Northamptonshire has heaps of picturesque villages, it's a surprisingly beautiful county - so long as you're not near any of the urban centres, especially Northampton town centre.
The dead pan and sarcasm is what makes these downloads great. The content makes it awesome! There is some great infrastructure and architecture not forgetting the trains and airfields. Thanks Jon safe travels.
Let's hear it for Wicksteed, makers of playground equipment - I grew up near a park where all the swings, see-saws, roundabouts, slides and other lethal early C20th equipment was made by Wicksteed in Kettering! 😃
“Leaving Peterborough, hopefully never to return… “ had me in stiches! Yet another great video with humorous anecdotes and great presentation as always Jon!
I am not from the UK, i have no interests in roads or streets, nor do i care about some abandoned fuel stations or railroad brigdes. Yet here we are and i watch this bloke for over a year now every sunday. I really really have no idea why. Not a single clue. Maybe perhaps because he is driving a saab? I really dont know. Jokes aside, never thought these things would be so entertaining to explain and show the way you do. Great work.
Yep, it's our host's laconic delivery and deadpan humour which keeps us coming back. I mean, motorways and now arguably pretty obscure trunk roads. Are you sure? Yet here we all are, lapping it up. He's a good un!
As a Peterborough resident, I think you were too kind on the assessment of the place. The most exciting thing to happen here in the past 30 years was last night when Frankie Boyle did a gig to a silent audience.
If he had done it in polish he would have stood a chance at a laugh .... no wait they rejected his prefered personnal communist stance ....... carry on
@@godzillas6301 I kindly reject your stance of Frankie Boyle being an honest-to-god communist; but I will agree that a show being presented in fully fluent Polish, with no prior warning, would've gotten quite a laugh out of me.
@@Bakabakaonichan I watched him when he first came out with laughter . I enjoyed his unique unhinged take on people held so high . I bought his book and planned to see him in person . However i couldnt help but note his diatribe of hate towards those in showbuzz took a corner towards political rendering . No longer was he taking the piss out of the royals or kate price but instead he showed hate towards not only the government but those who voted them in showing a very left wing agenda . In a short time it simply became him vrs the political narrative of the day . Gone was the fun and instead he turned into a radical left mouth piece attacking the public and not those who should be a figure of fun . I was hoping it was lazyness on his part but in time there was no point in reading between the lines when the lines were radical socialism . You can see this easily in action where he was given a late night show where he was there to rip into the topics of the day with light hearted humour but instead he welcommed extremists , racists and the most radical left wing to the point of nazism . This showed beautifully in the `kill whitey `. No longer is he a comedian . Hes just a carachure equal to the extremists of the left only content to push an vile agenda on anyone who will give him an ear . He shouldnt be given airtime but he will and he will only pump a party political stance thinly veiled as mildly humorous but insulting to anyone with decency and common sense . I remember very well solidarity and Lech Wałęsa . Peterbrough is knee deep in Polish people hence the association . Its also why i posted given they had had to live through the tyranny of a leninist marxist totalitarianism state which is exactly what boyle promotes by his association and actions . You would be wise to reconsider whom and what he really is .
@@godzillas6301 I had assumed your "if he had done it in Polish" comment was a complaint about the ethnic makeup of Peterborough but considering how around half the words in your longer post are either the wrong word or misspelled or occasionally both I am curious if Polish is actually your native language?
Lol, yes that loco passing u on the bridge is class 57 no.57314 'Conwy Castle' in West Coast Railways maroon livery travelling 'light engine'. An ex class 47 type, of which 512 were originally built, the most built mainline diesel in the UK back in the 60's. I might even pin-point the date u filmed this as possibly 3rd April . . . My ex girlfriend would of driven that loco a few times i suspect. Ooooof!!!!
My autistic son provided me with the identical info about the locomotive, except the date and your girlfriend of course. 😂. He confirms you are correct. 😅🎉
I'm American and lived in that very part of the world for 15 years. I came in the US Forces, retired, married a Leicestershire gal (where I am now) and stayed. Been here for 25 years. The first house I bought was near Oundle, which is a lovely town. There is a surprisingly large American population in Oundle. Many are US military from local bases (like me) who don't want to live in the Huntingdon area and the rest from the Caterpiller/Perkins plant in P'borough who definitely do not want to live there. I was dying over the 'Nehn/Kneene" river name pronunciation! That's a real thing... ;-)
I remember I had the misfortune to go to Corby for work purposes in the mid 2000's temporarily and on one visit I happened to listen to the local radio station in the car and the competition giveaway was a professionally fitted household burglar alarm. I think that says it all.
Corby village is nice, my grandmother lived there. The rest of Corby, is definitely... a place. It is however, the biggest consumer of Irn Bru outside of Scotland :D
Being a sad transport nerd I decided to have a day out in Kettering not long ago as the trains from Nottingham to London were on divert around Market Harborough thus giving me the rare opportunity of a trip over the magnificent Welland viaduct as seen in the outro (which of course you can't see when you're actually on it). Kettering: that's a day out I won't be repeating. As a "bonus" I got to see Corby too.
Even Corby had it's bad area's the Exeter estate was better known as the ponderosa Lincoln estate there's another one my husband was born in the old village he left Corby in 1982 worked at Stewart's and Lloyds dean coke ovens now living in the Cotswolds would he move back to Corby NO,
Prior to blackout in WW2 it was spelt Nen, but afterwards they whacked another E on. Kettering, Thrapston etc still call it correctly but Oundle onwards call it neen. Tbf the only people who really take it personally are those that live in Thrapston/Denford/Islip area lol.
How the devil could you miss out Kettering grammar school, who in the 60s 70s were world famous for picking up the radio communications from the moon landings etc. nah I am an old bugger that's why I remember that
Born in Kettering now living in Peterborough. Great video. Should have turned left at Weldon and gone down the A43 to Geddington to see the Elenor cross.
If you've ever played on a council recreation ground, the equipment you rode on was very likely to have been made in Kettering. The area around Kettering was a centre of the long vanished ironstone quarrying industry, hence the steelworks at Corby.
Hoping Wicksteed will be in the next video. First place I ever drove a “car” (a petrol engined tiny thing on their oval track. Always a big queue, guaranteed to shake you painfully all the way end).
No mention of Perkins in Peterborough and no trip to Wicksteed Park after arriving in Ketamine, where there are Cars, Trains, Boats and Chips or Ice Cream. I was hoping to see you on Cheyenne or King Arthur going round the Lake. Cheers
Weird seeing stuff from my neck of the woods Jon, just to note Fotheringhay Castle is where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned & beheaded, been through the village many times but never actually seen the castle or the remains of it.
I've lived in Peterborough since 1996 and never noticed our cathedral is unfinished! There's an appeal to repair the support that holds the hovertrain up.
which happens to be on the old A6 (before it multiplexed with the a14 and bypasses Kettering entirely) It opened in 1921, so should be in the guide book
Thanks John, as enjoyable as ever. A nice view of the Welland Viaduct (a.k.a. Harringworth Viaduct or Seaton Viaduct) at the end - 30 million bricks that cost £12,000 in the 1870s.
Funny you should mention Peterborough. It was the only place as kids we would refuse to go with my dad when he did his "calls" to various factories. Even when he had his brand new Ford Zodiac Breeze Block Exec we would still refuse to go. The only good bit is the cathedral but that is it. As for Corby we would spend hours as kids been allowed to run around what was a lethal steel works whilst my dad would sell his bits and bobs. If we were really good he would dump us at Kirby Hall, the most spectacular Tutor home in the country and still is. In those days you could just "play" in it and we did. If the weather was good we would be dumped at Harringworth Viaduct to play on the railway (live as well) which is another spectacular bit of railway infrastructure and somewhat stunning. We could see said steel works from the viaduct so we knew my dad hadn't dumped us for good. I also remember the countless day trips to Wicksteed Park in Kettering that was a staple of Midlanders. It's still a damn good visit even more so when the Weetabix factory nearby has open days so you would stuff your face full of the things and end up pooing house bricks. I suspect this journey is going to end up at Northampton Lighthouse (AKA Evans Lift Test Tower). I seem to recall mentioning this in another episode but as kids, this was one place we would die to go to even if it meant going in the Triumph Herald as the Zodiac was broken (again). I'll wait to see if you go there and tell you the H&S horror stories of playing in the tower!
I'm going to make a sign for my front door... Watching Auto Shenanigans... please fook off for a while, thanks" Had to restart this thrice! Wickedsweetawesome.
Thankfully for the average Corby resident, Corby is leaps and bounds better than it was just 20 years ago. Particularly in thanks to the regeneration and new housing estates. Shame about Rockingham Motor Speedway though, it will absolutely be missed
Great stuff as usual. And what a brilliant idea to make all our steel and coal, stoves and clothes, shoes and cars, and everything, in China, we can all work in The City and earn millions instead. Lucky we have politicians to make decisions like that for us.
What’s amazing about these fabulous fantasy vehicles like the TRV31 and the French Aérotrain is that they actually had the bollocks in the 1970s to build them. But building them was the best way to remind ourselves that “gadgetbahns” never really work and should be left to an episode of the Thunderbirds.
I love that you picked the unused stretch of dual carriageway in Corby to film!!! I'm also glad you made the smart choice of not actually venturing into Wood Street!
Oi!! Northamptonshire is very beautiful!! It's just some of the towns that let it down, however the local villages are very nice, and the countryside is lovely, especially around Towcester. And before anyone says anything, I've lived in Northampton all my life, so I can say what's what in Northamptonshire, great video by the way 👍
Peterborough at one time used to be in North-east Northamptonshire before it was taken over by Cambridgeshire and there were once plans for Rutland that could have extended south-eastwards towards Peterborough.
Another great video, Corby steel works, founded by Stewarts & Lloyds, and manned by mainly relocated staff from Lanarkshire, its closure was immortalised in the band, Big Country's “steeltown”
You actually missed an element of Kettering that was trailblazing - in 1975, their football team was the first in England to have Shirt Sponsorship...with a local TYRE firm!
Loakes are not makers of Luxury shoes but good shoes, here in Sweden I walk 8 to 12 kilometers each and every working day through the notorious Swedish winters, but still need smart looking shoes. I have a couple of pairs of Loakes Goodyear welted boots with rubber soles and they are approaching their third year. Yes at £200 to £250 is a lot to pay, but a £100 pair of shoes won't last a single winter before they split, you won't get a year out of DocMartins either, and they aren't that much cheaper than Loakes.
Way back in the 70s/early 80s, Corby was still a serious steel making concern. One of the costs was that of coal so there was a plan afoot to find more "local" coal. As such, there was series of drilling sites set up across, Northamptonshire, all the way across to where I lived in Witney in Oxfordhshire. The local paper then reported that they had discovered "300 years worth of coal" underneath the area and speculated that new mines and possibly even an updated steel works was on the cards, Needless to say, turning quaint neo-Cotswold towns into a mining area didnt go down well. In fact didnt go down at all and nothing ever happened - except steel and coal got closed down across the country.
For those interested, the Rushton Triangular Lodge is nearby to the Corby - Kettering route. There is a page for it on Wikipedia detailing the story behind its interesting design.
You might think Loake shoes are expensive but remember most of them are repairable (unlike most shoes) and will keep going for years so perhaps not so expensive after all. I work in a shop that sells Loakes so might be a bit biased but I sort of know what I’m talking about! Great video ❤
No matter what I get up to, I'll always have the time to watch your Sunday adventures, Jon. And yes, we saw the Conwy Castle train going over the River Nene or Nene 😅
Great video. On the A6014 in Corby there's a few bits of abandoned / repurposed road along its route. Considering how relatively 'new' Corby is, a lot of its main roads are actually quite historic.
Dr Marten Boots still based in Woolaston. I pass it every weekend I crew at Santa Pod Raceway, on a WWII (the 'medium' indident) airfield. You even showed the abandoned Rockingham Raceway. Too many things worth a mention. And RS Components are still based in Corby. Please take me back to 1923 when everything was in black and white.
Dr Martens ... You can thank The WHO and Elton John ... 'AirWair International Ltd revenue fell from $412 million in 1999 to $127 million in 2006. In 2003 the Dr. Martens company came close to bankruptcy.[19] On 1 April that year, under pressure from declining sales, the company ceased making shoes in the UK ...
I spent a week in Peterborough once for a training course. The only positive I can remember is that the hotel I stayed in was nice and cooked a bloody nice steak.
Excellent as usual! Fotheringhay Castle is/ was famous as the last prison of Mary Queen of Scots and the place where she was executed. Corby, believe it or not, has fairly successfully attracted industry to replace the steel works. When I worked there we struggled to recruit locally!
The editing filming research and effort you put into these make each one more enjoyable. Just wish some of these were longer but you cram enough knowledge an info in each. Hope you cover the entire country 😂
Thanks for letting us hitchhike with you, Jon!! You manage some very humorous edits, sir!! Perhaps your most sarcastic moments in a “greatest-hits” video?
Excellent as always. I walked that road in Corby last week en route to the station. The place is a dump! Only saving grace is I could get a train to my home with only one change at Luton.
That purpley/red train is a class 57 locomotive. They’re rescue locomotives based at Newark Northgate and are known on the railway as Thunderbirds - anything breaks down and they’re dispatched to rescue
The Peterborough Effect. An unusual new town that was actually built to be connected relatively easy to London except (its too far , so expensive, by Road or Rail, and the new bits like Orton this that and the other are a heck of a way out of the town centre)
When I was young growing up in Kettering I thought it was a terrible hole but after 20 years of working all over the country I now realise its actually quite nice.
If you like railways and cars and roads and bridges. Try the A47 from Norwich to somewhere west, probably a county of town that you wont like. When you get to Sutton Bridge things get interesting. The bridge in question is an old railway swing bridge, now used for road vehicles, as is the A47 at that point, which was the M&GNR (The Midland And Great Northern Railway (AKA The Muddle and Go Nowhere Railway). The bridge is quite an interesting structure, which has also outlasted more modern ones.
57314 Conwy Castle (Class 57) is a locomotive which was converted to a 57 from a 60s class 47 locomotive: 47372 using a General Motors Electric Motive division engine! Good vid yet again 🥰
A fair assessment of Peterborough, possibly a little generous and I used to live near Orton centre. Of course, if you're going to do gratuitous railway content, the Nene or Nene valley railway's worth a mention. Side note, I was actually at Conwy Castle on Friday..... spooky🙂
Great run-through of the many many delights of Northamptonshire. You missed out RAF Molesworth just to the West of Peterborough where US Nuclear weapons were stationed and we had the whole peace camp thing so the county would have been double-destroyed if the Ruskies had felt like it😊
"And this is the building" cuts to garden shed
EPIC
Off camera: "Smells like p*ss in here, lets do this quick!"
Northamptonshire has heaps of picturesque villages, it's a surprisingly beautiful county - so long as you're not near any of the urban centres, especially Northampton town centre.
The dead pan and sarcasm is what makes these downloads great. The content makes it awesome! There is some great infrastructure and architecture not forgetting the trains and airfields. Thanks Jon safe travels.
You stream it, not download it
Unless you download it to watch offline later.
It’s glorious isn’t it. The production quality is epic for a one man show.
Let's hear it for Wicksteed, makers of playground equipment - I grew up near a park where all the swings, see-saws, roundabouts, slides and other lethal early C20th equipment was made by Wicksteed in Kettering! 😃
Wicksteed Park too
@@inkysquid4 I went to an open air concert there, the Bootleg Beatles were playing.
“Leaving Peterborough, hopefully never to return… “ had me in stiches! Yet another great video with humorous anecdotes and great presentation as always Jon!
funny, the same statement and sentiment rings true in Ontario, Canada. Lovely town, once.
And it was once the 'Golden Borough' - what have the Normans ever done for us?
Or what have the newcomers done to Peterborough?@@nemo6686
And Kettering ain’t much better these days! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@JustCameronAndHisJeep you can probably extend that to the rest of Canada since Trudeau...
Does everyone else have to read all the comments of each episode to prolong the absolute need to not have it end?
I do.
Nope, and I'm certainly not doing that at this exact moment either!
I am not from the UK, i have no interests in roads or streets, nor do i care about some abandoned fuel stations or railroad brigdes. Yet here we are and i watch this bloke for over a year now every sunday. I really really have no idea why. Not a single clue. Maybe perhaps because he is driving a saab? I really dont know.
Jokes aside, never thought these things would be so entertaining to explain and show the way you do. Great work.
Hi, just curious, are you a (last name) Stage? I am and it's not a common last name. Or maybe an old west conveyance enthusiast?!
@@ailo4x4 Cheers mate, sorry no, not my last name. Its more the second part. ;)
Where are you from?
Yep, it's our host's laconic delivery and deadpan humour which keeps us coming back.
I mean, motorways and now arguably pretty obscure trunk roads. Are you sure?
Yet here we all are, lapping it up. He's a good un!
John's "have you had a good week" actually made me reflect my past week.
This is as close to therapy as I get on a Sunday. 🙂
Snark, information and abandoned infrastructure.
As good as it gets.
If only there was a button to show I appreciate this.
I suspect he'd tell us if there were one.
A little fact about Kettering, it homes Wicksteed Park, opened in 1921, it’s the UK’s oldest mainland theme park.
Sat in me truck on the A580.. rummaging in me cabinets found a packets of pork scratching and the Auto Shenanigans pops up on me UA-cam feed..
RESULT!
I think you need to get a life..
The good old “east Lancs”
Manchester or Liverpool end ? Or the middle ? 😂
As a Peterborough resident, I think you were too kind on the assessment of the place.
The most exciting thing to happen here in the past 30 years was last night when Frankie Boyle did a gig to a silent audience.
If he had done it in polish he would have stood a chance at a laugh .... no wait they rejected his prefered personnal communist stance ....... carry on
@@godzillas6301So the locals are pretty backwards Tory fuckwits then?
@@godzillas6301 I kindly reject your stance of Frankie Boyle being an honest-to-god communist; but I will agree that a show being presented in fully fluent Polish, with no prior warning, would've gotten quite a laugh out of me.
@@Bakabakaonichan I watched him when he first came out with laughter . I enjoyed his unique unhinged take on people held so high . I bought his book and planned to see him in person .
However i couldnt help but note his diatribe of hate towards those in showbuzz took a corner towards political rendering . No longer was he taking the piss out of the royals or kate price but instead he showed hate towards not only the government but those who voted them in showing a very left wing agenda . In a short time it simply became him vrs the political narrative of the day . Gone was the fun and instead he turned into a radical left mouth piece attacking the public and not those who should be a figure of fun . I was hoping it was lazyness on his part but in time there was no point in reading between the lines when the lines were radical socialism .
You can see this easily in action where he was given a late night show where he was there to rip into the topics of the day with light hearted humour but instead he welcommed extremists , racists and the most radical left wing to the point of nazism . This showed beautifully in the `kill whitey `.
No longer is he a comedian . Hes just a carachure equal to the extremists of the left only content to push an vile agenda on anyone who will give him an ear . He shouldnt be given airtime but he will and he will only pump a party political stance thinly veiled as mildly humorous but insulting to anyone with decency and common sense .
I remember very well solidarity and Lech Wałęsa . Peterbrough is knee deep in Polish people hence the association . Its also why i posted given they had had to live through the tyranny of a leninist marxist totalitarianism state which is exactly what boyle promotes by his association and actions . You would be wise to reconsider whom and what he really is .
@@godzillas6301 I had assumed your "if he had done it in Polish" comment was a complaint about the ethnic makeup of Peterborough but considering how around half the words in your longer post are either the wrong word or misspelled or occasionally both I am curious if Polish is actually your native language?
6:27 "stuff happened..." an even more obscure reference to the second small disagreement!
Lol, yes that loco passing u on the bridge is class 57 no.57314 'Conwy Castle' in West Coast Railways maroon livery travelling 'light engine'. An ex class 47 type, of which 512 were originally built, the most built mainline diesel in the UK back in the 60's. I might even pin-point the date u filmed this as possibly 3rd April . . . My ex girlfriend would of driven that loco a few times i suspect. Ooooof!!!!
My autistic son provided me with the identical info about the locomotive, except the date and your girlfriend of course. 😂. He confirms you are correct. 😅🎉
@@Anmeteor9663 Hehe, splendid!
I'm American and lived in that very part of the world for 15 years. I came in the US Forces, retired, married a Leicestershire gal (where I am now) and stayed. Been here for 25 years. The first house I bought was near Oundle, which is a lovely town. There is a surprisingly large American population in Oundle. Many are US military from local bases (like me) who don't want to live in the Huntingdon area and the rest from the Caterpiller/Perkins plant in P'borough who definitely do not want to live there. I was dying over the 'Nehn/Kneene" river name pronunciation! That's a real thing... ;-)
I remember I had the misfortune to go to Corby for work purposes in the mid 2000's temporarily and on one visit I happened to listen to the local radio station in the car and the competition giveaway was a professionally fitted household burglar alarm. I think that says it all.
Same here, my enduring memory is of the security guard standing outside interflora...
Corby village is nice, my grandmother lived there. The rest of Corby, is definitely... a place. It is however, the biggest consumer of Irn Bru outside of Scotland :D
Being a sad transport nerd I decided to have a day out in Kettering not long ago as the trains from Nottingham to London were on divert around Market Harborough thus giving me the rare opportunity of a trip over the magnificent Welland viaduct as seen in the outro (which of course you can't see when you're actually on it). Kettering: that's a day out I won't be repeating. As a "bonus" I got to see Corby too.
Corby used to be called little Scotland due to the number of workers who moved down to work in the steel industry
You mean illegal immigrants?
Even Corby had it's bad area's the Exeter estate was better known as the ponderosa Lincoln estate there's another one my husband was born in the old village he left Corby in 1982 worked at Stewart's and Lloyds dean coke ovens now living in the Cotswolds would he move back to Corby NO,
Apparently A G Barr sell more Irn Bru in Corby than anywhere else in England
@@dough740 could you speak English please?
Jesus Christ
@@dough740 can you still get Scottish bread in the shops and the Scottish news papers ? ,
I grew up in Northamptonshire and it's the NEN when you get downstream it's the NENE so you are correct.
Is that the new cut or the old cut lol
Prior to blackout in WW2 it was spelt Nen, but afterwards they whacked another E on.
Kettering, Thrapston etc still call it correctly but Oundle onwards call it neen.
Tbf the only people who really take it personally are those that live in Thrapston/Denford/Islip area lol.
Our sat nav pronounces it "NeeNee, sort that one out!
LOL @ "Northamptonshire, a county you have to drive through to access better parts of the country" - you've hit the nail right on the head! 🤣
How the devil could you miss out Kettering grammar school, who in the 60s 70s were world famous for picking up the radio communications from the moon landings etc. nah I am an old bugger that's why I remember that
You visited Fotheringhey castle, but not the more intact Rockingham castle on the edge of Corby. It's a nice view from the top of the hill there
Born in Kettering now living in Peterborough. Great video. Should have turned left at Weldon and gone down the A43 to Geddington to see the Elenor cross.
If you've ever played on a council recreation ground, the equipment you rode on was very likely to have been made in Kettering. The area around Kettering was a centre of the long vanished ironstone quarrying industry, hence the steelworks at Corby.
Good old Wickstede park
Hoping Wicksteed will be in the next video. First place I ever drove a “car” (a petrol engined tiny thing on their oval track. Always a big queue, guaranteed to shake you painfully all the way end).
No mention of Perkins in Peterborough and no trip to Wicksteed Park after arriving in Ketamine, where there are Cars, Trains, Boats and Chips or Ice Cream. I was hoping to see you on Cheyenne or King Arthur going round the Lake.
Cheers
You’re spot on with what you said about Kettering and Corby 😂😂😂😂
Wetting myself or spitting out my tea… with the sarcasm… always on point … thanks
Weird seeing stuff from my neck of the woods Jon, just to note Fotheringhay Castle is where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned & beheaded, been through the village many times but never actually seen the castle or the remains of it.
Fotheringhay Castle was demolished at the request of James I which was hardly surprising
Two thousand likes in two hours and every one well deserved. Our Sunday p.m. treat', Thanks John...you've clearly had a good week.
I've lived in Peterborough since 1996 and never noticed our cathedral is unfinished! There's an appeal to repair the support that holds the hovertrain up.
You missed out Wicksteed Park. It's a major attraction for Kettering.
which happens to be on the old A6 (before it multiplexed with the a14 and bypasses Kettering entirely) It opened in 1921, so should be in the guide book
Because its a sh"thole
Thanks John, as enjoyable as ever.
A nice view of the Welland Viaduct (a.k.a. Harringworth Viaduct or Seaton Viaduct) at the end - 30 million bricks that cost £12,000 in the 1870s.
A quite interesting fact about it is that it was originally red brick, the blue bricks are where it's been repaired.
Nowadays it would cost more than £12,000 just for the Architects drawings.
Funny you should mention Peterborough. It was the only place as kids we would refuse to go with my dad when he did his "calls" to various factories. Even when he had his brand new Ford Zodiac Breeze Block Exec we would still refuse to go. The only good bit is the cathedral but that is it. As for Corby we would spend hours as kids been allowed to run around what was a lethal steel works whilst my dad would sell his bits and bobs. If we were really good he would dump us at Kirby Hall, the most spectacular Tutor home in the country and still is. In those days you could just "play" in it and we did. If the weather was good we would be dumped at Harringworth Viaduct to play on the railway (live as well) which is another spectacular bit of railway infrastructure and somewhat stunning. We could see said steel works from the viaduct so we knew my dad hadn't dumped us for good. I also remember the countless day trips to Wicksteed Park in Kettering that was a staple of Midlanders. It's still a damn good visit even more so when the Weetabix factory nearby has open days so you would stuff your face full of the things and end up pooing house bricks. I suspect this journey is going to end up at Northampton Lighthouse (AKA Evans Lift Test Tower). I seem to recall mentioning this in another episode but as kids, this was one place we would die to go to even if it meant going in the Triumph Herald as the Zodiac was broken (again). I'll wait to see if you go there and tell you the H&S horror stories of playing in the tower!
I'm going to make a sign for my front door... Watching Auto Shenanigans... please fook off for a while, thanks" Had to restart this thrice!
Wickedsweetawesome.
Them drugs ain't gonna sell themselves.
Thankfully for the average Corby resident, Corby is leaps and bounds better than it was just 20 years ago. Particularly in thanks to the regeneration and new housing estates.
Shame about Rockingham Motor Speedway though, it will absolutely be missed
Great stuff as usual. And what a brilliant idea to make all our steel and coal, stoves and clothes, shoes and cars, and everything, in China, we can all work in The City and earn millions instead. Lucky we have politicians to make decisions like that for us.
What’s amazing about these fabulous fantasy vehicles like the TRV31 and the French Aérotrain is that they actually had the bollocks in the 1970s to build them.
But building them was the best way to remind ourselves that “gadgetbahns” never really work and should be left to an episode of the Thunderbirds.
I love that you picked the unused stretch of dual carriageway in Corby to film!!! I'm also glad you made the smart choice of not actually venturing into Wood Street!
I used to live in Kettering and this video reminded me I don't miss it. At all. I now live in the Scottish Highlands which is immensely satisfying 🙂
Oi!! Northamptonshire is very beautiful!! It's just some of the towns that let it down, however the local villages are very nice, and the countryside is lovely, especially around Towcester. And before anyone says anything, I've lived in Northampton all my life, so I can say what's what in Northamptonshire, great video by the way 👍
Peterborough at one time used to be in North-east Northamptonshire before it was taken over by Cambridgeshire and there were once plans for Rutland that could have extended south-eastwards towards Peterborough.
Another great video, Corby steel works, founded by Stewarts & Lloyds, and manned by mainly relocated staff from Lanarkshire, its closure was immortalised in the band, Big Country's “steeltown”
“We’re all getting along just fine…” 😂
You actually missed an element of Kettering that was trailblazing - in 1975, their football team was the first in England to have Shirt Sponsorship...with a local TYRE firm!
I was always taught thst there is only one good thing about Corby, and that was the road out of it!
Peterborough was aptly known as Peter-bog-horror by the writing staff at Performance Bikes magazine many years ago.
Looking forward to when you eventually make it to Sleahole, sorry Sleaford!
With all due respect, Kettering is the birthplace of Legends 😉
Nice one Jon. I've watched for a couple of months and love the sarcasm. My sense of humour.
Loakes are not makers of Luxury shoes but good shoes, here in Sweden I walk 8 to 12 kilometers each and every working day through the notorious Swedish winters, but still need smart looking shoes. I have a couple of pairs of Loakes Goodyear welted boots with rubber soles and they are approaching their third year. Yes at £200 to £250 is a lot to pay, but a £100 pair of shoes won't last a single winter before they split, you won't get a year out of DocMartins either, and they aren't that much cheaper than Loakes.
Way back in the 70s/early 80s, Corby was still a serious steel making concern. One of the costs was that of coal so there was a plan afoot to find more "local" coal. As such, there was series of drilling sites set up across, Northamptonshire, all the way across to where I lived in Witney in Oxfordhshire. The local paper then reported that they had discovered "300 years worth of coal" underneath the area and speculated that new mines and possibly even an updated steel works was on the cards, Needless to say, turning quaint neo-Cotswold towns into a mining area didnt go down well. In fact didnt go down at all and nothing ever happened - except steel and coal got closed down across the country.
Since the shoe industry left, Kettering has become a bit soleless!
See what you did there...😂
@@LaZoucheCustomshop Oh cobblers! Sorry!
@@Revup1 And again 🤣🤣🤣 Love it, humour is the best.
bit too tongue in cheek for me
@@manlu_gaming Very good, but I think the joke is 'wearing a little thin' now!
For those interested, the Rushton Triangular Lodge is nearby to the Corby - Kettering route. There is a page for it on Wikipedia detailing the story behind its interesting design.
You might think Loake shoes are expensive but remember most of them are repairable (unlike most shoes) and will keep going for years so perhaps not so expensive after all. I work in a shop that sells Loakes so might be a bit biased but I sort of know what I’m talking about! Great video ❤
Well John I’ve been watching your videos from nearly the start and I’m glad that you have finally graced us in Kettering with your presence.
No matter what I get up to, I'll always have the time to watch your Sunday adventures, Jon. And yes, we saw the Conwy Castle train going over the River Nene or Nene 😅
Another excellent video. Not only does Jon's railway enthusiasm shine through, but, yet again, so does his great love of Peterborough!
Fotheringay castle was named after the Fairport Convention track. It was also where Mary Queen of Scots was last kept and executed in it's great hall.
Plus birth place of Richard the Third.
Great video. On the A6014 in Corby there's a few bits of abandoned / repurposed road along its route. Considering how relatively 'new' Corby is, a lot of its main roads are actually quite historic.
Thanks
Thanks a lot mate, appreciate that!
Surely there’s a midweek video coming up on the harringworth viaduct? Incredible structure, 82 arches, puts modern bridges to shame
I love the dry humour and common-sense way of looking at things.
Nice one, thanks for watching!
Brilliant, as always
Dr Marten Boots still based in Woolaston. I pass it every weekend I crew at Santa Pod Raceway, on a WWII (the 'medium' indident) airfield. You even showed the abandoned Rockingham Raceway. Too many things worth a mention. And RS Components are still based in Corby.
Please take me back to 1923 when everything was in black and white.
Dr Martens ... You can thank The WHO and Elton John ...
'AirWair International Ltd revenue fell from $412 million in 1999 to $127 million in 2006. In 2003 the Dr. Martens company came close to bankruptcy.[19] On 1 April that year, under pressure from declining sales, the company ceased making shoes in the UK ...
Hope your doing well John. Really enjoying watching the new series
Keep it up. Your doing so well :😊😊
Love these videos, I used to drive all over the country for work and I love to see more about all the places I used to go!
I spent a week in Peterborough once for a training course. The only positive I can remember is that the hotel I stayed in was nice and cooked a bloody nice steak.
Weekly reminder my dinner is half hour away 😂
hope you enjoyed it🍰🙂
Excellent as usual!
Fotheringhay Castle is/ was famous as the last prison of Mary Queen of Scots and the place where she was executed.
Corby, believe it or not, has fairly successfully attracted industry to replace the steel works. When I worked there we struggled to recruit locally!
Lovely overhead drone shots again sir!
That viaduct at the end was tasty.
The editing filming research and effort you put into these make each one more enjoyable. Just wish some of these were longer but you cram enough knowledge an info in each. Hope you cover the entire country 😂
Love the outro on this one had this one playing on my projector and nearly shat my pants when Jon appeared from the darkness in that tiny window...
Thanks!
Rail Shenanigans. Love it.
Thanks for letting us hitchhike with you, Jon!!
You manage some very humorous edits, sir!!
Perhaps your most sarcastic moments in a “greatest-hits” video?
"Thankfully the world is a much better place and we are all getting along just fine" 🤣
Excellent as always. I walked that road in Corby last week en route to the station. The place is a dump! Only saving grace is I could get a train to my home with only one change at Luton.
"Nobody wants Peterborough in their county because it messes up all of the crime stats" 🤣🤣🤣
That purpley/red train is a class 57 locomotive. They’re rescue locomotives based at Newark Northgate and are known on the railway as Thunderbirds - anything breaks down and they’re dispatched to rescue
I live in Newark and I never knew this. Now I feel compelled to keep an eye out for them.
I had no idea that Peterborough used to fall in Northamptonshire, wow
I have all on my own , pressed one of those aforementioned buttons . I thank you !!
The Peterborough Effect. An unusual new town that was actually built to be connected relatively easy to London except (its too far , so expensive, by Road or Rail, and the new bits like Orton this that and the other are a heck of a way out of the town centre)
When I was young growing up in Kettering I thought it was a terrible hole but after 20 years of working all over the country I now realise its actually quite nice.
Pretty sure Fotheringhay Castle is where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned by Elizabeth. So, historically quite significant :)
If you like railways and cars and roads and bridges. Try the A47 from Norwich to somewhere west, probably a county of town that you wont like. When you get to Sutton Bridge things get interesting. The bridge in question is an old railway swing bridge, now used for road vehicles, as is the A47 at that point, which was the M&GNR (The Midland And Great Northern Railway (AKA The Muddle and Go Nowhere Railway). The bridge is quite an interesting structure, which has also outlasted more modern ones.
57314 Conwy Castle (Class 57) is a locomotive which was converted to a 57 from a 60s class 47 locomotive: 47372 using a General Motors Electric Motive division engine!
Good vid yet again 🥰
Brilliant, only just found you, just my cup of tea (beer actually) Going to have to catch up on your broadcasts. Peace and goodwill.
Nice one, thanks for watching!
Peterbourgh Cathedral has the tomb of Henry 8th's first wife Katherine of Aragon .
Also the original burial site of Mary Queen of Scots, before she was moved to Westminster Abbey.
@@kezziepooh You will sometimes see a couple of pomegranates left on Katherine's tomb. They are a House of Aragon heraldic symbol.
Loved it
A fair assessment of Peterborough, possibly a little generous and I used to live near Orton centre. Of course, if you're going to do gratuitous railway content, the Nene or Nene valley railway's worth a mention.
Side note, I was actually at Conwy Castle on Friday..... spooky🙂
Great run-through of the many many delights of Northamptonshire. You missed out RAF Molesworth just to the West of Peterborough where US Nuclear weapons were stationed and we had the whole peace camp thing so the county would have been double-destroyed if the Ruskies had felt like it😊
Sarcasm and humour spot on as usual 😂
Thanks Jon. Great work as always. Keep going mate 👍
Thanks a lot, really appreciate that
8:27 I didn’t expect to laugh so hard 😂😂😂 omg 😂😂😂
Nice one, thanks for watching!
Love it...
Nice one, thanks for watching!
Despite not being a driver, I'm impressed the incredible amount of local information you include in these posts, must take ages to find all this info.
always like the drone ending! Looked a bit windy this time! I still waved back!
I thought Peterborough was in something called the Soke of Peterborough, which was outside of the normal county system.
I remember when all my shoes were made in the UK. 😢
It does be brilliant seeing a new upload