Great British Road Journeys - Hertfordshire - Letchworth to Ware Ep. 22

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This week I visit leafy Hertfordshire, and Stevenage (Sorry Stevo) to go on a journey of discovery throughout the county. We'll learn of Garden Cities, newtowns, Lavender and the Malthouses of Ware so come along with me on yet another exciting Great British Road Journey
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.
*Why not visit these places*
Hitchin Lavender - hitchinlavender.com/
St. Mary's Church - www.stmaryshitchin.co.uk/
St. Nicholas Church - saintnicholaschurch.org.uk/
Paul's Malt - paulsmalt.co.uk/

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@sddsddean 24 дня назад

I was sub agent on the Little Wymondley bypass and one of the jobs we had to do was replace a 300m length of electric cable that ran from the local sub station. Apparently, it was the only bit of cable like it in the country...415kV, oil cooled, and wrapped in many layers including a steel jacket. In 1992 it cost £3000/metre! Anyway, after laying the cable it was suitably marked...until a strong wind blew the signs down. A JCB came along (you're way ahead aren't you!)... and stuck his bucket in the ground resulting in many sparks, the loss of one of the teeth from the bucket, and the improvement of Stevenage, Letchworth and Hitchin by plunging them into darkness for several hours. Happy Days!😁

@jonathanhall7334 24 дня назад

😂😂😂

@timfagan816 24 дня назад

Fuk me drunk, I've seen a 66kv cable get hit. But never a 415kv cable. That jcb would have gone from yellow. To orange, to ash very quickly. Did the jcb operator survive?

@sddsddean 24 дня назад

@@timfagan816 As I said, amazingly only one tooth on the bucket vapourised. The rest of the machine and driver were perfectly OK.

@Trevorharris-tp7tm 24 дня назад

Trevor Harris

@bobstacey9311 24 дня назад

My thoughts were only one bucket tooth, lucky the whole digger did not vapourize

@markswabey5870 24 дня назад

Its almost like a sarcastic version of tom scott and i love it.

@AdrianDowthwaite 24 дня назад

Yes, spot on!

@AlexLR 24 дня назад

Sarcastic yet genuine.

@steady_94 24 дня назад

Yess 😁 I'd love a crossover video where Tom describes something and Jon translates it into sarcasm and witty remarks 😁

@hublanderuk 24 дня назад

Tom Scott does not swear on his videos 😃

@AdrianDowthwaite 24 дня назад

@@hublanderuk True, I do miss Toms weekly regular uploads.

@neilgorin1037 22 дня назад

As someone who grew up in Stevenage, I find your comments about the town.... entirely reasonable.

@londonlore5881 24 дня назад

“…other specialist ingredients…” - Love your turn of phrase mate! 🤣🤣👍🏽

@johndonaldson3619 24 дня назад

Cocaine....says it on the tin!

@TheCabrooster11 24 дня назад

Loving your unbridled desire for Stevenage😂😂😂

@bobstacey9311 24 дня назад

As a 16 yr old living in Hertford Stevenage was asprinational worth the bike ride there with my mate

@bobstacey9311 24 дня назад

This would have been around 1974

@Daz_Stap 24 дня назад

Another gem, even better when I know the locations. The dog was priceless!

@johnlbirch 24 дня назад

"Without making a fuss" is, of course, the county motto of Hertfordshire.

@aleccoates9094 24 дня назад

8:03 I appreciate the effort of making that shot just so you can say 'Ware Weir' lol

@gregsonwoods 24 дня назад

Couldn't see my house from the Letchworth aerial shot.. consoled myself with seeing the big tree at the end of the garden.

@SiRhodesDriverTraining 24 дня назад

jon in a field describing something random he found on Google maps. Sunday is now Sunday.

@charlottelarimore9261 24 дня назад

Well look whos a lucky devil here

@TheInselaffen 24 дня назад

Only if you have seen burbling on about Heathrow first.

@Ashystar067 24 дня назад

I haven't related to a comment more in weeks

@skraagthedestroyer 24 дня назад

Dude, you filmed some of this just around the corner from where I live; if I'd have known I'd have made you a cup of tea. Nice one, thanks for a bit of local history!

@raynarnslr1966 24 дня назад

Auto Shenanigans. Turn left at sarcasm and carry on to interesting and informative! Safe travels Jon atvb.

@grahamcannell9692 24 дня назад

I thought you might have mentioned that Ware railway level crossing was the first i the UK to be fitted with continental barriers rather than crossing gates.

@jlcgaming8178 24 дня назад

Excellent sunny Sunday, in the garden with a beer and up pops the notification. Here we go...

@stephenyates962 24 дня назад

Maybe the dog at the beginning thought Stevenage was a bit ruff, and wanted to photobomb on Jon instead 😅

@donaldasayers 23 дня назад

My favourite sign ever is, or was to be found in Hitchin opposite the open air swimming pool, it read: Hitchin Swimming pool Overflow Car Parking.

@brianartillery 24 дня назад

"... From lovely countryside to... Stevenage..." Your comic timing is superb, Jon. Also, that fascinating in depth look at a church. Nice one.

@pavo45 24 дня назад

I like the "specialist" ingredients, bet those pastilles sold like hot coke!

@pontyexpat 17 дней назад

Had hot coke, once, left on window sill rather than put back in fridge, unpleasant & not recommended.

@richardbrooks50 24 дня назад

That’s my neck of the woods John,thanks for another intriguing and most exciting instalment 🤣

@kerralexander 24 дня назад

Stevenage is secretly great... Thanks for not telling everyone 😁

@AtheistEve 17 дней назад

Cycle tracks.

@jamesjezjames 24 дня назад

St Evenage I think you'll find 😂

@rileyuktv6426 24 дня назад

“History definitely happened here” 😂❤

@rednammoc 15 дней назад

Channelling Philomena Cunk

@Redkite-nd8gc 22 дня назад

Ware is the start of the "New River" that takes water from the Lee into the city of London by an entirely gravity fed channel. It was built in 1613 to provide more fresh drinking water for London and terminated at New River Head, Clerkenwell. It demonstrates the futuility of adding new to any infrastructure name. After all if it was replaced it would become the "Old New River" 🙃

@Azeria 14 дней назад

My favourite part of Stevenage is they have brown signs pointing to “Tourist Attractions”… There aren’t any Tourist Attractions. One of the signs even has a ❓ slapped on it.

@willtricks9432 24 дня назад

Unusual for you Jon but your extensive research failed to uncover one of Ware's famous land marks and would tie into the Auto Shenanigan's remit. It is the Ware Concrete Lamppost Collection and former factory. Get back on the road and have a look. I was introduced to the site while Hitch Hiking back in the 80's by a very kind woman in a Morris Minor. That aside, brilliant as usual.

@philhawley1219 24 дня назад

I don't think I have ever seen a concrete lamp post. If ever I am down south I will have to check it out. Is it as exciting as it sounds?

@jeremywilliams5107 24 дня назад

@philhawley1219 that's the only kind we had in our area(NW), other than the motorways.

@philhawley1219 24 дня назад

@@jeremywilliams5107 I live on the Welsh Marches. Even the moon frightens us. If the clouds part and we see it we know that Satan's evil hordes will be riding their war goats from Llanyblodwell to steal our first born . Street lights would only make it worse. Do you have electric where you live?

@iankemp1131 24 дня назад

Nice shots of Ware, but strange that you stood by the river just out of sight of its famous set of riverside gazebos (the largest number in Britain). There's also a good bronze statue in the town centre of a maltster, complete with giant malt shovel and cat (to keep down the rodents who wanted the grain). Some maltings buildings still exist, converted into an arts centre and housing.

@andykilvington1651 24 дня назад

Back to your home county! Never knew Letchworth is the oldest roundabout in the country - nice place though - was there a few days ago. As for Stevenage - you missed the Old Town High Street which is actually quite pleasant.

@johnstilljohn3181 24 дня назад

Nice one. A buddy of mine lives in Ware - his neighbour moved there from Wye....

@zeb3144 24 дня назад

I know Letchworth, Hitchin, Ware and Hertford very well. Must admit, i quite like these places including Stevenage. I could retire to any of theses towns.

@ggmtv1394 22 дня назад

In Stevenage, I don’t know how you managed to miss “the Six Hills” a series of six (would you believe?) 2,000 year old Roman burial barrows (the largest surviving Roman barrow group in England) now sympathetically sandwiched between the back of Asda and a commercial estate.

@aaronk534 24 дня назад

Glaxo smith is nothing shady, its obviously a research facility for happier bunnies and better hugs

@chrisbardell 24 дня назад

Believe that sign-off bit was under the A10 where it goes airborne onto stilts, over the River Lea. Flies over the Ware to Hertford road, looking for all the world like they just took out 2 or 3 houses and built the viaduct where they once stood. Went past it many times for work, impressive bit of civil engineering as you see the A10 fly off into the distance.

@mcmarky1985 24 дня назад

Awesome video! Would also recommend to the viewers a visit to Scott's Grotto if in Ware it's a very unusual and random spot!

@richardbrooks50 24 дня назад

Regarding maltings there still one just down the road from Ware in Stansted Abbots called French and Jupps been operating for over 200 years

@nickanderson141186 23 дня назад

When the winds in the right direction I can smell it from my gaff in Hoddesdon!! Wonder if Hoddesdon is on the next road trip 😬

@whyyoulidl 22 дня назад

@@nickanderson141186 wonder how he'll shoe-horn saying dobbs weir into the script?

@davidyardley512 24 дня назад

I don't know about you chaps but to me there is nothing like a new and exciting great British road journey.

@adamjolley8552 24 дня назад

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

@willtricks9432 24 дня назад

Stalwart action, keep up the good work.

@01mememememe 24 дня назад

The new Sunday Standard - Jon

@weetabrix88 22 дня назад

Excellent vid as usual!!

@jimkats1 24 дня назад

Hello to you too Jon, I love this enthusiastic intro, with the sunny weather and the dog :d

@ElliotP-Motorways-Plotagon 24 дня назад

Wow great video thumbs up 👍

@minibus9 20 дней назад

Awesome video, really intresting findign out about diffrent parts of the country

@andyrbush 24 дня назад

That was interesting.

@alexsingleton2144 24 дня назад

Pub garden, cold pint, on with the latest from Mr Shenanigans. Entertaining as ever Jon!

@MrBLUEDEVILUK 24 дня назад

That third pastille was not to be sniffed at lol. I actually lolled Jon well done. Love your sense of humour and your style of presenting.

@drnick0 23 дня назад

been watching vids on this channel for a while now (since Secrets of the Motorway), and I still giggle every time John says "whhhicked sweet awesome" 😆

@funky1982 4 часа назад

Very interesting yet again some great research

@sue.Hoo123 11 дней назад

Driving in to Stevenage one day and on the Welcome to Stevenage sign some wag had written “Twinned with HELL” in market pen 😂

@Theoriginalramjammer 24 дня назад

If anyone watching this thinks Stevenage is shit, try Luton.

@WagnerGimenes 24 дня назад

"Other specialist ingredients", you say 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Nice one, Jon.

@pwatsonuk 24 дня назад

Great video John - I grew up in Ware and now having been living in Hitchin for 24 years (with a break between in West London for a bit)

@portlandfester7510 18 дней назад

Another fascinating video and yes I pressed the like button lol😂

@MegaTube1313 24 дня назад

All of my old haunts although Stevenage haunts the most 😱

@hublanderuk 24 дня назад

Well I now know what under the A10 Viaduct near Ware looks like. Every time I drive my Parents up the A10 to take them to my sisters in Stevenage. Somebody always says "Ware are we" "Don't know Ware we are" anybody got any new one's for my next trip. 🤣

@Outwhere 23 дня назад

The viaduct crosses a nice area of flood meadows. I used to go there quite a bit so I was excited by seeing the viaduct, haha!

@whyyoulidl 22 дня назад

Maybe try tyre wear?

@joebenn996 24 дня назад

We live in Letchworth and use Sollershot Circus often - thank you for the, mention the town is very proud of that roundabout! I didn't know that only going around one way came much later though.

@billywindsock9597 24 дня назад

I lived in Ware for over twenty years, lovely place.

@tommccallister 24 дня назад

There is a roundabout-like feature that appears on an Ordnance Survey map, published in 1882, at the junction of Walthall St and Alton St in Crewe. It is absent from later revisions as the area became built up with terraced housing for the railway works.

@gavinhagan8357 24 дня назад

Another great vid. Just imagine in the good old days , “oh I feel a little tickle in my throat, I think I’ll have a suck on this medicated lozenge. Wow look at the pink elephants “. What a fun time. Keep up the great work buddy.

@I_Don_t_want_a_handle 24 дня назад

Never had hallucinations on coke, just felt buzzed. Waste of money, could just as easily stuck my tongue in the leccy outlet.

@darthwiizius 24 дня назад

Letchworth was built over three villages mate, Norton on the opposite side and Willian right next to Letchworth. The old manor house is now a hotel of dubious reputation locally and the church is the oldest building. Fun fact about St Nick's in Scumenage, the spire was for a couple of centuries the tallest man made point between London and Leicester, shame they built the town really. I mean, who thought that providing architects with just set squares was a good idea eh? BTW, all cities are towns.

@303playa 24 дня назад

I ❤yer tone of presentation ... ❤️😎❤️

@MrMWRMWR 24 дня назад

Lived in Letchworth, Stevenage and Hitchin early 1970s (pre Wymondley bypass) and still travel through. Piqued my interest to explore a few places I never knew about. Thanks.

@DavidMorley 24 дня назад

I went to school in Letchworth - Somebody who I knew very well and someone he knew very well (?) borrowed the school minibus and parked it on the roundabout mentioned one night. The school was displeased.

@whyyoulidl 22 дня назад

Bet he must have been from St. Christopher's?

@DavidMorley 22 дня назад

@@whyyoulidl indeed

@hannahellis4549 23 дня назад

Woo watching from BSE!

@BerlietGBC 21 день назад

The is a wonderful glance at Stevenage new town in colour in the BTF film All that mighty heart , it’s worth a watch

@RUBBER_BULLET 24 дня назад

I saw a well paid HGV job with a big pharma firm, but I couldn't in good conscience apply for it after the damage that industry has wrought; so I stuck with delivering alcohol...

@David_Crayford 24 дня назад

I don't drink but at least it's better than tobacco.

@stephenwoodrow1334 21 день назад

As an Alleynes old Boy we had to visit St. Nic's church a lot. I miss those good old days (1980's) but don't miss Stevenage. Another great video...thanks

@alantheskinhead 23 дня назад

You didn't visit the beautiful Stevenage town centre tower and the delightful concrete blocks. They built the tower in town centre presumably so the new residents could hang themselves once they found out how awful it is. I live down the railway line in Haringey/Harringay and we sometimes get the train to Stevenage. We do this to remind ourselves that Haringey/Harringay isn't that bad after all and poke fun at the locals. Herts is another "neither here or there" county, a bit like Bedfordshire.

@whyyoulidl 22 дня назад

Now the town centre is in the middle of 'regeneration'; you should come check it out again. 2nd thoughts, maybe wait 'til it's finished lol

@john07973 22 дня назад

Good pic of Alf Garnett in the Letchworth section 👍

@AlexHitchins 23 дня назад

Thanks

@AutoShenanigans 13 дней назад

Nice one bruva, hope you are well

@Stephen_Lafferty 24 дня назад

9:00 - this music really reminds me of Ron Grainer's theme for 'The Prisoner'! I guess Stevenage is a less architecturally interesting version of The Village/Portmerion! :D

@mickapps3153 24 дня назад

Thanks😊

@bethaltair812 23 дня назад

I was hoping for the train at van hages, but the intrigue of GSK was good! There's another two in and near Harlow....one was verrry small and if you tried to look in from the moorhen path security appeared to stop you being there. Widely regarded to be something to do with animals,probably not a petting zoo.

@samanthasimms9630 24 дня назад

Can't wait for you to do thr ar+e of Hertfordshire.... Watford

@williamthompson2941 24 дня назад

nice one 😆

@binarydinosaurs 24 дня назад

Ah, another one of my old stomping grounds, though I had no idea about the first roundabout so that's an excellent thing to learn. You almost touched Wadesmill, if not drove through it. I nearly bought a house there but was put off by the fact that the house was on one side of the A10 (as was at the time) and my garden was on the other. After I'd moved to Cambs they only went and bypassed the place. Still, at least that meant I didn't have to drive through Bishop's Stortford again.

@queeg6473 24 дня назад

Interesting fact about Ware. There is only ONE petrol station, but it's not in the town.......you REALLY have to know where it is before you run out of fuel.....

@Nick-ye5kk 24 дня назад

Stevenage contains road signs saying "Tourist Attraction" with no clue as to what the "Attraction" actually is. I cannot imagine there is something actually interesting in the whole town.

@johnlbirch 24 дня назад

Actually at least one of the signs says "Cemetery. Tourist Attraction"

@me890092 24 дня назад

The A1. Heading Northbound or Southbound, doesn't matter.

@tomwinch9107 24 дня назад

@@johnlbirch, is that in the dead centre of Stevenage?

@johnlbirch 24 дня назад

@@tomwinch9107 It's to die for.

@billywindsock9597 24 дня назад

The ‘new’ town centre is classic 60’s concrete. It is not terrible when clean. Prefer it to Harlow, although Genesis have never written a song based on Stevenage. Shame.

@CheshireTomcat68 23 дня назад

9:46 Soooo Goldie Looking Chain!!!

@paulknight5018 24 дня назад

05:07 jusr by that underpass was where I was very close to being hit by a fence falling during a storm in 1990. St Nicks church was on my cross country school route and I was a cleaner at GSK when they were building it, the money they wasted was increadible. Thankfully moved out of Stevenage at 19.

@CaptainMannyUK 24 дня назад

Sunday lunch..check. Auto Shenanigans sunday vid...check. relax.

@stephenknight4862 24 дня назад

Love how you word stuff.........Specialist Ingredients lol

@David_Crayford 24 дня назад

Lots of interesting stuff here. Dad worked for Beechams in London, among other places, and this was taken over by GSK. It looks like Jon specifically does NOT want a suntan. Hat, hoodie and long strides, even on a bloomingly gorgeous sunny day. ☀

@Huckleberry.69 24 дня назад

My wife must be taking a leaf out of the women's bypass protest at the moment.

@2760ade 24 дня назад

My missus has been 'protesting' for years!🤣

@Phuc_Yhou 24 дня назад

I wouldn't mind but my gang built our towns bypess 21 years ago and I'm still not back in the game 😳

@2760ade 24 дня назад

@@Phuc_Yhou I feel your pain!

@dodgydruid 24 дня назад

The research place used to be in Beckenham if memory serves me right and with land prices in and around there they decided to find something cheaper and cash in on Oscar Wellcome's estate big time which they did, my aunty and nan knew Oscar very well as he was a man about town in Sydenham and Forest Hill where a lot of his workforce lived and well liked by the locals.

@wreython 24 дня назад

You must be doing something right here Jon - even mother nature likes to join in - a dog helping with the intro!

@247vanmanBirmingham 23 дня назад

Can't wait to see what this guys next car is 🎉😂

@JRLNeal 23 дня назад

Well Jon, that was a well received video, just what I wanted. Absolutely excellent, professional research and presentation. Many thanks. Town or city? Visit a church in less than a second, brilliant stuff thanks. I see your Eiffel Tower stance has changed to post office tower and a little bit of walking taking place too and even sometimes sitting down. In this hot weather, do you have a fairweather beanie?

@myonlydemandisbacktowork8759 23 дня назад

8:59 what a gorgeous, lovely, wonderful, fascinating place 🤣

@whyyoulidl 22 дня назад

😂

@cybergreghu 21 день назад

I lived in the Old Town of Stevenage and I quite liked it! Large house, garden, peace and quiet. By all means, it was affordable luxury, compared to a shoebox in London. And all retail, leasure and other facilities for a 5-minute drive. What else could you ask for? The area has many remnants of the old A1 (or its Roman Road predecessor) before the A1(M) was built and the remainder was realigned with roundabouts and other quirks.

@theroadblog2858 24 дня назад

Cocaine pastils, not bad. I love your level of detail, and reserch. Great work!

@-Lucky-Six- 24 дня назад

my previous employer was a utilities company in stevenage, me being from the far east (suffolk coast) found it very odd that the majority of local males in stevenage are below average height, and bald with beards..... it like some sort of umpa lumpa breading ground

@trickygoose2 24 дня назад

This is why I had to leave for Letchworth (I'm 6'2").

@evilutionltd 24 дня назад

The only 2 things that should ever happen to lavender is, either add it to old person products or leave it in the ground for the bees.

@johnlbirch 24 дня назад

Where John was filming that segment is also an ancient plateway - at the bottom of the hill you can see parts of it still in place. Yet no-one seems to know why it was there.

@philhawley1219 24 дня назад

A few sprigs of lavender hanging from your ceiling keeps flies out of your house in the summer.

@evilutionltd 24 дня назад

@@johnlbirch so, much like your totally off topic reply?

@johnlbirch 24 дня назад

@@evilutionltd Meh - it's the sort of thing Jon often goes for.

@AL-zg5qs 24 дня назад

Bit warm for the woollen headgear? Surely time for Jon to sport a Panama hat to match the season.

@richardvernon317 24 дня назад

Quite a few places I've been through in this one. Only really done Stevenage on foot thanks to most of my mother's side of the family living there (still have one cousin who lives in the town).

@twocvbloke 24 дня назад

Yep, there it is, and off we go to somewhere else, quickly, with much haste... :P

@highpath4776 23 дня назад

Take a look at the London Transport Country Area - specifically Green Line of the 1960s. Beautiful illustrations of the country towns surrounding london that could be reached by a Green Line coach from Central London (Victoria. Marble Arch. Oxford Circus or Aldgate Minories)

@matt-squires 23 дня назад

Although I probably shouldn't admit to it, I live right next to the roundabout you're stood under when you first say "Stevenage"! If I'd known you were round you could have had a coffee!

@PhilReynoldsLondonGeek 24 дня назад

Ware is one of those places that is frustrating simply for its name. Mentioning it to my late partner always resulted in the response "Where?". Another frustrating place name is March (whether the English or Scottish one) as it gets confused with the month.

@ChuckFickens1972 24 дня назад

I used to live in a road called Fairlea Close (in Burgess Hill, West Sussex)... That caused much confusion when people asked where I lived and the answer was basically "fairly close"!

@chrisbentleywalkingandrambling 24 дня назад

Wow, the Americans invented the roundabout. I thought that this madness was British. Love the sarcasm Jon.

@johnlbirch 24 дня назад

He is referring to Columbus Circle in New York, which isn't really a roundabout. And the Arc de Triumph came first and that is... not really a roundabout either (more anarchy on wheels)

@andreww2098 24 дня назад

the modern roundabout was created in the UK in the 60's

@Vtarngpb 24 дня назад

@@johnlbirchis this pedantry corner? Did I come to the right place? 😌

@hairyairey 23 дня назад

Peterborough had the world's first mini-roundabout - now replaced with traffic lights

@trickygoose2 24 дня назад

Super local to me as I've lived in Stevenage and Letchworth all my life. Sollershott Circus is not far from my doctors'.

@bobevansIW 24 дня назад

Brilliant 😂. I was unfortunate to be born in Stevenage in the early 60's, thankfully moving away after 12 years!! Today, I believe the residents call it St. Evenage 😂😂