1:59 - The then just closed railway line, used to take the coal, was the location in 1952 for the Ealing Comedy 'The Titfield Thunderbolt', between Camerton, through Midford and to Monkton Combe (Titfield Station, in the film) and Limpley Stoke.
All places I know and love. My grandad even spent a night in Shepton jail for getting too pissed on the local cider during the second minor disagreement. The 'volcano' was deliberately built higher and steeper than all the other batches as a monument to the miners and the industry when it was winding down.
I've collected lorry loads of cider from Shepton Mallet and I've arrived at a theory: There's more cider coming out than apples going in. Make of that what you will! The other large producer in Shepton Mallet is Brothers who make a variety of odd flavoured ciders, that some might suggest didn't involve apples! They also make WKD for the company based in Gloucester that markets the drinks. The drive from Shepton Mallet to Bristol along the A38 with 44 tonnes of truck is an interesting, and often arse clenching, journey!
Are we to deduce from your inference then, that an alternative source of golden coloured liquid is being used? If so, you must be one of a very few people who're actually paid to take the pi$$!
They mostly use apple juice from concentrate in ciders these days. Your best bet are the craft ones and independent producers who still use apples. Dutch Barn Vodka is made from apples
The most interesting thing about Nunney Castle is that it was the inspiration for Castle Grayskull in Masters of the Universe. I was there a few years ago. Did I shout "I have the power" when I was certain no-one was around? You betcha!
@@tims9434 Then you should visit (among others) Chants Cider, which it seems Jon drove right past. Paul even runs a Victorian apple press, by hand. He has Sleeping cider, Singing cider and fighting cider, one of which is called Badgers Snot
Scumble - cider made from 'mostly apples' by Nanny Ogg on Discworld. Proper cider - made from apples, slightly cloudy, at least 6% ABV, no fruit flavours, not called 'hard cider', smells a bit weird. I started my 'drinking career' at the last Bulmers tied-house in the country, three choices: Sweet, Medium, Dry. Although there was also Hand Grenade - a cocktail of Special Cellar and Bulmers No.7 - yes, I did over-imbibe - once!
Imagine, someone making a presentation about turning that castle into some sort of business venture, and the slideshow starting off with "Nunney; A Business"... :P (you have to say it to get it!)
Thanks Jon for mentioning the mining, doesn’t get the recognition it needs. The seams on the Somerset Coal Field were very narrow and the miners worked on their sides mostly in a space roughly equal to that under a dining room chair. Hard, backbreaking, dangerous work for little pay, of course. BTW locals who don’t live there call Shepton Shit’n’Smell it.
My dad grew up near Coleford and said when he was a kid (1950s-60s) you would sometimes see old men squatting down on their heels chatting to each other in the street. These were old miners who were so accustomed to that uncomfortable position from years of working in the mines that they would naturally sit like that while having a chinwag.
Well that takes me down memory lane, being a westcountry boy. Used to climb at FC quarry many years ago. Also there used to be a giant Chamonix(?) babycham logo by the road under the footbridge behind you in the shot of the babycham buildings. I also have an old booklet of "day and half day drives from bath" called The Quiet Road which would be right up your street. I reckon ;-) Cost 2s6d apparently (probably 50p in a charity shop when I bought it years ago).
8:26 A cool photo of Carley floats being made. They were made and used during the Second Minor Disagreement, but were rapidly overtaken by synthetic rubber rafts once this became cheap to make.
Ah the county of my childhood at last (still have a great fondness for Somerset even though these days I live the other side of the planet). Doesn’t feel like this is the best of the county though. Surely there will be another episode including Cheddar Gorge, Glastonbury Tor and some of the coast? For example Weston-super-mare (or Weston super mud as we used to call it!). Lots of beautiful spots round there. Even the Hinkley Point nuclear power stations are here!
Thanks for this weeks content from my village @ Peasedown and further south to the coal tip volcano. Much more to include [Two Tunnels] etc. Welcome to call in anytime.
In the days of your guidebook Bath had some substantial manufacturing industry, check out Stothert and Pitt for instance. It was also the home to Plasticene.
I have been to Bath and it’s such a beautiful city. I do like Somerset and been to few places that are so beautiful. Never knew there was a volcano in Somerset. Very interesting to see a volcano doing in Somerset. Despite its made from material waste from a quarry nearby.
I remember the ads for Babycham from Radio Luxembourg. But it wasn't available where I did live, and it could as well have been an ad for a shampoo for babies.
My excitement of finding a 4 pack of Babycham in Tesco's about 5 years ago was in the hope of reliving the drink of my misspent childhood. It was not the same, it tasted synthetic and thin. Another entertaining video , Thank you.
Frome: IIRC, the hometown of one Jenson Button who drove an F1 car through the streets of the town - possibly to celebrate becoming World Champion in 2009.
Very informative video. As you launched the intro 'This week.....' I was immediately drawn to Jessie's diets from 'The fast show' 😂 Did you know the A470 goes all the way from central cardiff to Llandudno. That should be 2025's next series!
Went to watch this video and should had got a cat and Babycham to enjoy it more but it was good so as you are fwicked sweet awesome I pressed the button specifically for that.
Ah you added canals! I’ll share with the local groups for you and on my own (canal) RUclips and channels To be fair, that babycham advert pretty much sums up my weekend 🍻
And you showed a little more map, thanks Jon. I hope it didn't add to much to your production flow. The detour and not visited quarries where nicely shown. Cheers.
Ah, the city where I live currently as a student and a fine city it is too. Lots of fun bombing around the Georgian streets in my Volvo 480ES or Audi 80 Sport (whichever is working) though my favourite building must be the brutalist community sports centre just next to the rugby ground because it has been proven that places that look like the set of Blake's 7 are just better
Very re-assuring to know that Jon is out there on a drizzly Sunday somewhere on a bridge or under an arch preparing his uniquely informative form of entertainment ! (though sometimes your vids do enter a strange other-wordly portal....!) 😂
I was today years old when I found out Babycham is in fact a pear cider. It goes some way to explain why me and my mates drank an inordinate amount of it in the 80s. A bunch of bikers looking very swish indeed.
The Babycham mascot used to sit on top of the Babycham factory, they moved it onto the side of the building at some point in the 2000's. Now it seems they have got shot of it, boo!
Should have got a cat🤣 Love it.
That sole remark stole the whole video 🤣 Absolute class 😂👏🏻
Or a dog with longer legs. Trouble is a Cat won't walk with you and you can't throw things for it to bring back.
@@hublanderuk That's not true. You can train a cat, it's just more difficult than training a dog.
@@hublanderuk These legs can move rather fast when their owner wants to. The one in the video clearly doesn't ;-)
@@hublanderuk my brother cat when it was alive you throw one of her toys she would bring it back...... but I don't fancy walking on top of fences
"you should've got a cat" perhaps the most polite, yet direct, insult I've heard in a while within a YT video. Awesome :)
Roughly translates to "Your dog is pathetic, fool."
A superior pet to be sure. But aw, that dachshund was so adorable, though. It looked more like a Jim Henson puppet than a dog. I'd have it.
1:59 - The then just closed railway line, used to take the coal, was the location in 1952 for the Ealing Comedy 'The Titfield Thunderbolt', between Camerton, through Midford and to Monkton Combe (Titfield Station, in the film) and Limpley Stoke.
That's three in a row without mentioning the Second Small Disagreement!
Jon needs to go to Coventry...
Well, at least the un-Civil War got a mention - "They'm's got long memories round about these parts, ar" 🙂
And get stuck on the ring road...
@@PhillipBicknell He didn't find any large mines in a local barn then? (Hot Fuzz reference)😂
@@antonycharnock2993 Hot Fuzz on DVD with the Fuzz Facts overlay is great for reminding me of all the cop show refs, just in case I ever forget 🙂
All places I know and love. My grandad even spent a night in Shepton jail for getting too pissed on the local cider during the second minor disagreement. The 'volcano' was deliberately built higher and steeper than all the other batches as a monument to the miners and the industry when it was winding down.
Being from a mining area that would make it very unstable.
possibly the only channel i upvote when i hear "hello" and THEN watch the video..
Me too. The upvote is always a foregone conclusion.
I've collected lorry loads of cider from Shepton Mallet and I've arrived at a theory:
There's more cider coming out than apples going in.
Make of that what you will!
The other large producer in Shepton Mallet is Brothers who make a variety of odd flavoured ciders, that some might suggest didn't involve apples! They also make WKD for the company based in Gloucester that markets the drinks.
The drive from Shepton Mallet to Bristol along the A38 with 44 tonnes of truck is an interesting, and often arse clenching, journey!
Are we to deduce from your inference then, that an alternative source of golden coloured liquid is being used? If so, you must be one of a very few people who're actually paid to take the pi$$!
They mostly use apple juice from concentrate in ciders these days. Your best bet are the craft ones and independent producers who still use apples. Dutch Barn Vodka is made from apples
I hate to be that guy but I’m sure you mean the A37. Awful road.
@@nikskin30 welcome to pedantry corner! 🤓
Thatchers is my preferred Somerset cider
The most interesting thing about Nunney Castle is that it was the inspiration for Castle Grayskull in Masters of the Universe. I was there a few years ago. Did I shout "I have the power" when I was certain no-one was around? You betcha!
"The most interesting thing"? Really? Says a LOT about you if you are more interested in a shyte 80s cartoon than the history of a medieval building.
@samuelgarrod8327 You seem fun
I think you've just made that up, Skeletor. Mwa ha ha! 😂
@@paulcharlesworth487 Obviously doesn't appreciate a character called Fisto.
@@antonycharnock2993 snigger...
I mean, if you look at the kids TV programmes of the 1980s and early 90s, is it any wonder I ended up as I am?
Sunday has now officially started!
Lived in Bath, Midsomer Norton and Peasedown. Fun fact, Roald Dahl (of all people) used to be a delivery driver for a paraffin company in Peasedown.
Fabulous as always. Babycham was the first alcohol i drank - Mum bought it for me when I was 4. She didn't realise it was alcoholic....
Perry - an alcoholic beverage made from pears.
Cider - an alcoholic beverage made from apples ... ... and only from apples
Apple juice from concentrate. It's not apple juice anymore.
Though Perry's cider is very good cider.
Bulmers of Ireland would like to have a word abiut their pear cider with you. Cheers.
@@tims9434 Then you should visit (among others) Chants Cider, which it seems Jon drove right past. Paul even runs a Victorian apple press, by hand. He has Sleeping cider, Singing cider and fighting cider, one of which is called Badgers Snot
Scumble - cider made from 'mostly apples' by Nanny Ogg on Discworld.
Proper cider - made from apples, slightly cloudy, at least 6% ABV, no fruit flavours, not called 'hard cider', smells a bit weird. I started my 'drinking career' at the last Bulmers tied-house in the country, three choices: Sweet, Medium, Dry. Although there was also Hand Grenade - a cocktail of Special Cellar and Bulmers No.7 - yes, I did over-imbibe - once!
Never knew what Babycham was, until today. Thanks Jon, another fwickedsweetawesome video. Also, 'should have got a cat' 😂
Back in the day a brandy and Babycham was the most effective leg opener.
Its currently out in its pallet load in Morrisons on the corner of the drinks aisle. Although who buys it nowadays who knows.
@@harrygatto You charmer 😂
Babycham was my introduction to alcoholic beverages. Swiftly followed by Diamond White cider.
Despite this I grew up to be a mostly-responsible adult.
John Loves a good quarry
Who doesn't love a good hole?
After growing up on Stig of the dump, I think we all do
Since listening to the Smith and Sniff podcast, Bath will forever now be known as Bath/Bath.
Speaking as a local ex-Northerner - I have a bahth before I go to Barth.
I never know what to expect on Sunday except you will always bring a smile to my face. Thanks.
It's the excitement I come here for and in that, I am never let down.
Hugely exciting, more of this please.
How did you get out of Midsomer without being murdered?
Brilliant 😂
😂😂😂
Hats off 😂
Have to say, I was half expecting such a joke from Jon. And have to say, I'm mildly disappointed.
Imagine, someone making a presentation about turning that castle into some sort of business venture, and the slideshow starting off with "Nunney; A Business"... :P
(you have to say it to get it!)
Groan... 😂
Bank Managers tend to have a very dry sense of humour. Next.
Sunday Lunchtime viewing sorted.
Thanks John.
Bath and frome are in Somerset Jon! Great Video as usual
So much information packed into this one. Its clear that there's more to Somerset than just cider and cheese after all. Thanks Jon
Clarks Shopping Village in Street? Oh btw Glastonbury is rubbish. The town and festival. Cheddar Gorge is quite impressive though.
From a local: I can confirm we call it ‘The Batch’. You can climb up it, good views off the top on a clear day!
Looks like a good sledging spot in the winter. We use our local spoil heaps for the same purpose
Wicked sweet awesome as ever John. Thank you, Sunday complete. ❤
Thanks Jon for mentioning the mining, doesn’t get the recognition it needs. The seams on the Somerset Coal Field were very narrow and the miners worked on their sides mostly in a space roughly equal to that under a dining room chair. Hard, backbreaking, dangerous work for little pay, of course. BTW locals who don’t live there call Shepton Shit’n’Smell it.
My dad grew up near Coleford and said when he was a kid (1950s-60s) you would sometimes see old men squatting down on their heels chatting to each other in the street. These were old miners who were so accustomed to that uncomfortable position from years of working in the mines that they would naturally sit like that while having a chinwag.
I think a Great British Quarries series is on the cards,
Well that takes me down memory lane, being a westcountry boy. Used to climb at FC quarry many years ago. Also there used to be a giant Chamonix(?) babycham logo by the road under the footbridge behind you in the shot of the babycham buildings. I also have an old booklet of "day and half day drives from bath" called The Quiet Road which would be right up your street. I reckon ;-) Cost 2s6d apparently (probably 50p in a charity shop when I bought it years ago).
I live in nunney, just 100 yards from the castle and am currently sitting on a couch bought from the owner of the silk mill in Frome. 😁
Great to see you made an effort to be away with the Fairies.
8:26 A cool photo of Carley floats being made. They were made and used during the Second Minor Disagreement, but were rapidly overtaken by synthetic rubber rafts once this became cheap to make.
It’s free entry - Good 😂
4:50 was also used on many occasions a filming location for BBC's Casualty
"and it's free entry..GOOD!"😂
Jon gives it to us straight, like a pear cider made from 100% pears.
Im STILL watching! 🤓🙃
Fricken sweet awesome!
Great thanks Jon❤
Ah the county of my childhood at last (still have a great fondness for Somerset even though these days I live the other side of the planet).
Doesn’t feel like this is the best of the county though. Surely there will be another episode including Cheddar Gorge, Glastonbury Tor and some of the coast? For example Weston-super-mare (or Weston super mud as we used to call it!). Lots of beautiful spots round there. Even the Hinkley Point nuclear power stations are here!
Brilliant video have a fabulous week my friend ⚓️👍🧲
Babycham ... didn't know it was still going! ❤
Thanks for this weeks content from my village @ Peasedown and further south to the coal tip volcano. Much more to include [Two Tunnels] etc. Welcome to call in anytime.
Nunney Castle - 5029 - GWR Castle Class loco - built 1934, withdrawn 1963.
My Favourite Sunday viewing
Always fantastic
Awesome episode as usual. Love all the bits you find on your journeys.
Huge honour for a Dachshund to approach you. They're notoriously fickle and often prefer their owners and shun everyone else.
In the days of your guidebook Bath had some substantial manufacturing industry, check out Stothert and Pitt for instance. It was also the home to Plasticene.
Top level sarcasm this week keep it up 👍
The mood here is everything!
Go away bot
You need to get a cat
As I somerset resident, i'm offended that the title says bath and frome are in dorset 😂
Hey, I'd lurve a Babycham.
Interesting section on the canal, I look forward to you visiting the series of locks in London known as the Bow Locks.
I have been to Bath and it’s such a beautiful city. I do like Somerset and been to few places that are so beautiful. Never knew there was a volcano in Somerset. Very interesting to see a volcano doing in Somerset. Despite its made from material waste from a quarry nearby.
Awesome Video
I remember the ads for Babycham from Radio Luxembourg. But it wasn't available where I did live, and it could as well have been an ad for a shampoo for babies.
Should be great video to start the December month for sure 😀
Thank you Jon, and 1923 Michelin guide book! Best combo ever on the youtube ♥ When is this channel going to recieve the recognition it deserves?
From whom? We watch it and we recognise it. "Ah, there's that Jon bloke again."
My excitement of finding a 4 pack of Babycham in Tesco's about 5 years ago was in the hope of reliving the drink of my misspent childhood. It was not the same, it tasted synthetic and thin. Another entertaining video , Thank you.
A Sunday isn't a Sunday without a Sunday video from Auto Shenanigans.
Oooh, you were on my manor! You chould have popped in for a brew, I live off Beechen Cliff!
Love this channel💚
Frome: IIRC, the hometown of one Jenson Button who drove an F1 car through the streets of the town - possibly to celebrate becoming World Champion in 2009.
theres a bridge named after him. shockingly its called Jenson Button Bridge....
Very informative video. As you launched the intro 'This week.....' I was immediately drawn to Jessie's diets from 'The fast show' 😂
Did you know the A470 goes all the way from central cardiff to Llandudno. That should be 2025's next series!
Went to watch this video and should had got a cat and Babycham to enjoy it more but it was good so as you are fwicked sweet awesome I pressed the button specifically for that.
It must be the research you do to make it so interesting John 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤
Finally!
It's so cool that you also have a fascination with abandoned quarries and buildings.
Ah you added canals! I’ll share with the local groups for you and on my own (canal) RUclips and channels
To be fair, that babycham advert pretty much sums up my weekend 🍻
And you showed a little more map, thanks Jon.
I hope it didn't add to much to your production flow.
The detour and not visited quarries where nicely shown. Cheers.
Happy Sunday John looking forward to this ⚓️👍🧲
Ah, the city where I live currently as a student and a fine city it is too. Lots of fun bombing around the Georgian streets in my Volvo 480ES or Audi 80 Sport (whichever is working) though my favourite building must be the brutalist community sports centre just next to the rugby ground because it has been proven that places that look like the set of Blake's 7 are just better
Here we go again in my home area
Like your summation of Fome LOL
We went to Bath on a day trip when I was a child. Remember drinking a cup of spa water at the Pump Room. It tasted horrible!
fascinating thank you.
Very re-assuring to know that Jon is out there on a drizzly Sunday somewhere on a bridge or under an arch preparing his uniquely informative form of entertainment ! (though sometimes your vids do enter a strange other-wordly portal....!) 😂
Thanks John.
All very interesting 🍻
What a fabulous opportunity to use the word “slag” in your video. Opportunity missed I’m afraid!
5:53 - My thoughts exactly!
Babycham.
Richard Richard's drink of choice.
☮
Another great video, wife loves babysham , Fun fact it was created as a marketing ploy to basically rebrand cider
Have had to buy in a load of Babycham sparkling perry for the pear cider lovers now!
Ahh, the gang treadmill. The penultimate Australian convict team-building exercise.
2 hours late this week but still have a beer on the go. Ahh yes.
No Auto Shenanigans, no Sunday.
The Somerset Volcano reminds me somewhat of Mount Jud in Nuneaton.
So much information! But the Somerset Coalfield is TINY - the very opposite of massive.
I was today years old when I found out Babycham is in fact a pear cider. It goes some way to explain why me and my mates drank an inordinate amount of it in the 80s. A bunch of bikers looking very swish indeed.
Nice to see a picture of Alan Partridge in the Babycham advert.
Hi John, I thought I know this one what is Shepton Mallet famous for, I sad Mallet's ,WRONG again, Great video, take care
"Hey, I'd love a..." button specially for that, now that would be wickedly sweet awesome
babycham , only ever had that at christmas, was surprised it still exists.
Whilst shopping my wife saw a pack of 4 Babychams in Sainsburys . Nostalgic pangs kicked in and she brought them. Not tried them yet.
excellent work as usual. I am now deep in thought as to why Sarah Millican has named her private parts after a derelict castle
You've already been to Dorset Jon and I thought Bath and Frome were Somerset
Cheers for this Jon, finally in my home county. Well uh unless I read the title :P
OMG we used to go bike riding around the back of the volcano!
The Babycham mascot used to sit on top of the Babycham factory, they moved it onto the side of the building at some point in the 2000's. Now it seems they have got shot of it, boo!
i live not to far and had no clue about any of this, going to do some site seeing soon.
Hellooo! 👋
The quarry you visited, Jon, looked like it could have been in any number of Doctor Who episodes.
I liked this video so I pressed the button specifically for that 👉🏻
Hello Jon, how the devil are you, have you had a good week?