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Great British Road Journeys - Buckinghamshire - Iver to Chesham Ep. 25
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
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This week we're continuing to explore Buckinghamshire starting in Iver... one of the most Southernly towns in the county. There's a nice bridge, the M25 and that's about it. But not to worry, on todays journey that will see us heading to Chesham there's plenty more to discover, an old hospital, model village and some trees. oh... and yeh, there's High Wycombe as well.
Using a copy of the 1923 Michelin Guide, I'll be travelling the country to see what remains and what's changed since it's publication. The guide offers suggestions on thing to see and where to stay all with the goal of getting you out there and exploring in your motor vehicle.
*Why not visit these places*
Burnham Beeches - www.cityoflond...
Bekonscot Model Railway and Village - www.bekonscot....
Pann Mill - www.pannmill.o...
St. Peter & St. Paul Church - www.missendenc...
Roald Dahl Museum - www.roalddahlm...
I'm waiting with bated breath for the sarcasm and ascerbism of biblical proportions when he finally gets to Milton Keynes.
As an MK resident I am looking forward to Jon’s in-depth scarifying 😁
@@SportyMabamba he might surprise us all though and say something like 'apart from portway at rush hour, everything moves quite nicely'
4:03 - nice pointy hat :)
Looked like a large Iced Gem if you know that Sugary Snack
Thx, I missed that!
i love the sarcasm and every time he says the 2nd big disagreement and it interesting to see how things have changed.
The Iver to Uxbridge road over the M25 was known as the “Iver mile” in the late 80s and was an infamous local boy racer stretch. The nearby road Old Mill Lane was a well-known ‘quiet spot’ where couples could ‘relax’ in their cars. Both those facts: “allegedly”.
Iver, twinned with Biggun.
... I'll get me coat.
Don't be a w*nker! (I have all his albums and performed on two!)
Huh
😂😂😂😂
I was going to do that one. Book title: Size Matters - by Iver Biggun.
😂😂😂😂
My dad used to take us for family days out to Beaconscot when I was about 10. I'm 77 now. High Wycombe was a furniture town because of all the beech trees at Burnham Beeches.
"Iver come to Iver" 😄
Ah, the mighty Saab streaks through the countryside, survives High Wycombe.
These vids are fabulous!
I live in Wycombe, it definitely got off lightly.
I led to believe that the house at the beginning is the house of carry on star, Syd James. The house and the bridge also feature in chitty chitty bang bang.
Bekonscot model village has the distinction of being featured (as a murder scene) in a 2009 episode of Midsomer Murders.
spent ages trying to identify the murder location and third time around realised the outline of the body was painted on the floor ......
I like this video so I pressed the button specifically for that 👉🏻
I also pressed the button specifically for that
As did I.
I press it before I watch it-i'm not sure that's what it's for,but you know,Jon is reliable
Nursey says that I'm not allowed buttons, so I have to make do with velcro.
Thank you Adam for your steadfast dedication to tradition, a sane man in a mad world.
I do like my new Sunday tradition of watching a fresh Auto Shenanigans. It’s like when we used to watch Lost in Space followed by Land of the Giants, then have a roast dinner.
Hiya thanks for popping into my home town chesham
It’s the way you tell it that makes it interesting (and amusing) x
One thing you missed when you was in Iver, Sid James's house was opposite you behind the big wall! Love your videos!very interesting ❤
He did, Delaford Park.
Auto Shenanigans with a bit of Time Team thrown in for good measure (Iver). Lovely. Beaconsfield Model Village looks great.
Going to have to add it to my road trip list.
I’ve been there quite a few times and I used to love being taken there by my parents when I was really little. It’s so much fun
It is! It's one of our favourite places to go, though my kids are starting to age out of it, sadly. I have fond memories of going when I was a little kid of roughly my son's age. Though oddly, the most lasting memory of the place was the Bananaman ice lollies they used to sell!
Sunday complete. I have of course hit the button with the purpose design.
Ps "pun intended" wicked sweet awesome indeed. ❤
You finally made it to my home town, good old Wycombe! Don't live there anymore, if my friends and family weren't there I'd never go back.
Another fascinating road journey. Thanks John!
Love your unique style, never change!
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Thanks John. High Wycombe was home to RAF Bomber Command HQ during the 2nd small disagreement
It’s now home to Martin Baker, the ejector seat company who have a ‘wall of life’ full of cards from pilots who’ve had the misfortune of using their products with great effect.
US 8th Air Force were also at HW with their HQ on Wycombe Abbey land which became RAF Daws Hill
@@SpudUNoLikeMartin Baker is in Denham, 3 junctions south on the M40, about half an hour or so away.
A link to H.Wycombe. - I recall back in the late 70's and early 80's at school practicing for nuclear missile strikes and subsequent fallout because we were close to NATO strike command near High Wycombe, and John you missed out the Golden ball on the mausoleum on the edge of Lord Dashwoods estate.
Thanks Jon. I had a good week, thanks for asking.
You definitely deserve more recognition for this!
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51 likes lmao wtf is going on
@@samholdsworth420 People agree with the sentiment but clueless they are agreeing with a porn bot.
@@archstanton6102 the comments never have anything to do with the video either, just generic vague comments...
I remember being told "the best thing for High Wycombe is the dam both ends and fill it with water".
I'm inclined to agree
Used to go to Burnham Beeches a lot when I was a kid. There was a cafe somewhere there that had a hutch labelled 'water otter' - look close inside and all you saw was a kettle! Ha! Ha! Thought you might appreciate that 😁
You know what they say, the old ones are the old ones.
I remember that nearby was a tacky "fairground" and swimming pool
Fantastic Mr Fox is my favourite too 🙂
Jon, that bridge in Iver was featured in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang where the villains attempted to steal Chitty !!
You're welcome 😊
Wicked sweet awesome! Can't wait to see the next installment!
Road archaeology, bridge hunting, an excellent model village that I've been to, and Rohl Dahl. What an episode. Well done 👍 If this was on ITV or Dave they'd easily stretch this out for 30mins PoP...
I love this series! See you next week (although I enjoy your Facebook page during the week)
Brilliant video, as always. Thanks very much.
I like the fancy hat you were wearing when sitting on that bench in Beaconsfield.
This episode had me laughing out loud, especially the shot where it looked like that tower thing was sticking out the top of your head 🤣
But you didn't go looking for the Biggun, there has to be a Biggun there in Iver, I hear it talked about all the time that Iver Biggun... :P
Ahhhh, kicking around my old haunts. It was good to see that everything was still as I left it.
Sundays wouldn't be Sunday without another fwickedsweetawesome video from Jon.
Iver come to Iver, and the tower sticking out of your head in Beaconsfield is just Jon being Jon. Keep up the good work 👍
I noticed and chortled at that tower sticking out of his head, too!
awesome video, Fantastic Mr Fox was my favourite Roald Dahl book as well
4:03 Love the mitre on your head 😂 presuming this is intentional. Great entertainment. Keep it up. 😎
I thought someone would notice, I did laugh at it
I’ve been to a wedding in that church in Great Missenden - very posh part of the world!
I loved the strange hat you was wearing while sitting on that bench
Hi John, well high Wycombe air field was used for those magnificent men and there flying machines, they had to build a replica of brooklands racing circuit at the airfield.
You were in Iver?!! I live in Iver 😭 Wish I’d seen you haha
Edit: I also visit Beaconsfield very often haha, gf lives there and I go truck spotting at the services. Cool to see these places be featured :)
Loving your vids, thanks. On the subject of model villages, Gt Yarmouth has one that in the 80's featured only one person of colour, he had a sack on his back marked SWAG, and was running down the street chased by a police constable!
This one is a standout classic. Love it.
Lovely hat you had at 4:15, quite unique 🤪
What the the button specifically for liking the video? 🤔 You never tell us!
Thanks
Thanks a lot mate
My Gran use to take me to Beckonscot Model Village when I was a kid, it was great seeing all the model trains. Invariably I would always get something Thomas the Tank Engine related in the gift shop.
High Wycombe is a tip.
The High Wycombe fly tipping had me snorting a cheeky Sunday afternoon pastis right up and out of my nose. Cheers, and ouch.
Thanks John. 👋
Doing a piece to camera next to a pile of fly tipping, class.
It is difficult to avoid in High Wycombe. In spite of the police warning and CCTV monitoring, if those signs are to be believed, fly tipping is everywhere in this town.
Great as always, safe travels Jon atvb.
Nice to see my home 'territory' so to speak as I've lived in the area all my life. There's so much more to everywhere you mentioned, but I guess that's true of anywhere you go, so just pick on high/low lights etc?!
WOT! No mention of all the great films, filmed in Burnham Beaches from Pinewood Studios! Carry on don't loose your head, Excalibur, Hawk the Slayer (I think) Erm, I've run out, Ooo - Merlin
Sooo close to Chalfont St Peter (where family lives), the home of Geoffrey Chaucer (in Beaconsfield) and West Wycombe (childhood memories - also shared with the model village!) … you were also so close to Tranquility House, on the Windsor Road, the elevated M40 built so close you could almost lean out the windows and touch the piers!
Part of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was filmed on the old Iver Bridge. That big house can be seen, with Chitty driving down the old road as it was then.
I'm surprised you made no mention of Pinewood Studios (home of the James Bond movies), just north of Iver, as you drove right by it. Although, I imagine, you couldn't fly your drone too close to it, in case they confuse you for a paparazzi and shoot it down.
And they frequently used Burnham Beeches for forest scenes across British film and TV history.
Summed up High Wycombe pretty well, with the flytipping
Best one yet, keep it up, makes my Sunday
The Burnham Beeches Hotel used to be where the England football team stayed prior to home games. I remember being put there once because all the hotels around Slough were full (thank goodness) and bumping into Peter Beardsley & Co. while on the way to breakfast.
...and my car broke down in High Wycombe a couple of weeks back on the way to the ferry in Liverpool, which meant I had to fly back to make a *second visit* to the place. I'm scarred for life.
Pinewood Studios used Burnham Beeches as a film location for all manner of stuff, most recently Harry Potter. The roads were great for car chase scenes in the 60s and 70s too.
The other near by film location was Black Park. Burnham had the beech trees and Black Park was conifers - and sometimes fibreglass palm trees.
Local towns also got used for some sequences. The old HP building in Uxbridge (Harman House?) aka the Dallas Building was often used when a modern 80s-futuristic building was needed.
I'm from High Wycombe, it's shit.
You missed out filming the Golden Ball & Hellfire Caves while you there, the bit where the rubbish is where you were filming from is Malvern Close in Downley by the railway footpath.
The other famous person from great missingdon, the missingdon flyer 👍
A nice fungi spot! 🍄
Iver is so close to the M25 London Orbital Motorway and near to Heathrow Airport. And is where the Elizabeth Line serves Iver.
Great little nuggets of sarcasm, according to Wiki, 12C John the Baptist Hospital......doesn't have a helipad installed. You just got to laugh.🤣
As public seatwear, your Beconsfield hat is fine.
I can't believe you visited High Wycombe and didn't mention the multi-roundabout in the town centre where the A404 meets the A40. Back in 1988/89 it was the highlight of my commute from Reading to Amersham, trying to decide which way around I should go to get through fastest.
You're a cheeky chappy init ❤❤❤
Ah, Wycombe. I grew up round there, and don't really miss it to be honest.
Burnham Beeches - also well known for dogging back in the day
Chesham is an oddball place as I recall in the not so long ago days you had to change at Amersham on the Met Line and get another part of Met Line to Chesham. I seem to recall it was only a two carriage tube. Even today if you accidentally get the "Semi Fast" train be prepared for a long journey from Aldgate! Funny how High Wycombe looks quite pleasant tucked away off the M40 on a hill.
We stayed in Amersham for a few nights on our UK visit years ago. Would've liked to visit High Wycombe and the ghosts of Arthur Harris and Lord Cherwell. I wonder if the Iver forest preserve inspired the outing scenes in Orwell's "Aspidistra" and "1984." Thanks for a great channel Jon.
Well done guy ❤❤
Another fascinating video, Jon, and some great cars in that photo of Chesham Hospital, Volvo 240 estate, Audi 80, Rover 416GSi (?) and most definitely a Mk.2 Fiesta XR2 in the background... quite the car for a staff member, must have been a consultant! I wonder if it's still around..? Unfortunately the Audi appears to have met it's demise in 2006, but strangely enough the Rover is currently SORN'd so could still be around and not disintegrated into a pile of rust like most of them.
Thanks for asking Jon, Iver had a jolly good week 😊
My home town!!!👏👏👏
Something you maybe interested about Beaconsfield is the diversion of the A355 to link up with a roundabout on the A40. It was works casting £80 million. They spent the first £50 million, then stop, just short of Minerva Way.
This was a few years ago, when I was having a bit of fun with Google Maps satellite view, following this new road, when it strangely just stopped.
Reading news articles, they had a problem of which way to go. Either go through an ancient woods; go through a school; or through a small business park of shack-like buildings. Looking at it now, they went with knocking the shacks down.
One bizarre thing I saw in the view at the time; despite having a road not yet going anywhere, some one went to the bother of putting the white line down to the end. (Oh, of course, inflation.)
Ah yes, Burnham Beeches.
Now a popular dogging area (probably) and famous in the early 90's for a certain Geri Halliwell (Occasionally Horner) doing a model shoot and getting her norks out.
Chesham Bois and the surrounding areas are stunning, with wild deer and rolling fields..
As always Mr, the highest highlight of one's week! ❤
with how often you end up at Railways and tube lines around London i keep half expecting to see Jago Hazzard or Geoff Marshall to make a quick Cameo
Thanks!
Roald Dahl also wrote "Tales of the Unexpected", demonstrating an all together much darker side...
"pun absolutely intended.". Superb, More please XD
My head spins you go so fast. I think you could spend minutes on some of the things that you spend 10 to 30 seconds on Franklin. Love the content I keep marking my Google maps with all these places. I bet they just haven’t found the helicopter pad at the Norman ruins yet.
Iver Bridge is a fine structure and is, Absolutely OK but the tree on the right in the very well crafted shot of the bridge has some pronounced plate fungus towards the base which can often indicate decay within the tree itself.
It is a very well crafted Shot without being too Biscuit Tin. Not only the script but the Camera work is top notch.
Cheers,
I know it's a thing to knock the Victorians but I'd say they did quite well with the knowledge they had. I recommend a visit to the workhouse near Nottingham, you'll be surprised how well people were looked after.
Thanks Jon. My Sunday is complete now.
Remember the model village well.
You definitely deserve more recognition for this! 🤗
Oh you're going to get canceled now for liking Roald Dahl
Genuinely chortled to myself at the point after you dropped something on the floor through the bench, as I noticed you perfectly positioned the tower behind you to have a pointy hat! 👏👏👏👏
I've done my civic duty and clicked the "button specifically for that" and a very satisfying click it was. I highly recommend you do the same.
Great video, you missed the opportunity of the “class system” of Gerard’s Cross (or GX to the locals - old money) who look down on the (new money) of Beaconsfield who look down on the (normal folk) of High Wycombe…. 1st class, 2nd class or standing room only Sir? Snobbery is alive and well in Buckinghamshire….😂
John why the tele haven’t noticed you I don’t know excellent as usual be perfect early evening viewing you could do this then present the weather lol 😂 it would be wicked sweet awesome lol 😂
I can't believe you ignored the magic roundabout of High Wycombe!
Yep, you got off lightly in Wycombe
H.W. my place of birth and education, for a short time in the Technical School behind the Norman Ruins until relocating to a new site. Thank you for this waft of nostalgia.
Road Journeys is always worth watching