Great British Road Journeys - West Sussex - Horsham to Bognor Regis Ep. 35

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  • Опубликовано: 7 янв 2025

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  • @Boric78
    @Boric78 3 месяца назад +330

    You know if you described this channel's concept to me a few months back, I would have wondered at your sanity for recommending it. But its class and totally addictive. Sundays are the best day of the week because of all the new vids. Still laughing about that chap in the yellow t-shirt from last week "Can I help you?" "No I don't think so." LOL - more than once this week.

    • @aaronk534
      @aaronk534 3 месяца назад +12

      When I 1st watch a long time ago I thought, "this isnt very interesting." Then the next sunday I found myself watching again. By week 4 I looked forward to it. Its like The Clap and just slowly gets worse til you get the medicine you need. In this case, an odd video Id miss if it were late

    • @TheLambLive
      @TheLambLive 3 месяца назад +13

      Absolutely one of those examples where the presenter makes the show what it is... the editing and cocky quips are first class.

    • @JamesHardiman99
      @JamesHardiman99 3 месяца назад +1

      Home territory again for me. Very interesting.

    • @GWorsfold
      @GWorsfold 3 месяца назад

      @@TheLambLive Shouldn't that be Cocking quips? 🤔

    • @Droningonuk
      @Droningonuk 3 месяца назад +2

      when I tell people about this channel I always seem to find myself saying it sounds dull but it's so interesting!

  • @himofthenorth-east
    @himofthenorth-east 3 месяца назад +110

    "the pontoon only appears at low tide so you have to time it right to see it, which I didn't" 😂

  • @catlee8064
    @catlee8064 3 месяца назад +207

    ...."Theres fuck all". 🤣🤣🤣

    • @johnharrison6808
      @johnharrison6808 3 месяца назад +4

      Yep that's Horsham in a nutshell.

    • @namugriff
      @namugriff 3 месяца назад +2

      Short and sweet

    • @Anaerin
      @Anaerin 3 месяца назад

      I didn't know this series would take a sudden swerve to Rockall, but here we are.

    • @NTLBagpuss
      @NTLBagpuss 3 месяца назад +1

      That and "which I didn't." have to be the highlights of this tour.

    • @andyduggan7810
      @andyduggan7810 3 месяца назад

      Along with Turd Towns this is pretty much my favourite RUclips. Not that anyone would have any reason to want to know that.

  • @markarnold8160
    @markarnold8160 3 месяца назад +80

    My wife was born a Butlin, and was a Pontin's lifeguard. Her line manager thought she was a spy 😂

    • @David_Crayford
      @David_Crayford 3 месяца назад +6

      The Undercover Boss. 🙂

    • @razzle1964
      @razzle1964 3 месяца назад +5

      @@David_Crayford… from redcoat to bluecoat, via turncoat … so, would that be ‘undercoat’ boss?🤔✌️

  • @nickhaddon538
    @nickhaddon538 3 месяца назад +16

    I wasn't sure about this channel at first, but now I'm hooked and would recommend it to everyone. Why do people bother watching TV anymore when we have gems like this?

  • @Simplebutsandy
    @Simplebutsandy 3 месяца назад +53

    Mt favourite thing about Bognor Regis is the (apocryphal) story that when George V was dying, his secretary told him that Bognor asked if they could have a royal suffix after his recent visit there, to which he replied "Bugger Bognor". His secretary took that as a "yes".

    • @simonwilson1237
      @simonwilson1237 3 месяца назад +5

      Thanks I've wondered where bugger bognor came from

    • @fredericksaxton3991
      @fredericksaxton3991 3 месяца назад +6

      I had heard that when the king was on his death bed, a courtier suggested visiting Bognor for his health, to which he was supposed to have said - "Bugger Bognor".

    • @paul756uk2
      @paul756uk2 3 месяца назад +4

      My favourite thing about bognor is the road out of it

    • @rogink
      @rogink 3 месяца назад +1

      @@fredericksaxton3991 Yes I'm sure that's the story I heard.

    • @iainet
      @iainet 3 месяца назад

      As always this story is repeated incorrectly. The correct story is that the King was asked whether or not he would like to play golf or return to Bognor.

  • @vastariner
    @vastariner 3 месяца назад +36

    6:18 There is also a book about the village called A Short History Of Cocking, which I assume has been mis-filed by many a librarian.

    • @David_Crayford
      @David_Crayford 3 месяца назад +1

      And a sequal called A History Of Short Cocking.

  • @MrFlyingguy
    @MrFlyingguy 3 месяца назад +31

    clever injection of humour makes this both fun and interesting to watch....

    • @justaguycalledjosh
      @justaguycalledjosh 3 месяца назад +2

      I love the recurring joke of "After spending a lot of money, and being a nuisance for a long time, the roadworks changed absolutely nothing."

  • @samarthur8385
    @samarthur8385 2 месяца назад +1

    Torque Moto Cafe is my local haunt on the weekends. It is also 5 mins down the road from me so love that you included it in your visit to horsham in this video!!

  • @chrisgironde6669
    @chrisgironde6669 3 месяца назад +3

    You wondered what Sussex gave ?
    I was born in Horsham 61 years ago!!
    That’s a major achievement for it haha

  • @NJRD977
    @NJRD977 3 месяца назад +3

    As a kid, we would have day trips to Bognor inflicted on us because we had cousins who lived near by. To get to them we would drive past the prison at Ford. We would then drive past Butlins. Which, with its huge security fencing, looked more like a prison than HMP Ford did!

  • @robscovell5951
    @robscovell5951 3 месяца назад +4

    The A272 is one of the most beautiful roads in England.

  • @sandwichbar8226
    @sandwichbar8226 3 месяца назад +40

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

  • @SimonJessey
    @SimonJessey 3 месяца назад +2

    Bummer that you missed out the Weald and Downland Living Museum after your Cocking about.

  • @thginknhoj
    @thginknhoj 3 месяца назад +28

    Gutted you didn't stop in my home town of Petworth, you'd have loved all the antiques shops 🤣😂

    • @1258-Eckhart
      @1258-Eckhart 3 месяца назад +3

      And William Turner's several paintings in/from Petworth House (country seat of the Lord Egremont).

  • @iansutherland-iz3bx
    @iansutherland-iz3bx 3 месяца назад +4

    The Horsham Brewery was actually King&Barnes, itnused to be by the bishopric and you could smell when they were malting.
    They brewed one of the most bitter bitters in the country after Henley's Brakespear brewery

    • @ronibee
      @ronibee 2 месяца назад

      I managed to get a last brewery tour in just before they closed down. I always had a polypin of Old Ale at Christmas. How I miss it! I got my polypins etc. at 'trade price' because i worked with someone whose uncle was a King. In my youth, the quality was a bit variable and the saying was "If the bottom has fallen out of your world, drink a pint of K&B and the world will fall out of your bottom." I used to be friends with an Australian bloke and when I mentioned the Bishopric he thought I was "being dirty".

  • @aylanwright83
    @aylanwright83 3 месяца назад +21

    he passsed through my town (petworth) and said nothing, but intsad talked about cocking. im yet to recover from this indignity.

    • @andrewhotston983
      @andrewhotston983 3 месяца назад +1

      Your town should be renamed "Notworth", perhaps? 😉

  • @doctorwalex
    @doctorwalex 3 месяца назад +21

    Bognor and Lyme Regis' younger brother Cyrille became a famous footballer.

  • @johnharrison6808
    @johnharrison6808 3 месяца назад +1

    Good shout out for Torque, always something interesting appearing there.

  • @Dutcharmytent
    @Dutcharmytent 3 месяца назад

    I worked at the Warnham brickworks and Southwater around 40 years ago, It was run by Redlands back then. The Warnham train crossing had been open but it is completely closed and shut off now to all vehicles

  • @timmycee9940
    @timmycee9940 3 месяца назад +1

    When I was a kid we used to holiday in Pagham, just along the coast from Bognor. We'd set off early from home in Kent, stop in Horsham for breakfast then on to Bognor so this really stirs the memories!

  • @johnpope515
    @johnpope515 3 месяца назад +20

    The Brewery founded around 1800 as Satchell & Co bought by James King renamed as Kings & Sons 1906 merged with Barnes & Co forming King & Barnes taken over by Hall & Woodhouse and closed in 2000

    • @AutoShenanigans
      @AutoShenanigans  3 месяца назад +9

      You are absolutely right, I summarised all of that into one name to keep it simple.

    • @johnpope515
      @johnpope515 3 месяца назад +5

      @@AutoShenanigans Thanks for the reply mine was a bit long winded great videos come on 150,00 subs

    • @philhawley1219
      @philhawley1219 3 месяца назад +5

      @@johnpope515 My brother lived near Whoresham. King&Barnes was a decent pint. Hall & Woodhouse is badger piss.

    • @Beatlefan67
      @Beatlefan67 3 месяца назад +2

      @@philhawley1219 Living in Dorset we have the unfortunate occurrence of finding too many pubs with Hall and Woodlouse (sic) pretend beer. Yuk..

    • @johnpope515
      @johnpope515 3 месяца назад +2

      @@philhawley1219 Hall & Woodhouse just wanted the tie house's and shut the brewery down so sad 😢

  • @KurisuBonsai
    @KurisuBonsai 3 месяца назад +6

    Pressed the specific button and played all the ads for the top tier snarky delivery in this one. Excellent stuff!

  • @martynhall20
    @martynhall20 3 месяца назад +2

    As someone that lives in Southwater, thanks for mentioning it. Great video as usual. Have a drink on me

  • @brianartillery
    @brianartillery 3 месяца назад +11

    Ah, the Beeching cuts. My favourite thing about that was the TV vox pops that took place at a mass meeting of rail workers who were going to lose their jobs, due to Dr Beeching's cuts (instigated by the crooked Minister Of Transport, Eric Marples, who ran several road construction companies);
    One of the railmen interviewed was asked if he wanted anything from Beeching. His terse, angry answer was this, and it's perfect:
    "Aye. His testicles in an eggcup."
    You were right about Chichester - I went there once, and it appeared to be closed. Likewise - Bugger Bognor.

    • @Mark.Andrew.Pardoe
      @Mark.Andrew.Pardoe 3 месяца назад +1

      Whato all,
      Don't forget the Minister of Transport who carried out most of the closures was Labour's Barbara Castle.

  • @paulholmes672
    @paulholmes672 3 месяца назад +1

    Jon, As usual, love your content and as a retired Yank, wish I could visit back at my old haunts, initially East Anglia, but Torquay, etc., miss it all. Your content and typical humor are a breath of brisk British 'fresh' air, and it does substitute a bit. Still working on a 'one more trip' to the Isles, but hope to include my legacy in Bonnie Old Scotland, as well.
    Keep up the good work and as T Wogan said, "Keep Your Pecker Up"!!!

  • @pkf4124
    @pkf4124 3 месяца назад

    A great tongue in cheek guide to the area I have lived in all my life. A few things i didnt know despite going past them regularly. You could have another go as theres a few oddities you missed on the route. The rail tunnel just down from Cocking is one thing, as kids we were always trying to get in to the blocked off tunnel to walk in the few hundred meters of victorian darkness.full of bats spiders and potential hazzards. You summed up Chichester exactly though.

  • @djtrainspotter
    @djtrainspotter 3 месяца назад +1

    I remember Butlins there in 1978 on hol as a nipper, nothing but chinooks flying everywhere and other such splendid memories.

  • @MrHurley61
    @MrHurley61 3 месяца назад

    Only you can make me giggle like a school boy when you makes the remark `oh dear' after anouncing Wienerberger.
    Class. Love this channel, highlight of the week.

  • @Danny-204
    @Danny-204 3 месяца назад +1

    Thanks for not slating Bognor, it really does not deserve the reputation it has, I have lived in Aldwick for 10+ years and it really is alright.

  • @andyduggan7810
    @andyduggan7810 3 месяца назад

    In the background of the holiday advert is what looks like another aerial ropeway, but this one was for people rather than industrial uses. A very clever coincidence.

  • @efftee
    @efftee 3 месяца назад +28

    Getting dangerously close to Crawley with these episodes

    • @davidrobert2007
      @davidrobert2007 3 месяца назад +5

      That place is creepy.

    • @David_Crayford
      @David_Crayford 3 месяца назад +5

      @@davidrobert2007 Creepy Crawley. LOL.

    • @mariemccann5895
      @mariemccann5895 3 месяца назад

      Buy a map.

    • @ianbarnes9947
      @ianbarnes9947 3 месяца назад

      Acid baths and Bluebird - what's not to like! 😊

    • @ahwootton5
      @ahwootton5 3 месяца назад

      Yes but there's fuck all there also

  • @Ivan-y7e8p
    @Ivan-y7e8p 3 месяца назад +19

    Don't feel bad about missing the Mulberry pontoon. The two crews of the 1975 Apollo _ Soyuz mission would have meet up over Bognor Regis but they were late so the handshake took place over France.

    • @David_Crayford
      @David_Crayford 3 месяца назад +1

      Yeah, but at what altitude? LOL.

    • @willtricks9432
      @willtricks9432 3 месяца назад +1

      Then it would have been a polite peck on each cheek. OOh ,LaLa Comrade.

  • @raresoulie
    @raresoulie 3 месяца назад +1

    Bognor was Albert Ladysmith Steptoe's favourite holiday destination

  • @ACoincidentalLife
    @ACoincidentalLife 3 месяца назад +15

    Having Henry visit doesn't sound like a big deal but when you realise that he came with an entourage of 100 people that you would have to feed them and their horses puts a different spin on it because if they stayed for a week or even a month or more it could financially cripple you. Worse still, you could not say no!

    • @andykilvington1651
      @andykilvington1651 3 месяца назад +1

      Billy Butlin missed the boat - by about 500 years!

    • @divgradcurl9439
      @divgradcurl9439 3 месяца назад +6

      More of a worry if your home was a monastery and Henry was planning a 'visit'...

    • @chrisperyagh
      @chrisperyagh 3 месяца назад

      He stayed at the Royal Norfolk hotel, so no wonder he reacted in the way he did. That place is a shithole.

  • @Assimilator1
    @Assimilator1 2 месяца назад

    Fascinating with some good funny moments thrown into too, still loving your videos!

  • @macauleysamualkent2319
    @macauleysamualkent2319 3 месяца назад

    I bomb about them roads in my old landy, brilliant roads to drive on😂 love going past the cocking village store, makes me chuckle

  • @JohnSmithShields
    @JohnSmithShields 3 месяца назад +2

    The brutal honesty of these videos is simply refreshing.
    There's f£%k all.
    Grow up, we haven't time.
    I wasn't.
    Not forgetting a seamless cut from Bognor blowing a gale to a sunny cornfield for the drone outro shot.

  • @AaronJessop
    @AaronJessop 3 месяца назад +1

    Wicked sweet awesome 🌟

  • @banhammer7243
    @banhammer7243 3 месяца назад

    As a kid I was lucky enough to go to holiday camps like Butlins, they was actually really fun places to go as kids (and I presume adults) you could rent sporting equipment using just your keys from your room, if you left the camp site to go exploring local castles (for example) you could order a premade packed lunch. Really was a great time to be on holiday.

  • @robertfuller9128
    @robertfuller9128 3 месяца назад

    Keep up the great work Jon. Here's some suggestions for future vids: Shortest and longest distance between motorway junctions; lowest and highest motorway section relative to sea level. Roads that cross over dams (Craig Goch Dam in Wales is a beauty). Oh in Horsham you missed the spot where railway, road and river all cross each other at the same point. It's Denne road crossing the river Arun by St.Marys church and is one of only two places in the UK this occurs.

  • @01mememememe
    @01mememememe 3 месяца назад +6

    thanks

  • @andyrbush
    @andyrbush 3 месяца назад

    As a pair of 14 year olds my pal and I claimed were 16 and stayed at Butlins in 1965. We had a great time.

  • @alantheskinhead
    @alantheskinhead 3 месяца назад

    The remains of the Butlin Dynasty live in east Leicester about 400 yards from my old house or about eight miles from my newer house. I sort of went "out" with one of the daughters and in the end it didn't work so I threw the dynasty down the toilet. Her dad was a brilliant chemist with the apt name of Galen.

  • @MrGreatplum
    @MrGreatplum 3 месяца назад

    Horsham was the town I spent the first 20 or so years of my life, and from the age of 10 living at Christ’s Hospital (a school) where my parents taught. I still miss king and barnes and the smell of the hops when they did the brewing!

  • @davidyardley512
    @davidyardley512 3 месяца назад

    I love the changes in the seasons as you work your way around on these great British road journeys Jon. Clearly Autumn now!

  • @richardhaywood4123
    @richardhaywood4123 3 месяца назад

    Really enjoyed this one,the brickworks and lime works were interesting. Glad to see that disused road/rail bridge wasn't demolished.

  • @vincentcrowley1362
    @vincentcrowley1362 3 месяца назад +25

    "Grow up, we haven't got time for that" 😂😂😂
    \

    • @simontay4851
      @simontay4851 3 месяца назад +1

      Yes we have. There is always time for that.

  • @Beliefisthedeathofintellect
    @Beliefisthedeathofintellect 3 месяца назад +1

    That image at 8.27 I was one of the last to ride the one on Barry island.
    I was about 4 or 5. I remember it like yesterday. 😊

  • @Zedd7
    @Zedd7 3 месяца назад +5

    Hi Jon, good to see this week's video is up. Good job

  • @Hans-k9j
    @Hans-k9j 3 месяца назад +3

    Keep up the good work you’re doing. English roads are just awesome if you present them👍

  • @andykilvington1651
    @andykilvington1651 3 месяца назад

    Brill. Love the shot of The Jaguar book. Cool!

  • @tangerinedream7211
    @tangerinedream7211 3 месяца назад

    After the roads have been exhausted, by ppm and 15 minutes cities, there's Tim West and Pru Scales patch to update, Great British Canal Journeys.
    But seriously for total nerdness Great British Bus Journeys.😬🤣🤣🤣.
    Thanks for the Sunday update .

  • @chrisbarber5657
    @chrisbarber5657 3 месяца назад

    Ah, Southwater. My home town, or village as it was back then. Can remember the brickwork.

  • @santorini8423
    @santorini8423 3 месяца назад

    My favourite thing about Bognor. I’ll get back to you.

  • @BRADERZ1986
    @BRADERZ1986 3 месяца назад +7

    Another cracking episode mate. 👍🏾👍🏾

  • @edwardlees4585
    @edwardlees4585 3 месяца назад

    These just keep getting better. And he's approaching Petersfield, the town nearest to where I grew up, so I'm looking forward to some insightful comments next week.

  • @Cyberdyne-kg8ku
    @Cyberdyne-kg8ku 3 месяца назад +88

    Fatty Arbuckle didn't show up in his yellow shirt. Shame.

    • @JohnSmithShields
      @JohnSmithShields 3 месяца назад +16

      He is too busy still chasing the sausage rolls thrown at him.

    • @Goatmanification
      @Goatmanification 3 месяца назад +3

      John is still on the run from the Police the yellow shirt man definitely wasted time calling...

    • @dcarbs2979
      @dcarbs2979 3 месяца назад +2

      Pity, the 2 video locations are quite close to each other.

  • @alanm6454
    @alanm6454 3 месяца назад

    My great grandfather was one of them fairground people. The ones that travelled around the country and set up on your village green and causing you to lock up your daughters until after they left. However, I digress. He hauled the rides around by, first using horses, before buying them thumping great, noisy, smelly steam tractors. The season for the fairground was, I'm led to believe, late spring, summer and early autumn. During the off season he, amd his extended family, would return to his acreage in the Cocking area and would set up camp there. Surprisingly i came across photos of him and his fairground in an old book that I now treasure and get out to impress people when I have had too many glasses of red. The acreage has, sadly, long since been sold off. Is too late to say that i enjoyed this, and the past, videos? Yeah, i thought so.

  • @AndysAdventures89
    @AndysAdventures89 3 месяца назад

    I used to drive over that bridge in Southwater when i was learning to drive. Nice video

  • @chrisblay
    @chrisblay 3 месяца назад

    Bognor Regis is one of my favourite place names. It’s hilariously funny and rhymes with so many other words. 🤣🤣

  • @Elsie-uy2kl
    @Elsie-uy2kl 3 месяца назад

    I am so glad I found this channel last year as it has become one of the highlights of my week in this sh*t world. 👍

  • @buxvan
    @buxvan 3 месяца назад +6

    King & Barnes beer 🍺 not king & sons.
    Lovely beer.
    Also, you missed the Full sized model spitfire that they are building at this very moment at the Selsey Arms pub on the Coolham crossroads (A272)

    • @john07973
      @john07973 3 месяца назад +2

      Great beers, tragic ending to the brewery and it's pubs, Hall and Woodhouse are on my boycott list. I used to frequent the Dog & Bacon Horsham when visiting my mate who lived nearby in the early 80's

    • @mariemccann5895
      @mariemccann5895 3 месяца назад

      Actually you are wrong, keep up, it stops you making a fool of yourself in public.

  • @johnstilljohn3181
    @johnstilljohn3181 3 месяца назад

    Fabulous - I'm up and down the A24 a lot these days - always a pleasure. Recommend the Moto Torque cafe, too...

  • @drobinson8080
    @drobinson8080 3 месяца назад

    Horsham is my home town. Some great roads locally and the cafe you visited is definitely worth a visit

  • @techgeekout
    @techgeekout 3 месяца назад

    Glad you found some interesting bits down in this neck of the woods. You missed Chi and it's legendary tunnels that allegedly go from under the Market Cross to either a pub or the old Vicar's house, something like that. There's also the real tunnel/river drain that goes from near the college to near St Richard's school, that you can walk through when it's not full (bit low though). To be fair, the traffic is horrendous.
    When you get to the New Forest, go to Lepe Country Park and walk along to the old Mulberry Harbours, it's literally where they built and launched them - and relevant to this episode, they feature lots of Southwater bricks. Keep up the good work Jon

  • @speedstar7335
    @speedstar7335 3 месяца назад +2

    You missed Goodwood!!
    Top notch otherwise! Keep it coming.

  • @stuwallace3673
    @stuwallace3673 3 месяца назад

    Love a seamless scene change6as you wave goodbye, another great video

  • @mattandrews2594
    @mattandrews2594 3 месяца назад

    Of all the places the guidebook could've taken you to in this county, and you end up in Bognor. You have my sympathies John.

  • @dougdavidson175
    @dougdavidson175 3 месяца назад

    I liked this so I clicked the button specifically for that! Take care & stay safe John.

  • @goosegog
    @goosegog 3 месяца назад

    Cheers, nice video John. I love your drone shots. I also love Torque Moto. It's owned by a friend and is a 7 days a week car show. Best of all is their coffee (Coffee Real) which is also their own business. It's second to none! Keep up the good work.

  • @Fairyfink
    @Fairyfink 3 месяца назад

    This brought back happy memories of a summer job at Butlins in Bognor Regis in the early 80s. I was 18. The job was fucking awful, the alcohol consumption was prodigious and I got sacked after 2 weeks. Good times.

  • @86XFA
    @86XFA 3 месяца назад

    I love your no-nonsense style. Thanks for the great content!

  • @tooyoungtobeold8756
    @tooyoungtobeold8756 3 месяца назад

    Excllent and amusing stuff. I know all the roads and towns as I live nearby.

  • @sh4dowchas3r
    @sh4dowchas3r 3 месяца назад

    I see you got perfect weather for visiting the beach at the end there.

  • @minibus9
    @minibus9 3 месяца назад

    awesome video, Gene Hunt is a famous fictiianl fan of Bognar

  • @kabongpope
    @kabongpope 3 месяца назад

    Every time you say "wicked sweet awesome" I have flashbacks to my time in Boston, MA, where they'd say it all the time 😂

  • @tjexplore8059
    @tjexplore8059 3 месяца назад +1

    Came so close to where I grew up! Ashington isn’t far but there isn’t a lot there so don’t blame u hahaha. Used to love going to cocking quarry when I used to do urbex with my mates.

  • @jonporter8852
    @jonporter8852 3 месяца назад

    there's also more of the mulberry harbour visible off the neighbouring town of Pagham

  • @Bosunsbikes
    @Bosunsbikes 3 месяца назад

    Starting local to me,I now know what bridge is for. Love your reporting style😊

  • @Stephen_Lafferty
    @Stephen_Lafferty 3 месяца назад +17

    2:04 - I wonder who will be the lucky subscriber who snags the Lanyard Of Destiny?

    • @edwardlees4585
      @edwardlees4585 3 месяца назад

      ​@@WestermanT.Proof, please.

    • @richardvoogd705
      @richardvoogd705 3 месяца назад

      ​@@WestermanT.Photos, or it didn't happen. 😮

    • @edwardlees4585
      @edwardlees4585 3 месяца назад +1

      @@WestermanT. Can you email a photo of you wearing it to John so he can post it on his channel?

  • @GreenJimll
    @GreenJimll 3 месяца назад

    Bognor looking much as a I remember it from Butlins holidays in the 1970s: cold and windswept!

    • @davidioanhedges
      @davidioanhedges 3 месяца назад

      It's a bit like Billy Connolly : "Windswept and Interesting", but not interesting ...

  • @adamjolley8552
    @adamjolley8552 3 месяца назад +118

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

    • @RichardFraser-y9t
      @RichardFraser-y9t 3 месяца назад +19

      I liked this comment so I pressed the button specifically for that

    • @alan72roach
      @alan72roach 3 месяца назад +4

      I was the thousandth person to perform such an action on this particular video.

    • @esdsecurity
      @esdsecurity 3 месяца назад +5

      Me too....

    • @Goldenoldie49
      @Goldenoldie49 3 месяца назад +5

      Ditto.

    • @Michael.Dobson
      @Michael.Dobson 3 месяца назад +7

      Meaning you're whicked, sweet, awesome!

  • @tobyjackman3212
    @tobyjackman3212 3 месяца назад

    This is the *best* video I've ever seen about anything

  • @MemskiBobSki
    @MemskiBobSki 3 месяца назад

    Thanks!

  • @iainet
    @iainet 3 месяца назад

    On the subject of interesting village names, here in Sussex we have Bedham, Lickfold, Hardham, Cocking, Balls Cross, Hurtmore, Stopham and of course Greatham….In no particular order.

    • @UK_Lemons
      @UK_Lemons 3 месяца назад +1

      Let's not forget Upper and Lower Dicker.

  • @jonnyhuk2
    @jonnyhuk2 3 месяца назад

    The closing sequence by Racton Monument is quite a detour from today's route and never mentioned!

  • @Ubawbag
    @Ubawbag 3 месяца назад

    Happy I found this channel , it reminds me of the Tom Scott style of video !!! Witch is defo a good thing p👍

  • @andybrowne2117
    @andybrowne2117 3 месяца назад

    I like the suttle sarcasm !

  • @wowbaggertheinfinitelyprol6262
    @wowbaggertheinfinitelyprol6262 3 месяца назад +5

    "Wienerberger, oh dear!" 😂🤣😂🤣😂

  • @GamMngitSssEmoTionaL5953
    @GamMngitSssEmoTionaL5953 3 месяца назад +1

    @AutoShenanigans please please come to North East Scotland love to see the history you find 😎🙏 once again and Wicked Sweet Awesome Video 🤟

  • @MichaelSnasdell
    @MichaelSnasdell 3 месяца назад

    Love it. Got to go see that

  • @Supposedlyimrightwingnow
    @Supposedlyimrightwingnow 3 месяца назад

    Another great video. Anything to do with Butlins I love as I spent my childhood at those places. Never went to bognor Regis but I have been to a place called selsay not a million miles away. Not many sand beaches down that way as far as I remember.

  • @NickB_Yorkshire
    @NickB_Yorkshire 3 месяца назад

    Great video as always Jon. Hilarious yet informative - what a perfect combination 👋🏼😊

  • @millstonebarn
    @millstonebarn 3 месяца назад +2

    Drives immediately to Horsham!

  • @lloydcollins6337
    @lloydcollins6337 3 месяца назад

    On a similar regal note Bognor reputedly became Bognor Regis because King George V was recuperating from an illness in Bognor. A delegation from the local council approached his attendants and asked if the King would be so good as to grant the town Royal status. The aide went into the room where the King was, and asked if His Majesty would be willing to accede to the request. The King, being somewhat distracted, answered "bugger Bognor!". The aide bowed, left the room, and told the dignitaties "His Majesty would be happy to graciously accede to your request".

  • @jonathonbrett-qn1ic
    @jonathonbrett-qn1ic 3 месяца назад

    Brilliant Jon
    Thank you as always excellent

  • @anthonylloyd6094
    @anthonylloyd6094 3 месяца назад

    What a Cocking awesome place!

  • @jonporter8852
    @jonporter8852 3 месяца назад

    slight irony in that i didn't get to see your video upon release as i was in Bognor with poor signal - had to wait until i was home today

  • @fumthings
    @fumthings 3 месяца назад

    the call back to the "security" Oompa Loompa, made me laugh...