Great British Road Journeys - Leicestershire - Lutterworth to Loughborough Ep. 13
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Leicestershire... It's home of the pork pie, something we're all familiar with no doubt, but it's also where the jet engine was developed and where they make blue tak. And what about red leicester and stilton cheese!? It's also where you find a manufacturer of some of the most insane motor vehicles ever made known as "Ultima"
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. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
That "I really, really want one, please" was said with such heart-felt yearning!
Here’s hoping they see it and give him one 🤞
For nerds of a certain age Ashby de la Zouch is a Mecca of computer gaming history. It was the home of 'Ultimate Play the Game', producers of some of the finest titles for the ZX Spectrum between 1983 and 1987. Younger Nintendo and Xbox gamers may know the company in its later incarnation, 'Rare'. 🤓🕹️
They developed one of the greatest games ever. Goldeneye on the N64
Edit. It turns out the make Sea Of Thieves as well which is an absolutely brilliant game.
As a nerd of a certain age, and Spectrum Next backer/owner, I appreciate this comment.
I still have a boxed 48K Spectrum under my bed. Not opened it for 22 years after I found it in a car boot sale. My ones from the 80’s are long gone after usually suffering from my early experiments with electronics (blowing things up). Got me a career though
Came here to say this!
They started out above the newsagent owned by their parents. I used to call into the shop on the way to school and would occasionally see them loading boxes of cassettes into a van. We had a BBC computer though 😂
I'm surprised you didn't visit Butthole Lane in Shepshed.
I thought that too 😂
Butthole Lane. So many jokes, so little time.
Or Every Street in Leicester - not rude but rather amusing, what, haha.
The Brush works in Loughborough made the Class 47, often regarded as the most successful diesel loco built for British Rail.
But it's not a 37 though is it?
#GrowlersRule
@@garethaethwy Which isn't a Peak, or a Deltic, or a Western, or a Whistler...you get the idea...
Not to mention the D0280 Falcon prototype, the ubiquitous and long lived class 30/31 (same locos, different engine & ancillaries as it turned out the Mirrlees JVS12T power unit was a bit crap and was replaced by an EE 12SVT lump) and the mighty, but ultimately unsuccessful HS4000 Kestrel.
@@GreenJimll ...and of course the real king of the diesels.....the might Valenta-powered HST's...
@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne oh very much so, but think you may think I was saying that without my tongue firmly planted in my cheek at the time...
5:56 - "...opened in 1822, this fantastic Neo-Classical building was demolished in 1962, leaving no trace. Bugger!"
Yep. I'd love to see this series for my germany.
"The book suggests to make a stop at the loveable village generic hausen which got relocated in 1977 for coal mining"
I bet that hotel mysteriously burns down.
It's great you mentioned Ultima cars, but, but, but, but, you were yards from the Great Central Railway & no mention of it? The new A60 bridge you were stood under next to Brush Transformers, will be used for the Reunification. The bridge was demolished & severed the link to the national rail network, which the Nottinghamshire side of the Great Central Railway uses. On the new bridge, ballast has been laid on one deck (this is the side which will carry the new ‘link line' between the two halves of the Great Central. The other bridge deck is now being prepared for track, so that trains from the national rail network can resume running again on the GCR (Nottingham) line north of Loughborough.
Sorry Peerrydebell1352 this channel is (mostly) about roads! But I do agfree it is a shame our rail network is so depleted
Also missed the Leicester and Swannington railway (which he was practically on top of) - one of the oldest in the UK and still running. If you mention Ultimate, then perhaps a mention of Noble in Leicester would make sense too. As he was passing through the area, the Caterpillar works at Peckleton used to be an airfield and a site for Reid and Sigrist - who set up a training school that existed through the 1939-1945 minor disagreement and even tried to sell an aircraft of their own design.
@@curtisbrown3927 Still running? There's none of it left!
@@Technaudio Sorry - meant to say the Burton line. Parts of the Swannington still exist in that it was absorbed into the Burton line (notably by Desford etc).
John Wycliffe - Wyclef Jean.
It all makes sense now 😁
Sadly, he's gone til November
@@Mattheq I heard he's got 50 Bentley's in the West Indies. . .
have you ever seen them both in the same room together?
These episodes get better and better.
My Grandad bought Frank Whittle's old car. It was a white Rover P6 V8. He got it from his widow. Way back in the day.
I am certain that the people of Yorkshire were well bitter well before the Battle of Bosworth.
You'd be bitter too if you had to live next door to Lancashire, especially the bit that contains Manchester. 😉
@@Kevin-mx1vi I grew up in Rochdale - this very fact should rev you up!! Love and kisses, xxxx
Yorkshire is famous for its bitter...
Ashby-de-la-Zouch that little known place that churned out some very famous names - JetPac, Pssst, Cookie, Lunar Jetman, Tranz Am, Atic Atac, Sabre Wulf and many others :)
it's also where crisps come from 🤣
It’s still “a stupid name” though….
It's also where the actor Stephen Graham lives.
Maybe John, as scrap dealers on Ebay advertise their services with the lowest cost piece available (usually a wheel nut), Ultima could send you a wheel nut and say "for all your hard work promoting us, have a part you can add to your car when you've got it!"?
I was given a voucher once for money off my first Ferrari when I eventually bought it.........
It was a 10 pence promissory note in a birthday card!
9:38 who else was definitely listing to Jon sign off, and not distracted by the plant / weed on the right (creeping us out and stealing the lime light). 😂
Hinckley, home to Triumph Motorcycles. Rover cars also had something to do with Frank Whittle/Rolls Royce and jet engines. And since when did Leicester stop being a city? 😉
"And since when did Leicester stop being a city"...When it became a Mecca?
@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne one bingo hall does not a city make
@@gurrrn1102 Indeed...but more mosques than you can shake a stick at pretty well tell you what a city is about...
@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne yeah there's lots of muslims, it's still a city
@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne There's significantly more churches than mosques, but, hey, when have facts ever got in the way of stupid comments?
Hehehe Jon pointed at a Willey XD
*hehehe willey*
I like this video so I pressed the button specifically for that 👉🏻
Me too! 👍✌🖖
Is there?
👍
Re: 25% of the population having no qualifications.
Remember that before 1965 most children at Secondary Moderns (so most children) did not do any exams before leaving school at 15 - they just got jobs, often from local employers who visited the schools to hire them. In 1965 the CSE exam was invented, after which more children did get formal qualifications, but even so it was probably not "normal" until the school leaving age was raised in 1972.
This means that most people born before c1955 left school without formal qualifications. That on its own is about 10-15% of the population.
If you then add in population that is under 16 - ie. not old enough to have any formal qualifications - 25% is, if anything, quite low.
Then - one 1970 'O'level & no budgerigar. Now - a retired pilot examiner. 'Never give up!'
I doubt that a statistic like that would include people younger than 16.
So that number is probably only for adults or for 16+
@loddude5706 Ah, but did you get a budgie?
Yep, my mum went to a secondary modern and left at 15 with no opportunity to get qualifications.
So the age profile of the county cf the country also has to be factored in, and perhaps poverty levels.
@@Jehty21 Trouble is we don't know. And U16s are people
Sundays are fab with facts, sarcasm and swearing. Love it👍
And don't forget the trains!
I'm so glad we all had a collective Wycliffe Jean thought ❤
Only because he pronounced it incorrectly. I'm sure he does this on purpose now.
An episode which almost burst at the seams. So much cracking content. Well done Jon. 👏👏👍😀
I love the witty humour so much fun to watch this channel
In Coalville there used to be the Palitoy factory, which made, amongst many things, Star Wars action figures, and Action Man. The factory has long gone, but on the site is a housing estate, where you will find an 'Action Man Road', and a 'Pippa Avenue' - Pippa being a British simalcrum of 'Barbie', if I remember correctly.
I bet that Action Man Road sign gets 'borrowed' regularly.
Joking aside, I'd love that as an address.
Pippa was a smaller figure than Barbie. Tressy ("her hair grows") was the Palitoy's Barbie equivalent. As a bloke I shouldn't know this, but long hours gawping at a telly can do that to you. Which is why I haven't watched it since the millennium.
czcams.com/video/6twfC1MG9o0/video.html yes indeed.
My mum worked for Palitoy. Among other things she made the Action man uniforms and parachute and the Gollywogs. (I know, you can’t say it any more)
@@janskeet1382 Action Man was GI Joe made under license. I became aware of GI Joe from American superhero comics, along with submarines you could sit in and glasses that saw through clothing. Incredible. The first turned out to be cardboard if I recall correctly, and the second had feathers in the lenses. I didn't even get Action Man, but Tommy Gunn, a Pedigree Toys version who looked like he'd been in a fire. Tommy Gunn went on to become the Captain Scarlet figure.
I love roundabouts with interesting stuff on it it makes the Rona out a lot better and fun to drive around ❤
Gloucester dude here... Those aircraft were tested on an airfield a half mile from my home, now a housing estate with easy access to the M5.. A pub carrying the Whittle name was also built on the site, and Dowty (builders or aircraft props and landing gear) has a production facility on the site.
Dowty also made hydraulic chocks and props for coal mines too !😏
We had a Whittle pub in Lutterworth on the Leicester Road but they knocked it down for flats about 10 years ago.
Gloster?
The first flight was from Moreton Vallence, I think?
@@chriswalford4161which is now severed by the M5, and was originally a proposed site for a motorway services, hence the 'ghost' slipways still there to this day. Wikipedia says the prototype first flew from Cranwell, after testing at Brockworth (Gloster's own airfield). Gloster Meteors and Javelins were first flown from Moreton Valence though.
going to the university in Loughborough its nice to actually recognise some of these places on this episode! always thought the abandoned priory looks cool when passing by.
I want to recommend John for Parliament (wicked sweet awsome party}
Properly fascinating video purely because I now live in rugby, and grew up in thringstone, (literally a few seconds walk away from some of the places you were stood! In thringstone woods!).
The field to the right of Grace Dieu ruins, has a statue in called the rusty mary. The statue was in remembrance of one of the nuns at the priory and was designed by the winner of a competition at the local primary school. The winner of which was me! My original drawing is still on the wall at the school!
My dad also worked at the brush for 32 years too!
Lots of story’s from an area I’m very very familiar with!
These videos get better all the time. I was howling at the Wycliff reference and the insertion of the track… I thought to myself “I bet he puts another snippet of it in further along” and you did 🤣 Your sense of humour is like mine. And being a car nut - was not only very pleased to see about the Ultima factory but I didn’t realise the connection between Noble and the McLaren F1! My day is complete now!
"I'm on a bench." Best comment yet. 😂
The last clip should have been about the bell foundry in Loughborough ( pronounced Loogabarooga )......thus inserting a bell end 😉
Never thought i'd hear Lutterworth mentioned on the intertubes. It's pronounced wickliff by the way. If any locals are reading this: hello! I'm from the family who live on Spencer Road with all of the annoying Land Rovers.
Thanks
Nice one mate, appreciate that!
Don't forget Loughborough's other claim to fame - the former home of Ladybird Books
Coalville (one end of the Charnwood Forest Railway) was where Action Man, among many other products of Palitoy, were made
Yes! Top quality content! 👊😎👍
The Wycliffe John gag at the start was brilliant. It made me giggle
I found this really interesting especially as my daughter lives in Shepshed and I’m really interested in disused railways
Jon……. How could you not mention Hinckley’s Triumph motorcycle factory…….🎉 Still churning out many many 100% Blitish motorcycles from its factory(s) in Thailand. 🥳🇬🇧
You might want to check your research on the Wars of the Roses - it was actually between supporters of the Dukes of York and Lancaster, not the counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire...
I remember Ashby-de-la-Zouch as home of ZX Spectrum game developers "Ultimate Play the Game"
That's true. They were based at Rawdon Terrace, next door to The Royal Hotel. I live a 10 minute walk from there.
not a word on the hinckley rail bridg, the most hit bridge in the UK!
I liked the part where you told us you were on a bench (whilst sitting on a bench) so I’m going to hit the button that’s specifically for that!!👍
My grandad was part of the team who constructed the plane on the roundabout in Lutterworth. He was also involved in the transportation to get it there in the first place.
I used to work in Lutterworth. We used to call it Slutterworth. Good times….
Leicestershire is a great county in the East Midlands and is steeped in lots of history. I haven’t been to Leicester and Loughborough before.
I was born and grew up in Hinckley and went to school in Lutterworth. You forgot to mention in Hinckley is Triumph motorcycles (and the scandalous rumours surrounding the demise of the old factory and the commissioning of the new one) and that John Wilcox racing engines of Hinckley built and developed the Rover K series engine for Rover.
I had a Rover 200 c 1995 nice car fitted with the K series
@@john07973 the K series is a really misunderstood engine. They are well known for head gasket issues, however an uprated gasket along with regular coolant changes will solve that. They make quite a lot of power for their displacement
@@john07973 Yes my mum also with the not-so-common 8v 1.4…
"The people of Yorkshire have been bitter about it ever since" 🤣
No mention of Radical in Peterborough but this episode is WSA! Keeps getting better, keep ‘em coming. 😊
Met some Australians on a narrowboat holiday at Trent Lock years ago, they asked us how long it would take them to get to "Looobabaroooga".
Took us a while to figure out what they meant.
‘And I’m on a bench.’
God’s wisdom shining through right here
(can’t lie it made me crack up though)
Frank Whittle's jet was not the first to fly - that honour belongs to the Heinkel 178 flown by Erich Warsitz. You also failed to mention the most interesting thing about the castle in Ashby de la Zouch - it has an underground tunnel that runs from the castle to the nearby manor house that could be used for escape in a time of seige, it used to be open to the public, not sure if it still is..?
YES! My area finally! Was hoping i was driving past in your shots but unfortunately not 😂
A few miles down the A5 was the old Rugby Radio Station, we had huge radio masts that sent signals to submarines, and my village next to it had letters in the war saying we might be bombed! Crazy!
"... and I'm on a bench." Perfect!
You forgot to mention that Richard was simply hanging around the Grey Friars parking lot for the next 570 years
Hi John, it's been awesome. See you do some road trips in my local area. Yes, the town of Leicester city isn't the nicest place like it used to be many years ago. A lot of people avoid it now. Have a great day and there's nothing like a good pork pie
My name is Jon and Sundays wouldn’t be Sundays without me stood in a field
Or sat on a bench!
Nice of the route to very deftly avoid coalville.
Thanks John, another great video
You haven’t eaten a pork pie until you’ve had a Taylor’s Pork Pie from Taylor’s Butchers in Darlington.
If you ever come to Darlington you HAVE to have one.
I've lived in Shepshed for 23 years and knew almost none of that information about Shepshed and Ashby! Fascinating!!
And I'm on a bench! Love the random shit.
I went to school at Grace Dieu. You missed the whole story about the grey lady being bricked up in the walls. It scared me so much as a kid
John Wycliffe. Not to be confused with Wyclef Jean...
Ah Hinckley, my now home town. Slowly being consumed by industrial sites and HGVs. It is also the birth place of the handsome cab.
Wow 62% have qualifications 😂😂😂😂😂 brilliant video Jon
I will never probably met you John, but you do add the highlight to my Sundays. Keep up the good work mate
Technically 'Rutland' is the home to those cheeses and pork pies etc.....
Jon, you completely missed that Magna Park used to be the Armstrong-Siddeley factory airfield, RAF Bitteswell...
Shout out to Richard and the rest of the guys at Ultima!
Thanks for the name check of Nobstick (Ibstock to its friends) 🤣
As you're a petrolhead, you should have given Retropower a shout when in Hinckley.
You really needed to have stopped off in Coalville. The only town where 6 fingered gloves are considered a stock item.
2:12 1st flight of the jet engined Heinkel HE-178 had been on 27 August 1939, using an engine developed by Hans von Ohain.
Incidentally, series-production of Whittle's engine was delayed by more than a year because Rover tried to circumvent Whittle's patents.
Awesome Jon, I'm a Leicester lad myself, and despite being a bit of a shit hole, we do have some some cracking history, I now live just on the edge of Rutland, our village was a leper hospital a thousand years ago lol
My mentality about living in Leicester has always been "it's a bit of a shithole, but it's my shithole"
@KieranJamesHickman I can relate 😂 to be fair, once you leave the city (which took me 37yrs) and get to the countryside villages, it's lovely
Bosworth, the final battle of the wars of the roses ... Lancashire vs Yorkshire - but it was called that until at least 300 years after, and the two kings were from Pembrokeshire and Northamptonshire
09:40 blue stone. cool.
Hinckley is also home to the absurdly talented automotive artisans at Retropower. They, too, post videos on here every Sunday.
Wycliffe Peugeot garage was in Lutterworth in the 90's for many years makes more sense now.
I live near all this stuff so I've now got something else to go check out thanks Jon 😁
I believe their showroom was dismantled and re-built at Bruntingthorpe where it was used as a hospitality suite for their corporate events..
"... and I'm on a bench." Nothing gets past you :)
Well. I was in Hinkley this morning picking up a new to me car!
"The last monarch killed in battle" - I'd correct it to "The most recent monarch killed in battle" since we can't predict the future.
John's Planes, Trains & Autos with a smattering of British countryside. Thanks for all you do M8. Take care & stay safe.
I live a 5 minute walk through the woods away from Grace Dieu Priory! In fact I have a couple of videos on my channel that were filmed there (partly).
EDIT: Good job avoiding the n-word graffiti on the bridge at around 7:57
Very near Market Bosworth there is a place called Nailstone where in 1981 a Dan Air HS-748 airliner crashed into a field with the loss of all 3 on board.
Hopefully the hotel won't suffer from a case of 'mysterious spontaneous combustion' .
The Wycliffe Jean joke may be your greatest moment yet.
Fully on our stomping ground for this episode and learnt a few things about our neck of the woods! excellent as always! You also missed the town of Measham off... well done! haha
05:12 James IV of Scotland was the last monarch to die in battle in the British Isles, at The Battle of Flodden in 1513, 28 years after The Battle of Bosworth Field. Keep up! 🤣
Richard III was the last English monarch to die in battle though, James IV wasn't English
@@manlu_gaming
The line was "... making him the last Monarch to be killed during combat". The word "English" did not appear in the dialogue.
Yes, James IV of Scotland (as I wrote it) was indeed Scottish. The clue is in the name.🤣 It is also worth pointing out that he died during The Battle of Flodden that took place in Northumberland which, the last time that I looked anyway, is in England.
Yes, sorry, I was agreeing with you. I was just pointing out how John probably got his facts confused
The "scaffolding" remark about the car reminded me of something I once read about a car, possibly a Lotus model, that was frequently modified to add frame members that the joke was engineers built a prototype frame, then removed pieces until it collapsed under its own weight and added the last one back.
Great video John, brilliant as always,and you covered a couple of my favourite subjects, especially frank whittle 😀👌👍
Hope you appreciate this Jon, but i forgot to press the like button, so sat and watched it a second time, just to give you the like .👍
🤦♂️
I used to live in Loughborough. Or as it should be more correctly known: LoooGahBoroogah!!!
I was thinking Wyclef Jean as I saw the sign, but it is fairly obvious. Smiled at the navigational self-own. Laughed out loud at the rebuttal of ghosts! Thanks for making Sunday special, Jon. 🙂
Also missed the centre of England near Fenny Drayton, a mile or so west of MIRA on the A5 and just a few miles from Bosworth Battlefield.
I'm loving this series. Random places with random bits of history thrown in that you never knew would be interesting. Lovely :)
Hi John.
Love your channel.
Just a random suggestion for a video to make….. the history of the British tarmac road. When it turned from a muddy track byway into an A road.
Cheers
Also in Hinckley is the Triumph motorcycle factory
Im on a bench😊
You can build Ultimas yourself. All you need is a home garage, a few spanners and around £60,000 for the kit......
Great video!! Love the jokes