In my 74 years I never thought I'd come across someone as fascinated by sections of old roads, realignments, rotting bridges, cats eyes and disintegrating tarmac as I am. As to old crisp packets and touching trees, again, I thought I was alone in this. On a more serious note, you are recording important transport history that may well be lost sooner then we think. It is heartbreaking to see the destruction caused by needless overdevelopment, heedless of local history and rural beauty.
I love a ghost road, I always spot where a road has been straightened and you can see the old parts of it as a lay-by or a section kept as access to a property. So strange seeing the cats eyes and road markings hanging on!
Developments developments developments, couldn’t it just be the mid 20th century forever? Another fascinatingly brilliant video BrickDust, look forward to part 3!
These ghost roads are fascinating for their social history, memories for some, and great to see finds like the intact milk bottle, thanks for making this. Unigate had an amusing TV commercial - "One hundred Humphreys, soft as silk, out on the search for your Unigate milk. Watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out, there's a Humphrey about!"
It doesn't take very long for nature to reclaim these old roads. As you mention, once cars become a thing of the past, (as they inevitably will), a lot of road will end up like these. There'll still be some major roads that are used, but the majority of A and B roads will fall out of use, not to mention not be maintained, and they'll end up looking much like the ones featured in this video. I remember as a child spending a few summer holiday afternoons going bramble picking with my brother, using old margarine tubs to put them in, as we'd go along a stretch of footpath known for having a tall fence of a factory running along its entire length, that must have been around 6-700 meters long. There was certainly enough to be able to fill up the tubs we had, (plus a few more we'd eat on the way.) The resultant crop was taken home and baked in pies, (with a bit of sugar added), and eaten with custard, and would last a few days.
@@BrickDust hey no problem and I’m still watching . B W & co was a big Victorian pharmacy in 1800s I think. That looks like a pill bottle . Thought I’d be clever and let you know I’d just googled to be sure 😆 . Happy journeys . Till the end of the road 🛣️ 👍🏼🍻
A very interesting video which I've really enjoyed. I must say that I'm getting very interested in the subject of abandoned roads. It's much like my other hobby exploring disused railways. Nearly every place has its story to tell. I spend a lot of time checking out Google maps and Google Earth looking for old roads and railways. There's so much out there. Your channel is really good. Thanks for uploading.
@@michaelclarkson2218 You're right, there are so many interesting places with lots of history. I spend hours and hours checking out the maps also, and love it! Glad you're enjoying the videos.
Really interesting video mate ;-) I love going on adventures with you to discover lost roads and places. I'd like to do something like that myself. I think it would be cool to live at the end a ghost road, or cycle up 1. It's cool the artifacts you find along the way too 🙂 History that otherwise would be lost to time and the overgrowth if you didn't document it. The council's compulsory purchasing won't be happy until there is nothing but houses and concrete and no nature. They want to think about that-is it really a world they think we want to live in-or do they just not care? -That cottage should of been preserved. They are developing so much, it forces us to lose really interesting quiet pockets of nature that is getting bulldozed through and a barrier put up, so there's no access. Anyway, i'm really enjoying your channel bro, and glad i discovered it from your first video 🙂 Looking forward to the next 1. 🤜🤛💪👊👍🙏
If you fancy another one of these ... in Oxfordshire we used to have a route going from Eaton to Bablockhythe via a ferry ... the ferry was lost in a storm back in the 80s and never came back (you can find its carcass still wrecked downstream behind Farmoor Reservoir) ... the road from Eaton down to the river is still there but has almost no purpose and is being reclaimed by the land. There is still a pub which was there because of the ferry at Bablockhythe but it now mainly serves a static caravan park.
Excellent! interesting to see the remains of old infrastructure. How many of our past relatives traveled these roads thinking they would be there forever.
Irreversible acts such as the demolition of historic structures is a shameful thing, and should be viewed with scorn by both leaders and members of the public
Absolutely. Unfortunately there are loopholes even if they're not approved, ie burning it down and claiming it as an accident. It happens a fair bit unfortunately...
Shenley Dens Farm fell victim to this two days ago, to make room for yet another housing estate in Milton Keynes. Also happened to The Folly between Buckingham and Winslow, which is now sat a scorched shell. So much history is being lost to the greed of land developers.
I used to live in Somerset and quite a lot of the regular lanes looked like that. They’d start off okay and evolve into a grassy track with tarmac channels and just when you thought it’s going to end in a field the road would widen up again.
Another cracking video! Loving the vintage Tesco peanuts…who was the person who ate them & are they still alive today? Where were they going & what shop were they bought from? Nobody will ever know, the answers are buried forever in the past.
Enjoyed the video, I have to say, sadly some of them roads you found are in better condition to the ones we are all driving on! Look forward to the next video 🙂
I used to live in Marston Moretaine opposite the pub you went into. Not surprised to say, nothing seems to have changed. Don't miss that place one bit lol. Thanks for the video.
There's a junction on the A1M near York that used to be crazy and dangerous. It's been not so much replaced as obliterated by its replacement, a full fledged motorway junction named Bramham Crossroads. It's hard to pick out any trace of the original now, and it leaves a scar where i want to go look at the old junction and understand just what it was i was driving on back in the nineties. It's like an earworm that you can't resolve so won't leave you alone. Old routes are still there, seared into the memories of folks who lived in the area before the changes
Very cool! I especially liked the old item findings. Even disposable items, I think it's quite cool to come across an older one, they hold the history of everyday life before. There have been quite a few old buildings being demolished recently :( it's all about money. It really pains me when it happens, you simply can't bring a historical building back when its value is in its time, not materials. Really sad.
I'd love to see you do Gloucestershire, or Gloucester specifically if you're ever in this part of the country. Gloucester Docks and Alney Island may be of particular interest to you considering ghost railways and the Over Bridge designed by Thomas Telford and there's still plenty of evidence of both the former road that used to cross it and of the railway that used to run goods around the island, I may also mention there's a neglected swing bridge that once carried locomotives before being pedestrianised then abandoned at some point due to the Gloucestershire College and the nearby main road being constructed with no access to said bridge. Sorry for the essay.
I love your thought process lol I am not alone lol love the videos, I’m from the same area and often find old pictures from 40 50s and 60s and go to the exact area and do a comparison lol odd as I know lol but I love it
It’s a shame, there were 2 classic ghost roads in Bedford. One was the old Sandy Road out of Bedford near Priory Business Park, sadly I think they built a Whistl logistics center over it a few years back, but I walked it a few times. It was only short but was part of the main road out of Bedford before the bypass was built and connected to the Willington Road that passes Bedford Town FC. The second was the road near the Interchange Park that was closed off, again when the bypass was built. It’s now been repurposed as the main entrance into the Interchange retail park when the new large Next shop opened creating a one way system if you like in and out of the retail park. I remember when it led to a large roundabout where you could head to Milton Keynes before the bypass was built. Not something useful for you, but thought it might be interesting if you remember it.
Well god damnnn I thought until today I was the only one that gets really excited about ghost roads!! Theres a little stretch of one just before sutton bridge a17
Highways England have shut down all social media pages (X, Facebook etc) due to the onslaught of angry comments, and quite rightly so. I'm sorry but Compulsory Purchases are absolutely disgusting. That listed building is somehow suddenly not fit for purpose, pull the other one lol.
If you see this brick dust. I came across an extremely long disused lay-by out in Oxfordshire a few years back ( on the A361 between Letchlade and Highworth ) what struck me was it’s length compared to modern lay-bys. It must have been 1/4 of a mile and looked very similar to your overgrown ghost roads, but with many bushes with edible things growing on them. I also stumbled upon a couple more once I got an eye for what to look for. The overgrownness between the road and the lay-by was deep with all sorts of findings too, as you really did pull off of the road to get into the old fashioned lay-bys.
@@BrickDust just to be a bit more accurate re it’s location. If you look on the map at joining the Letchlade road ( A361) towards Letchlade from Highworth, about 1/4 of a mile on the left, you’ll se a small lane which leads to a farm, and one entrance to the old lay-by is exactly where that turning to the small lane is. ( it’s about a third of the way between the roundabout and upper inglesham. had a real nostalgic feeling while walking along there seeing how nature is gradually taking it back. Got a similar feeling watching your vids. And am glad I found your channel.
@@BrickDust ps, if you did go in person, then Letchlade on Themes has a couple of super old pubs that back on to the river where I’m sure you’d enjoy a pint. Plus there are many oldy world shops and all in all a very nice place to look around and to be for a day.
@@BrickDust I think that might be right up your street 😂 search The Old A3 - The Devil's Punchbowl loop. Also, look up the old sailors grave (it’s on the old A3).
Just stumbled across your video's and have been binge watching👍, you missed another ghost road in Brampton just a few mins walk from where you were, heading westbound on the A141 heading towards Brampton hut interchange taking the exit slip at the junction locally know as Brampton racecourse (still shows incorrectly as Junction 22 from the old A14 days on Google maps) there is a few hundred meters of old road running parallel to the current slip road easily accessible by foot, believe it was the old slip road but unsure exactly..
After you have finished traipsing through the brambles (waist high) (I wouldn’t do it, you must get scratched to pieces!!) and trying to navigate these old roads/pathways - picking up old bottles and all manner of stuff - on the way home, go and get fish and chips, that will round the day off nicely. (If you eat fish!!) A good day’s work. 😊
You must see the former A14 eastbound Haughley Bends in Suffolk which is now a footpath. Then there is the A12 at Copdock which, although not technically a 'ghost road', it is a shadow of its former self as a full dual carriageway no longer part of the A12. Another great one is the former A2 dual carriageway in Kent, a section of which is fully retained as the carpark to the cyclopark outside Gravesend!
Ghost roads fascinate me, I can imagine today`s traffic using those single lanes and through the small villages and towns that have been bypassed. I wonder if these disused road are still owned by the local councils as I can`t see them being simply handed over to the nearest landowner.
"Let's go and inspect the ditches" is not a phrase you hear very often, is it? By the way, BW & Co are a pharmaceutical company, so that bottle you picked up probably contained pills of some sort.
Often I wish that our road system could be simple and easy like it was in say the 1950's. I hate places with multiples lanes and confusing road systems.
It’s a shame, there were 2 classic ghost roads in Bedford. One was the old Sandy Road out of Bedford near Priory Business Park, sadly I think they built a Whistl logistics center over it a few years back, but I walked it a few times. It was only short but was part of the main road out of Bedford before the bypass was built and connected to the Willington Road that passes Bedford Town FC. The second was the road near the Interchange Park that was closed off, again when the bypass was built. It’s now been repurposed as the main entrance into the Interchange retail park when the new large Next shop opened creating a one way system if you like in and out of the retail park. I remember when it led to a large roundabout where you could head to Milton Keynes before the bypass was built. Not something useful for you, but thought it might be interesting if you remember it.
The one near Priory Business Park was originally on my list for this video to talk about, and also a bit near Cardington roundabout. That's until I found the one near Huntingdon which looked a bit more preserved. The repurposed one at the Interchange seems to be the most famous one in the area, from the amount I've heard people talking about it. I walked that one whilst it was still abandoned, but unfortunately that was before I started making videos. Cheers for watching!
In my 74 years I never thought I'd come across someone as fascinated by sections of old roads, realignments, rotting bridges, cats eyes and disintegrating tarmac as I am. As to old crisp packets and touching trees, again, I thought I was alone in this. On a more serious note, you are recording important transport history that may well be lost sooner then we think. It is heartbreaking to see the destruction caused by needless overdevelopment, heedless of local history and rural beauty.
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I love a ghost road, I always spot where a road has been straightened and you can see the old parts of it as a lay-by or a section kept as access to a property. So strange seeing the cats eyes and road markings hanging on!
The B W & Co bottle you found is from the Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited which was around from 1880-1941. They manufactured pharmaceuticals.
@@bryyyzy91 Thank you!
@@BrickDust
Developments developments developments, couldn’t it just be the mid 20th century forever?
Another fascinatingly brilliant video BrickDust, look forward to part 3!
Nobody but the super rich want the constant development/growth
@@Voting-does-nothingWell, them and the millions of people who can't afford houses because the super rich own them all and keep them empty
I love your warm gentle enthusiasm.
Brilliant! And no, you’re not the only one who would get up at half six to do this sort of stuff.
These ghost roads are fascinating for their social history, memories for some, and great to see finds like the intact milk bottle, thanks for making this.
Unigate had an amusing TV commercial - "One hundred Humphreys, soft as silk, out on the search for your Unigate milk. Watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out, there's a Humphrey about!"
That's so weird! I was remembering that Humphrey thing and wondering what it was from.
Another great vid thanks, the silver car part you picked up was a rear number plate light housing from a 1987 Austin Allegro well may be 😂👍
@@phillipthebigj8971 if you're right, that's a great bit of knowledge 😂
My first car 😍
how could you tell!?!?
It doesn't take very long for nature to reclaim these old roads. As you mention, once cars become a thing of the past, (as they inevitably will), a lot of road will end up like these. There'll still be some major roads that are used, but the majority of A and B roads will fall out of use, not to mention not be maintained, and they'll end up looking much like the ones featured in this video.
I remember as a child spending a few summer holiday afternoons going bramble picking with my brother, using old margarine tubs to put them in, as we'd go along a stretch of footpath known for having a tall fence of a factory running along its entire length, that must have been around 6-700 meters long. There was certainly enough to be able to fill up the tubs we had, (plus a few more we'd eat on the way.) The resultant crop was taken home and baked in pies, (with a bit of sugar added), and eaten with custard, and would last a few days.
Love watching your videos mate. If you ever make it big I'm proud to say I've been here since under 3k 😊😅
Another great video, mate. I was wincing at the 6ft stinging nettles, that's dedication 👏
Love the geowizard name drop, we obviously watch the same channels!
Really enjoyed this one! Humorous as always! Love the glass bottles, and the clip of the guy running up to the bar and downing a pint of beer 🤣
Great video. The silver thing is a number plate light, the wheel trim looks like it's off a late 80's Rover 214/216
Lol I stumbled upon this brilliant video at 2:00 am & Very interesting indeed, those roads have old stories to tell . Thanks 😉🇬🇧 Subbed 💯👍🏼
@@TheUKMediaWatch Thanks for the sub! 😀
@@BrickDust hey no problem and I’m still watching . B W & co was a big Victorian pharmacy in 1800s I think. That looks like a pill bottle . Thought I’d be clever and let you know I’d just googled to be sure 😆 . Happy journeys . Till the end of the road 🛣️ 👍🏼🍻
You are so likeable and your channel will become huge. 😊
@@sngrimprssns Kind of you to say!
@@BrickDust ❤️😊
100% effort for 100% content and a well deserved 3 second pint (Hic.!). Dont think ive ever heard the term "cats eye innerds" before. 😂😂👍🏻👍🏻
Cheers! 🍻 It's definitely a phrase I was never expecting to utter 😂
A very interesting video which I've really enjoyed. I must say that I'm getting very interested in the subject of abandoned roads. It's much like my other hobby exploring disused railways. Nearly every place has its story to tell. I spend a lot of time checking out Google maps and Google Earth looking for old roads and railways. There's so much out there. Your channel is really good. Thanks for uploading.
@@michaelclarkson2218 You're right, there are so many interesting places with lots of history. I spend hours and hours checking out the maps also, and love it! Glad you're enjoying the videos.
There's an abandoned railway near where I live in Pinxton, it's cool, there's still quite a lot of old railway stuff to see there.
Really interesting video mate ;-) I love going on adventures with you to discover lost roads and places. I'd like to do something like that myself. I think it would be cool to live at the end a ghost road, or cycle up 1. It's cool the artifacts you find along the way too 🙂 History that otherwise would be lost to time and the overgrowth if you didn't document it. The council's compulsory purchasing won't be happy until there is nothing but houses and concrete and no nature. They want to think about that-is it really a world they think we want to live in-or do they just not care? -That cottage should of been preserved. They are developing so much, it forces us to lose really interesting quiet pockets of nature that is getting bulldozed through and a barrier put up, so there's no access. Anyway, i'm really enjoying your channel bro, and glad i discovered it from your first video 🙂 Looking forward to the next 1. 🤜🤛💪👊👍🙏
You should definitely get out there and visit some lost roads and document it! Thanks for watching mate! Glad you are enjoying the videos so far.
If you fancy another one of these ... in Oxfordshire we used to have a route going from Eaton to Bablockhythe via a ferry ... the ferry was lost in a storm back in the 80s and never came back (you can find its carcass still wrecked downstream behind Farmoor Reservoir) ... the road from Eaton down to the river is still there but has almost no purpose and is being reclaimed by the land. There is still a pub which was there because of the ferry at Bablockhythe but it now mainly serves a static caravan park.
Another interesting video, thank you for your considerable efforts.
This is such an excellent channel.
@@stevenharvey1447 Thanks Steven. Hoping to get some new videos out soon 👍
Excellent! interesting to see the remains of old infrastructure. How many of our past relatives traveled these roads thinking they would be there forever.
Irreversible acts such as the demolition of historic structures is a shameful thing, and should be viewed with scorn by both leaders and members of the public
The pub at the Air Balloon roundabout is another one of the many historic buldings that stood in the way of another road improvement.
Absolutely. Unfortunately there are loopholes even if they're not approved, ie burning it down and claiming it as an accident. It happens a fair bit unfortunately...
Shenley Dens Farm fell victim to this two days ago, to make room for yet another housing estate in Milton Keynes. Also happened to The Folly between Buckingham and Winslow, which is now sat a scorched shell. So much history is being lost to the greed of land developers.
Disgraceful.
Always nice to watch these!
Always amazes me how quickly nature reclaims these roads! Cracking video as always. Good luck on hunt for more beer/milk bottles! (Filled or emptied)
Cheers! I hope to find plenty more.
I'm Just half way through the video, but that abandoned road looks in better condition than some of the roads in nottingham.
IKR! Shropshire is sinkhole city.
plus has one of these ghosts roads. atleast
I used to live in Somerset and quite a lot of the regular lanes looked like that. They’d start off okay and evolve into a grassy track with tarmac channels and just when you thought it’s going to end in a field the road would widen up again.
Great video as always! Rest in peace my dearest "Little Chef" I enjoyed many a burger in that place. Also rip Brook house, terrible shame.
Another cracking video! Loving the vintage Tesco peanuts…who was the person who ate them & are they still alive today? Where were they going & what shop were they bought from? Nobody will ever know, the answers are buried forever in the past.
Great questions. I'd love to know!
Enjoyed the video, I have to say, sadly some of them roads you found are in better condition to the ones we are all driving on! Look forward to the next video 🙂
Love your videos, keep up the good work. I lookout for lost roads now thanks to you 😊
I used to live in Marston Moretaine opposite the pub you went into. Not surprised to say, nothing seems to have changed. Don't miss that place one bit lol. Thanks for the video.
It was £5.50 for a pint of bitter in there. God knows what the Guinness is!
Another top notch video. Can't wait for part 3.
Love your vids, interesting and funny. Doing some metal detecting alongside these ghost roads would be fab 👍
There's a junction on the A1M near York that used to be crazy and dangerous. It's been not so much replaced as obliterated by its replacement, a full fledged motorway junction named Bramham Crossroads. It's hard to pick out any trace of the original now, and it leaves a scar where i want to go look at the old junction and understand just what it was i was driving on back in the nineties. It's like an earworm that you can't resolve so won't leave you alone.
Old routes are still there, seared into the memories of folks who lived in the area before the changes
Blimey I think I even remember the Little Chef you're talking about. Somehow didn't even realise they were all gone!!
@@dudders1371 They did some phenomenal breakfasts!
I'm becoming more and more convinced that this guy is my spirit animal, right down to the crap beard.
@@motelghost477 Crap beards all the way!
@@BrickDust I've spent many a cosy evening looking at old maps, still no idea why I like it so much.
It's a fine young beard!
Really really enjoy your videos very interesting 👍 loads of Ghost Roads in Scotland I'm sure you would like
@@ChrisWest-q9s Cheers Chris!
Very nice to see! I know the one at Brampton, formerly Thrapston Road which was the A604.
Very cool! I especially liked the old item findings. Even disposable items, I think it's quite cool to come across an older one, they hold the history of everyday life before.
There have been quite a few old buildings being demolished recently :( it's all about money. It really pains me when it happens, you simply can't bring a historical building back when its value is in its time, not materials. Really sad.
Keep em coming
Hi we love watching you and we just would love to see you do a haunted locations in Bedfordshire video please please please 🙏 😊 ❤️
Another cracking video! Well done Andy!
I'd love to see you do Gloucestershire, or Gloucester specifically if you're ever in this part of the country. Gloucester Docks and Alney Island may be of particular interest to you considering ghost railways and the Over Bridge designed by Thomas Telford and there's still plenty of evidence of both the former road that used to cross it and of the railway that used to run goods around the island, I may also mention there's a neglected swing bridge that once carried locomotives before being pedestrianised then abandoned at some point due to the Gloucestershire College and the nearby main road being constructed with no access to said bridge.
Sorry for the essay.
Another great video, can't wait for the next one...
Loving your videos man :) if you keep this up you'll go somewhere!
@@Sam-pw6vi Cheers mate!
I love your thought process lol I am not alone lol love the videos, I’m from the same area and often find old pictures from 40 50s and 60s and go to the exact area and do a comparison lol odd as I know lol but I love it
This is just so oddly fascinating
It’s a shame, there were 2 classic ghost roads in Bedford. One was the old Sandy Road out of Bedford near Priory Business Park, sadly I think they built a Whistl logistics center over it a few years back, but I walked it a few times. It was only short but was part of the main road out of Bedford before the bypass was built and connected to the Willington Road that passes Bedford Town FC. The second was the road near the Interchange Park that was closed off, again when the bypass was built. It’s now been repurposed as the main entrance into the Interchange retail park when the new large Next shop opened creating a one way system if you like in and out of the retail park. I remember when it led to a large roundabout where you could head to Milton Keynes before the bypass was built. Not something useful for you, but thought it might be interesting if you remember it.
really good
Well god damnnn I thought until today I was the only one that gets really excited about ghost roads!!
Theres a little stretch of one just before sutton bridge a17
Brilliant!
Good to see the Cincinnati Bengals on tour again
Highways England have shut down all social media pages (X, Facebook etc) due to the onslaught of angry comments, and quite rightly so. I'm sorry but Compulsory Purchases are absolutely disgusting. That listed building is somehow suddenly not fit for purpose, pull the other one lol.
Felt like you broke the 4th wall with the geowizard reference 😂👌🏻
If you see this brick dust. I came across an extremely long disused lay-by out in Oxfordshire a few years back ( on the A361 between Letchlade and Highworth ) what struck me was it’s length compared to modern lay-bys. It must have been 1/4 of a mile and looked very similar to your overgrown ghost roads, but with many bushes with edible things growing on them. I also stumbled upon a couple more once I got an eye for what to look for. The overgrownness between the road and the lay-by was deep with all sorts of findings too, as you really did pull off of the road to get into the old fashioned lay-bys.
@@greenbunnyinabongo7299 Thanks for that, I'll find that one on the map and check it out!
@@BrickDust just to be a bit more accurate re it’s location. If you look on the map at joining the Letchlade road ( A361) towards Letchlade from Highworth, about 1/4 of a mile on the left, you’ll se a small lane which leads to a farm, and one entrance to the old lay-by is exactly where that turning to the small lane is. ( it’s about a third of the way between the roundabout and upper inglesham.
had a real nostalgic feeling while walking along there seeing how nature is gradually taking it back. Got a similar feeling watching your vids. And am glad I found your channel.
@@BrickDust ps, if you did go in person, then Letchlade on Themes has a couple of super old pubs that back on to the river where I’m sure you’d enjoy a pint. Plus there are many oldy world shops and all in all a very nice place to look around and to be for a day.
@@greenbunnyinabongo7299 Thanks for that. I love an old pub!
Have you been down the old A3 in Surrey since they built the tunnel? It goes next to the Devil’s Punchbowl. It’s really weird up there.
@@StarWarsJay That sounds interesting! I might have to take a look.
@@BrickDust I think that might be right up your street 😂 search The Old A3 - The Devil's Punchbowl loop. Also, look up the old sailors grave (it’s on the old A3).
the bell have not been in there for years and it is a great shame the cottage has gone
Another great video, thanks 👻🛣️
love this amazing stuff i allways imagine the M1 being the same in a few years lol 😂
@@solarsymphonic It might be one day!
@@BrickDust 🙂
A young man that’s an historian for my youth😂
Well done
Just stumbled across your video's and have been binge watching👍, you missed another ghost road in Brampton just a few mins walk from where you were, heading westbound on the A141 heading towards Brampton hut interchange taking the exit slip at the junction locally know as Brampton racecourse (still shows incorrectly as Junction 22 from the old A14 days on Google maps) there is a few hundred meters of old road running parallel to the current slip road easily accessible by foot, believe it was the old slip road but unsure exactly..
Thanks for watching! I'll check that other Brampton one out.
I know that 1950s cine film. I thought about trying to stabilise it and/or refilm the same route today.
@@smintube Refilming it is a great idea!
I’ve recorded the old route and tried to overlay the old film ua-cam.com/video/Lqx0CVuWAm0/v-deo.html
Finally part 2!!
B W & Co bottle commonly used to transport Stud Semen from field to laboratory
I am form Bedford and I did not know there was roads in Bedford I lived here for 14yrs
another great video !!
@@chillintheuk Thanks! 😀
After you have finished traipsing through the brambles (waist high) (I wouldn’t do it, you must get scratched to pieces!!) and trying to navigate these old roads/pathways - picking up old bottles and all manner of stuff - on the way home, go and get fish and chips, that will round the day off nicely. (If you eat fish!!) A good day’s work. 😊
That's a bloody good idea that! 🐟 A great way to top it off.
You must see the former A14 eastbound Haughley Bends in Suffolk which is now a footpath. Then there is the A12 at Copdock which, although not technically a 'ghost road', it is a shadow of its former self as a full dual carriageway no longer part of the A12. Another great one is the former A2 dual carriageway in Kent, a section of which is fully retained as the carpark to the cyclopark outside Gravesend!
That looks like a brilliant one!
The hub cap was from a Vauxhall Carlton
Next time bring garden shears for the nettles and brambles
@@MostlyLoveOfMusic Those would have been handy for that first road!
Ghost roads fascinate me, I can imagine today`s traffic using those single lanes and through the small villages and towns that have been bypassed. I wonder if these disused road are still owned by the local councils as I can`t see them being simply handed over to the nearest landowner.
Rod ton rd will change position again when the work is done.
27:49 that hubcap is off a Fiat i believe
That wheeltrim looks like it's from a 1980s FIAT of some sort. It's probably been there since well before the road was closed.
Close, it's a 1985-92 Lancia Y10.
Love these ghost things 🙏😃
Autoshenanigans did a video on the Black Cat roundabout.
Do you intend to do videos further afield from good old Bedfordshire??
@@stuart2398 Of course! There must be some absolute CORKERS to visit elsewhere.
Autoshananagans will love you.
Know the first ghost road well,will touch the tree add to the total 😂
Looks like a hubcap from a Montego?
I'm waiting for the day you meet GeoWizard because it needs to happen
@@MostlyLoveOfMusic That would be fantastic 😂
I'd hazard a guess that the wheel trim is from a Mk1 Fiat Panda.
Shows how nature will take over after humans have left this planet.
Yh i did wee up that tree actually
There doesn’t seem to be any potholes like now
19:44 😂
Yesssss finally
You should make some ghost railway videos.
@@motelghost477 I've made one already, but plan on doing a few more eventually!
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Old a1 by pboro, old a47 by pboro
"Let's go and inspect the ditches" is not a phrase you hear very often, is it? By the way, BW & Co are a pharmaceutical company, so that bottle you picked up probably contained pills of some sort.
bet you don't find any pot holes on them olds roads haha
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Often I wish that our road system could be simple and easy like it was in say the 1950's. I hate places with multiples lanes and confusing road systems.
It’s a shame, there were 2 classic ghost roads in Bedford. One was the old Sandy Road out of Bedford near Priory Business Park, sadly I think they built a Whistl logistics center over it a few years back, but I walked it a few times. It was only short but was part of the main road out of Bedford before the bypass was built and connected to the Willington Road that passes Bedford Town FC. The second was the road near the Interchange Park that was closed off, again when the bypass was built. It’s now been repurposed as the main entrance into the Interchange retail park when the new large Next shop opened creating a one way system if you like in and out of the retail park. I remember when it led to a large roundabout where you could head to Milton Keynes before the bypass was built. Not something useful for you, but thought it might be interesting if you remember it.
The one near Priory Business Park was originally on my list for this video to talk about, and also a bit near Cardington roundabout. That's until I found the one near Huntingdon which looked a bit more preserved. The repurposed one at the Interchange seems to be the most famous one in the area, from the amount I've heard people talking about it. I walked that one whilst it was still abandoned, but unfortunately that was before I started making videos. Cheers for watching!
Thanks mate. Great videos.
I remember the Brogborough Hill Tramways, trains of narrow gauge wagons all over the side of the hill.