Gold Hill, Shaftesbury - The Most Famous Street In England Linked To BREAD & ALIENS!?

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Is Gold Hill the most famous street in England... possibly the world? The chances are you recognise it but you're not sure why. Used a filming location back in the 1970s, an advert for Hovis Bread was made that's perhaps one of the greatest television moments in the history of moving pictures.
Directed by an individual who went on to see Hollywood success, the story of this cobbled street in leafy England is quite an interesting one! Yes... Aliens! Maybe.

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@IN_THIS_DAY_AND_AGE 9 месяцев назад

Ronnie Barker's version of the bread advert was even better than the original.

@frankmitchell3594 9 месяцев назад

Burrit wa bluddy long wey fur'a loaf o'bread

@gravydavy4188 9 месяцев назад

I love the fact that theres an option to translate youre comment. 😂 fork handles. @@frankmitchell3594

@maxmouse713 9 месяцев назад

As an American fan of all things comedy, that how even I know of this advert.

@mikeakachorlton 9 месяцев назад

I think that's were the false memory of the northern Hovis ad came from :)

@solsticepilgrim 9 месяцев назад

Agreed, he forgot to mention the Two Ronnies

@mariemccann5895 9 месяцев назад

Awesome, you earned your crust today.

@sarkybugger5009 9 месяцев назад

"As good today as it's always been." I saw what you did there. Well played.

@AutoShenanigans 8 месяцев назад

Nice one, Thanks for watching!

@EdMcF1 9 месяцев назад

The brass music in the ad always made me think it was filmed in Yorkshire.

@georgerobartes2008 9 месяцев назад

It's called " Largo " from the New World Symphony , we covered it in music lessons in school when the ad was released .

@frazerguest2864 8 месяцев назад

Sheffield (Yorkshire),born and bred here, and I’m old enough to remember this advert when it was originally aired on TV. As a kid, I also always assumed that the advert was filmed in Yorkshire or Lancashire.

@pwblackmore 3 месяца назад

ditto

@ronhall9394 3 месяца назад

There aare probably several sinilair locations in Yorkshire and Lancashire, cobbled roads, old sandstone buildings etc - however too far from London for the production crew.

@acw7120 Месяц назад

@@frazerguest2864 It is so steep it is actually silly....that is a lorra apples...

@FurbleFawks 9 месяцев назад

I love these kind of videos when you make them. It's completely outside the regular road content but it only goes to prove your excellence in content creation and storytelling.

@David_D. 9 месяцев назад

Spot on. Jon could make a video about drying paint and he'd have my full attention! 😁

@MattBrunton1965 9 месяцев назад

Go on Jon..we dare you.

@MINKIN2 9 месяцев назад

And to think, if it wasn't for the advert making the scene so iconic, the whole street would all have be tarmacked over.

@AutoShenanigans 8 месяцев назад

I think you're right about that!

@neilgodwin6531 8 месяцев назад

Definitely. The council tarmaced the last cobbled lane in my town, a hill I climbed to get home from school, work, and as a kid, carrying my grans shopping, sometime in the 80's. Nobody knew it was happening, unfortunately, so no protests. If you want to see a REAL "Hovis hill", visit the Black Country Living Museum. Longer, steeper hills and cobbles. I had to take an unfortunate man around there in a wheelchair. Must have been like NASA training, no suspension on those things

@WILLIAM1690WALES 9 месяцев назад

When director Ridley Scott filmed this advert Gold Hill everything was wrapped up, but for some reason as it was the end of the day, he stopped, told them to unpack everything and shot it again, because of this superb evening light, and that was actually used in the actual advert, I was there two years after the filming.

@Stephen_Lafferty 9 месяцев назад

A great advert! Even though I don't buy Hovis, I always think well of the brand because of the warm feelings of nostalgia evoked by these images. Hovis certainly got their money's worth from Ridley Scott on that assignment!

@KeefJudge 9 месяцев назад

I'd always assumed that ad was somewhere in Yorkshire. Today I learned!

@mariemccann5895 9 месяцев назад

Indeed, I'm sure at the time it was claimed it was filmed in Halifax, but clearly that was not the case.

@HALLish-jl5mo 8 месяцев назад

Hovis spent weeks scouring Yorkshire for a filming location, before someone mentioned that theyd been to this street on holiday and would it do? The advert was implicitly set in Yorkshire.

@mariemccann5895 8 месяцев назад

@@HALLish-jl5mo Source?

@RW-nr6bh Месяц назад

@@HALLish-jl5mo Although the 1973 advert is voiced over with a West Country accent.

@1258-Eckhart 8 месяцев назад

Danke! "As good today as it's always been". Brilliant.

@AutoShenanigans 8 месяцев назад

Nice one mate thanks a lot!

@derekr1113 9 месяцев назад

Jon, you are one of the best video makers on youtube and the best thing since sliced bread

@saintuk70 9 месяцев назад

Good today as he's always been.

@paulandjana 9 месяцев назад

I bet he’s his mothers pride.

@danielmarshall4587 9 месяцев назад

......nice

@mariemccann5895 9 месяцев назад

He's on a roll that is for sure.

@smurp6392 9 месяцев назад

Does he make enough dough from it though?

@EcoHamletsUK 9 месяцев назад

Many years ago, I stayed in a B&B at the top of the hill, and the best pub I found in the town was at the bottom of it. Alchohol makes the hill feel even steeper!

@andrewrobinson9610 9 месяцев назад

Aye the two brewers it’s a really good pub but getting to the bus station at closing is a slog

@sprint955st 9 месяцев назад

Same at the Isle of Wight. The Spyglass is a lovely pub, but ideally don’t stay at the top of Zig Zag Road, Ventnor.

@mariemccann5895 9 месяцев назад

@@sprint955st Don't stay on the Isle of Wight, period.

@moonshinepz 9 месяцев назад

trouble is you've sobered up by the time you get back to your B&B 🍺

@sprint955st 9 месяцев назад

@@mariemccann5895 we must have had different experiences. Mine was very enjoyable.

@garymoores9248 9 месяцев назад

10 miles up the road from me... The Two Ronnies version of the Hovis advert is the best version

@darrelljohnson5837 9 месяцев назад

Was brought up in Shaftesbury and still have family there. One of the smaller houses on the hill was bought and renovated by my woodwork teacher. Found lots of interesting things hidden within the inner walls of the house, placed there when it was built. Used to have fairs on the hill selling livestock many many years ago. you can still see the holes in the stonework of the buttresses where wood was slotted in to keep the animals in pens. Gold Hill fair was a annual event in my childhood with music and stalls all through the town.

@andrewwebb3431 9 месяцев назад

I can’t let this video go without regurgitating the fact that Ridley Scott started his career as a prop and set designer at the BBC and was originally assigned to design the Daleks. But just before he was about to begin he was taken off the project to work on a higher priority show elsewhere. It’s one of those fascinating what ifs of popular culture, what if Ridley Scott had designed the Daleks?

@peterc2248 9 месяцев назад

I remember being frightened of the Daleks when I watched Dr Who on the black and white telly in the late sixties and early seventies. When I watched the Alien fly out of John Hurt's guts at the local Odeon, I damn near crapped myself. I'm sooo happy he never got the job :-)

@flickthenick 9 месяцев назад

Bet those Daleks wouldn't be able to either up or down that steep gradient...

@skapunkno1 9 месяцев назад

The actual Daleks are quite HR Gigerish but the casings probably would of been different

@pedanticradiator1491 9 месяцев назад

@@flickthenick Daleks can fly

@flickthenick 9 месяцев назад

@@pedanticradiator1491 that's just woke down with the kids nonsense, in my day they had little ramps to trundle around up and down even though I never saw one from behind the sofa...

@donalddodson7365 9 месяцев назад

Thank you, Jon. Hearing the Cor Anglais (aka English horn) solo from The Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", (Op. 95, B. 178), made my day! I am a retired oboist and got my first E.H. in 8th grade. Many fond memories. The Hovis story and road story bwas enjoyable, too. Blessings.

@bigward1984 9 месяцев назад

The new world symphony is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written

@Christina-ge3xr 9 месяцев назад

Love the oboe in From the New World….

@AutoShenanigans 8 месяцев назад

Thanks mate, appreciate that as always! :)

@bryan3550 8 месяцев назад

N.B. to Jon: Despite what it looks like, the composer's name is pronounced "D vore shak" 😘

@chrisbradley1192 9 месяцев назад

Excellent piece, Jon. There was another Hovis advert with a voiceover of a man with a northern accent recounting his boyhood days. His father was a baker and the script included the line, "...and when 't smell crept upstairs I knew it woh time to gerrup." This also might have obfuscated our memories of this advert.

@snowwhitehair485 8 месяцев назад

Until now I could have sworn that the voiceover of 50 years ago was done with a northern accent. I even had a work colleague, (in Bristol), who used to do a recitation of the sound track in a Yorkshire accent to be entertaining. No one at work ever questioned the authenticity. Your explanation, along with the Brass Band music, has finally put me straight about why we all thought it was filmed 'Up North'.

@JAY-lo3sx 8 месяцев назад

Father always said is was a bloody long way to go for a loaf of bread. ( Ronie Barker) 😂

@andybarker5552 9 месяцев назад

It always makes me think of Capstick Comes Home

@AtheistOrphan 3 месяца назад

‘72-hour shift down t’pit’

@maxusboostus 9 месяцев назад

Brings back memories of Capstick Comes Home.

@andrewm7945 3 месяца назад

"I'll never forget that fust day at pit, me and fatha worked a 72-hour shift, then we walked home. 43 miles..." Quality!

@PhilbyFavourites 9 месяцев назад

0:50 when he goes down the hill on the bike with minimal brakes I wonder if Ridley Scott has his gruesome death, splattered against the brick wall at the bottom, in mind when he went on to film Alien?

@normanstevens4924 9 месяцев назад

Wouldn't get that past Health and Safety today.

@PhilbyFavourites 9 месяцев назад

@@normanstevens4924aye lad! You could wrap ‘im oop in slices of black pudding and that would absorb the impact. Completely acceptable to Yorkshire ‘elf and safety. Shame it’s in Dorset…..

@neilbain8736 8 месяцев назад

Very moving! There were a few Hovis ads and The Grumbleweeds didn't half take the rise out of the them on their radio show. Some ads used Joe Gladwyn who played Wally Batty in Last of the Summer Wine, and the Grumbleweeds had his voice to perfection. They even had Joe Gladwyn himself on causing absolute audio mayhem with his Grumbleweed counterpart. The combination of New World Symphony and Joe Gladwyn's voice takes you to another planet.

@AutoShenanigans 8 месяцев назад

Nice one, thanks for watching!

@mikedonovan6392 9 месяцев назад

As good today as it’s always been……classic

@twocvbloke 9 месяцев назад

A fun fact about Exchange Street in Colne; as a child, I threw many a temper tantrum on it (because it was too effing steep!!!), having moved onto Patten Street (which is about 2/3rds of the way down Exchange St. going from Albert Rd.) in 1989 after living in Haswell Plough in Co. Durham which was flat as a pancake in comparison! As for the Hovis ad, the Two Ronnies parodied the ad with Barker walking up the street, with him doing a voice over at the end in an Arkwright-esque northern accent, so it was probably that show taking the weewee that cemented it being "Northern", despite being in Dorset... :P

@antonycharnock2993 9 месяцев назад

Ber ber ber bloody 'ell Granville. Strangely where Open All Hours was filmed is one of the steepest streets in Doncaster one of the flattest places in Yorkshire.

@RonLaws 9 месяцев назад

THANK YOU - I was wracking my brain trying to figure out where i'd already seen this in moderately better fidelity than the advert, and it wasn't the advert I remember because i'm only 34, but the Two Ronnies i had def. seen it in, even if they are also a bit before my time, they've had many re-runs over the years.

@markstott6689 9 месяцев назад

I was 5 when the advert came out and I remember it well. 😊❤😊

@comedyhunter 9 месяцев назад

I wanna see it on wheelie bin day 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Must be chaos

@JP_TaVeryMuch 9 месяцев назад

It may be imagined to be oop norf as far as the majority of the country is concerned but there's a whole world of stuff to discover here. From Shaftesbury Abbey, the weekly market, the independent shops right err down to the annual straw bale races up Gold Hill. Short they may at first appear but check out how absolutely wiped out even the very fittest race winner is in the videos. One last thing, if you're tempted to sample the delights of the maze of mediæval lanes as well as the famous hill, wear a coat. It's one of the highest points in Dorset and is always bloody cold!

@dodgydruid 9 месяцев назад

Yes, I have noticed when its nice and clear here in Gill, there has been snow atop the tor :P

@barrieshepherd7694 9 месяцев назад

Love it - production values are getting beter and better! Please don't be offended but the narration made me think of Jack Dee introducing an episode of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue!

@mrcjc9298 9 месяцев назад

I wouldn’t fancy going down that hill on 700c tyres though. 😱

@acciid 9 месяцев назад

I thought it was up north due to the voiceover. Until one day I was driving the A30 back to London from the South West (had some time and a nice convertible so wanted to skip the A303). Stopped for a break in Shaftesbury and there it was. In Dorset.

@neilgodwin6531 8 месяцев назад

Just a few miles from James May's pub! He mentions the location every video he makes. Can't fault his advertising skills

@100SteveB 9 месяцев назад

I certainly remember it from when it first aired. Never knew it was filmed there though, I had always imagined it was filmed in the north. I was eight when it was first on the tv, but like you say, it's one of those adverts you can never forget. I also seem to remember possibly the Two Ronnie's doing a sketch based on the ad.

@ptonpc 9 месяцев назад

It always reminded me of Northern England. Now, the big question is.. When are we going to see your recreation of the advert?

@malcolmdalrymple1779 9 месяцев назад

Jon, what a pity no view of you riding your bike down Gold Hill. Thanks anyway. Always a joy to watch you videos.

@catmandoodoo7903 9 месяцев назад

That piece of music always makes me tear up

@tadantoniak7121 9 месяцев назад

I like the way you wore a northerner's flat cap, but spoke in a southern accent whilst explaining the confusion with the location - clever. You could've done it the other way around and worn a straw boater and talked in a Northern accent, but everyone would've just thought you were Geoffrey Boycott

@dools23 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for popping into Shaftesbury John. My family's farm is somewhere in that famous view. A cool fact is that a murdered king of England Edward the Martyr was buried in the abbey next door.

@paulvale2985 9 месяцев назад

I never knew Hovis started on my home town, frickin' sweet awesome!!!

@Trek001 9 месяцев назад

I had sort of expected you to do this in the style of your normal videos with a numbering of junctions, slips, roundabouts and services

@lm971120 9 месяцев назад

I was expecting a drone footage of Jon pushing his Saab up the hill at the end🤣

@AutoShenanigans 8 месяцев назад

The Saab would need no assistance being a superior automobile.

@MrFlash4203 9 месяцев назад

My dad talked this up. Tuesday I went down to Shaftesbury as I am a lorry driver and he was talking about this advert and stuff on the phone to me. Day later you upload it. Spooky.

@AFCManUk 9 месяцев назад

When I saw that title, I thought, "It's finally happened. Jon's taken up Crack!" 🤣

@Bodneyblue 9 месяцев назад

Reminds me how old I'm getting... and that time is passing by so quickly. *sigh*

@paulsengupta971 9 месяцев назад

Yeah. Tempus fugit.

@Anonymoususer_8823 9 месяцев назад

I’m just here for the most beautiful and emotional music. That song is so beautiful it makes you want to cry so much. I have to say that it sure is a tourist attraction.

@andrewdenby8239 9 месяцев назад

Good subject matter, well thought through and presented with a nostalgic warmth that's most welcome on such a chilly night, well done John, nailed it🎉

@tardismole 9 месяцев назад

It also featured in a spoof of the Hovis ad, by The (late) Two Ronnies. I bet there's a fair few who remember that, too. As I recall, he spoke the lines in a Northern accent, roughly Leeds area, and had us in stitches.

@RebMordechaiReviews 9 месяцев назад

Ironic isn't it when our image of this road, the advert and Dvořák's second movement, "Largo", from his 9th symphony, conjures up feelings of nostalgia, of looking back on our British cultural heritage, on an age gone by, whereas the symphony is in fact titled "The New World" Symphony and is as British as Jambalaya and rice! The composer's intention was to celebrates African American culture of the United States. Dvořák wrote the music, very much to encourage us to look forward to a new brighter world. It only goes to show that "You don't always get what you want". Now that is British music.

@Excession-h6e 14 дней назад

The Rolling Stones is about American as it gets. A lot of what I thought was my English past and heritage sadly doesn't survive scrutiny. I know they are from London, but their music is 100% Septic. Whitesnake, despite having a unique, and IMO the best voice in the genre, seems just a sad parody of them now.

@R08Tam 9 месяцев назад

My sister used to live in Shaftesbury. I have many happy memories of the town

@frasermathers2287 9 месяцев назад

Great video Jon, and a great reminder of times of old and even although I could not be further away up here in Scotland of which I am proud, this advert also makes me proud to be British.

@whyyoulidl 9 месяцев назад

Hey MNIJ, hope yr having a great week! I hear the bakers shop closed down now; At yeast u got a few puns in... 😆

@mistakay9019 9 месяцев назад

anyone that makes/shoots and edits film can instantly recognise that what Scott managed to evoke with so little that made the most to so many, even generations after; I think its pure genius.

@whyyoulidl 9 месяцев назад

"... All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”

@guyomalley2430 9 месяцев назад

Great, I remember staying in one of the thatched 4 storey cottages there growing up as family friends owned it, the house had a floor below street level that opened to the rear.

@i.c.d.-videos1901 9 месяцев назад

👏🏻 Me & my Dad were only talking about this awesome advert t'ther weekend & its deception to making us think this street was in Lancashire or Yorkshire and not Dorset.

@bertbox69 9 месяцев назад

Very concise and eloquent, Shaftesbury Abbey - 'Open for church stuff', that literary award is winging it's way to you as I write.

@AutoShenanigans 8 месяцев назад

Nice one, Thanks for watching!

@RobSchofield 9 месяцев назад

... with the perfect finishing line 😀

@del4ev 9 месяцев назад

Great video mate. Glad to see you expanding the variety of content too. Keep up the good work 😊

@mariemccann5895 9 месяцев назад

He's on a roll!

@LOrealHardly 9 месяцев назад

Ridley Scott directed the first movie Alien (1979). Aliens, the sequel was directed by James Cameron. As a Scotsman it always struck me as a North of England setting. If Hovis tried to tempt Ridley back to do a new ad it sure would cost them a lot of.... "DON'T DO IT DAD...!" ....bread 😅 🤣😂

@Aysome 9 месяцев назад

I always thought it was Haworth in Yorkshire

@daveofyorkshire301 9 месяцев назад

The Hovis hill, and that music...

@reddeviluk 9 месяцев назад

I think we assume that the advert is filmed in the north.... Because the boy is strong enough to ride up a hill..... BOOM!

@stevem7868-y4l 9 месяцев назад

I ALWAYS presumed this advert was up North, WOW, i learnt something today!

@stephenrothwell8142 8 месяцев назад

Ashington is where I was born and live. I never knew that the colliery band composed that piece. Things like that give you a sense of pride. Thanks matey.

@ncot_tech 9 месяцев назад

Had Alien come out before the Hovis advert things could have been very different in the ending. Kid rolls down hill on bike, goes home *blam* chest burster at the dinner table 😆

@Andrewjg_89 9 месяцев назад

Never knew that Gold Hill in Shaftesbury is related to aliens. But it looks so beautiful and quaint and should be a heritage attraction.

@danielmarshall4587 9 месяцев назад

Dvorak's New World Symphony... lovely bit of music. Smashing vid as well cheers.

@AutoShenanigans 8 месяцев назад

Nice one, Thanks for watching!

@OutRising 8 месяцев назад

Great video, with loads of things I didn't know before! The "open for church stuff.." really got me, along with the GI Jane burn XD

@bigdaddigaming 9 месяцев назад

Ridley Scott made the old Hovis ads, that's mind blowing, well after all these years you learn something like that

@hujiproductions8457 8 месяцев назад

I know right! Alien and Blade Runner are in my top film list and I never knew this, just another information gem delivered to by Jon in his unique style 🙂

@MultiVogon 9 месяцев назад

OK, bit weird seeing the place I grew up in one of your vids 😅 I used to cycle up Gold Hill fairly regularly as a kid, so I'm probably in a fair few tourist's photo albums. They also filmed a TV series there called Scarf Jack - which I must watch again as my dearly departed dad's in it as an extra 🙂. Hope you had some dorset apple cake in the salt cellar after you finished filming ;-)

@northernoz 9 месяцев назад

Nice little diversion, keep up the good work and nice to see more of this type of diversion

@bushcraftdadgary5381 9 месяцев назад

i hope Hovis are gonna send you a few free loaves for that? Good vid, love it.

@kevinweatheritt 9 месяцев назад

Nice one John. I always thought that that street was in a northern town.

@TerryMurrayTalks 9 месяцев назад

Nice one, a kind of, off road nostalgic Shenanigans. More like this please.

@spitfire1962 9 месяцев назад

I always thought it was set int t’ north until I started looking at properties in Dorset and came upon this place. As an aside, my wife plays a mean rendition of the tune on her flute.

@grahamtruckel 9 месяцев назад

Just a thought for all those who assumed the Hovis advert was filmed somewhere in the north - if you live on the south coast, (or off it, like me), Shaftesbury is up north!

@JD-wn3cc 9 месяцев назад

To confuse matters more, the music (new world symphony), that is often used to portray old/victorian England,.is actually written to refer to New York. Composed right at the end of the Victorian era, rather than the start, as per the adverts setting and is about the boom of the first high-rise buildings he saw in new york, which just doesnt really seem fitting.

@aquissuk 9 месяцев назад

It's wholesome. I think the modern advert that is similar, is from Cadbury, where guy buys chocolate late on a Petrol forecourt, he leaves it....the girl says...you forgot this.....then...love you dad.

@joerhorton 9 месяцев назад

This brought back memories of learning to play the "Hovis Tune" on a Casio PT-20 at school in the 80's.

@robinwells8879 9 месяцев назад

Bloody hell! I never knew it was Ridley Scott. Makes sense! Talent will out. I’m old enough by the way. Hello Mrs Jon! You must be a proud Mum. ❤

@chrisskelhorn5727 9 месяцев назад

'Ee were a great baker, were our dad....' 🙂

@gaillaffer7579 8 месяцев назад

1973!!! I’m old. Remember that like yesterday.

@gordonmcmillan4709 9 месяцев назад

You can see the fog in the background of the original advert that almost snookered the filming. Seeing the distant countryside in the modern shots you can see why it would have looked great in the original too.

@DougieL 9 месяцев назад

That was very well done indeed!

@AutoShenanigans 8 месяцев назад

Nice one, Thanks for watching!

@andykilvington1651 9 месяцев назад

Great vid - just as steep as Robins Hood Bay or Clovelly.

@AutoShenanigans 8 месяцев назад

Nice one, Thanks for watching!

@bungle321 9 месяцев назад

I can't get enough of this channel, I've searched for similar content but nothing compares to you Jon... Peace and love brother

@AutoShenanigans 8 месяцев назад

Nice one, Thanks for watching!

@Adam88Robinson 9 месяцев назад

This was a great one today John.

@AutoShenanigans 8 месяцев назад

Nice one, Thanks for watching!

@suttoncoldfield9318 4 месяца назад

Once we were on holiday in the area, so I took time out to visit and get photos of the view looking UP the hill.

@mrcogginsgarage7062 9 месяцев назад

We had lots of things in those days that we avent go today Whooping Cough,Rickets,Diphtheria Hitler,we our little heads painted purple cos we ad ringworm. RIP Tony Capstic.

@paulsengupta971 9 месяцев назад

"He had a way with words did me dad". (Capstick comes home is here on RU-vid).

@iainmartin1015 9 месяцев назад

I also remember the reports of there being a brothel in one of the houses on Gold Hill.

@londongaz2 9 месяцев назад

My mum used to live down the bottom of that hill. Bloody steep it is too. Great pub down at the bottom.

@chrisbentleywalkingandrambling 9 месяцев назад

If you get there, Hovis, in you, you will be going up those hills as fast as you come down.

@David_Crayford 9 месяцев назад

Heartwarming. Not unusual for locations to stand in. (EG Port of Ipswich stands in for Glasgow Docks in The Fourth Protocol, but the actor playing a copper has a Scottish accent.)

@andrewwww7684 9 месяцев назад

Great video as always Jon, being 56 I remember this ad well and I live in the North East in Stockton on Tees, my secondary school The Grange its claim to fame was Tony and Ridley Scott wer'e both ex pupils.

@paulm7826 8 месяцев назад

Excellent video, Jon. And I also just sent some pounds sterling your way via PayPal to buy you (a few more) coffees. Thanks for all your hard work on your videos and your dry humour, which I always enjoy. Best wishes from Australia. PM

@AutoShenanigans 8 месяцев назад

Thanks a lot mate, most kind of you!

@paulm7826 8 месяцев назад

My pleasure, Jon! And I'm now enjoying your new series on A roads.

@Dan23_7 9 месяцев назад

I always thought this was a Yorkshire ish advert. Being from Lancashire I HATED it 😂😂 I used to be a courier around Nelson and colne for APC. I can clarify Exchange street is now tarmac. Plus Alien was on over the Xmas holidays, I watched it 😁 Cheers for this mid week extravaganza Jon 👍🏼👍🏼

@highpath4776 9 месяцев назад

Lot of back alleys in Barnoldswick still have the cobbles. - I delivered some things on a route around Bury near the Peel monument and the "road" - which had a fair few farm houses on it - was at best a greenway , not tarmaked but stoned (some quite large), thankfully it was summer otherwise I would not have worked out where the edges were and google and the sat nav thought I was in mid-air - about 300 foot up.

@robertsrobots6531 9 месяцев назад

Gold Hill is also in the 1967 film of Far from the Madding Crowd. Terence Stamp leads his cavalry troop up it. Or maybe down it, I can't remember.

@securityrobot 9 месяцев назад

He’s carrying an Alien egg in that basket up that Hill.

@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain Месяц назад

Another fantastic video Jon.

@LeeCorne 8 месяцев назад

I might be wrong but I think there might have been two voice-over versions of this advert, one for the south and one for the north. I lived in the West Midlands in the early 90s and I remember seeing this ad and being really thrown by the west-country accent, as I was used to seeing it with a Yorkshire voice-over. I might be completely wrong, but I suspect there were regionalised versions of this ad.

@greg5639 9 месяцев назад

Oh, the days when i had real best butter on me bread. Usually on a Sunday tea time , dipping the bread and butter into the juice of canned mixed fruit and evaporated milk ! Now im showing my age ! Sunday was also bath night ,reaady for a week of school . Hows that for luxury, John duck. Mind I'll put money on it that there's many more that enjoyed tinned mixed friut, evap milk and bread and butter . 🙂👍

@sarkybugger5009 9 месяцев назад

Put me down for a fruit salad and shaky milk, and Sunday night is bath night. Simpler times, that's for sure.