Great British Road Journeys - Buckinghamshire - Buckingham to Wendover Ep. 24

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This week we're off to Buckinghamshire, a place full of oddities... devils in boots, rubber ducks on road sides, Aylesbury...
Using a copy of the 1923 Michelin Guide, I'll be travelling the country to see what remains and what's changed since it's publication. The guide offers suggestions on thing to see and where to stay all with the goal of getting you out there and exploring in your motor vehicle.
**TRW Automotive Aylesbury, full photo collection by Harry Seager** www.flickr.com/photos/landie_...
*Why not visit these places*
Buckingham Old Gaol - www.buckinghamoldgaol.org.uk/
The Bell Inn - thebell-hotel.org/
St Johns Schorne's Holy Well - www.mkheritage.org.uk/archive...
Bucks Railway Centre - bucksrailcentre.org/
Bucks County Council - www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/

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@kabongpope 18 дней назад

Jon proving once again that he's out standing in his field

@tonys1636 17 дней назад

By standing in front of a Dungheap.

@redboyjan 17 дней назад

@@tonys1636 in a field

@obroni 18 дней назад

My priest always warned me that if I pumped and pumped and pumped, the devil would appear.

@simonneep8413 15 дней назад

That sounds almost counterintuitive, although I guess it depends on whether said priest was present for the pumping...

@mariemccann5895 12 дней назад

@@simonneep8413 Probably was when he wasn't getting his organ stuck in a hymn.

@AwesomeAd64 18 дней назад

Another great episode of Rail Shenanigans!

@barbelmeister 18 дней назад

😂😂

@emdB67 18 дней назад

Whew! A lucky thing that I just happen to like trains. 🙃

@chriswade7470 18 дней назад

Verney Junction was the most northerly point on the Metropolitan Railway

@assistantto007 18 дней назад

Grace Bros ! I'm freeeeee.

@user-gp9bt6fy4b 18 дней назад

My first thoughts as well.

@TheFunkadelicFan 18 дней назад

Old Mr Grace doesn't get about much anymore.

@haggielady 18 дней назад

I wonder if they actually named the fictional store after the actual store. Does anyone know?

@lxtechmangood9503 17 дней назад

Not seen young mr grace for a while, must be in another office with his secretary!😊

@TheFunkadelicFan 17 дней назад

@@lxtechmangood9503 No, you must be thinking of young Mr Grace. Old Mr Grace is never seen!

@Vacbear58 18 дней назад

If I am not mistaken Verney Junction was the original terminus of the Metropolitan Line, now part of London Underground.

@tonys1636 17 дней назад

Metropolitan Railway then, one of the last steam hauled underground railways to be taken over when London Underground was formed, never part of UERL, the infamous dodgy American businessman, Charles Tyson Yerkes never got his slippery, greasy fingers on it.

@MRTransportVideos 10 дней назад

@@tonys1636 Now, we won;t be having any slanderous talk about Charles Tyson Yerkes - without him, Jago Hazzard would be out of a job! #Satire

@millstonebarn 17 дней назад

I can't get enough railway content on this road-oriented series.

@kevinbell9255 17 дней назад

I was the Project Engineer for the construction of that bridge at Verney Junction (among others!) Nice to see it in you video. I claim no ownership of the drainage I was purely in charge of the structures!

@kevinbell9255 17 дней назад

I commented too soon, I also managed the construction of Winslow Station! The Bell Inn was our local and the pies are amazing!

@GRAHAMAUS 18 дней назад

I was standing on a corner In Winslow, Buckinghamshire, and such a fine sight to see it's a girl my lord, in a clapped-out Ford, slowing down to find a place to pee...

@David_Crayford 18 дней назад

Take It Sleazy - The Beagles.

@srednivashtar5432 17 дней назад

The first time I visited Wendover was a brief stop at the train station in 1998, before a short, deeply foreboding bus journey to the nearby RAF Halton to start my basic training. I next went back to Wendover ten years later to find it was still 1998.

@martinelwood3903 16 дней назад

Fewer pubs now.

@HSTHoward 18 дней назад

Lots of railway in this video, I approve 😎

@kevinrayner5812 18 дней назад

Then he should have mentioned Wendover was a junction of sorts with a freight rail link to the RAF camp at Halton. Just old enough to remember it working.

@justwords3882 18 дней назад

My car also had the weathered steel finsh! Nice to see good old British manufacturing is still alive.

@SpikeMatthews 18 дней назад

Nice to know Aylesbury still impresses...

@notrut 18 дней назад

Aylesbury which had the vile MP David Lidington who quelled the news of Asian gang rape attacks on underage girls.

@MHerbie53 17 дней назад

Now I know why the pub in Winslow on the way to North Marston was called the devil in the boot.

@rochellehewston9367 18 дней назад

Loved the healing water, not suitable for drinking. This is the closest journey to my location, you have undertaken. I know all the locations you talked about very well, but I still learned some new facts, so thank you John

@twocvbloke 18 дней назад

Gotta love a slab-sided concrete building built in the cold war with a bunker in the basement that'll be flattened with all inside had the canned sunshine ever been dropped cos slab-sided buildings love having extra-strong pressure-waves hitting them... :P

@DrRusty5 18 дней назад

Grace Bros!.... "Are you being served"

@David_Crayford 18 дней назад

Thanks for another *Quacking* episode, Jon. I think this has been a good week for nearly everybody in the UK. It's pronounced *jail* but you already knew that.

@opiejaye 17 дней назад

I had to do jury duty in Aylesbury many moons ago. It certainly is a place that exists.

@GalacticGamingYT13 18 дней назад

My favourite episode because my bus was then one in the background in Aylesbury 😂

@bignosemac1 17 дней назад

There's always room for a crap pun followed by a "ba-dumm tssssch" rimshot. Keep up the good work Jon.

@jimmydesouza4375 18 дней назад

6:30 That building looks fantastic. I have always loved 60's and 70's architecture (I think it is called "Brutalist").

@simontay4851 15 дней назад

Fantastic? What is wrong with you. No it doesn't. It effing horrible. Its called brutalist for a reason. Because its brutal and horrible. It looks like some sort of soviet prizon.

@ianhopping105 18 дней назад

I live... well exist, in Aylesbury. You actually talked the place up.

@kevinrayner5812 18 дней назад

No mention on the ducks?

@alexg1778 17 дней назад

I could not live in Ay for love nor money. The roadworks are constant and _everywhere._

@kevinrayner5812 17 дней назад

@@alexg1778 I very rarely go to Aylesbury. Just about the worst place I know of for road lay out. I avoid the place at all costs.

@alex-E7WHU 16 дней назад

I lived there for a few years, on the Rotherhams estate. I liked it 👍

@raynarnslr1966 18 дней назад

Had dinner, had pudding sat down and up popped Auto Shenanigans. Sunday is complete! Safe travels Jon

@MichaelAbbott-sl2di 18 дней назад

Almost £5 for a load of bread. I almost fell off my chair. Definitely not wicked, sweet, awesome. Great vid. Hope your well John. Sunday complete ❤

@kevinrayner5812 18 дней назад

I laughed my socks off when I heard all the opposition to HS2 from the residents of Wendover. I have a motorway at the end of my road. Now you know what it is like.

@CharityAngelSpectrum 15 дней назад

I admit - I swore at that, and I'm used to ridiculous gluten free prices

@FastAsFunk 18 дней назад

Nice one Jon. But Gaol. Gowl...? Surely it's pronounced the same as Jail...???

@dfluff 18 дней назад

Seconded. My home town of Abingdon also had an "Old Gaol" (which was a leisure centre in my day, now posh flats) and that was pronounced the same as Jail.

@llynellyn 18 дней назад

Yup, it's the same word, jail is just the modern spelling.

@Goldie644 18 дней назад

@@llynellyn More the American misspelling which has made its way back across the Atlantic :(

@InAMinMaths 18 дней назад

I think this is his humour guys…

@A-se2ur 18 дней назад

Means something rather different in Ireland. You would rather be inside a gowl than inside a gaol.

@jacobedmonds305 18 дней назад

I’m from Quainton. And I’m disappointed you didn’t visit the windmill. It’s a really interesting piece of history. Well done on another great video.

@tedioustotoro4885 18 дней назад

Same. I’m also sad that he didn’t talk at all about Waddesdon despite the road map at the start showing that he drove through it

@NickDavies75 17 дней назад

At least the rail centre got a good recommendation - one of our favourite days out (esp the ride on train at VAMES). Shame Wendover got a bit of flak as it's a nice little place with an excellent butchers.

@GLH8 18 дней назад

6:37 for an office block, I quite like it

@ivanoffw 18 дней назад

Probably the best looking New Brutalism structure built, and normally I find them offensive to look at.

@chrisogrady28 18 дней назад

I love it

@simontay4851 15 дней назад

You like it? What is wrong with you! Its a disgusting monstrosity! It looks like a soviet prizon.

@williamc6774 18 дней назад

Classic episode featuring places nobody goes to nor care about, what more can one ask for? 😂

@paulkrenz9593 15 дней назад

Thanks John, very enjoyable

@nemo6686 18 дней назад

With the Grace Brothers connection I really think we should've seen you being served at the Bell Inn.

@martinh4982 18 дней назад

I think he's a bit too young to get the reference, but I'm free!

@David_Crayford 18 дней назад

Remember he is driving.

@nemo6686 18 дней назад

@@martinh4982 Giving away the age of John's audience - poor chap!

@adamjolley8552 18 дней назад

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

@nealepaterson3496 18 дней назад

I also liked this video, and I also pressed the button specifically for that...

@charlottelarimore9261 18 дней назад

U say it all the time

@adamjolley8552 18 дней назад

@@charlottelarimore9261 I certainly try

@haggielady 18 дней назад

If he didn't say it, we would wonder what was wrong with him.

@stephenyates962 18 дней назад

Another fwickedsweetawesome video, Jon. The transition at the end made me chuckle 😆 Special healing water you can't drink?! Hmm...🤔

@terryhearttea789 18 дней назад

6:23 "We need to get back on track!' Boom. Boom. Tish! LOL I used to live in Shrivenham in the 90s. I am hoping you will pass by. You have already done the Swindon Magic Roundabout, which is in town. I don't think you have done the Uffington White Horse yet. Nearby, I use to like driving on the B4507 for fun. Hoping the guide book takes you there.

@PoxyMoxon97 18 дней назад

Bugger it John, me and the mrs have missed you 3 times now, the A41(M), Berko (where we're from) and now through Aylesbury (where we live) 😂😂😂 We love your videos, they're fantastic

@Sarge084 18 дней назад

I used to travel the A41 a lot back in the last century. Surprised you didn't point out some of the old airfields, one where research *was* being done into some revolutionary new aircraft, or rocket, engine, and the other airfield where ejection seat makers Martin-Baker have a test facility, both visible from the A41.

@landroversforever 17 дней назад

Martin Baker are based at Chalgrove which isn't anywhere near the A41.... or have they got another place too?

@downloadablepic 17 дней назад

I'm presuming they are referring to Westcott with rocket testing and the old runway.

@simontay4851 15 дней назад

You used to travel ON the A41...

@Izithel 18 дней назад

2:20 aw yeah, the railway tangent in the road journey series, you know just what I like. 5:49 even more rail, you should just do a Great British Rail Journeys next. 6:58 The answer is usually simple like a big budget and a need to spend it or lose it.

@0skar9193 18 дней назад

I think Great British Railway Journeys has been done... by some failed pompous politician. John is way more entertaining and not pompous in the slightest

@Jehty_ 18 дней назад

For the third one: Surely there is more to it. Like inflated egos, superior complexes, small 🍆, and so on. Otherwise that big budget surely could have been used for something more beneficial for the county.

@JohnSmithShields 17 дней назад

It's almost like the was a small rail based disagreement in the 1960's.

@victoriawakefield6747 18 дней назад

Love your comments John, especially with reference to Wendover. I can't wait to hear your comments about Maidenhead!

@falaise6077 18 дней назад

...yes, that brutal telephone exchange, built to survive an atom bomb

@Polsnulspace 18 дней назад

Perfect timing for my cuppa tea

@oliverstemp9132 17 дней назад

apparently the Buckinghamshire county council office is almost completely empty. And Wendover is lovely, if a bit pointless.

@davebutterworth7414 18 дней назад

Another good vid John ! Yet again there’s a good bit of railway coverage 🤪👍

@The_BenboBaggins 18 дней назад

Another whicked sweet awesome video 👍

@TheMish65 18 дней назад

Besides my wife you are the only person who asks how I am every time I see you. Cheers for that and keep up the good work. 😆

@2760ade 17 дней назад

But just like your wife, he doesn't actually care!🤣

@TheMish65 16 дней назад

@@2760ade True but it the thought that counts 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Nick-ye5kk 17 дней назад

The original council offices in Aylesbury featured as the crown court building in the 1964 Miss Marple film "Murder Most Foul"

@greg5639 18 дней назад

Hey up me duck, on this beautiful drizzly summers day. 😏

@BrassLock 18 дней назад

Grace Bros Yeah! 😂 Greetings from a Perth West Aussie 🇦🇺

@portlandfester7510 18 дней назад

You are compulsive viewing love all your videos lol 😂

@garethaethwy 18 дней назад

Few things: Thing the first: yay railways! Thing the second: Buckinghamshire County Council HQ reminds me of something straight out of East Berlin. It's beautiful 💛❤⚒❤🖤 Thing the third: Yay more railways! Thing the fourth: BUILD HS2 NOW! Thing the fifth: I liked this episode so have pressed the button specifically for that. Thank you for your attention and until next time, good buy

@Demo-critus 18 дней назад

Grace Brothers? As in "Are you being served?" 🙂

@Droningonuk 18 дней назад

Just a thought and only a thought I can't think of a better host than yourself jon a few videos on the railways 🤔 could be a winner

@EngineerLewis 18 дней назад

Better the devil you can find in a boot than the one you don't! 🤣 lol

@DanielMeakin1 18 дней назад

Brilliant video of going through my town Aylesbury!

@PoppyPitts-vm3jx 18 дней назад

I love how you address this topic with such honesty.

@DavidRGray 18 дней назад

Aylesbury, you nailed the place. Also, Verney Junction used to be on the Metropolitan Line of the London Underground!

@geeboy1986 18 дней назад

saw the episode of Secrets of the London Underground last night that was talking about this very location.

@grahamjesson5464 18 дней назад

A very fair review of aylesbury, you covered everything the town has to offer. lol You missed claydon house, which is the family home of the verney family, hence verney junction.

@MYCROFTonX 18 дней назад

I can now have my lunch... wickedsweetawesome.

@Vtarngpb 18 дней назад

What’s for lunch?

@MYCROFTonX 18 дней назад

@@Vtarngpb As it's Winter again we are having Sunday Roast with still warm Cherry and Chocolate cake with cream. Before you ask, the plague of locusts masquerading as my family have eaten the bloody lot.

@5fifty 18 дней назад

I live in Aus, Grace Brothers used to serve more regional areas (Towns around 15,000 to 30,000), while the majors like David Jones were in the cities. Myer (our other department store) bought them, took the best shops and sold the rest. The town I live in (Nowra, NSW) had one of, what I believe to be, one of the last Grace Brothers branded stores in the country, closing in 2003. (Don’t quote me)

@hanzzarkov7690 9 дней назад

I can't put a finger on it. Something I enjoy about dry *informative humor presented in scene with old bits of stone. Cheers!

@tassiehandyman3090 18 дней назад

"The Ballad of Buckingham Gowl"... just like Oscar Wilde, John, you have nothing to declare, except your genius...😂...and for what it's worth, you can join my club anytime you want...😁👍🇦🇺

@prva9347 18 дней назад

Joseph and his brother set up a department store called Grace Brothers? - so were they known as Old Mr Grace and Young Mr Grace? even though nothing to do with the BBC's sitcom "Are You Being Served?"

@KiiaBite 18 дней назад

A video featuring Buckinghamshire and "Silverstone" released around the time of the Grand Prix? I see it what you did there John ;). (Come on Lando!)

@antonycharnock2993 18 дней назад

I worked there in 2022 as security. I ended up on the pit tour and guarding Nigel Mansells 1992 F1 car

@KiiaBite 18 дней назад

@@antonycharnock2993 very cool. One of the best looking cars in my opinion too. Marlboro era wasn't it? I've been meaning to bimble over to the museum on a random holiday day sometime soon. I used to marshall at Snetterton, I love the atmosphere surrounding a racing track.

@jgildert 18 дней назад

I think the Jurassic Park music should have been played for the outro whilst stood next to the pile of muck.

@malphadour 18 дней назад

"An area..." :) :) :)

@Ronprower 18 дней назад

Perfect video to watch with breakfast!

@blackscooby251 14 дней назад

Another top video. It's the mix of wit and sarcasm that just gets me every time. Addictive viewing, especially when I'm working from home, it's p1ssing it down yet again, the dog is asleep and I've nothing else to do to fill time until my next Teams meeting. Take take, bye bye.. look forward to the next episode of wit and humour.

@MrGreatplum 18 дней назад

That county council building is… special!

@simontay4851 15 дней назад

You spelt disgusting wrong.

@baldymagoo 16 дней назад

I admire your ability to talk really fast and not get out of breath, I think id pass out. Super smashin episode cheers.

@hedydd2 18 дней назад

The use of COR-TEN weathering steel in the construction of the bridge is interesting. It was first used architecturally in the construction of John Deere’s world headquarters at Moline, Illinois during the 1960’s and its most prominent use in the UK must be The Angel of the North statue thing. Glad you asked.

@cliveyboyb5770 17 дней назад

Corten. The same steel used for shipping containers. It has the ability to generate a thin oxide coating that then protects it from further corrosion.

@Phuc_Yhou 18 дней назад

Well that's another duckup caused by "solving a problem" 😂

@billmmckelvie5188 17 дней назад

No, I can't believe somebody's beaten me to sailing a Rubber duck on a flooded section of road. So 10/10 for that. I know 300 mm long ones are produced. That will be noticed far quicker. 10/10 for this one. Thanks for the video I appreciate the inclusion of Rail shenigans, it is great to see what's there in Buckinghamshire especially all the museums.

@deeayenn 18 дней назад

Flooding issues.. Caused by building works.. Who would have thought it...

@jonathanhall7334 18 дней назад

These Videos are getting better each week.

@davewhitehead8601 18 дней назад

Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, as used in Series 8 of Taskmaster.

@kevinrayner5812 18 дней назад

Seems to pop up in quite a few tv locations. In Morse I seem to remember or was it Endeaver?

@sandwichbar8226 18 дней назад

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

@braderzjamez3197 18 дней назад

Another great vid Jon 👍🏾👍🏾

@VkmSpouge 18 дней назад

Great seeing my home represented. Aylesbury is a lovely place! We have a singing statue of David Bowie just off the Market Square! The East-West Railway was supposed to have a spur to Aylesbury, upgrading the freight line to a full passenger service and allowing for trains to run via Winslow to Milton Keynes, a very handy journey and taking traffic off the very congested roads. However spiralling costs has meant that this spur has been shelved. Yay.

@shaun30-3-mg9zs 18 дней назад

Hi Jon, another great Sunday video, some nice villages in this area and never heard of the but good to watch, plenty of road and railway facts in that area, Great video take care

@TheGunnarRoxen 18 дней назад

Another fab video and gave me a few places to go check out. 😊

@curnock 18 дней назад

Great video,as always

@West4ea 18 дней назад

am i the only one that loves the council building?

@chrisogrady28 18 дней назад

Sameeeee

@scatterkeir 17 дней назад

me too!

@ChrisBrown-px1oy 16 дней назад

No, you're not. Fred Pooley of the county council was an outstanding municipal architect.

@simontay4851 15 дней назад

Yes you are. Its horrible. Shropshire council offices were also built in the 60s with the same type of nasty concrete and its the ugliest building in Shrewsbury.

@ChrisBrown-px1oy 15 дней назад

@@simontay4851 Three people chime in to say the OP is not alone, and you just deny our existence? This stuff is all subjective. For me the ugliest building in Shrewsbury is Princess House, four storeys of brick and concrete. I'm sure there are uglier buildings in the town, but this one takes up a whole side of The Square. Shire Hall Shrewsbury may be built of the same kind of concrete as County Buildings Aylesbury, but even looking at photographs I can tell that the Aylesbury offices' concrete is much more carefully finished, and dressed at ground level. Nearly every other twentieth century building in the centre of Aylesbury is far drearier, to my mind.

@john07973 18 дней назад

Great video - I was born in Bucks my late parents never left the county after meeting at RAF Little Horwood near Winslow, derelict and returned to agriculture since the late 40's but ripe for a few thousand new arrival houses

@Ashystar067 18 дней назад

Sunday mornings are for auto shenanigans

@2760ade 17 дней назад

That was a really interesting episode! Love the strangeness of that well!

@thomas05ish 17 дней назад

All that lovely concrete at the council HQ , mmm fantastic! HS2: what a total waste of OUR money. The Cameron/ Clegg vanity project, who remembers those two?

@FXCartel 18 дней назад

Can't wait till you venture more north west and I see more roads I actually use but I've still watched every episode!

@bobspeller2225 18 дней назад

Great video John. look forward to the next one. Cheers Bob

@chrisogrady28 18 дней назад

6:42 am I the only one to quite likes that structure? It has a very hight glass to concrete ratio, and the uneven layering of straight wall to bulging bays makes it look strangely organic for such an imposing building. I would just have liked to see the oxidised copper on the little roofs to be used more on the exterior detailing

@simontay4851 15 дней назад

Yes you are the only one. Square grey concrete buildings are always horrible. Even though the new bridge is concrete as well, it looks nicer because its a bright colour.

@Allrightdrve 18 дней назад

Top vid again John .!!👏👏

@durb1n 17 дней назад

This was a particulalry great episode for me. I grew up in the now abandoned pub in Verney Junction so was shocked to see it mentioned

@LUNATIC75 18 дней назад

Ah, Aylesbury. My home town. The 1960's were not kind to her and things ain't getting any better either.

@simontay4851 15 дней назад

The 60s were bad for everywhere. It was a bad time.

@Beatlefan67 17 дней назад

Love it, John.

@iwantagoodnameplease 17 дней назад

I lived in Wendover for a bit. I was renting, and so I wasn't really a local, which is why I fully consented to HS2. I hated all of the Yuppie NIMBYs around there.