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Great British Road Journeys - Lincolnshire - Lincoln to Grimsby Ep. 17
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
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We're back in Lincolnshire this week and what a fun filled episode it is. Travelling from Lincoln to Grimsby, I'll be stopping in to look at many interesting things like an abandoned theme park, a pretend castle ruin and of course we'll be on the hunt of and abandoned road bridge.
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...*
Newport Arch - www.visitlinco...
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Every time I see an abandoned theme park on CZcams I notice how quickly they return to nature. Then I think about how often I see abandoned theme parks returning to nature on CZcams.
They always remind me of a scooby doo episode
I love how this channel has evolved from just random roads to full on history lessons 😂I'm not complaining though!
Yes, fully agree with that, it just keeps getting better.
The only man who can make Lincolnshire seem interesting.
I can’t believe you drove through Faldingworth and missed the 1950s atomic bomb storage base, and THEN drove through Caistor and missed out the 1960s Thor nuclear missile launch pads! All still in place and visible from the roadside.
This channel has become one of the best parts of my weekend. I don't even drive either 😂
Then you are served well by John. He is a star.
Bloody hell Jon I grew up just off Monce Close! And my mum was a teacher at RAF Scampton. Fun fact, it’s named after the French village of Monce’ on Belin, in which Welton is twinned with.
Monce’ on Belin is situated just off the Le Mans race track and we spent many summers staying with our twining family there.
Another fun fact, the former air base RAF Dunholme Lodge was briefly a race track in the late 1940s and early 1950s and was where Sterling Moss won one of his early victories!
For the first time this year, watching from a warm, sunny garden. Fantastic.
screen glare?
Same here!
@@jimmyhackers8980 i had to find shade. It was more or less an audio book in the sun 🤣
Me too 😂
Meanwhile I'm on day 4 of pretty much constant rain
Enjoyed that thoroughly. A slightly intersting fact about Grimsby/Cleethorpes is that if you look at the town boundaries, Grimsby Town Football Club is in Cleethorpes and Cleethorpes Town Football Club is in Grimsby.
Yeah.. when growing up here, we were constantly told how grimsby is the only team that never plays at home.. wich once you start going to away games, you discover isn't even remotely true.
Security had their eye on you filming outside RAF Scampton...
There's a bloody great hole in the fence so I guess they get random visitors from time to time.
Isn't it closed now?
I think its full of dinghy people.
@@dj_dazzy It is. The main attraction now is the fun-looking camp of people outside, with all the "save our Scampton", "beep your horn" and "why not pop in for a coffee" signs.
@@dj_dazzyThe Red Arrows were the last to use it but they've relocated to Waddington... The site is currently being prepared to hold asylum seekers...
I love these videos. And johns dry sense of humour is legendary
I love the ending where Jon acts like a local to Grimsby/Cleethorpes and chases the local wildlife
Did you hear him say “Grimsbeh” at the start ? 😂
Yes caught that! 😄
@@Dan23_7 No Cleethorpes/Grimsby local would ever pronounce their hometown name in such a 'Yorkie' way.
@@mistymisterwistyjones9668 For me its always been Grims-Be, but I'm not local (dads from Cleethropes however)
@@mistymisterwistyjones9668 Last year he covered the M65 motorway, he pronounced “cuerden valley” as “kwerden” 😂
Us locals say “cureden”
I love the uncomfortable eye contact whilst using fitness cycle, 4:46 perfect timing
I was trying to eat a banana when "The Glare" bore down on me, I didn't blink but did put down my banana.
Jon made that edit just enough too long without talking to be both uncomfortable and extremely funny. It's moments like this that make this channel a must watch.
My Sunday is now complete. With Jons humour makes a Sunday a better day. Please don't change
This was a welcome break from spending about 2 hours of my life I won't get back, battling with council websites and the council departments that don't answer the questions you ask.
For a time I lived in Scunthorpe, a place called Winterton. I was living in a farmhouse and from there you could see the Humber Bridge because the land was as flat as f*ck. I went with my ex-dickhead into Leeds and Lincoln, though I don't remember much about it apart from the very big Cathedrals. I also went to Grimsby, and he took me up one of those rare hills and showed me a neolithic site where there was spiral work carved into the stones.
Thank you for those good memories, though the ex-dickhead isn't such a good memory.
He's clearly mellowing an becoming an historian. He's doing a good job, very interesting...
I worked at pleasure Island Theme Park for three seasons 2002-2004, I was ride operator on the gallopers, cycle monorail, tinkaboo water ride and second operator on the graviton. While working at Pleasure Island I got the chance to work at our sister park Flamingo Land when Pleasure Island was closed I was second operator on a rollercoaster and I operated a few kids rides. James May and fatty Clarkson visited Pleasure Island while driving in electric cars. Papas fish and chip shop on Cleethorpes Pier is the biggest fish and chip shop in the country.
That's interesting. I have never tried their fish n chips. In Cleethorpes I bought fish and chips from a place among the sea facing shops. They would be eaten in the car 🚗 in the parking of the leisure centre, cum swimming pool, looking out to sea. They usually were pretty good.
As someone who lives just up the road I can confirm that Grimsby and Cleethorpes are sh*tholes.
What did you do in the winter seasons when the parks were closed?
loved the gravitron, boomerang and alakazam, i went all the time as a kid in early 2000s
I, for one, would like to see Jon visit an amusement arcade on a pier while eating a bag of chips. I'm sure that Jon would find the experience exhilarating and fulfil his three life ambitions in one go!
Another great video, love the new format and always find the little references like "Second small disagreement" absolutely hilarious! 🤣♥
The Grimsby dock tower, at a height of 61 meters, looks like a very nice place. My comrade says it is worth visiting!
So who is the enemy of Putin that lives in Grimsby? (Ps - inject em' full of Sodium Citrate - not easy to trace!)
Another brilliant video... how many of us are hoping that one day we'll see Jon in our local town??
Interesting fact Jon wears his hat even when the sun shines 😊
I lived in Grimsby for a while.
I can still hear the screams....
Grimsbeh! Perfect pronunciation Jon
Also a funny movie
For a sec there at the end I thought "oh no he's finally had enough" and was off to do a Reggie Perrin.
Nice to see you on my home turf. In Caistor there is a road called Navigation Lane, named after the canal navigation that never quite made it.
I was a boarder at Caistor Grammar School in the early '70s. I still remember running up Navigation Lane at the end of cross-country runs: cold, wet, tired and fed-up.
I remember feeling the earthquake and panicking, jumped out of bed shoutint about it and got under the doorframe. Parents didnt feel it and insisted Id dreamt it until they heard about it on the radio next morning.
It was a weird experience as it woke me up from a deep sleep and took a while to grasp what was happening, though I realised it was an earthquake. The spire on a nearby village church at Leasingham was damaged...
@@MorrisPV I was just drifting off when the sound of my old boxy telly on a bookshelf bouncing against the wall woke me right up and I could feel the weird oscillating movement through the floor.
It was surreal at first before I started thinking the house might collapse and I got scared.
I still have a copy of the local paper with the earthquake headline, lots of puns in the papers that morning like "Wakey Quakey"
Imagine working a night shift at the time on one of the local oil refineries and seeing all the pipes and structures start shaking.. especially as one of em had suffered an explosion just a couple of years before!
I love how driving and roads are completely tangential to Jon just demolishing everywhere he visits with understated dry humour.
Very nice too.
Fanny Hands Lane, off the A631, is in a village not far from Market Rasen.
Hahaha love that lane! lol
Ludford
I knew it existed! We drove past it back in the 90's whilst out in the van, selling lighting! No one believed us!
Jon unlocked a memory from childhood watching CITV. I remember that advert. Had
no idea that pleasure island theme park was in Cleethorpes. 😂.
Oh I forgot to mention. Interesting fact about Market Rasen you could have included was that Elton John’s song Saturday Nights alright for fighting was written by Bernie Taupin who lived around Market Rasen and was the inspiration for that song.
There is an element of Cleethorpes you could have touched on, what with your love of names and everything; Grimsby Town FC play in Cleethorpes...not, as you'd think, Grimsby (they played there for 21 years before moving, and never going back - and never thought to change the name?)
The fish and chip restaurant on the pier is the largest chippy in the world.
The Signal Box in Cleethorpes is the smallest pub in the world. It was originally a signal box for The Cleethorpes Light Railway, which still operates along the shore.
On Freeman street market in Grimsby we have the oldest chippy in the world, 1883. It got its name from soldiers returning from India in the days of the Empire, bung was short for bungalow, which was an Indian name for a small single story house, long before it was used to describe a single storey house.
I remember that earthquake well… I was at home near Boston and it was late at night I was sat in bed back on the wall and all of a sudden my back was thrown forward and then hearing all of the house alarms going off, it was definitely an experience
I was in the living room in Alford and it felt like someone had grabbed my armchair and was swaying it back and forth.
My friend lives in Market Raisen. It’s a pleasant county to be fair but yes very flat, great video Jon
North Lincolnshire is not flat!
Your next drive in Lincolnshire could be Caistor High Street, Start in Kirmington and end in Horncastle
WOW what a tour…… your Sarcasm is off the chart 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 😂😂😂
Thanks heaps from cloudy Sydney. 🔱🏳🌈
Hi Jon, I absolutely love how you do incidental history like this. I bought a '67 Spitifire some years ago and my wife and I enjoyed blasting through the north Kent towns towards the coast using my 1911 Micheln guide book. I am also trying to be a jazz pianist, and I can't help but notice your incidental music features jazz piano, leading me to speculate that you are a fan...?
As an aside, Grimsby has a 4th tier football club called Grimsby Town who play in Cleethorpes. Which is distinctly not Grimsby because it's Cleethorpes.
Cleethorpes has a non league club called Cleethorpes Town. They play in Grimsby.
2 things i know about Grimsby and Cleethorpes is that Grimsby town FC play there home games at Blundell Park witch is in Cleethorpes and Cleethorpes town play at Linden Club and thats in Grimsby
My childhood summed up. Shitty brown beaches with the tide a mile out. No imagination but a concrete sea defence and miles of flat land. With the constant sound of the wind in your ears. I am NEVER going back!!!
Best part of the week by far.
The subject matter in these videos has no right being this funny, this interesting and this well made. And yet...they are.
Please please please cover Sleaford to Horncastle
The New York straight is...an interesting road despite being straight. Many a local will happily chat about it too.
I like this video so I pressed the button specifically for that 👉🏻
This made me chuckle....
That was thwicked, sweet, awesome of you
Well I must have just missed you. Fan of the channel and Pleasure island is just down my road.
Could have popped in for chippy tea before home.
Raised in Grimsby and went to school in Caistor, so this week's really taken me back....
Pleasure Island was the first place I ever applied for a full time job. Turned me down. No wonder they failed....
2:01 awesome looking yellow ford mustang
I missed that, thanks for the time stamp.👍
Great shout 👍🏼 Cheese on wheels (I own a yellow beetle)
All Ford Mustangs are awesome - especially yellow ones
Grimsbeh! :D
I love the way the 'Translate to English' function truly does work on this phrase.
@@cheesedoff-with4410 For me it translates to "Grimsby! :D". The spellchecker says Grimsby is spelled wrong.
the thing I like about Lincoln the most is that the prison is right on a major road!
don't forget the bus stop just across the road ;)
@@SimonDraper42 I don't know Lincoln that well. but that really wouldn't surprise me! lol
Right opposite the hospital...
My dad was stationed at RAF Scampton when I was born. (I was born in the RAF hospital at Nocton Hall). While my mum was busy giving birth to me, Britain's Vulcan nuclear bomber force was on the runway at Scampton, engines running, waiting for the order to take off and nuke Russia. That was way back in 1962.
How times have changed!
Glorious! The highlight of my otherwise dull Sunday.
Great host, great camerawork, great videos! I'm really enjoying this quirky series.
We use to visit Pleasure Island every summer as as day trip from a camp.
It was nether pleasurable, or indeed and island. So I wasn't suppressed to hear it closed.
Nice. Abandoned fairgrounds always seem a bit spooky to me....
Another cracking video Jon, been following the channel since before it exploded into big numbers of subscribers. Pleased to see you have been true to it's origins it's great fun to watch and always unexpectedly educational
Cleethorpes was my family’s holiday destination about sixty years ago with fish and chips in Grimsby after our day out .😊
Lovely bit of ridge and furrow on the outro there
perfect timing as i’m reading The Making Of The English Landscape today.
9:17 - the tower's functional nature was hidden by the architect James William Wild, who designed it to look like the Torre del Mangia in Siena.
Oh how I wish modern structures were made to look good. So much unimaginitive concrete, steel and glass shite.
4:25 bloody hell, I can remember that earthquake - at the time I lived in Normanton, West Yorkshire (60-70 miles from the epicentre), and could feel the house shake
We need a video review episode of your Saab. It is very cool!
My chimney was one of those damaged by the Great 'Quake 😂
Also, at night you can see the Caistor Beaver. Well, you used to be able to see it. The roadside vegetation has blocked the view.
I used to work at Pleasure Island. It wasn't a bad job lol
The top of the Dock Tower is in a poor state of repair!
I've spent far too many days of my life in Grimsby. Nominative determinism at its best.
Had a wee in Lincoln Cathedral. Blows my mind that such a historic & holy place has toilets inside.
Even Christians have bladders.
Elton John wrote a song about Grimsby . Not all Lincolnshire is flat: visit the Wolds . Also visit Louth , Horncastle and Woodhall Spa for charming towns . I’ve enjoyed several holidays in Lincolnshire and avoided Skegness! Great video ❤
I saw what you did with the word Grimsbeh in the intro!! 😂😂😂 very droll John -keep up the great work
Lived in Cleethorpes in the 90s, some good nights out, but it was in decline even then. Sad times for nearby Grimsby now all the fishing and food/chemical factories are gone. Also played the 9 hole at Market Rasen golf course a few times. Go back occasionally as my Dad lives a few miles south.
I used to goto pleasure Island pretty much every other wknd. It was absolutely amazing in its prime! I love your videos and now you've featured an old haunt of mine. I've officially made it in life 😂👍
I lived in Welton as a Kid and My Dad was stationed at Scampton till we move with the withdrawal of the Vulcan that my Dad used to work on. That was 82 and we moved away just be before the little scuffle in the Atlantic when someone decided to try and pinch something that belonged to us.
My dad used to work on the Vulcan bombers back in the day. Must have been mid to late 60's as he passed away in 1975. Awesome planes. My mum recalled when they did a low fly over the quarters, I think at Scampton. Possibly got into trouble for doing so! My brother is or was part of the restoration group for the Vulcan. Lives in Lincoln.
@@andrewhaines3259 I think my Dad was on 27 Squadron. I have one of their mug with Dumbo on it somewhere with my name on it. I still love to see Vulcans and sadly never got to see 558 fly after restoration, although we did see it at Bruntingthorpe and got a closer than normal visit when my Dad started talking about working on them and 558 as it was said to be the most radioactive kite that they had in the fleet. As he worked on it when it took over as Display Flight from XM624 if I remember rightly. He was then based at Waddington for the AEW Nimrod that got scraped, and as he didn't have anything to do he would help out on 558.
They certainly made a hell of a noise when they opened them up and climbed. I remember seeing 558 doing just that at the Waddington Airshow in 86, setting of car alarms, on new fangled cars that had them back then. Did your Bother work on 558?
There is another Vulcan that they are restoring, but it is just ground runs that they do with her.
I went to school as a boarder in Caistor where most of my fellow-boarders were from RAF families. I later moved to Boston and joined the RAF cadets. Learned a lot, including how to fly a Chipmunk. Happy days.
I always comment about my nationwide delivery job to kitchen studios and joinery workshops, today is no different 😂
On your opening shots with the archway you can see the Chinese “food” place behind you, just next door to that is “Krantz design”. I deliver there 😂
My van doesn’t fit through that archway being 10’5”. If you walked a bit up Chapel lane off Bailgate you can find Lilicrap court, the name makes me chuckle every time.
Cheers Jon 👍🏼
It's the time of the week where i have to press the button specifically for liking a video
Got to wander round Pleasure Island a few years ago when they were auctioning off the attractions. Bought a few bits of signage and props as souvenirs.
Non related to the video but his dry sense of humour is brilliant. I can imagine him dealing with scammers and getting them to rage
I went to Grimsby once. What was it like? Well, the main clue is in the first four letters of it's name.
Cheers, Jon. Another top video. 👍👍👍
Couldn't agree more! Don't know if it's improved since the 90's!
Nearby Scunthorpe has similar nominative determinism.
@@marksby77 - Not many! 😆😆😆
I stopped my car to wander down an overgrown bit of abandoned road today. It wasn't very exciting but thought of Auto Shenanigans nonetheless.
Ah yes virtual tourism is good this year - went all over uk by way of this show for one thing and seen many strange sights,
glad we have these journeys .)
it so interesting when you are in my town of Lincoln i wish i saw you hear.
9:17 That's a lot of new cars to be delivered at the Port of Grimsby
I grew up in the UK, watching your vlogs reminds me how bleak, cold and wet it is.
That's climate stagnation.
Amazing as usual
You just made Lincolnshire interesting.
Then you have not been there when the Tulip carnival was on.
North Lincolnshire is quite interesting. The south may be endless flat fenland but in the north there are both the Lincolnshire Wolds and the Lincoln edge. I cycled all over Lincolnshire in my teens and remember (most of) it fondly.
Great vlog mate how do you make them so exciting John 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤
In fairness, Cleethorpes does have some genuinely beautiful dunes and views if you move beyond the dreaded “arcade end” and get on a bike, ride down the track that navigates the entire front mile but carries on. You can then get great views of the smaller of the WW1 forts that were completed in time for sub nets to be stretched between then in the second minor disagreement. Haile Sands fort is, on occasion, navigable by foot but that is highly dangerous without significant local knowledge. You’re better off in a canoe although you need to be bloody good at it: the Humber has _very_ fast flowing channels.
If you’re ever in the area _that_ end of Cleethorpes is well worth a visit esp if you have kids and or a hound. 🐕.
Holy hell, the arch is just down the road from my house 😲
Hi! Thanks for this. I am having a sh*tty week and could do with something to distract me.
Crackin' video, wish i had a £1 for every time I've driven that road.
Both Hunstanton and Skegness are also only on an estuary , called the wash , not a sea …. Both are seaside towns allegedly
This is the best video I've ever seen about anything
Great video Jon, on that area, have a good week
awesome video, looking forward to the next one
Cleethorpes is my local seaside in effect (though I'm Doncaster based) and many days of my childhood were spent there in the caravan belonging to my mum's parents. with my mum's parents. which we weren't allowed to leave until Grandma had cooked lunch, much to my annoyance. another interesting aspect of Cleethorpes are the sea forts out in the estuary that were built for ww1 I believe. but then they're not road related so probably not a great subject for road journeys. I also booked a goth festival there some years ago which lost me a fortune as the venue closed before it happened. such is life! I still love Cleethorpes and its mini train along the err bit after the leisure centre. such a nostalgia based place for me.
I imagine they left the Grimsby tower there as an aid to Luftwaffe led demolition in order to begin post war improvements.
You missed the abandoned road at Swallow 😅 As kids we would not swallow as you drove through. And then they bypassed it
I remember the whole family going on holiday TWICE to Cleethorpes in 1976 and 1977 at Beacholme; simple, cheap and innocent fun. It's now the Pearl Holiday Park.
We used to take the train that ran from near Beacholme into Cleethorpes and then go to Wonderland where I got terrified riding the Mad Mouse
When I lived at Barton-on-Humber (1970-1972) the Sunday School outings were always a visit to Cleethorpes.
I remember being shaken awake by that 2008 quake, 27 miles away in Hull.
Woke me too.
Me too, in Sheffield. About 2am wasn't it?
Just before 1am according to records.
Missed that the "roman arch" in Lincoln has been rebuilt a few times because several lorry drivers knocked it down!
Thanks
I escaped Grimsby in 1999, love your accent correct pronunciation of “Grimsbeh”, where the men grow birds 😂
'"m assuming at some point a jet fell on it" made me buckle