Great British Road Journeys - Leicestershire - Market Harborough to Melton Mowbray Ep. 14
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This week I'm staying in Leicestershire to travel from Market Harborough to Melton Mowbray, home of the world famous pork pie. Along the way we'll be making many stops to look at many interesting things, thor missiles... again... an old RAF airfield... again.. but a space station... say what!? Who knew Leicestershire was home to the UKs space exploration HQ. Spoiler Alert It's not.
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.
*SPECIAL THANKS**
Foxton Inclined Plane and Locks Trust - www.fipt.org.uk/
Noble Automotive - www.noblecars.com/
Abbey Pumping Station - www.abbeypumpingstation.org/
National Space Centre - www.spacecentre.co.uk/
St. Mary's Church - meltonteamparish.org.uk/
Ye Olde Pie Shoppe - porkpie.co.uk/ 
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I love how you didn't even skip a beat when that lad walked in front of the camera and carried on as if nothing ever happened.
What a polite young lad too. His parents will be proud.
Not even a sarcastic eye brow raise??
Yes, you were very cool. I wonder if he’s a subscriber.
Well he should be a subscriber now!
Honestly in most towns a passerby would have stolen your camera or something. A good advert for that area haven't decent, polite folk
Amazing how he trained those Geese to flyby at just the right time!
You can’t tell me he didn’t train them. Even the camera was set up for the shot!
Even more impressive was the geese shitting on the lens. Dead on target during their approach. Must have taken weeks of training and dozens of takes to get that right.
Not to mention having it so that the geese yelled at just the right time to cause a massive echo
RUclips money can pay for paid actor geese
@@tedioustotoro4885just like any self-respecting petrol head does when driving through a tunnel.
John evens manages to get a pair of geese to do an underpass in his closing monologue. What a legend!!!
Love the trained geese!!
No trains on the viaduct, so trained Geese shall have to do. 😆
They're big fans of the series :P
Maybe the Grammar School in Market Harborough was on stilts for the Higher Education? lol :p
*clap clap clap*
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I wish I'd said that.
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The politest photobombing youngster ever. Kudos to Jon for not flinching. Such an interesting and entertaining episode. 👏👏👍😀
Anyone else get all warm and fuzzy inside ready for this?… then while the advert is playing already hitting the button specifically for that 😅
Why would I want to hit the button for an advertisement?! 😂
@@davidroddini1512 ....think you missed the joke 🤣 ... The advert is before the video starts... I liked the video before it even started... Because of the warm fuzzy feeling the video was going to give me
Not so funny now. 😢
@@PiggyPower 😂 😂
I always wait for the sarcastic comment !
You know you’ve hit the big time when RUclips stuffs a 40 second non skip advert before the main event.
you know someones not using firefox when they talk of adverts :)
Ad blockers exist, use one!
@@Skorpychan on a tv with the app it doesn’t work but thanks for stating the obvious.
Ublock Origin and private windows are your friend.
40 seconds is a bit crap, I dont have any say on that. However, don't run ad blockers, it's what funds the videos.
“Oh sorry” 😂
The joke about Great Glen gave me a giggle. It does have a really nice cafe though.
Pretty sure Englebert Humperdinck lives there. And the new crematorium is far less depressing than Gilroes.
I like this video so I pressed the button specifically for that 👉🏻
Me too
And it's thwicked, sweet, awesome that you're also a subscriber!
The 'weird' jelly in a pork pie is exactly that - gelatine that separates out from the meat as it is cooked. And i think it's the best bit...😋
Nah - John's right; it's weird.
Melton Mowbray Pies, the meat is packed into the case, and the jelly fills the space (what's left!) between the meat and the case lid.
It’s actually made from slugs.
It’s called aspic and is the jellified form of the brine used in hot dog sausages - it’s no longer found in pork pies - even the Melton Mowbray ones sold outside of Melton Mowbray!
Whato all,
Did you know Melton Mowbray pies can also be made in Nottingham?
Some honking good timing there from the geese.
“Thor missiles those things get everywhere “ 😂😂😂 classic.
Wow! You're a master of your craft! That geese fly by .. perfection! No idea how you did it but to make them quack right uder the arches to get a beautiful echo effect was a cherry at the top!! Of a already fat cake 😂😂😂
Or the cranberry on top of the pork pie... I'll get my coat
the jelly's the best bit!!
As a kid in Leicestershire I would segment the pork pie, then pick out the pork leaving pastry, rind and jelly, then replace it with a pickled onion. Then eat it in a white bread sandwich.
On the subject of pork pies, I went through 50+ years of my life only ever having eaten pork pies cold, then I found myself working for a company with offices in Bromborough, Wirral. Now, some companies have a tradition of cakes for notable events, at the company where I worked we got *hot* pork pies, yes you read right, hot jeffing pork pies!!! The look of disgust must have been evident on my face, I was practically forced fed hot pork pies, and much to my surprise I actually enjoyed it!!! Sadly I haven't had a hot pork pies since leaving the company, not even when I worked for a company that makes pork pies (Samworth Brothers)!
Anyway , that's my pork pies tale told, back to Jon in the studio for more tales of the road.
I would strongly recommend throwing the Melton Mowbray pork pies in the bin, where they belong, and heading up north to Yorkshire to get a proper growler. The meat in Yorkshire growlers is cured which makes them look more attractive and be tastier. The best growlers are from the Vale of Mowbray, so there's still that Mowbray link if you're desperate.
Same here. Turned my nose up at even the thought of a hot pork pie, until I tried one, with mushy peas and mint sauce. What a revelation!
I’m in Bromborough, what was the company ? Personally I like to remove the jelly and warm up the pork pie, and eat with Picallily…
@@sarkybugger5009😮 hot pork pie is shocking enough, but with mint sauce??? Really? Why? Wtf 🤮
@@Anmeteor9663 To go on top of the mushy peas, of course. It's a Yorkshire thing, apparently.
Yay you featured the viaduct. After it lost listed status someone wanted to knock it down to reclaim the bricks. Luckily it didnt happen.
Love the geese! Best video bomb ever!
I appreciate all the details on the maps that you've added in your more recent videos. It always makes it easier to follow along the route when I can see how you got from place A to place B. Top work!
Those geese at the end😂
Monster. That jellied fat is the key, the meat and pastry is merely the delivery system of that goodness.
The old grammar school is designed in that due to a brief period we had a loophole in a tax law. Basically, you were charged depending on the buildings footprint. So many buildings were constructed that were wide at the top to reduce the land footprint, likely the exactly same here having only to pay for the small square and the columns.
Sunday ain't Sunday without a video from John... Thanks dude ✌️
While at Red Hill Circle you had the opportunity to visit a 1960's style Grade II listed petrol station!
I've seen this before, maybe it was designed in the 60s but it was definitely built in the 70s. I remember it well because they cleared some of the allotments to build it: one of which belonged to my neighbour, though ours survived.
Highlights include a bit of Woolarding, "Nothing", "Oops sorry" and the geese of course. The rest was pretty good too.
Woolarding - great observation on that side of things.
The direct route from Market Harborough to Melton Mowbray, mainly the B6047, is a lovely country drive in its own right. 🙂
It is ;)
The B6047 is a driving gem, especially the bit between Tilton on the Hill & Thimble Hall. I don't twat about when driving motor cars, but that road can lead anyone astray 🙂
The jelly stuff is the best part of a Pork Pie.
I got married in the Abbey Pumping Station, followed by a Routemaster trip to the Great Central Railway at Loughborough where Mrs Boulder and I had our reception in a private train that made two return trips back to Leicester North....
I grew up in Leicester and moved to Market Harborough, it's great to see your take on the area. By the Clock Tower they built the horrendous Haymarket Centre in the early 70s, demolishing some lovely old buildings. The Haymarket was grim and dark (and still is), a 'hang on tight to your bag' kind of place.
Which bag? as there are a couple of meanings to that phrase. Cheers
How many takes did you need to get the geese flyby timed to such perfection? A level of dedication seldom seen on youtube. Cheers, Jon.
Only last week I was at Foxton Locks as I was up in Leicestershire for a mini holiday. All around that area is my old stomping ground and we played there as kids. We would often jump the locks much to mother's displeasure and more so as I can't swim! One thing worth noting is that Leicestershire is quite sparse, mainly farmlands, private estates (You often see red or white painted wooden field gates denoting private estates) and posh hunting grounds.
The only interesting thing about Great Glen is that it was the home of Willy Thorne the snooker player and Engelbert Humperdink's family still owns houses in Kibworth Beauchamp and Houghton on the Hill.
Abbey Lane Pumping Station is a staple of kids outings and we would often go there and play around the place. When I was a kid that was mainly wasteland and old factories. Shame you missed out on the Jewry Wall Roman remains and King Richard III who just happened to buried under a parking space that I used when I worked for the council. It even had a "R" on it that might have been a clue!
Just past Red Hill Flyover was the Grade 2 listed "Mushroom" Mobil petrol station with it's classic mushroom canopies which are soon to be Grade 1 listed by all accounts.
As for the Ye Olde pork pie shoppe.... You fell for the classic mistake. Ye is an old English version of the word "The", Olde is just "old" as is shoppe (archaic) that is an old spelling of "Shop".
Oh forget the Twyford viaduct, if you want a man sized viaduct go over to Harringworth/Welland Viaduct!
Leciestershire is still an underestimated country for countryside and the city is full of history.
A Melton Mowbray Pork Pie has less gelatin than a bog standard one as made from raw pork not cured pork (bacon) that shrinks less when cooked as a lower moisture content than cured. The gelatin is added after cooking to prevent the filling from rattling around inside the pastry.
Leicester is a fun city to visit, highly underrated
Another perfetct moment when two geese fly though the same arch as you happen to be filmining under, they had many arches to choose from but no they where trained to go under the one Jon was under.. Thanks for the hard work and videography
It's a shame the Camp Hill Flyover here in Brum is no longer with us - you'd have had fun. It was a terrifying tin bridge over a junction.
That was actually only meant to be a temporary structure! Was still there when I moved away from Birmingham, well past its use by date!! Must admit though, going over it on the top deck of bus was a frighteningly exciting experience!
When I crave a great big slice of jelly filled normality I just have to watch John doing his thing and everything feels better.
Can’t believe you were literally with in sight of the last standing “Pegasus” petrol station, which I think is listed . . . Red Hill Petrol Station. Unless you’ve covered if before and I can’t remember!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hill_filling_station
Bournemouth Square, now pedestrianised, used to be a roundabout.
I was a bus driver when it was first done - as a 'temporary measure' - in 1990!!
And good it stuck, I love the pedestrian part of Leicester
I was speaking to a local MP who wants to glass it over.
Great shot with the 2 Geese flying past you through the viaduct
Jon got goosed 😮😂
I see John has gone all big time splashing cash for 2 Geese in his outro
"I've got a couple of detours to make" makes the heart sing.
perfect timing, just made my lunch :)
Same here. Your a lucky devil for being in the comments first and won the twat awards for being first looks like.
Pork pie?
What did you have ?
@@Dan23_7 not eaten yet, probably a bacon butty later on.
@@Dan23_7 luncheon meat and cucumber sandwich and a packet of aldi own brand mini cheddars
Yay, missed you in Melton Jon lol, moved here after living in leicester most of my life about 20 years ago, I know every area you visited on this one very well, happy days mate
Grinning at Jon photo-bombed by honking geese! The short biography was interesting.
I come form Leicester! I now live on the coast because i found out nobody will stop you from moving!
That clock tower was a favourite place to meet friends on a Saturday morning.
Although my friend Simon lipped off some kids in McDonalds and had his front teeth chipped on a kerb stone.
So that was fun! lol
That weird jelly is called Aspic jelly. And yes it's wrong! lol
More awesome content and I'd like to thank Jon specifically for that. 👍
Fun fact: the *Melton Mowbray* pork pie has Geographical Protection, meaning it must be made to a specific recipe/style and within a specific (albeit seemingly arbitrary) area around the town.
My Dad used to tell me that the huge pet food factory was built next to a pork pie factory supposedly to use the waste pork products not required in pies. A conveyor belt connected the two buildings - sometimes it went one way, sometimes the other.
The jelly's the best bit!!!
Mmmm😋weird jelly stuff yum!
Great vid, thank you for openly expressing my thoughts on the pork pie, meat and pastry good, weird jelly stuff not good.
The jelly in a pork pie is an essential part of it
such a shame ;-(
Oooh I love an inclined plane.
Not big on takeoffs or landings myself. I prefer when the plane is flying level at cruising altitude. 😉
Ultimately would have been better to dig a tunnel. Would have worked out cheaper too
Love the geese flying through the railway bridge arch Jon. Sometimes nature provides a nice little tada moment.
My dad was a policeman and used to do point duty at the clock tower. He said it was a 5 man point, so the timing was crucial. The tram drivers used to try and converge were the policemen were, making them stand ideways! Buses replaced trams, with the drivers in a separate cabin at the front of the bus. The first West Indian bus drivers were hard to spot in the dark, much to their glee and delight.
John, the word for the jelly around the outside, of the pork inside a pie is Aspic, It's just gelatin, used in thickening of soups, or of flavouring of said soups, I'm 70yrs old I remember my mother draining the juices, from the Sunday roast, into a bowl, that was covered with muslin cloth, and kept in our pantry, b4 we could afford a fridge, And then the Fat on top of the bowl, was spread on bread, with a sprinkle of salt, for a bread, and dripping, sandwich, Yum Yum
I remember the roundabout at the clock tower and also the Haymarket and the Leicester Market was being built.
Great photobombs from both people and animals XD
As a former resident of Hinckley, some years ago a few mates and I had a tradition where we would have a day in Melton on the last Tuesday before Christmas, mainly for a bit of a daytime pub crawl. But we'd always come back stocked up with pies for the festive season.
Therefore at 9:17 I nearly choked on my (not Melton Mowbray) Australian Pork Pie when I saw that the old Dickinson & Morris shop appeared to be a building site. I was slightly relieved when I realised that there was a big sign on the outside of the hoarding stating "Pop-Up Shop this way" and guessed this was only temporary. Phew!
I will be back one day!
Great Glen is where Englebert Humperdink lives. Such great claims to fame. Redhill roundabout was so named after the execution that took place there and the Clock Tower, if you were to lift it up, is the junction of two of Leicester's main sewage pipes.
The jelly in the pork pie is made from boiling down pig's trotters. I like it (with a bit of salt), but my wife doesn't - so I get hers too. Mmmm yummy. Also, loved the outro fly-past.
Marvellous. I know that route extremely well. Learned to drive in Leicester many, many years ago. A fine place.
Great finish with the Canadian Geese display team.
They were Canada Geese??? He's lucky to be alive!! They are in a permanent p*ss, peace has never been an option with those geese.
❤Despite your signature and frankly wonderful “damning with feint praise” style, you made Leicester sound rather inviting. I shall make pilgrimage.
I will also forgive you your pork pie heresy, for as luck would have it, I had one in the fridge to which I could pay homage (eat) to nullify your dangerous jelly heretical nonsense. 😂
I used to work as a CAD Draughtsman in Soham (yes that Soham) and it had Fuller’s bakery next door. On occasions, I would buy a pie, still warm from the oven, with the jelly still not quite set. I would eat it all and was found on one occasion fast asleep face down on my keyboard in one of my signature food comas! Go well Jon!
PS. Did you queue those geese? Bloody perfect 😂
Jelly is the best bit! 😆
Oh come on John, the Jelly is the best bit of the pie
That weird jelly stuff that they put in between is the best bit.
That jelly ruined every Christmas until I was nine and thus deemed old enough to tell my mum to pack it in!
This is the earliest I've watched one of your videos, You've gained a Subscriber and I like your videos so I hit the button specifically for that.
This video really touches my heart. I've lived in Leicester all my life and John has shown us all some of the best highlights and trivia of the county. Great video!
I'd guess I was 8 or 9 when Daddy decided we'd go on our 2nd Canal Holiday which included doing Foxton Flight twice, going down was okay but going back up wasn't so much fun. The following year we hired a Motorhome and travelled around Europe. That was more exciting.
We stayed in Market Harborough a couple of years ago. Nice little town. Good bakeries. Entirely ruined by the church bells that ring through the night. Be warmed!
Love the Nobles - when I was also much younger, I took a trip up to Brum to the NEC for the motor show, it was an eventful trip as the Austin Mini snapped two headbolts at 60mph on the A34 past Oxford. I got that fixed and carried on. However, on restarting the engine overheated and water pissed out from somewhere.. a split that was only visible when the water was hot and pressurised. I was on the petrol station outside the NEC figuring out how to cut the header pipe to the radiator without leaving it too short so I could get home and this chap pulls up to fuel up a Noble, wanders over to see what was going on, and asks me what was wrong, pays for his fuel, bobs out and asks me if I need a lift anywhere. I looked longingly at his car and sadly declined saying I needed to get my Min fixed and get her home and I wasn't going to leave her behind - I got an approving nod and a good luck. Turns out it was the MD of Noble at the time :) Nice bloke.
Yes, the jelly is wrong.
Amazing work getting those geese to do a flythrough for the outro.
9:47 - I reckon the gelatine is the best part of the pork pie.
The geese honking echo was perfect timing. And you didn't skip a beat during their flypast. Consummate professional.
As the RAF couldn't do John a fly past mother nature had to step in...
Excellent enjoyed watching this one. I am loving this series.
fun fact I lived in Leicester from 1998' to 2001' to become a esteemed holder of a 2.1 honours degree a media studies at the ex polytechnic DeMontfort Uni, I almost didn't graduate do the fact of spending. most of my weekends at Junction 21, off my head listening to electronic beat music. However this wasn't the motorway junction but the legendary nightclub of the same name, which like most from that era is long gone..
Looks like the 5 Points inthe film, Gangs of New York
Melton Mowbray - my birthplace. Thanks for covering the Twyford Viaduct on the GN & LNW Joint. It badly needs some TLC and may eventually receive it in the form of a wrecking ball.
Those geese flying through the viaduct at the end was perfect. Surprised you didn't say anything about it!
The 'cause he'd dead, comment had me in stitches
Thanks Jon, now i have the urge for a pork pie with lots of gelatin . Theres a butchers near me in Ashover that used to make their own pork pie's, if you bought one when they were freash out of the oven, one could nibble a little hole in the " hot water crust" and suck out the warm gelatin, mmmmmm . I believd the shop was bought by someone else and no longer make their own pork pie's . Thanks for awaking my taste buds, duck.👍
The grammar school on stilts was a security measure to ensure pupils didn't escape ;)
Yay, a new episode
Great episode. Hear the geese caught you up. With you on the pork pies.
The space center is indeed just a museum, however just the other side of the Abbey pumping station (visible on your drone footage) is a facility that actually does make space instruments and satellites for the UKSA and ESA (it has an ESA satellite hanging inside the entrance which is pretty cool) as part of Leicester University
What's great about Great Glen? Only that your 'pin' at 2:56 is basically on Englebert Humperdinck's house!!! And if you ever do 'bonkers car parks', the Lee Circle one - centre screen at 0:19 - caused MUCH confusion as it is basically a double-helix, with two entrances and no connections from the red zone to the blue zone parking...
Good car park... ruclips.net/video/nzJ86MDq1wY/видео.html
@@AutoShenanigans Always good to start the week with your splendid mix of information and sarcasm - keep up the excellent work 🤩
John: I've mentioned motorways and airfields to you before (Moreton Valence, Burtonwood, as examples). You should do a series on that. When the M69 at Leicester was being built they were looking for hardcore; they tried to dig up the main runway at what was Leicester East and failed miserably. I'll tell you the reason if you do a series on WWII airfields & Motorways.
Yet another supreme film that I would happily watch again and again. But I am in danger of being taken away in a blue van.
These videos just get better and better
The jelly is the best bit !
09:38 had me in stictches... Probably the most British thing ever 😂
And Love how you didn't reshoot it and stuck with it
I like Market Harborough. I was there one year and there was a fabulous street carnival with some amazing artists, performers etc. Not sure if that still happens. I also like Melton Mobray pies, even the weird jelly! 😂
Great video John, amazing as always,you keeped your cool at the bloke walking in front of camera 😂👌👍
6:12 😂😂😂 priceless 😂 museum about space
Back in the era of the Tudors rent was paid for by the amount of land you built upon, so by building on stilts they only got charged by the government for the Square metre of land the stilts stood on, as opposed to the entire building. meaning had it not been on stilts it would have costed a lot more to pay for each month. there is another building just like this in a small town called Ledbury.
I sure hope you see this @AutoShenanigans! and i hope it helps :D