Great British Road Journeys - Norfolk - King's Lynn to Thetford Ep.2

[@SGC03]

The more I watch John’s videos, learning about the history of our road network, the more I feel like I’m fully qualified to be a road planner. Despite having no qualifications in road planning. “But that’s not what we got”, “but it was cancelled”, “and it’s bloody useless” 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Taladar2003]

If you add some urbanist channels to the mix you can get that same impression with a lot of other urban planning topics as well. And add some of those channels about building collapses perhaps for similar thoughts.

[@samholdsworth420]

I watch this shit and im American 😂

[@ThePsiclone]

You're hired. We need this bypass that's going to cost millions buuuuuut never actually going to be built? When can you start?

[@ehsnils]

After some iterations playing Cities Skylines I'm sure you can make a better job. But more than half of the road net design isn't technical, it's political (with the excuses that it's too expensive)

[@Pianoguy32]

After seeing many of our nations roads, i can confidently say you are overqualified.

[@georgie698]

Bravo on the very subtle duelling banjos at the first mention of Norfolk at 20 seconds. Very clever, almost imperceptible. Classy

[@David_D.]

The highlight of my Sundays is here again! Cheers Jon!

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice one, thanks for watching!

[@joshcrofts]

Black cat roundabout roadworks closed ​@@AutoShenanigans

[@JellySCR]

​@AutoShenanigans nice too meet you again! I'm a good fan

[@Truth-And-Freedom]

​@@AutoShenanigansCarbon is about control and nothing more. Never let a politician tell you they will make your life better if you give them all your money and rights .......... ♥️👍🇬🇧

[@Saint_Dan132]

Agreed😊

[@ExclusiveMeerkat]

Love me some Norfolk videos, have a high six!

[@medler2110]

Oh! Less of the Norfolk jokes or I'll send my father, uncle and brother round, He'll give you a proper slap. 😁

[@125brat]

Normal for Norfolk🤣🤣

[@SiRhodesDriverTraining]

Sundays aren’t Sundays without Jon standing in a field. I’m liking this series mate. Good work.

[@sh4dowchas3r]

Nice of the Normans to put in a steel staircase to get to the top of Castle Hill.

[@djsmithe]

Thoughtful people those Normans.

[@eiantaylor]

I grew up in Thetford and used to climb up there as a kid. There were no steps, we had to crawl up on our hands and knees through 6 foot tall brambles trying to avoid the d0g$h1t. Either the steps are modern or I'm older than the Normans! (Feels like it sometimes!!!)

[@SoulieGus]

@@eiantaylor Stairs are very much a recent thing, must of gone up in the last 4-5 years, the whole of castle park now is also enclosed with fencing and gates and they have catle eat some of the shrubery around there as it was always overgrown and hard to maintain so that was their solution! Use to go there in my teens a lot but only occasionally drive by it now.

[@stishy75]

If I told my younger self I would one day be entertained by watching a man drive round the UK giving me facts about the UK road network, I'd laugh in my face! Keep up the good work dude. 😂❤👍

[@davebicker8618]

The Hardwick Roundabout is Rabbit Central. In Spring it's festooned with bunnies. It keeps the local press busy discussing what should be done about it. Oh yes! The best greasy spoon breakfast ever, nearby the speedway track.

[@anusername8350]

They’re starting to colonise the McDonald’s now

[@michaelward2082]

yes I have seen the rabbits,

[@robinwells8879]

I believe that the advantage of the biomass power station is that it is burning wood chip for the most part which is not fossil carbon unlike the gas powered station. That said, the gas fired power station is pretty much state of the art in that it uses gas turbines to burn the gas and spin a generator and then they recover much of the heat from the exhaust to generate high pressure steam for a steam turbogenerator. By the time the steam is finished with it is below atmospheric pressure! Unlike the old coal thermal stations that struggled to convert more than 20% to electricity the gas stations are near 80% efficient. Better still, it’s an interruptible gas supply such that at times of peak national gas demand it can switch over to kerosene to relieve pressure on the gas grid. Green energy is all about subtle shades of green and we use the greenest first before resorting to less green options. We are also crap at putting our side of the story out there. 😢

[@smorris12]

You need to be able to present your side of things in a 15 second TikTok done in mime to a Top 20 Hit from the last year.

[@delboy7039]

Chicken shit is greener than the black coal that we used to burn..!!

[@rochellehewston9367]

Loved the Chicken Shit. Great informative video. I like where you use maps to show how the road layouts have changed, supposedly for the better

[@gordon1545]

Afraid he missed the point of the biomass power station though. It's not to create power sustainably, it's to reduce the emissions from chicken crap - power is a side benefit. If you don't do anything with the manure it produces methane, with is 25-30 times worse than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. If we want to eliminate these emissions then we need to stop eating chicken (though overall it's pretty low carbon) but otherwise, burning the waste and getting energy from it is the best idea.

[@david_harvey]

There's two plants in East Anglia, the other is at Eye in Suffolk.

[@paulsengupta971]

@@david_harveyOn the old airfield?

[@davidquirk8097]

We used to get poultry house manure, delivered by the articulated lorry load, at the mixed farm I worked on. We had to leave it, weathering, for a year before spreading it and even then it used to make your eyes and nostrils sting. It also used to clean the rust off the loader bucket. Burning it seems the best thing for it. The Methane it emits while rotting down is four times worse as a greenhouse gas than the CO2.

[@apuldram]

Quite agree.

[@LorcanHamill]

i really enjoy your videos - keep up the good work! But I think you've missed the point on the chicken crap power plant. All the carbon it emits was captured from the atmosphere during the life of the chickens (or at least while the crops were being grown that went into their feed). So in the long run, the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is not increased by the overall process - ie. it's carbon neutral. That's completely different to burning hydrocarbons where CO2 that was trapped over millions of years in fossil fuels ie being dumped into the atmosphere over a much shorter timespan.

[@SportyMabamba]

How is what any different except for timescale

[@LorcanHamill]

@@SportyMabamba It's fundamentally different. We can grow crops forever, feed chickens on the grain, burn their shit and make electricity without having *any* effect on atmospheric CO2. That's what's meant by a "sustainable" system - one that can run indefinitely without running out of materials or doing serious damage to the environment. In theory, we could do the same with fossil fuels - but we'd have to burn them at the same rate as they're created - which happens over geological timescales. I don't know if anyone has worked out the rate per year at which crude oil, natural gas and coal are formed - but I'm pretty sure that to use them at a sustainable rate we'd need to be consuming them at a tiny, tiny fraction of one percent of our current rate. Having petrol-powered cars could arguably be sustainable in theory - but the number of them would probably have to be reduced to a few dozen in the whole world.

[@TomK32]

A job half done is a job half finished. That flyover with extra roundabouts is a piece of art.

[@jonh6585]

Not just the RAF the USAF love it too often seeing their aircraft out of lakenheath e.g. F-35 , F-15s as well as osprey tilt wings.

[@1_5RCBiker]

It is the USAF that love Norfolk. Every half hour 24 hours a day a USAF plane will take off from Mildenhall and buzz Norfolk for a bit or whatever they do.

[@PiousMoltar]

Yeah, or Lakenheath, but it could also be the RAF from Marham.

[@blueberry_dino4675]

That was an F-15 fighter, so I would've come from Lakenheath, not Mildenhall. Mildenhall is a heavy base and mostly has KC-135s

[@mrshannonite4016]

Just a quick addition to Thetford, they have a transport museum almost next door to the bus station. Worth going to if you want to see Corporal Jones' butcher van from Dad's Army.

[@125brat]

Not sure if it's still there but there used to be a Burrell Traction Engine museum just off the old (not the original road going past the Bell hotel in the town calentre) A11 near where it crosses the Little Ouse in the town. There's also the Dad's Army museum in the Guildhall in the old Market Place. There is also the Ancient House museum on Bridge Street iirc.

[@davidcronan4072]

For our American cousins, Thetford was the birthplace of Thomas (Rights Of Man) Paine. There is a statue of him in the centre of the town. He is holding a quill pen in such a way taht makes him look as though he is playing a game of darts!

[@ChrisBrown-px1oy]

The plinth is inscribed with quotations, one of which especially deserves repetition today: "I had rather record a thousand errors dictated by humanity than one inspired by a justice too severe".

[@GrahamMacdonald-w9o]

For our Canadian friends, George Vancouver was born in King's Lynn - after whom the city in British Comumbia was named.

[@samuelgarrod8327]

The book he's holding is upside down as well.

[@paulketchupwitheverything767]

@@GrahamMacdonald-w9o There's a Vancouver in the US too (WA), next to Portland. I've wondered how often the two get confused.

[@marieascot]

I have that briefly in my Thetford video.

[@davidcronan4072]

Hardwick roundabout was so big when it was first built that some motorists didn't realize it was a roundabout. They thought it was just an ordinary road and ended up driving the wrong way round the thing.

[@kingofbengland]

The roundabout was a pain to use around holiday times until they built the flyover. It still gets busy but the worst bit is between the industrial estate and hospital roundabouts if you're heading to the North Norfolk coast/ not towards Norwich.

[@Pesmog]

It has to be one of the largest roundabouts in the country, which is a bit incongruous given that most of Norfolk is pretty quiet.

[@S.ASmith]

@@Pesmog This road should be dual carriageway between Swaffham and Kings Lynn (cancelled) and the flyover to the A17 (which is what this section of A47 used to be) should have been dualled up to Sutton Bridge (which was the original plan). Instead this was all scrapped, the changed the road from the A17 to the A47, cancelled the West Lynn interchange flyover & left the A17 single carriageway all the way to Newark (bar the Sleaford Bypass which is only 2.3 ish miles long)

[@Pesmog]

@@S.ASmith The A17 is a shambles and a missed opportunity. One of my least favourite roads in the UK. They are going to have to spend serious money on it one day, particularly the bits at Sutton bridge and the Newark A1 junction. 👍

[@david_harvey]

That roundabout is a nightmare! The amount of times I have been on in and people get in the wrong lane and cut everyone up. Usually try to avoid it but depends on where I am staying in Norfolk to on how get to Lynn

[@justsammy8258]

And another railway reference!

[@nirgunapa56]

Thetford - the home of the Dads Army cast when they did the filming.

[@125brat]

My mum used to work in the Bell hotel in the 70's where they stayed whilst filming and she met most of them.

[@davidcronan4072]

Thetford forest was started to provide pit-props for the mining industry.

[@kimwhitbread2799]

previous to that it was a desert with sand dunes...

[@davidcronan4072]

@@kimwhitbread2799 and millions of rabbits

[@kimwhitbread2799]

Not forgetting the Thetford Stags...

[@garypoulton7311]

By the time this series is finished you won't be able to go anywhere in the UK without risk getting lynched! Love it.

[@andljoy]

The reason the biomass power station is better for the environment is that the CO2 is already in the cycle , the gas one is burning stuff that was not in the cycle. No reason to panic or anything but that is the idea behind it.

[@KevinKitten]

I also think that allowing the biomass to decay naturally would release methane which is many times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2, so burning it decreases the global warming that would otherwise result.

[@andljoy]

@@KevinKittenThat methane would break down in the end anyway so all you are doing in the biomass plant is speeding up the process. Until our government gets its finger out of its arse and builds 50 nuclear power plants its a decent option.

[@B.Evil.C]

Love the videos and this is a nice follow-up to the Motorways. Not sure (as it depends where the Biomass comes from I think) but assuming it is current farms and not dug up from old sites, that is the difference. I believe (but could be wrong) releasing CO2 that was captured by animals and released (which would likely happen if we left it) is different to digging up and releasing CO2 buried and previously captured in the ground.

[@Cal900]

Lived in Brazil 10 years now, used to drive this route all the time. Thank you!

[@djsmithe]

Only Jon could make me want to visit Thetford. You've been spreading a whole lot of love.

[@david_harvey]

Don't bother it's cack! Forest is nice though. Now Lynn is interesting.....

[@scythal]

I'm not even British myself, but Jon's presentation is something I look forward to every Sunday evening! Maybe someday I'll be able to drive down these roads...

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice one, thanks for watching!

[@bigdaddigaming]

The RAF do love Norfolk and they love my home county of Lincolnshire as well, i think theres more RAF bases in those counties than anywhere else in the country

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

Next time you go to Thetford check out the Dad's Army museum. The museum is here because most of the location filming was done in and around the town.

[@jasonali4122]

I believe there is a 'Dad's Army' museum in Thetford (apparently a lot of the outside filming was done in the area). It's a shame it wasn't given a mention.

[@mrshannonite4016]

Ah, just posted something similar. Well done for beating me too it. :)

[@paulsengupta971]

Yes. Someone I know was in Dad's Army and he's in Thetford.

[@joncrawford3485]

Nice to see Norfolk's motorways featuring in your video's, Jon. 😛

[@AutoShenanigans]

They've been missed out for long enough!

[@fenrichlee2867]

Norfolk is the only county that has no motorways - ain't that nice!!

[@albertperks3476]

Deepest darkest Norfolk - next time you're in the area have a look to see if you're near Rendlesham Forest the site of the noxious Alien ship that everybody denied happened but now say it did.

[@BrightonandHoveActually]

What a pity the A1066 doesn't go to Hastings.

[@swskating3865]

Auto Shenanigans, the covert motoring geek's equivalent of Songs of Praise Every Sunday

[@susaneb1954]

Loving the Great British Road Journeys, what a fab addition to the rest of the videos. Happy days, thanks Jon

[@6thdayblue59]

Kings Lynn is famous for Cromer Crabs…. Have some crabs from us. Mr & Mrs @6thDayBlue. (Oh hang on, that doesn’t sound right) Erm….. Buy a coffee x

[@AutoShenanigans]

I've got enough crabs as it is :D

[@Colin_Pole]

Kings Lynn is also home to ex F1 driver and now commentator Martin Brundle.

[@TomJE0]

I also believe George Russell is born there.

[@garynorman]

The Brundle family used to own a Toyota dealership at Tottenhill which is located on the A10 towards Downham Market. Martin lives in Gayton still I believe, which is just outside of King’s Lynn.

[@MervynPartin]

Excellent, Jon. Your research is brilliant. I didn't realise the Chicken Shit Factory (A.K.A Thetford Power station) was such a large CO2 producer. One thing that you may have missed on the A10 section was the Setchey oilfield which operated from 1918 to the 1930s.

[@gordon1545]

Afraid he missed the point of the biomass power station though. It's not to create power sustainably, it's to reduce the emissions from chicken crap - power is a side benefit. If you don't do anything with the manure it produces methane, with is 25-30 times worse than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. If we want to eliminate these emissions then we need to stop eating chicken (though overall it's pretty low carbon) but otherwise, burning the waste and getting energy from it is the best idea.

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice, I didnt know about the oil fields!

[@GrahamMacdonald-w9o]

I was impressed that at 7:31 you called the road from Thetford to Diss the A-One-Oh-Six-Six rather than be tempted to call it the A-Ten-Sixty-Six, especially as you mentioned the fort the Normans built on Castle Hill just a few seconds later.

[@neilbain8736]

Fascinating! Memories. You started almost exactly outside where I lived in Kings Lynn. A good place for a pint was The Crown and Mitre just of Tuesday Market Place. A very interesting pub run by a nicely eccentric character called Roger. I've had the privilege of cycling to Ipswich a couple of August Bank Holidays and getting a deserted Hardwick Roundabout all to myself (the flyover was actually being built when I moved there). An amazing experience. It was like the whole country got up at dead early o'clock and buggered off to the seaside leaving the inland bits deserted. I did it in 6hrs one year! I was a Lot younger and a lot fitter. Thetford is where the Dad's Army cast stayed during filming around Thetford Forest. Since I was there, there's a statue been put up of Captain Mainwearing. Dr Who was also filmed around there or possibly the sand quarry by Middleton near Kings Lynn which is all that's left of the Kings Lynn and Dereham railway to Norwich. Most of it is now under the A47. I've also gone to Norwich via Dereham and then straight South to Ipswich. I mention this because the road (I forget its number) is dual carriageway on the Norfolk side with a concrete road like a bit of the M90 in Fife. As soon as you cross the Suffolk border, it's singled carriageway with all sorts of speed limits, some being 50. Somewhere in Norfolk was just about the last remaining bit of three lane road where the middle lane was used for overtaking in either direction. These were quite common in the UK, but yes, bloody dangerous though they lasted longer than you'd imagine. They were changed to two lanes with each lane being a bit wider.

[@tobyjackman3212]

This is the best video I've ever seen about anything

[@AutoShenanigans]

Good to see you mate!

[@Stevieweevietv]

Ah nice to see a trip along a road i travel fairly regularly when going to stay at my dads flat in hunstanton from Bury St. Edmunds. Have to say i despise that hardwick roundabout! Always end up in the wrong lane going northwards 😂.

[@matthewsawford]

Hey Jon. It's the River Great Ouse, sir. 😁 I live by the same river in Bedfordshire.

[@matthewskinner4814]

Hey Jon the old Campbell soup factory was a bit of a traffic landmark at KL. near to the Hardwick Roundabout. But hey, landmark loss is Tesco gain.

[@AutoShenanigans]

I did read about it and consider it for "inclusion" but there's nothing left to see :( not even an old piece of hardstanding.

[@matthewskinner4814]

Yeah the tower was pretty cool and something to look out for when on the flat repetitive fenland roads. It might still be there on google street view from the 00’s?

[@alexandroskostalas6474]

What an amazing new series 👏

[@AutoShenanigans]

Thanks a lot mate, most awesome

[@nebulaman76]

Where you were stood, next to the railway bridge is almost bang on top of the top secret GPSS (now Exolum) pipeline. It was used in WWII to supply airfields with aviation fuel. It’s still in use today but has been privatised. It’s still a state secret. The marker boards (white post with a yellow hat and black line) are the original WWII markers. I very surprised you didn’t mention the name of the power station as you would need one to produce all that s**t to burn.

[@CookedLight]

I was quite convinced you were going to mention that Thetford Forest is where Dad's Army was filmed. Chicken shout 😂😂😂

[@PaddyWV]

Always bemusing when a town that has lost a rail station (appreciate Thetford has one left) then ends up with a bypass to combat increasing congestion. Talking of half finished roads, I see the accident strewn Acle Straight might finally be growing into a dual carriageway. Expect Acle itself will start to double in size as it already has in the past few decades. Pity all their banks have closed though!

[@paulharrison6385]

Could have mentioned Dads Army and the steam engine works.

[@andymassey8105]

Thetford Priory built 11.07, closed 15.40 and by twenty past 6 it was ruin. That’s a busy days work

[@Reddsoldier]

Quick bit of science on why the biomass power station is actually good for the environment based on my admittedly shaky science (at least relatively speaking): Burning chicken sh*t prevents it from releasing the Methane it would usually release as it naturally decomposed which is multiple times more harmful to the environment than CO2 - this is why although it is less environmentally friendly than your typical LNG power station, it can be considered "green" because it is better for the environment than the alternative. The only other alternative would be less chickens, but I think I speak for everyone when I say that I like eating them too much to consider this.

[@chrisblay]

The Fens are very flat and full of drainage ditches. Every now and again, a long run of straight road suddenly ends without warning of a ninety degree turn and a conveniently placed large ditch to park your car in. 🤣How many times did you say Thetford? 👍

[@Adhallphotography]

Can't believe you didn't stop in the jewel that is Downham!

[@anusername8350]

Lived there all my life, wouldn’t call it a jewel

[@ITFNBiteBayKon]

My grand parents used to live in Theford, I have climbed Castle Hill many times in my life, and my heart broke the first time I arrived and the stairs where there, only been about 10 years or so, but really made it easy to get up the hill. It used to be a proper challenge.

[@gaffysmenk]

I didn't know Thetford was a place. I just thought it was a box you shat in when driving around the cuntryside.

[@djtrainspotter]

Oooo, spotted the Freightliner green/yellow canary liveried class 66/5 locomotive there, nice one hehe.

[@sandwichbar8226]

Hello Jon, how the devil are you, have you had a good week?

[@truckerallikatuk]

Not just the RAF Jon, but the USAF also love Norfolk for flight training.

[@AutoShenanigans]

I am awaiting a comment from a "Plane nerd" to point out that the jet I filmed is part of the USAF.. which I think it was.

[@kevinmothers904]

@@AutoShenanigans That's me then and no it's more likely to be an F35B Lightning from RAF Marham. Anyway the "I am Here" @ 06.35 puts you on the Cambridge/Norwich Railway line not the A134. I knew it, you are a secret Railway fan all along!

[@andychase16]

@@AutoShenanigans It’s an F35, hard to tell if its an F35A from Lakenheath or an F35B from Marham, your location would suggest the Yankee version as the two bases tend to try and avoid flying near each other as that can sometimes end up ruining someones day.

[@James47298]

As someone who has lived my entire life in West Norfolk you have nailed it, albeit you have been polite not to mention the webbed feet in Lynn and Chavs in Thetford. The power station was indeed built on an old Fisions fertiliser plant.

[@willtricks9432]

Moving from North London to Kings Lynn in 1969 the route has long memories for me. Get your good self along from Kings Lynn to Boston and have a look at the swing bridge, it is ace. Cheers

[@duckydashcam751]

I drive the part of the A47 almost daily/weekly and the amount of traffic and the amount of accidents is dreadful...all because they didn't build that damn second flyover at pullover. Great video bud, have a safe travels to wherever next 🦆🤟🏻

[@MePeterNicholls]

Thanks

[@AutoShenanigans]

Thanks a lot mate, most awesome

[@modelrailpaulcee]

I quite like that you’ve started this non-motorway series in Norfolk, the county without any motorways - deliberate?

[@Alan_Watkin]

Well Done Sir you seem to have survived running running out of motorway quite nicely, i like these it was defo a good idea

[@PenryMMJ]

The last maharaja of the Punjab owned the Elveden estate just outside Thetford. He was given 17,000 acres of Norfolk agricultural land by the India office as compensation for the British basically taking control of the Punjab. Quite a good deal for us at the time. The maharaja didn't make much better use of his new estate than he had of the Punjab. He ran up massive debt's and the estate was sold to clear those debts when he died. It's now owned by the Guinness family.

[@louisstanko86]

This definitely deserves its own show on the TV, top job 😊

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice one, thanks for watching!

[@travellingjourneys7840]

I live in the area and it's always interesting to see other people's perspective. FYI the A10 will soon be diverted to a new junction and dualled part of the A47 to relieve the village of West Winch where a whole new housing development is planned.

[@andychase16]

Another road plan that’s been buggered up by planners, the original plan was to divert from Setch, now just at Gravel Hill Lane, fingers crossed they deliver because the A10 is ridiculously busy through West Winch.

[@travellingjourneys7840]

@@andychase16 I agree it would make much more sense to take it from the roundabout at the A134 junction and bypass everything above it.

[@alloydog613]

Cycled that, but in the opposite direction Thetford to King's Lynn, when a mate and I cycled round East Anglia in '86.

[@starlight5229]

Nice one! I've been down inside one of the flint mine shafts at Grimes Graves 👍🏻🙂

[@orwellboy1958]

Me too, but a very long time ago.

[@starlight5229]

@@orwellboy1958 Yes, mine was ages ago too. Probably back in the late 80s

[@marcom9103]

1:35 The flyover isn't really 'useless' as you suggest. It does separate a lot of traffic from each other making most movements less congested. It may not 'feel' like it's helping much because the A47 still has to stop for the small roundabout, but it isn't having to cross paths with the bust A10 / A149. Another genius of this design is the fact the second 'exit' if heading EB on the A47 is on your left allowing you to turn right onto the A10 SB while bypassing the busiest exits towards King Lynne and not having to cross at grade with the A47 WB. I'd say as far as British junctions go, they've done a good job here. There's plenty of examples where they'd have just made all the traffic mix at grade

[@johncamp2567]

Another great addition to your body of work, sir!! 👍

[@fenrichlee2867]

This bloke knows more about Norfolk than I do, and i'm from here!

[@paulketchupwitheverything767]

Came here for the roads. Stayed for the labour camps, flint mines, biomass power stations and old ruins. The energy generation/CO2 info was very interesting. It feels inevitable that we are going to have to make changes but we also need to be careful about the alternatives. We might be creating the same problems, just from a different source or location.

[@opathe2nd973]

John, you have gone over the mark! Chicken Sh**t to generate electricity? You are amazing. I thought you would trouble keeping your channel going but this was so amazing I am with you forever, but then I am 85 and who knows how long that will last. I'm a Yank but I love your channel! If I had a million you would give it!

[@InfernalPasquale]

Never expected to see you pass through our little corner of Norfolk ☺ I'm from Mundford, so much interesting history around here

[@MrPete81]

That stretch of the A134 is one of my favourite roads, and now i know more about whats around! Thanks Jon 😊

[@DanielGrimes-bn4qb]

I grew up and learned to drive in King’s Lynn. One of the (arguably few) benefits of that is having used the Hardwick Roundabout on a daily basis for years, other ‘big’ road junctions around the country don’t faze me at all. Hanger Lane and Spaghetti Junction eat your heart out - we’ve got the Hardwick Roundabout!

[@jsnsk101]

Went to Grimes Graves as a school trip it was great, and that was 45 years ago

[@elmothesex]

You can still go down a pit at Summerlee in Coatbridge near Glasgow.

[@TilfordM]

I'm so sorry you had to go to Thetford

[@andrewdolinskiatcarpathian]

Transport archeology at its best 👏👏👍😀

[@hammondpickle]

No wonder that bloody roundabout (Hardwick) is such a nightmare! I hate driving that past that thing.

[@Exparcelman]

The flyover made a big difference to those like me that are heading to Norwich on the A47. Only half of traffic has to queue on the roundabout now. There’s still unused earthworks at the other end on the bypass too.

[@sheldon97sheldon]

Yay Thetford, the place I grew up. I knew you'd finally make your way there. :)

[@davidbromiley8748]

I travel to the area around Thetford several times a year for birdwatching, and there is often a steady stream of F15 and F35 fighters taking off from RAF Lakenheath, plus the occasional Boeing 777 painted all in white that got lost on its way to Stansted

[@adrianrutterford762]

Nice see that you’ve been Up Lynn!!

[@Mmmmetro]

Absolutely fascinating Jon. Often travelled the 47, and wondered why certain things are either, not there, or, are there?

[@andychase16]

Great to see you visit my home village of West Winch, I’ve always wondered what the old bit of road next to the A10 was, now I know! Another great episode where this Norfolk boy learnt something new about his County. By the way, as a former resident of Great Yarmouth don’t bother visiting, there’s nothing ‘Great’ about it, even the new Herring Bridge closed two days after opening! Safe travels.

[@Saint_Dan132]

Wriggling on the line, now I'm hooked , reel me I with this wonderful video,. Very insight brother , love it.

[@ozbolli]

I love watching your videos when I'm high.

[@Eric_L456]

In Thetford and no mention of Dad’s Army ? I suppose you were using a 1920s guide, well before the debut of Mainwaring , Wilson et al .

[@josephturner7569]

No mention of Dad's Army that was mostly filmed there.

[@dragontriketv]

It just gets better. A brilliant presentation.

[@comedyhunter]

Really enjoying these new videos, more interesting places to see and humour. Im guessing you do this as your fulltime job now as it must take hours to put one of these videos together. always look forward to your videos.

[@PineappleSkip]

Always enjoy a bit of misspent public money, and I’d recommend a series subtitle ‘Jon’s quest for idiotic intersections and road improvement debacles’. Trawled up a goody on the A47. And the mega carbon spewing green power station that no doubt got a truckload of public subsidy. Keep ‘em coming!

[@WagnerGimenes]

Nearly half-way to a quarter of a million subscribers, Jon. And I'm here, waiting for it to happen 😇

[@nicholashortonjustice4rebe378]

I remember Thetford Castle from an Episode of TIME TEAM back in the Day.

[@qwertyTRiG]

"Ely, King's Lynn, and the sea." An evocative line that's been stuck in my head since I read _Tom's Midnight Garden_ many years ago.

[@charlystann2463]

I love your channel so much. Thanks to propose different kind of video to talks about all the shenanigans around cars in the UK. I am addicted to your content... And I am a french living in France... Idk how I landed here in 2023, but I wont go away ^^

[@minibus9]

excelent video. Fun fact Thetford and the area around it was the main filming location for Dad's Army