Great British Road Journeys - West Sussex - Horsham to Bognor Regis Ep. 35

[@Boric78]

You know if you described this channel's concept to me a few months back, I would have wondered at your sanity for recommending it. But its class and totally addictive. Sundays are the best day of the week because of all the new vids. Still laughing about that chap in the yellow t-shirt from last week "Can I help you?" "No I don't think so." LOL - more than once this week.

[@aaronk534]

When I 1st watch a long time ago I thought, "this isnt very interesting." Then the next sunday I found myself watching again. By week 4 I looked forward to it. Its like The Clap and just slowly gets worse til you get the medicine you need. In this case, an odd video Id miss if it were late

[@TheLambLive]

Absolutely one of those examples where the presenter makes the show what it is... the editing and cocky quips are first class.

[@JamesHardiman99]

Home territory again for me. Very interesting.

[@GWorsfold]

@@TheLambLive Shouldn't that be Cocking quips? 🤔

[@Droningonuk]

when I tell people about this channel I always seem to find myself saying it sounds dull but it's so interesting!

[@himofthenorth-east]

"the pontoon only appears at low tide so you have to time it right to see it, which I didn't" 😂

[@catlee8064]

...."Theres fuck all". 🤣🤣🤣

[@johnharrison6808]

Yep that's Horsham in a nutshell.

[@namugriff]

Short and sweet

[@Anaerin]

I didn't know this series would take a sudden swerve to Rockall, but here we are.

[@NTLBagpuss]

That and "which I didn't." have to be the highlights of this tour.

[@andyduggan7810]

Along with Turd Towns this is pretty much my favourite KZbin. Not that anyone would have any reason to want to know that.

[@markarnold8160]

My wife was born a Butlin, and was a Pontin's lifeguard. Her line manager thought she was a spy 😂

[@David_Crayford]

The Undercover Boss. 🙂

[@razzle1964]

@@David_Crayford… from redcoat to bluecoat, via turncoat … so, would that be ‘undercoat’ boss?🤔✌️

[@vastariner]

6:18 There is also a book about the village called A Short History Of Cocking, which I assume has been mis-filed by many a librarian.

[@David_Crayford]

And a sequal called A History Of Short Cocking.

[@nickhaddon538]

I wasn't sure about this channel at first, but now I'm hooked and would recommend it to everyone. Why do people bother watching TV anymore when we have gems like this?

[@Simplebutsandy]

Mt favourite thing about Bognor Regis is the (apocryphal) story that when George V was dying, his secretary told him that Bognor asked if they could have a royal suffix after his recent visit there, to which he replied "Bugger Bognor". His secretary took that as a "yes".

[@simonwilson1237]

Thanks I've wondered where bugger bognor came from

[@fredericksaxton3991]

I had heard that when the king was on his death bed, a courtier suggested visiting Bognor for his health, to which he was supposed to have said - "Bugger Bognor".

[@paul756uk2]

My favourite thing about bognor is the road out of it

[@rogink]

@@fredericksaxton3991 Yes I'm sure that's the story I heard.

[@iainet]

As always this story is repeated incorrectly. The correct story is that the King was asked whether or not he would like to play golf or return to Bognor.

[@SimonJessey]

Bummer that you missed out the Weald and Downland Living Museum after your Cocking about.

[@MrFlyingguy]

clever injection of humour makes this both fun and interesting to watch....

[@justaguycalledjosh]

I love the recurring joke of "After spending a lot of money, and being a nuisance for a long time, the roadworks changed absolutely nothing."

[@samarthur8385]

Torque Moto Cafe is my local haunt on the weekends. It is also 5 mins down the road from me so love that you included it in your visit to horsham in this video!!

[@chrisgironde6669]

You wondered what Sussex gave ? I was born in Horsham 61 years ago!! That’s a major achievement for it haha

[@sandwichbar8226]

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

[@NJRD977]

As a kid, we would have day trips to Bognor inflicted on us because we had cousins who lived near by. To get to them we would drive past the prison at Ford. We would then drive past Butlins. Which, with its huge security fencing, looked more like a prison than HMP Ford did!

[@thginknhoj]

Gutted you didn't stop in my home town of Petworth, you'd have loved all the antiques shops 🤣😂

[@1258-Eckhart]

And William Turner's several paintings in/from Petworth House (country seat of the Lord Egremont).

[@iansutherland-iz3bx]

The Horsham Brewery was actually King&Barnes, itnused to be by the bishopric and you could smell when they were malting. They brewed one of the most bitter bitters in the country after Henley's Brakespear brewery

[@ronibee]

I managed to get a last brewery tour in just before they closed down. I always had a polypin of Old Ale at Christmas. How I miss it! I got my polypins etc. at 'trade price' because i worked with someone whose uncle was a King. In my youth, the quality was a bit variable and the saying was "If the bottom has fallen out of your world, drink a pint of K&B and the world will fall out of your bottom." I used to be friends with an Australian bloke and when I mentioned the Bishopric he thought I was "being dirty".

[@robscovell5951]

The A272 is one of the most beautiful roads in England.

[@AaronJessop]

Wicked sweet awesome 🌟

[@AutoShenanigans]

Thanks a lot mate, really appreciate that

[@martynhall20]

As someone that lives in Southwater, thanks for mentioning it. Great video as usual. Have a drink on me

[@AutoShenanigans]

Will do, thanks a lot mate!

[@KurisuBonsai]

Pressed the specific button and played all the ads for the top tier snarky delivery in this one. Excellent stuff!

[@johnharrison6808]

Good shout out for Torque, always something interesting appearing there.

[@timmycee9940]

When I was a kid we used to holiday in Pagham, just along the coast from Bognor. We'd set off early from home in Kent, stop in Horsham for breakfast then on to Bognor so this really stirs the memories!

[@johnpope515]

The Brewery founded around 1800 as Satchell & Co bought by James King renamed as Kings & Sons 1906 merged with Barnes & Co forming King & Barnes taken over by Hall & Woodhouse and closed in 2000

[@AutoShenanigans]

You are absolutely right, I summarised all of that into one name to keep it simple.

[@johnpope515]

@@AutoShenanigans Thanks for the reply mine was a bit long winded great videos come on 150,00 subs

[@philhawley1219]

@@johnpope515 My brother lived near Whoresham. King&Barnes was a decent pint. Hall & Woodhouse is badger piss.

[@Beatlefan67]

@@philhawley1219 Living in Dorset we have the unfortunate occurrence of finding too many pubs with Hall and Woodlouse (sic) pretend beer. Yuk..

[@johnpope515]

@@philhawley1219 Hall & Woodhouse just wanted the tie house's and shut the brewery down so sad 😢

[@Dutcharmytent]

I worked at the Warnham brickworks and Southwater around 40 years ago, It was run by Redlands back then. The Warnham train crossing had been open but it is completely closed and shut off now to all vehicles

[@brianartillery]

Ah, the Beeching cuts. My favourite thing about that was the TV vox pops that took place at a mass meeting of rail workers who were going to lose their jobs, due to Dr Beeching's cuts (instigated by the crooked Minister Of Transport, Eric Marples, who ran several road construction companies); One of the railmen interviewed was asked if he wanted anything from Beeching. His terse, angry answer was this, and it's perfect: "Aye. His testicles in an eggcup." You were right about Chichester - I went there once, and it appeared to be closed. Likewise - Bugger Bognor.

[@Mark.Andrew.Pardoe]

Whato all, Don't forget the Minister of Transport who carried out most of the closures was Labour's Barbara Castle.

[@aylanwright83]

he passsed through my town (petworth) and said nothing, but intsad talked about cocking. im yet to recover from this indignity.

[@andrewhotston983]

Your town should be renamed "Notworth", perhaps? 😉

[@djtrainspotter]

I remember Butlins there in 1978 on hol as a nipper, nothing but chinooks flying everywhere and other such splendid memories.

[@MrHurley61]

Only you can make me giggle like a school boy when you makes the remark `oh dear' after anouncing Wienerberger. Class. Love this channel, highlight of the week.

[@Assimilator1]

Fascinating with some good funny moments thrown into too, still loving your videos!

[@paulholmes672]

Jon, As usual, love your content and as a retired Yank, wish I could visit back at my old haunts, initially East Anglia, but Torquay, etc., miss it all. Your content and typical humor are a breath of brisk British 'fresh' air, and it does substitute a bit. Still working on a 'one more trip' to the Isles, but hope to include my legacy in Bonnie Old Scotland, as well. Keep up the good work and as T Wogan said, "Keep Your Pecker Up"!!!

[@pkf4124]

A great tongue in cheek guide to the area I have lived in all my life. A few things i didnt know despite going past them regularly. You could have another go as theres a few oddities you missed on the route. The rail tunnel just down from Cocking is one thing, as kids we were always trying to get in to the blocked off tunnel to walk in the few hundred meters of victorian darkness.full of bats spiders and potential hazzards. You summed up Chichester exactly though.

[@Cyberdyne-kg8ku]

Fatty Arbuckle didn't show up in his yellow shirt. Shame.

[@JohnSmithShields]

He is too busy still chasing the sausage rolls thrown at him.

[@Goatmanification]

John is still on the run from the Police the yellow shirt man definitely wasted time calling...

[@dcarbs2979]

Pity, the 2 video locations are quite close to each other.

[@macauleysamualkent2319]

I bomb about them roads in my old landy, brilliant roads to drive on😂 love going past the cocking village store, makes me chuckle

[@BRADERZ1986]

Another cracking episode mate. 👍🏾👍🏾

[@davidyardley512]

I love the changes in the seasons as you work your way around on these great British road journeys Jon. Clearly Autumn now!

[@raresoulie]

Bognor was Albert Ladysmith Steptoe's favourite holiday destination

[@banhammer7243]

As a kid I was lucky enough to go to holiday camps like Butlins, they was actually really fun places to go as kids (and I presume adults) you could rent sporting equipment using just your keys from your room, if you left the camp site to go exploring local castles (for example) you could order a premade packed lunch. Really was a great time to be on holiday.

[@Ivan-y7e8p]

Don't feel bad about missing the Mulberry pontoon. The two crews of the 1975 Apollo _ Soyuz mission would have meet up over Bognor Regis but they were late so the handshake took place over France.

[@David_Crayford]

Yeah, but at what altitude? LOL.

[@willtricks9432]

Then it would have been a polite peck on each cheek. OOh ,LaLa Comrade.

[@01mememememe]

thanks

[@richardhaywood4123]

Really enjoyed this one,the brickworks and lime works were interesting. Glad to see that disused road/rail bridge wasn't demolished.

[@Zedd7]

Hi Jon, good to see this week's video is up. Good job

[@JohnSmithShields]

The brutal honesty of these videos is simply refreshing. There's f£%k all. Grow up, we haven't time. I wasn't. Not forgetting a seamless cut from Bognor blowing a gale to a sunny cornfield for the drone outro shot.

[@andyduggan7810]

In the background of the holiday advert is what looks like another aerial ropeway, but this one was for people rather than industrial uses. A very clever coincidence.

[@Hans-k9j]

Keep up the good work you’re doing. English roads are just awesome if you present them👍

[@MemskiBobSki]

Thanks!

[@AutoShenanigans]

Thanks mate!

[@MrGreatplum]

Horsham was the town I spent the first 20 or so years of my life, and from the age of 10 living at Christ’s Hospital (a school) where my parents taught. I still miss king and barnes and the smell of the hops when they did the brewing!

[@robertfuller9128]

Keep up the great work Jon. Here's some suggestions for future vids: Shortest and longest distance between motorway junctions; lowest and highest motorway section relative to sea level. Roads that cross over dams (Craig Goch Dam in Wales is a beauty). Oh in Horsham you missed the spot where railway, road and river all cross each other at the same point. It's Denne road crossing the river Arun by St.Marys church and is one of only two places in the UK this occurs.

[@AndysAdventures89]

I used to drive over that bridge in Southwater when i was learning to drive. Nice video

[@tooyoungtobeold8756]

Excllent and amusing stuff. I know all the roads and towns as I live nearby.

[@86XFA]

I love your no-nonsense style. Thanks for the great content!

[@johnstilljohn3181]

Fabulous - I'm up and down the A24 a lot these days - always a pleasure. Recommend the Moto Torque cafe, too...

[@dougdavidson175]

I liked this so I clicked the button specifically for that! Take care & stay safe John.

[@Elsie-uy2kl]

I am so glad I found this channel last year as it has become one of the highlights of my week in this sh*t world. 👍

[@AutoShenanigans]

That's what I'm talkin about! nice one

[@Danny-204]

Thanks for not slating Bognor, it really does not deserve the reputation it has, I have lived in Aldwick for 10+ years and it really is alright.

[@speedstar7335]

You missed Goodwood!! Top notch otherwise! Keep it coming.

[@andykilvington1651]

Brill. Love the shot of The Jaguar book. Cool!

[@NickB_Yorkshire]

Great video as always Jon. Hilarious yet informative - what a perfect combination 👋🏼😊

[@stuwallace3673]

Love a seamless scene change6as you wave goodbye, another great video

[@Bosunsbikes]

Starting local to me,I now know what bridge is for. Love your reporting style😊

[@tobyjackman3212]

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

[@andyrbush]

As a pair of 14 year olds my pal and I claimed were 16 and stayed at Butlins in 1965. We had a great time.

[@goosegog]

Cheers, nice video John. I love your drone shots. I also love Torque Moto. It's owned by a friend and is a 7 days a week car show. Best of all is their coffee (Coffee Real) which is also their own business. It's second to none! Keep up the good work.

[@jonathonbrett-qn1ic]

Brilliant Jon Thank you as always excellent

[@sh4dowchas3r]

I see you got perfect weather for visiting the beach at the end there.

[@techgeekout]

Glad you found some interesting bits down in this neck of the woods. You missed Chi and it's legendary tunnels that allegedly go from under the Market Cross to either a pub or the old Vicar's house, something like that. There's also the real tunnel/river drain that goes from near the college to near St Richard's school, that you can walk through when it's not full (bit low though). To be fair, the traffic is horrendous. When you get to the New Forest, go to Lepe Country Park and walk along to the old Mulberry Harbours, it's literally where they built and launched them - and relevant to this episode, they feature lots of Southwater bricks. Keep up the good work Jon

[@tangerinedream7211]

After the roads have been exhausted, by ppm and 15 minutes cities, there's Tim West and Pru Scales patch to update, Great British Canal Journeys. But seriously for total nerdness Great British Bus Journeys.😬🤣🤣🤣. Thanks for the Sunday update .

[@drobinson8080]

Horsham is my home town. Some great roads locally and the cafe you visited is definitely worth a visit

[@Supposedlyimrightwingnow]

Another great video. Anything to do with Butlins I love as I spent my childhood at those places. Never went to bognor Regis but I have been to a place called selsay not a million miles away. Not many sand beaches down that way as far as I remember.

[@Beliefisthedeathofintellect]

That image at 8.27 I was one of the last to ride the one on Barry island. I was about 4 or 5. I remember it like yesterday. 😊

[@doctorwalex]

Bognor and Lyme Regis' younger brother Cyrille became a famous footballer.

[@portlandfester7510]

Always a must watch love it thanks

[@chrisbarber5657]

Ah, Southwater. My home town, or village as it was back then. Can remember the brickwork.

[@AtheistOrphan]

Closed in the 1980s.

[@alantheskinhead]

The remains of the Butlin Dynasty live in east Leicester about 400 yards from my old house or about eight miles from my newer house. I sort of went "out" with one of the daughters and in the end it didn't work so I threw the dynasty down the toilet. Her dad was a brilliant chemist with the apt name of Galen.

[@jacquesvandenberg1873]

Another AWESOME episode, thanks Jon!

[@CEBRU07]

Great and informative.

[@buxvan]

King & Barnes beer 🍺 not king & sons. Lovely beer. Also, you missed the Full sized model spitfire that they are building at this very moment at the Selsey Arms pub on the Coolham crossroads (A272)

[@john07973]

Great beers, tragic ending to the brewery and it's pubs, Hall and Woodhouse are on my boycott list. I used to frequent the Dog & Bacon Horsham when visiting my mate who lived nearby in the early 80's

[@mariemccann5895]

Actually you are wrong, keep up, it stops you making a fool of yourself in public.

[@efftee]

Getting dangerously close to Crawley with these episodes

[@davidrobert2007]

That place is creepy.

[@David_Crayford]

@@davidrobert2007 Creepy Crawley. LOL.

[@mariemccann5895]

Buy a map.

[@ianbarnes9947]

Acid baths and Bluebird - what's not to like! 😊

[@ahwootton5]

Yes but there's fuck all there also

[@edwardlees4585]

These just keep getting better. And he's approaching Petersfield, the town nearest to where I grew up, so I'm looking forward to some insightful comments next week.

[@Stephen_Lafferty]

2:04 - I wonder who will be the lucky subscriber who snags the Lanyard Of Destiny?

[@edwardlees4585]

​@@WestermanT.Proof, please.

[@richardvoogd705]

​@@WestermanT.Photos, or it didn't happen. 😮

[@edwardlees4585]

@@WestermanT. Can you email a photo of you wearing it to John so he can post it on his channel?

[@santorini8423]

My favourite thing about Bognor. I’ll get back to you.

[@minibus9]

awesome video, Gene Hunt is a famous fictiianl fan of Bognar

[@GamMngitSssEmoTionaL5953]

@AutoShenanigans please please come to North East Scotland love to see the history you find 😎🙏 once again and Wicked Sweet Awesome Video 🤟

[@chrisblay]

Bognor Regis is one of my favourite place names. It’s hilariously funny and rhymes with so many other words. 🤣🤣

[@itsjustRob]

Another great video

[@vincentcrowley1362]

"Grow up, we haven't got time for that" 😂😂😂 \

[@simontay4851]

Yes we have. There is always time for that.

[@ACoincidentalLife]

Having Henry visit doesn't sound like a big deal but when you realise that he came with an entourage of 100 people that you would have to feed them and their horses puts a different spin on it because if they stayed for a week or even a month or more it could financially cripple you. Worse still, you could not say no!

[@andykilvington1651]

Billy Butlin missed the boat - by about 500 years!

[@divgradcurl9439]

More of a worry if your home was a monastery and Henry was planning a 'visit'...

[@chrisperyagh]

He stayed at the Royal Norfolk hotel, so no wonder he reacted in the way he did. That place is a shithole.

[@Ubawbag]

Happy I found this channel , it reminds me of the Tom Scott style of video !!! Witch is defo a good thing p👍

[@tradeplatetravels]

The King and Barnes brewery's long gone, but I think some of the brewers who used to be there now run the excellent Firebird brewery that's located on a former brickworks in Rudgwick, just to the west of Horsham. I definitely recommend their beer if you're ever back in the area! They have a bar located in the brewery and there's also a coffee shop there that does the best cheese on toast I've ever had.

[@urbanrider429]

Excellent John,well done

[@mattandrews2594]

Of all the places the guidebook could've taken you to in this county, and you end up in Bognor. You have my sympathies John.

[@tjexplore8059]

Came so close to where I grew up! Ashington isn’t far but there isn’t a lot there so don’t blame u hahaha. Used to love going to cocking quarry when I used to do urbex with my mates.

[@jonporter8852]

there's also more of the mulberry harbour visible off the neighbouring town of Pagham

[@MichaelSnasdell]

Love it. Got to go see that

[@kabongpope]

Every time you say "wicked sweet awesome" I have flashbacks to my time in Boston, MA, where they'd say it all the time 😂

[@David_Crayford]

You need a *DOUGAL* microphone cover to filter / dampen out the wind noise for Outside Broadcast work. 👍 [Looks like the dog from The Magic Roundabout.]

[@adamjolley8552]

I liked this video so I pressed the button specifically for that 👉🏻

[@RichardFraser-y9t]

I liked this comment so I pressed the button specifically for that

[@alan72roach]

I was the thousandth person to perform such an action on this particular video.

[@esdsecurity]

Me too....

[@Goldenoldie49]

Ditto.

[@Michael.Dobson]

Meaning you're whicked, sweet, awesome!

[@GreenJimll]

Bognor looking much as a I remember it from Butlins holidays in the 1970s: cold and windswept!

[@davidioanhedges]

It's a bit like Billy Connolly : "Windswept and Interesting", but not interesting ...

[@millstonebarn]

Drives immediately to Horsham!

[@MrJasdog107]

Love your commentary.

[@Fairyfink]

This brought back happy memories of a summer job at Butlins in Bognor Regis in the early 80s. I was 18. The job was fucking awful, the alcohol consumption was prodigious and I got sacked after 2 weeks. Good times.

[@brokengirl248]

Another great video. Pretty please could I have an auto shenanigans lanyard haha 😅😅😅 Keep up the great series x