай бұрын

Me too!

@totalrecone

2 ай бұрын

Well that's wicked sweet awesome.

I was brought up in Northampton (the less said, the better). However, Wollaston was on my radar mostly for the Nags Head pub which was very surprising for a village pub that regularly had *VERY* good bands playing there. John Peel was the resident DJ and helped run some of the nights there so you (well my dad) could get to see The Who, The Faces, Thin Lizzy and Rod Stuart. It was still putting on great bands eighties with the likes of U2, Bauhaus and Killing Joke (which was more my thing) with John Peel still turning up to DJ/host.

A week with no reference to small disagreements.. you feeling ok haha 🤣🤣

@8bitwiz_

2 ай бұрын

Perhaps there is no disagreement about leaving Daventry.

@chriswalford4161

2 ай бұрын

The references are becoming tantalisingly oblique, with the discussion of the ordnance depôt.

It's the little nooks and crannies in this small island that are so much more interesting than the boring places that tourists always go. Give me an abandoned petrol station or filled in canal every time.

As soon as I saw Woollaston in the title, I knew Bell End would be featured. The sign at the bottom of Bell End used to have an arrow pointing up the hill, but it wasn't there last time I went past. I imagine it was because people kept posing there with the arrow pointing to themselves. That's certainly what I did.

I sat waiting for an uplifting whimsical mention of the National Lift Tower but it was not to be 🤣

I had the misfortune of staying in a hotel in Daventry for 10 weeks, a most horrendous experience,!!! The food there left a lot to be desired. I was left with a fear of farting after a particularly bad case of the trots! Thanks for reminding me about it Jon!

@MartinvonBargen

2 ай бұрын

Dysentery in Daventry would have been an amazing 1980s BBC sitcom.

@baldfatgit1

2 ай бұрын

quality 🤩

@Sarge084

2 ай бұрын

@@MartinvonBargen With the sequel titled 'Afraid to Fart'.

Snark, abandoned infrastructure, old buildings, a history lesson and constructive views on nature. Brilliant.

"Loved by ska bands and the EDL." 🤣🤣🤣

Interestingly, you didn't mention anything about one of the small disagreements, but at Upper Stowe near Weedon, RADAR was invented. Really helpful during those 'small disagreements' that happen every now and again

A Dower House is where the widow of the estate's owner would live when her oldest son took over the Great House. There are hundreds of Dower Houses dotted around the countryside.

I was at the *Northampton race course today. V nice place for a Sunday stroll actually. Did you notice the White Elephant pub on the corner? So named, I believe, because it was built as a hotel at great expense just before the racecourse closed as a racecourse.

Well Im glad you managed to "cobble" together that episode. Much loved and enjoyed. Especially "Bell End"

John, Apart From The Great Content You Present Us With Week In, Week Out, Your Little One Liners Always Make Me Laugh. You Are And Will Always Be, One Of My Go Too's On a Sunday. Keep Doing What You Do Matey, You're a Bigger Asset To Us Than You Will Ever Know. 👏

@stuartmiller6725

2 ай бұрын

well said!

@k.r.baylor8825

2 ай бұрын

@@stuartmiller6725 With extra capitalization throughout...

Gotta love the River Nennornene!😁

@joewilson941

Ай бұрын

We don't pronounce it "neen" here in Northampton 🤣 it's an ongoing battle with Peterborough as for some reason once you pass a certain county border they start calling the Nene, the Neen 🤷🏻‍♂️

Excellent 👍 Upper Heyford Northants not to be confused with Upper Heyford Oxfordshire 30 miles away where the US Air Force base was located

Thanks for visiting Weedon, John. I grew up in Northampton (got away 10 years ago now!) and my grandparents lived in a retired housing building right next to the depot and the drone footage of it gave me instant nostalgia. I could recognize exactly where their building was in relation to that footage because I spent so much time as a boy looking at and walking past the depot itself and it made me remember and miss both of them again for the first time in, ashamedly, years. Here's to Rex and Dorothy

I go through Wollaston on the way to Santa Pod, and always snigger at Bell End. There's also a Rotten Row.

I took a picture of Bell End, standing exactly where you are in 2021... made me chuckle!

@alexsingleton2144

2 ай бұрын

Same, in 2019. Stag night invite! Seemed appropriate....

@tanyano9

2 ай бұрын

Not far from Minge lane....

“Don’t worry I can assure you it gets shitter later on” 😂😂😂

I feel educated. I assumed Northamptonshire was just one big distribution park. Turns out that only makes up about 85% of it.

Bell End. I drive through it regularly on the way to Santa Pod. I'll think of you this Wednesday 🙂 Murco fuel would be delivered via Northampton or Kingsbury oil depots, and certainly not from Milford Haven by road tanker. Just checked the route of the pipeline. Milford Haven to Kingsbury depot. It would have then been road to Daventry. Further, Murco no longer have a refinery at M.H., just storage.

0:20 in I'm laughing already😂! Doc Martin and Weetabix thanks for the tour. Safe travels Jon.

I once attended a manager's conference at the Landmark Hotel when I was employed by Choices Video in the late 90s. A quite memorable event, if only for the room-hopping shenanigans! Video store managers are seemingly incredibly nocturnally active creatures! 😉 Fond memories though. I always get a twinge of nostalgia when passing, dampened by the fear of a possible paternity suit!! 😆

Love it! Our vocalist lives in Weedon and we're gigging at The White Hart in Flore on 11/05/2024, a place we've played a few times before. Locals apparently call Daventry Chaventry 😁😁😁

Point of note: Suggs of Madness reportedly drove along the A45, although he never stated which section. He got up to 58 mph.

@alexsingleton2144

2 ай бұрын

It won't have been the Northampton bypass, 58mph is wishful thinking along there.

@David_Crayford

2 ай бұрын

Good spot! Love that track and Madness in general. "Michael Caine" in particular. We are going to miss him when he's gone. Makes you proud to be British.

@whyyoulidl

2 ай бұрын

​@@David_Crayford "bloody" , "doors" and "off" 😂

@David_Crayford

2 ай бұрын

@@whyyoulidl 🙂

@David_Crayford

2 ай бұрын

@@alexsingleton2144 This was released in 1982, so perhaps not quite so many drivers!

Another very good video Jon, despite it containing a load of old cobblers 😁

Santa Pod was like, right there

I've been robbed on the Racecourse, chased through it, around it, taken shelter in the White Elephant, the Picturedrome, etc. Not a place to be at night.

Fine thanks. Not really, no. Been off work sick. But thanks for asking 😊

I shared a room in Bosnia with a lad from Wellingborough called Smudger . Absolute effin weirdo who used to knock one out watching star treck .

always watch these after cooking and eating sunday dinner

Jon, jon, oh Jon. You could’ve visited the National lift tower (built by express lifts) It’s really high !! It’s in the video at 4:35. I deliver to a storage company right next to it. It’s concrete and really impressive 👍🏼 My cousin lives in Northampton too.

Can't believe you didn't cover the old abandoned Lift testing tower in Northampton. Was it bulit by Taylor Whimpey?

@jhrickman-is1mu

2 ай бұрын

Express Lifts. Sadly no more

Very excited to see if the jacket and hat come off as the weather gets warmer

@johnboyle9682

2 ай бұрын

Jacket? Yes. Hat? No.

Watching this video and blow me over a Weetabix advert appears in the middle of the video.

10:10 About 200 yards South from that hotel there is a small summit on the old A45 and 30 yards closer is, or was, a layby, in which an AA van was permanently parked. The reason - the signal from the Daventry transmitter was somehow concentrated or maybe just stronger at that point, and it caused cars fitted with the then new Electronic Ignition, notably the Talbot Samba, to completely cut-out and the lay-by was there to allow them to coast to a stop. The AA man would simply tell them to restart their car and continue onwards as the signal by that location had diminished. I lived in Daventry back in the 80's! (I did recover and all right now!)

I lived in Wollaston for a year recently and always smirked as I walked past Bell End. The main Doctor Martens factory/shop was also around the corner. As usual a cracking insight fella!

For vintage folks, Daventry will be forever synonymous with the transmitter.

You didnt mention the balloon festival which used to launch from the race course. It has stopped now.

Was convinced Jon was going to put a jump scare at the end....

Funny how many of the old guide books make a thing of mentioning churches. I remember H.V. Morton in his "In Search of...." Books, giving a mention to those he passed. Well done for calling out the policy of "Paying for roads by building houses all round them". We'll never learn. I had a local Council admit to this, in the very opposite of their public promotional stance thirty years ago.

Fun Fact: Northamptonshire has many "bell ends" 😂

Had no idea about the Whitworth mill in Turvey... another rabbit hole to go down on the internet, thanks Jon!

Love your Vlogs. The recent ones of Northamptonshire have a special place in my childhood memories. Loakes, Doc Martens, pubs with Cock in their name etc.

Can't wait for the "Fosse Way" story

Weetabix is made from wheat grown within approximately 50 miles of their factory. Which includes fields near my house.

I came across this by accident and thourolly enjoyed it. I lived in Northant's for 40 year's, cycle touring the area for about 10 of them and think it's one of the nicest counties in mainland UK. I've lived in Daventry, Northampton & Wellingborough as well as 3 other northant's villages and it was fasinating seeing this guided tour. My sone lives in Weedon & I've toured the Armory (fasinating). I lived one street behind the 'Race Course when it held the Balloon Festival and the Balloons would come over our house & garden most launches. Fantasic sight's. Great memory's. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I live just outside of Northampton and watching you in areas around the town i know like the back of my hand was wierd yet wonderful. I drive past that abandoned hotel & petrol station on my way to & from work daily 😂 no mention of the state of the roads... Surprising. Loved seeing my hometown on Auto Shenanigans, genuinely never expected it 🤣 cheers John!

The only non Northants "cushion sole" bootmaker was Blackman's of Hackney, people assume Dr Marten was the one all, be all to these boots but Solovair and others like Blackmans also made their own boots utilising the earwax coloured soles and goodyear welting which refers to the moulding of the sole to the leather upper. Back in the eighties those of us of the shorter hair persuasion found solace in a chap who worked at Blackman's who if you went to the back door of the factory asking for said chap he would offer you 8-10 hole booties in black or oxblood for a tenner and often mates would load me up with brown papery noteness and a size and I would trudge round the back and hand over a list of sizes and out they would come in a black sack to be taken back to safer lands of south London as being a Millwall "lad of note" being found in the east end was not nice and usually involved with a lot of curling up into a ball and hoping they didn't find yer happy sacks... Today I own quite a selection of DM soled dealers, a pair of very expensive DM oxblood loafers, couple pairs 14 holers, also have a set of WW2 pattern ammo boots, a pair of Austrian special forces NATO issue boots and a set of the shit current issue British Army "lavender" brown crappy boots which I wouldn't give to my worst enemy they are that shite :(

Daventry had a large Shortwave Radio station until many worldwide stations closed.

"Urgh.. fuckin dogs" 😂

As a restident of dysenteryI can confirm the disused petrol station was a Texaco petrol station....

First time I’ve seen my house on a KZread video! I live on the housing development between the two depot sites. Weedon is a cracking village to live in.

As you are in Northamptonshire and passing through Northampton. You should do A508 with the new bypass that was built to allow traffic to avoid the small village of Roade that had a silent “e”.

Great video Jon, never thought I'd see my home village Wollaston on your travels but then again it does have one very famous end... Probably made famous by the crowds that attend the nearby Santa pod!

Bell end finally getting some well deserved attention!

The Landmark Hotel was originally the John O'Gaunt Hotel and it appears from Googles in was built on land previously owned by John O'Gaunt then Duke of Lancaster. You'll soon find the owner if you use the search engine specially for that. The major shareholder being 91 years old, probably why the closed it back in 2008. As a child I regularly passed the Hotel incl. when it was being built on the way to my Grandparents in Kettering where my Parents and Brother were born, I was lucky and born in Bedford. Yay! Looking forward to your arrival in Warwickshire and having a go at Billy Shakespeare.

Ah...Northampton. Somewhere in the late 80s I was a member of singles club which had one of its meetings in a hotel on the outskirts. We were advised by locals that town centre pubs were probably inadvisable to visit for non locals. A lot of them had bouncers on the doors (I can testify to at least one). I have a dim memory of going to Scotland in the early 60s where Weedon was the end of the M1 but earth moving and construction was in full swing for the next section.

Ahhhh you drove right past us! You could have popped in for a cuppa. Plus we have one of the most historic churches in the county! Great vid 👍

You crack me up Jon. Love it.

It would be cool if you could make the "Kofi/super thanks/etc" names zip across the screen from right to left in 3 lanes as if they were a busy motorway. You could close the other side of the motorway occasionally as an Easter egg, or make the roads run backwards for an April Fool

@whyyoulidl

2 ай бұрын

Great suggestion 😂😂😂

I need this know what’s under your hat. I think about it more than I should do.

Love your videos mate! Helps being a lorry driver I get to see bits and pieces as I drive about every week and notice things you’ve mentioned in your videos. (Side note) You should definitely do A roads. Could be several parts just on just a few miles. Would keep us viewers coming back for years!

I have a feeling that the abandoned hotel was once called. The John O’Jaunt. Not sure my spelling is 100%. I went there for a meal either while training at Volvo or Krypton.

@shaundenny7216

2 ай бұрын

I grew up in Daventry and the hotel was originally the John O’Gaunt, then the Penguin. There used to be a car breakers next door, a fine introduction to my home town!

@davecooper3238

2 ай бұрын

@@shaundenny7216 Not been into Daventry for years. I used to have some distant relatives there. They ran a bakery. On the left hand side heading south on the Main Street. Long time ago, before the bypass.

As already mentioned, there was no talk of the 1939-1945 tussle, even though Jon was at an old Army/Ordinance building. Also no trains, as these were sur planted by Trams in this episode. My eldest brother was a bus driver in Northampton back in the 70’s and luckily they have since demolished the old bus station in the centre of Northampton that was a monstrosity of a building. Another great whicked, awesome episode.

Driving out of Northampton on the old A45 you drive past the old nut house....Yup that's Northamptonshire in a nut shell ☠️🤓

@vladd6787

2 ай бұрын

Must admit to laughing when I saw that St Crispins is now housing. I wonder if the people living there know it's history?

Hi John it is an absolute pleasure to join you for another one of your Great British Road Journeys 😊

A flour mill… “a piece of cake” 😂 badum tiss!

I love the way you edit your own outtakes ❤

That is the highlight of Daventry :) I used to work there and live near, I moved to Devon, not sure why! 😂

I live round the corner from the Cock Hotel.... Just wondered when this was filmed as I don't remember a day where it hasn't rained recently...

I used to drive past the barracks in Weedon frequently and always wondered what it was - thanks

The guys from Northants Magnet Fishing (on you tube) have searched the canal at the ordinance depot, finding some rather interesting things 💥

@nemo6686

2 ай бұрын

Shame they built a housing estate on the link section to the Grand Union...

@k.r.baylor8825

2 ай бұрын

"Digging For HISTORY At Weedon Royal Ordnance Depot #250" is the search term for this video.

@machendave

2 ай бұрын

@@k.r.baylor8825 Thanks

strangely enough i thought i glimpsed a mysterious ghoul like ashen face figure in the closing drone shot... oh wait, it was only Jon...

The ordinance depot in Weedon Beck is an excellent place to stop if you're into cars or bikes. There are a few industrial themed cafes there and they regularly host car and bike meets.

@k.r.baylor8825

2 ай бұрын

I did the same thing. A quick search under "The Royal Ordnance Depot", Weedon Bec, Northampton, took me to the-depot -.- uk, and enough history and photos about the historic site to make it an interesting diversion. A cool business development location for those in the area...

Used those same style of tram shelters in my hometown (Blackpool) into the early/ mid 1990's to catch buses to sixth form and tram into town to go out. Breezy, offering little protection as there was no glass on them and yet still an overwhelming smell of piss....

4:38 - Would recognise that place anywhere, Harborough Road in Kingsthorpe. Lived on the Kingsthorpe Grove for a couple of years whilst at uni up at Park Campus. Walked past many a time heading to the Safeway and the Queen Ad.

That abandoned Hotel in Dav’ looks very *Alan Partridge*

7:32 Homeless guy found a poor place to beg! 🙂

This is one of those videos you watch and if you watch a second time, you find even more humor. Laid back and they say in the States. Good job as usual!

Great video John, amazing as always, very funny and interesting 😀👍👌

If you thought the Redwell was a dodgy area, you should’ve visited the Hemmingwell area of town!

Another Sunday, Another sparkling GBR. Fabulous intro Jon, just keeps getting better. Due to my son attending Northampton Uni (he got a 1st btw), I know the gaff well. Did you know that you snapped a tramp by the side of the unused road playing with himself @ 7.33?

Thanks

I'm a resident of Daventry and it's true, when visiting, leave immediately. It's full of potholes, you wouldn't like it. Just want to add some more to info about the town. Daventry may of had one of the stupidest town council in the UK. For nearly 20 years or more, before being merged with Northampton and South Northampton Councils, Daventry tried to build a canal and marina in the middle of the town. This was going to run along side Eastern Way road, making use of an old playfield. Only one downside, the nearest canal was a mile and half away. Well actually there was another problem. The closest land around the canal had been sold for housing, so the next spot was another mile or 2 east and behind a small hill. Which means locks, lots of locks, but that wouldn't stop the council. They said they would build the marina first, then workout the best way to join it the canal. After years of trying to raise the money for marina, they finally gave in and instead chose to try and build a new secondary school. This seems to fallen through too, as the field has become extremely water logged following the construction of 2 other schools just north of said field several years earlier.

@Fred-gu6pk

2 ай бұрын

You appear to have forgotten The Pods that were going to be developed. I lived in Daventry too one of the nicer interwar built parts.

@rjspires

2 ай бұрын

@@Fred-gu6pk Oh yes, I remember now. It was meant to be a way for people to go from the car parks to the town centre or something like that. At least we got a good bit of path from it.

Thanks so much for the Shenanigans 🙂

Yucky... DAVENTRY! I hope you got outta there as fast as possible

Oh ello! Local now! Excellent!

Brilliant as always but still no mention of the extensive iron stone extraction in that area and iron making, little examples is furnace lane near Wheatabix at Burton Latimer

Love the sassy comments, John.

Immensely enjoyable

The episode where Jon drives right past where I grew up and I recognise locations without prompting 😳😳 Someone else's turn next week, thank god!! 😂😂

Very close to Warwickshire... 🤔🤔🤔can't imagine what the guidebook will suggest visiting in Warwickshire 🤔🤔🤔

As soon as he started showing that Daventry Hotel the old theme from Crossroads started playing in my head, anyone else?

@GrahamLedger-jv2rd

2 ай бұрын

He went past the real Crossroads Motel earlier - it is (or was) where the original A45 crossed the A5 at Whedon.

@borderlands6606

2 ай бұрын

The sign said hotel and conference centre. You know a hotel has overreached when it hosts conferences. Next is speed awareness courses, hypnotherapy weekends and mystery fires.