Great British Road Journeys - Somerset - Bath to Frome - Ep. 44

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@spitfire1962
@spitfire1962 13 күн бұрын
Should have got a cat🤣 Love it.
@steady_94
@steady_94 13 күн бұрын
That sole remark stole the whole video 🤣 Absolute class 😂👏🏻
@hublanderuk
@hublanderuk 13 күн бұрын
Or a dog with longer legs. Trouble is a Cat won't walk with you and you can't throw things for it to bring back.
@vibingwithvinyl
@vibingwithvinyl 13 күн бұрын
@@hublanderuk That's not true. You can train a cat, it's just more difficult than training a dog.
@mortarien
@mortarien 13 күн бұрын
@@hublanderuk These legs can move rather fast when their owner wants to. The one in the video clearly doesn't ;-)
@KnugenMooMoo
@KnugenMooMoo 13 күн бұрын
​@@hublanderuk my brother cat when it was alive you throw one of her toys she would bring it back...... but I don't fancy walking on top of fences
@saintuk70
@saintuk70 13 күн бұрын
"you should've got a cat" perhaps the most polite, yet direct, insult I've heard in a while within a YT video. Awesome :)
@TackyStump
@TackyStump 13 күн бұрын
Roughly translates to "Your dog is pathetic, fool."
@UnitSe7en
@UnitSe7en 13 күн бұрын
A superior pet to be sure. But aw, that dachshund was so adorable, though. It looked more like a Jim Henson puppet than a dog. I'd have it.
@pauldupre2269
@pauldupre2269 12 күн бұрын
Certainly no Staffy!😊
@andymerrett
@andymerrett 12 күн бұрын
@@pauldupre2269 Then again, Jon is no Bon Jovi so... :)
@Stephen_The_Waxing_Lyricist
@Stephen_The_Waxing_Lyricist 13 күн бұрын
That's three in a row without mentioning the Second Small Disagreement! Jon needs to go to Coventry...
@PhillipBicknell
@PhillipBicknell 13 күн бұрын
Well, at least the un-Civil War got a mention - "They'm's got long memories round about these parts, ar" 🙂
@antonycharnock2993
@antonycharnock2993 13 күн бұрын
And get stuck on the ring road...
@antonycharnock2993
@antonycharnock2993 13 күн бұрын
@@PhillipBicknell He didn't find any large mines in a local barn then? (Hot Fuzz reference)😂
@PhillipBicknell
@PhillipBicknell 13 күн бұрын
@@antonycharnock2993 Hot Fuzz on DVD with the Fuzz Facts overlay is great for reminding me of all the cop show refs, just in case I ever forget 🙂
@timecircuits88
@timecircuits88 13 күн бұрын
Hey, we've got some old air fields don't you worry 😂
@MrGreatplum
@MrGreatplum 8 күн бұрын
Excellent video. Great to see you made it to Frome, which we all know is pronounced “Portsmouth”…
@g_e_o_m9369
@g_e_o_m9369 13 күн бұрын
I think a Great British Quarries series is on the cards,
@rollthetape88
@rollthetape88 10 күн бұрын
yeah cataorgrised into the aggregate extracted with some of those geology of the british isles maps.
@paulcharlesworth487
@paulcharlesworth487 13 күн бұрын
The most interesting thing about Nunney Castle is that it was the inspiration for Castle Grayskull in Masters of the Universe. I was there a few years ago. Did I shout "I have the power" when I was certain no-one was around? You betcha!
@samuelgarrod8327
@samuelgarrod8327 13 күн бұрын
"The most interesting thing"? Really? Says a LOT about you if you are more interested in a shyte 80s cartoon than the history of a medieval building.
@paulcharlesworth487
@paulcharlesworth487 13 күн бұрын
@samuelgarrod8327 You seem fun
@antonycharnock2993
@antonycharnock2993 13 күн бұрын
I think you've just made that up, Skeletor. Mwa ha ha! 😂
@antonycharnock2993
@antonycharnock2993 13 күн бұрын
@@paulcharlesworth487 Obviously doesn't appreciate a character called Fisto.
@garethaethwy
@garethaethwy 13 күн бұрын
@@antonycharnock2993 snigger... I mean, if you look at the kids TV programmes of the 1980s and early 90s, is it any wonder I ended up as I am?
@johnstilljohn3181
@johnstilljohn3181 13 күн бұрын
Fabulous as always. Babycham was the first alcohol i drank - Mum bought it for me when I was 4. She didn't realise it was alcoholic....
@matthewhopson964
@matthewhopson964 12 күн бұрын
"When was the last ime you heaerd anything about a Babycham" "Hey, I'd love a Babycham!"kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6TLkpevebGdpM0
@TheChipmunk2008
@TheChipmunk2008 12 күн бұрын
do you still have all the glasses and the figures?
@dizzydevil547
@dizzydevil547 11 күн бұрын
@@TheChipmunk2008 I still have some of the glasses .....no one is allowed to use them as not many around now and can break realy easily (especialy in a dishwasher in ths day and age!) even if i hand washed them i wouldnt risk it lol P.S I only ever see Babychamp around in super markets at xmas time these days' along with snowballs and cherry b's (and thats get less and less) my late mother in law never drank alcohol BUT at xmas or special occasions she was partial to a Babychamp or two along with snowballs! its the only time i ever saw her drink booze! TBH my fave tiple is Brandy and Babychamp but you do get quite squify on them lol
@hairyairey
@hairyairey 8 күн бұрын
Legal to drink at home in the UK from 5 incidentally
@seebarry4068
@seebarry4068 7 күн бұрын
Yeah I used to get that as well. Was a different time though, heck my grandad used to give me a cigar, I was about 6. Mum was hellish about it but she was the one giving me booze 😂
@leshinar
@leshinar 13 күн бұрын
possibly the only channel i upvote when i hear "hello" and THEN watch the video..
@andrewhotston983
@andrewhotston983 13 күн бұрын
Me too. The upvote is always a foregone conclusion.
@andymerrett
@andymerrett 12 күн бұрын
There's always a reminder at the end just in case I forget to press the button specifically for that .
@bolatv9571
@bolatv9571 13 күн бұрын
All places I know and love. My grandad even spent a night in Shepton jail for getting too pissed on the local cider during the second minor disagreement. The 'volcano' was deliberately built higher and steeper than all the other batches as a monument to the miners and the industry when it was winding down.
@antonycharnock2993
@antonycharnock2993 13 күн бұрын
Being from a mining area that would make it very unstable.
@kevinrayner5812
@kevinrayner5812 13 күн бұрын
I think it was used by the US as a prison for troops in the second big disagreement.
@fredericksaxton3991
@fredericksaxton3991 13 күн бұрын
@@kevinrayner5812 Is that where US military criminals were hanged?
@barrieshepherd7694
@barrieshepherd7694 13 күн бұрын
"winding down" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@bolatv9571
@bolatv9571 12 күн бұрын
You're absolutely right. My grandfather was only in Shepton because he had escorted a US soldier to the prison. He visited one of the local pubs afterwards and underestimated the scrumpy.
@simonturner5450
@simonturner5450 13 күн бұрын
Thanks Jon for mentioning the mining, doesn’t get the recognition it needs. The seams on the Somerset Coal Field were very narrow and the miners worked on their sides mostly in a space roughly equal to that under a dining room chair. Hard, backbreaking, dangerous work for little pay, of course. BTW locals who don’t live there call Shepton Shit’n’Smell it.
@johngriffin4831
@johngriffin4831 13 күн бұрын
My dad grew up near Coleford and said when he was a kid (1950s-60s) you would sometimes see old men squatting down on their heels chatting to each other in the street. These were old miners who were so accustomed to that uncomfortable position from years of working in the mines that they would naturally sit like that while having a chinwag.
@wad951
@wad951 12 күн бұрын
I visited Nunney Castle with my young daughter many years ago. When we walked round to the side with Oliver Cromwell's handiwork, she asked why the wall was missing. I replied that the wall fell down. Her response was, "They must have slammed the door hard." Priceless
@kayenne221
@kayenne221 8 күн бұрын
I rescued a baby duck from nunney castle moat years ago. We took her home and called her Pike (no mum in sight after hours of waiting) She was the only one left from 6 ducklings, by the time we found a net, a Pike had eaten her siblings. We raised her, she was a small while duck, and she went on to have 9 baby’s with Lionel the big aylesbury duck. She was my little shadow, and always appeared grateful 🥰
@cheekychappy1234
@cheekychappy1234 13 күн бұрын
I can't believe you didn't cover Peasedown St John, otherwise known as Pissdown as it's on a ridge. You could have covered both the Co-Op AND the Tesco Express which was built on the site of an abandoned petrol station.
@Nastyswimmer
@Nastyswimmer 13 күн бұрын
Perry - an alcoholic beverage made from pears. Cider - an alcoholic beverage made from apples ... ... and only from apples
@tims9434
@tims9434 13 күн бұрын
Apple juice from concentrate. It's not apple juice anymore.
@philiplettley
@philiplettley 13 күн бұрын
Though Perry's cider is very good cider.
@mkoschmall
@mkoschmall 13 күн бұрын
Bulmers of Ireland would like to have a word abiut their pear cider with you. Cheers.
@750triton
@750triton 13 күн бұрын
@@tims9434 Then you should visit (among others) Chants Cider, which it seems Jon drove right past. Paul even runs a Victorian apple press, by hand. He has Sleeping cider, Singing cider and fighting cider, one of which is called Badgers Snot
@PhillipBicknell
@PhillipBicknell 13 күн бұрын
Scumble - cider made from 'mostly apples' by Nanny Ogg on Discworld. Proper cider - made from apples, slightly cloudy, at least 6% ABV, no fruit flavours, not called 'hard cider', smells a bit weird. I started my 'drinking career' at the last Bulmers tied-house in the country, three choices: Sweet, Medium, Dry. Although there was also Hand Grenade - a cocktail of Special Cellar and Bulmers No.7 - yes, I did over-imbibe - once!
@royking1
@royking1 13 күн бұрын
Huge honour for a Dachshund to approach you. They're notoriously fickle and often prefer their owners and shun everyone else.
@linzimumford3829
@linzimumford3829 13 күн бұрын
I live in nunney, just 100 yards from the castle and am currently sitting on a couch bought from the owner of the silk mill in Frome. 😁
@petelongrs
@petelongrs 13 күн бұрын
Who needs a sat-nav when we've got Jon?
@twocvbloke
@twocvbloke 13 күн бұрын
Imagine, someone making a presentation about turning that castle into some sort of business venture, and the slideshow starting off with "Nunney; A Business"... :P (you have to say it to get it!)
@antonycharnock2993
@antonycharnock2993 13 күн бұрын
Groan... 😂
@David_Crayford
@David_Crayford 13 күн бұрын
Bank Managers tend to have a very dry sense of humour. Next.
@stephenyates962
@stephenyates962 13 күн бұрын
Never knew what Babycham was, until today. Thanks Jon, another fwickedsweetawesome video. Also, 'should have got a cat' 😂
@harrygatto
@harrygatto 13 күн бұрын
Back in the day a brandy and Babycham was the most effective leg opener.
@antonycharnock2993
@antonycharnock2993 13 күн бұрын
Its currently out in its pallet load in Morrisons on the corner of the drinks aisle. Although who buys it nowadays who knows.
@antonycharnock2993
@antonycharnock2993 13 күн бұрын
@@harrygatto You charmer 😂
@Gordanovich02
@Gordanovich02 13 күн бұрын
Babycham was my introduction to alcoholic beverages. Swiftly followed by Diamond White cider. Despite this I grew up to be a mostly-responsible adult.
@nidostar2013
@nidostar2013 12 күн бұрын
The equivalent in France is called “poirée” and is very popular. Served up in corked champagne bottles it is described as “the champagne of Normandy”. Surprised Showerings haven’t promoted Babycham more in recent years.
@GreatGizmo74
@GreatGizmo74 13 күн бұрын
Sunday has now officially started!
@joefitz7972
@joefitz7972 12 күн бұрын
John is one of the best presenters - always correct, pronounces stuff the right way and finds some awesome little places! Thank you John!
@joepowell7750
@joepowell7750 13 күн бұрын
Lived in Bath, Midsomer Norton and Peasedown. Fun fact, Roald Dahl (of all people) used to be a delivery driver for a paraffin company in Peasedown.
@nidostar2013
@nidostar2013 12 күн бұрын
I thought it just rained heavily there!! 😂
@wessexdruid7598
@wessexdruid7598 13 күн бұрын
1:59 - The then just closed railway line, used to take the coal, was the location in 1952 for the Ealing Comedy 'The Titfield Thunderbolt', between Camerton, through Midford and to Monkton Combe (Titfield Station, in the film) and Limpley Stoke.
@kevinrayner5812
@kevinrayner5812 13 күн бұрын
I wondered why that didn't get a mention. If you are interested there is a video about all the locations of the Titfield Thunderbolt film. I will have to look it up. I remember going on the S&D railway and could believe what I was seeing when I saw coal mines in Somerset. I thought coal mines in Kent was strange enough.
@wessexdruid7598
@wessexdruid7598 13 күн бұрын
@@kevinrayner5812 Nowadays, the S&D line tunnels out of Bath (to Midford) include the longest cyclepath tunnel in Europe. Terrier55Stepney has a channel with several looks at what was there then - and now - for the film. It probably didn't get a mention because he's too young... 🙂
@kevinrayner5812
@kevinrayner5812 12 күн бұрын
@@wessexdruid7598 I saw that one but I can't find the one I was thinking of. There is also this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqm5opqOadxoi7M These 2 have a whole series on walking closed railway lines.
@speleokeir
@speleokeir 11 күн бұрын
Fairie cave: I'm one of those people who have been down there. It's a nice little cave. The Mendips are full of caves and was where caving and cave diving took off as hobbies with the world's first caving clubs being located there. Nunney Castle is also the name of a GWR Castle class 4-6-0 steam engine.
@travelcampervansandmore
@travelcampervansandmore 10 күн бұрын
Jack and Jill went up the hill. The hill is near Radstock at Kilmersdon.
@drecklydave9594
@drecklydave9594 Күн бұрын
And if we believe the story, I'm married to a descendant of Jill. I don't, however. It's ridiculous to suggest one would go up a hill to find water. It was probably a cover story for the shenanigans they got up to. It's even possible Jill was really Gill; a male. Oh, mother!
@johnrubber1144
@johnrubber1144 13 күн бұрын
I never know what to expect on Sunday except you will always bring a smile to my face. Thanks.
@YanalFanio
@YanalFanio 13 күн бұрын
The mood here is everything!
@vibingwithvinyl
@vibingwithvinyl 13 күн бұрын
Go away bot
@antonycharnock2993
@antonycharnock2993 13 күн бұрын
You need to get a cat
@nervo6321
@nervo6321 4 күн бұрын
As someone from East Yorkshire who has spent many years cutting through Bath I would describe it as eerie but beautiful.
@mikehiggins4079
@mikehiggins4079 13 күн бұрын
How did you get out of Midsomer without being murdered?
@offgridlife1362
@offgridlife1362 13 күн бұрын
Brilliant 😂
@rasherbasher8203
@rasherbasher8203 13 күн бұрын
😂😂😂
@ChrisBrown-px1oy
@ChrisBrown-px1oy 13 күн бұрын
Hats off 😂
@garethaethwy
@garethaethwy 13 күн бұрын
Have to say, I was half expecting such a joke from Jon. And have to say, I'm mildly disappointed.
@kevinrayner5812
@kevinrayner5812 13 күн бұрын
Yes give the size of Midsomer Norton and Oxford (Morse), Oxford must be much safer place. How ever Midsomer Murders is mainly filmed in the Oxfordshire Chilterns so almost Morse country.
@MichaelAbbott-sl2di
@MichaelAbbott-sl2di 13 күн бұрын
Wicked sweet awesome as ever John. Thank you, Sunday complete. ❤
@Sarge084
@Sarge084 13 күн бұрын
I've collected lorry loads of cider from Shepton Mallet and I've arrived at a theory: There's more cider coming out than apples going in. Make of that what you will! The other large producer in Shepton Mallet is Brothers who make a variety of odd flavoured ciders, that some might suggest didn't involve apples! They also make WKD for the company based in Gloucester that markets the drinks. The drive from Shepton Mallet to Bristol along the A38 with 44 tonnes of truck is an interesting, and often arse clenching, journey!
@TwinPotMan
@TwinPotMan 13 күн бұрын
Are we to deduce from your inference then, that an alternative source of golden coloured liquid is being used? If so, you must be one of a very few people who're actually paid to take the pi$$!
@tims9434
@tims9434 13 күн бұрын
They mostly use apple juice from concentrate in ciders these days. Your best bet are the craft ones and independent producers who still use apples. Dutch Barn Vodka is made from apples
@nikskin30
@nikskin30 13 күн бұрын
I hate to be that guy but I’m sure you mean the A37. Awful road.
@Vtarngpb
@Vtarngpb 13 күн бұрын
@@nikskin30 welcome to pedantry corner! 🤓
@antonycharnock2993
@antonycharnock2993 13 күн бұрын
Thatchers is my preferred Somerset cider
@DadBod3000
@DadBod3000 Күн бұрын
This is really cool. I grew up in Peasedown and now live in Coleford. My great grandad was a minor and was involved in the work that produced the volcano. What a claim to fame 🙈
@rjc0234
@rjc0234 12 күн бұрын
I have been watching a lot of your videos recently, and they are amazing. They take that true and tested TV formula of visiting interesting places. But instead of the people on TV going "That's amazing!!!" at everything, you give us a good honest "WTF was that we all just saw". A winning combination.
@mellendegenerate
@mellendegenerate 9 күн бұрын
Lived, worked, studied and/or drew up in every place in this video. Proper good watch.
@ElliotSoS
@ElliotSoS 6 сағат бұрын
I used to go to Midsomer Norton every Sunday for dinner with my grandparents from 1989-2006.. Seeing the big ol' slag heap or "The Tump" as we called it, was always the sign that we were nearly there and would soon be chowing down on a mountain of Linda McCartney sausages, instant mash, and spaghetti 'oops. Good times. I never actually went up there in all those years though for some reason? My dad has since inherited and sold the grandparent's property there, but thankfully he is still living somewhere in 'norton, so next time I'm over from Canada for a visit I should really go climb The Tump at long last! It's definitely an icon of my childhood years.
@nakchAk
@nakchAk 11 күн бұрын
I live in the shadow of the batch (Somerset volcano) you got lucky when filming, that the local youth hadn't added a phallus to it in white paint
@ross1701
@ross1701 12 күн бұрын
Another belter from the master of sarky and deadpan.
@roderickmain9697
@roderickmain9697 13 күн бұрын
Frome: IIRC, the hometown of one Jenson Button who drove an F1 car through the streets of the town - possibly to celebrate becoming World Champion in 2009.
@tobymcnicol922
@tobymcnicol922 13 күн бұрын
theres a bridge named after him. shockingly its called Jenson Button Bridge....
@thetimelord999
@thetimelord999 13 күн бұрын
Bath and frome are in Somerset Jon! Great Video as usual
@21michaelhill
@21michaelhill 13 күн бұрын
Not in the 1923 Michelin Guide Book
@billb207
@billb207 13 күн бұрын
8:26 A cool photo of Carley floats being made. They were made and used during the Second Minor Disagreement, but were rapidly overtaken by synthetic rubber rafts once this became cheap to make.
@CallumWZombies
@CallumWZombies 13 күн бұрын
John Loves a good quarry
@wurlycorner
@wurlycorner 13 күн бұрын
Who doesn't love a good hole?
@antonycharnock2993
@antonycharnock2993 13 күн бұрын
After growing up on Stig of the dump, I think we all do
@tims9434
@tims9434 13 күн бұрын
So much information packed into this one. Its clear that there's more to Somerset than just cider and cheese after all. Thanks Jon
@antonycharnock2993
@antonycharnock2993 13 күн бұрын
Clarks Shopping Village in Street? Oh btw Glastonbury is rubbish. The town and festival. Cheddar Gorge is quite impressive though.
@wendymitchell4004
@wendymitchell4004 11 сағат бұрын
Brilliant narration of my neck of the woods 😊
@adrianrutterford762
@adrianrutterford762 13 күн бұрын
Sunday Lunchtime viewing sorted. Thanks John.
@JamesHardiman99
@JamesHardiman99 13 күн бұрын
Babycham ... didn't know it was still going! ❤
@desloader2252
@desloader2252 12 күн бұрын
The Somerset volcano as you call it is within the Parish of Paulton, not in Midsomer Norton.
@alantheskinhead
@alantheskinhead 11 күн бұрын
My 91 year old mum still has a collection of Babysham "deer and glasses" that were collected in the 1970's from various nightclubs! Apparently early ones are quite collectible (by the bin man I presume)
@jasperfk
@jasperfk 13 күн бұрын
From a local: I can confirm we call it ‘The Batch’. You can climb up it, good views off the top on a clear day!
@antonycharnock2993
@antonycharnock2993 13 күн бұрын
Looks like a good sledging spot in the winter. We use our local spoil heaps for the same purpose
@kevinrayner5812
@kevinrayner5812 12 күн бұрын
@@antonycharnock2993 A Somerset vocano is even better than the Beckton Alps.
@KOL630
@KOL630 11 күн бұрын
Are you allowed to climb it then? I’ve often seen it and wondered!
@jasperfk
@jasperfk 11 күн бұрын
@ yeah, it’s pretty steep to get up though. There’s another one opposite side of Tesco where kids dig out mountain bike jumps!
@michaelaFlangee
@michaelaFlangee 13 күн бұрын
excellent work as usual. I am now deep in thought as to why Sarah Millican has named her private parts after a derelict castle
@cpuuk
@cpuuk 13 күн бұрын
Great to see you made an effort to be away with the Fairies.
@cefnonn
@cefnonn 12 күн бұрын
That's interesting about Babycham being from Somerset. I didn't know the stuff was still being made.
@blisteringbarnaclesmagnets6364
@blisteringbarnaclesmagnets6364 13 күн бұрын
Brilliant video have a fabulous week my friend ⚓️👍🧲
@blisteringbarnaclesmagnets6364
@blisteringbarnaclesmagnets6364 13 күн бұрын
Happy Sunday John looking forward to this ⚓️👍🧲
@davidking9707
@davidking9707 12 күн бұрын
That was another great video. Well done sir :D
@tonysadler5290
@tonysadler5290 12 күн бұрын
I don't know why, but I always find your videos fascinating. Thank you John.🎉
@UnitSe7en
@UnitSe7en 13 күн бұрын
Ahh, the gang treadmill. The penultimate Australian convict team-building exercise.
@Paul-Genge
@Paul-Genge 13 күн бұрын
Fricken sweet awesome!
@JohnWatkinsUK
@JohnWatkinsUK 11 күн бұрын
The volcano was a regular sight when as a child I would go to Great Mills with my dad on a Saturday for weekend DIY trips. You also missed the wonderful Charlton Viaduct that was maybe 200m from where you were filming the Babysham segment!
@leegriffin1584
@leegriffin1584 13 күн бұрын
Hey, I'd lurve a Babycham. Interesting section on the canal, I look forward to you visiting the series of locks in London known as the Bow Locks.
@90vanman
@90vanman 13 күн бұрын
To stop the ribald humour it is now usually known as Twelvetrees industrial
@mooglesmodelrailways
@mooglesmodelrailways 10 күн бұрын
The volcano, childhood memories of climbing that a few times back in the 1980s with my cousins who lived in Midsomer Norton. Would get back to their house looking like a group of miners, black head to toe! Used to go up to the disused station too which is now the Somerset and Dorset preservation railways headquarters. Happy days.
@Kx0195
@Kx0195 12 күн бұрын
These videos make my day when they drop.
@GavinColbourne
@GavinColbourne 13 күн бұрын
4:50 was also used on many occasions a filming location for BBC's Casualty
@barbaraprest783
@barbaraprest783 6 күн бұрын
Very enjoyable thank you 🎉🎉
@TheMirrorGuy
@TheMirrorGuy 7 күн бұрын
The 'Volcano' has been a landmark for years, as a child I always called the slag heap a 'volcano'.
@LiamMargary
@LiamMargary 10 күн бұрын
Awesome video, thanks for giving my hone town MSN some credit lol! You could have mentioned the mysterious long barrow burial site at PSJ. Estimated to be built around 3000BC!
@jacobfoster6773
@jacobfoster6773 7 күн бұрын
One of the depots for the company whom I work for is visible at 3:44. Also on your way to nunney castle at the catch roundabout is an old little chef building, has been many reincarnations over the years and I way have worked there for a short period back in 2022.
@HYUKLDER1
@HYUKLDER1 13 күн бұрын
Have had to buy in a load of Babycham sparkling perry for the pear cider lovers now!
@rileyuktv6426
@rileyuktv6426 13 күн бұрын
It’s free entry - Good 😂
@jonathonbrett-qn1ic
@jonathonbrett-qn1ic 13 күн бұрын
My Favourite Sunday viewing Always fantastic
@gavinhagan8357
@gavinhagan8357 13 күн бұрын
Awesome episode as usual. Love all the bits you find on your journeys.
@bryansmith1920
@bryansmith1920 12 күн бұрын
Hi John thank you again for keeping my facial muscles from withering away, I think having Scrolled all the down almost, to the Bottom of the comments, That you and I are the only ones, that have a dark-side too our humour, Because your comment @ 7:02ish made me laugh, making full use of the vlog I'd call it🤔
@julianfoster3443
@julianfoster3443 13 күн бұрын
Ah the county of my childhood at last (still have a great fondness for Somerset even though these days I live the other side of the planet). Doesn’t feel like this is the best of the county though. Surely there will be another episode including Cheddar Gorge, Glastonbury Tor and some of the coast? For example Weston-super-mare (or Weston super mud as we used to call it!). Lots of beautiful spots round there. Even the Hinkley Point nuclear power stations are here!
@AdamDTaylor
@AdamDTaylor 12 күн бұрын
Good one jon 👍
@McRocket
@McRocket 13 күн бұрын
5:53 - My thoughts exactly! Babycham. Richard Richard's drink of choice. ☮
@iangrice329
@iangrice329 12 күн бұрын
Bloody hell that Babysham ad took me back. 😂
@doctorwalex
@doctorwalex 13 күн бұрын
It's so cool that you also have a fascination with abandoned quarries and buildings.
@marcuscross8051
@marcuscross8051 13 күн бұрын
A Sunday isn't a Sunday without a Sunday video from Auto Shenanigans.
@jasonsykes7725
@jasonsykes7725 12 күн бұрын
Thanks!
@AutoShenanigans
@AutoShenanigans 8 күн бұрын
Cheers mate, appreciate that!
@simonrobbins8357
@simonrobbins8357 13 күн бұрын
1:20 The whole city is a UNESCO heritage site to preserve these buildings, even though the main subject of the image is the Southgate Shopping centre built around 2008😂
@jackhillman1955
@jackhillman1955 8 күн бұрын
No one here calls it "The Somerset Volcano" I live very close to it. Used to play on it back in the day. It's simply called "Coal pit" or "The Batch"
@Jonny_The_Organism
@Jonny_The_Organism 13 күн бұрын
Glad you got to visit some odd named villages like Shit'n'smellit and Cunney Snatch.....
@insertusernamehere6025
@insertusernamehere6025 12 күн бұрын
Somerset Volcano? If it’s a spoil heap from mining you’re interested in, head to North Warwickshire and check out the Nuneaton Nipple! Almost forgot to mention; another great video, thanks for the hard work creating and sharing. Keep up the good work.
@j.b.w.
@j.b.w. 13 күн бұрын
Jon gives it to us straight, like a pear cider made from 100% pears.
@teeKeri
@teeKeri 13 күн бұрын
Thank you Jon, and 1923 Michelin guide book! Best combo ever on the youtube ♥ When is this channel going to recieve the recognition it deserves?
@paulsengupta971
@paulsengupta971 13 күн бұрын
From whom? We watch it and we recognise it. "Ah, there's that Jon bloke again."
@john07973
@john07973 12 күн бұрын
Good stuff 👍
@cogsnbanjo
@cogsnbanjo 12 күн бұрын
About 30 years ago I managed to drag my mountain bike up to the top of the Paulton Volcano. I was with friends and it was a bit of bravado because they were chickening out. The side of the Volcano was so steep that I had to stick the handlebar end into the dirt and use it as an icepick to drag myself up. I then proceeded with the descent which was terrifying, especially trying to stop at the bottom. The crazy thing is that I repeated the process a few weeks later. On the second go my wheels got caught in a rut. How I stayed on the bike is anyone's guess but I did. I knew then that I was lucky not to crash and get seriously injured. I never attempted it again.
@jonathangriffin1120
@jonathangriffin1120 11 күн бұрын
A guy I worked with forty years ago rode a 650 BSA up to the top of Old Mills batch. He freely admitted coming back down was the scariest part. My late dad worked at Fairy Cave quarry from just after WW II to the early seventies. when it was working it was twice as deep as it is now, some of the old spoil batches were used to backfill it up to it's present level.
@Bhong666
@Bhong666 8 күн бұрын
Brilliant stuff, not everyday I see a video starting in my birthplace and ending in the town I currently live in. Never knew Babycham was from Shepton, thank you! I always preferred Cherry B though. 🤣
@tobyjackman3212
@tobyjackman3212 4 күн бұрын
I went to school in Midsomer Norton &, incredibly, cracking jokes about the slag heap is _still_ the best thing to do there
@pauldupre2269
@pauldupre2269 12 күн бұрын
Love your chat John ❤
@Jake-gq7ci
@Jake-gq7ci 13 күн бұрын
Love this channel💚
@PhilipMurphy8
@PhilipMurphy8 13 күн бұрын
Should be great video to start the December month for sure 😀
@keithposter5543
@keithposter5543 12 күн бұрын
0:57 - LOLZ!
@benhooper1956
@benhooper1956 13 күн бұрын
Ah, the city where I live currently as a student and a fine city it is too. Lots of fun bombing around the Georgian streets in my Volvo 480ES or Audi 80 Sport (whichever is working) though my favourite building must be the brutalist community sports centre just next to the rugby ground because it has been proven that places that look like the set of Blake's 7 are just better
@jonmarshall1502
@jonmarshall1502 12 күн бұрын
“It’s all in the name” another great episode that had me scrambling through google maps looking for all this interesting sh”te.
@SuperRobertwillis
@SuperRobertwillis 13 күн бұрын
It must be the research you do to make it so interesting John 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤
@JimBeeJamall
@JimBeeJamall 13 күн бұрын
You've already been to Dorset Jon and I thought Bath and Frome were Somerset
@MrKpsuk84
@MrKpsuk84 12 күн бұрын
I've been to Bath and it's very nice
@marjon1703
@marjon1703 13 күн бұрын
My excitement of finding a 4 pack of Babycham in Tesco's about 5 years ago was in the hope of reliving the drink of my misspent childhood. It was not the same, it tasted synthetic and thin. Another entertaining video , Thank you.
@MultiVogon
@MultiVogon 13 күн бұрын
Well that takes me down memory lane, being a westcountry boy. Used to climb at FC quarry many years ago. Also there used to be a giant Chamonix(?) babycham logo by the road under the footbridge behind you in the shot of the babycham buildings. I also have an old booklet of "day and half day drives from bath" called The Quiet Road which would be right up your street. I reckon ;-) Cost 2s6d apparently (probably 50p in a charity shop when I bought it years ago).
@LordClunk
@LordClunk 13 күн бұрын
Since listening to the Smith and Sniff podcast, Bath will forever now be known as Bath/Bath.
@wessexdruid7598
@wessexdruid7598 13 күн бұрын
Speaking as a local ex-Northerner - I have a bahth before I go to Barth.
@foxyjnr9874
@foxyjnr9874 13 күн бұрын
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