Great British Road Journeys - East Sussex - Crowborough to Hailsham Ep. 21
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You've seen the thumbnail... it's legit, the palace on the other hand isn't. We'll be stopping by to take a look at what's going on with that as well as taking in several other sights found in and around the county of East Sussex.
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*
Nutley Windmill - www.bridgecott...
The Picture House - www.picturehou...
Bridge Cottage - www.bridgecott...
Did you notice that signs on the entry to Uckfield are closely cropped to avoid the addition of letters?
Damned duck lovers....
Sussex already has a Cuckfield of course
No........
Muckfield
Yeah, locals are well fed up with all the saturation underfoot caused by the rainfall this year and would be making their feelings known. If there was better drainage there, then they wouldn’t still be calling it…. Muckfield.
1:10 as Mark Twain said: " Golf...a good walk spoiled"... and spoilt for everyone else too!!
I feel like if it weren't for the golf course it would all be trees and you wouldn't have a nice view at all... so...
That wasn't Twain..
It is a falsely attributed quote
For me, golf is a good walk with many welcome opportunities for a short rest!
I thought that was Churchill?
6:34 - "Heading away from Escobar Montana Capone Towers..." - classic! I'm even more impressed that the subtitles managed to get it right, too!
Sadly, the subtitles missed that John actually said "Escobar Montana KRAY Capone Towers"
Love it
Laughed like a drain.
What East Sussex contributes, Harvey's Brewery for example.
I grew up in Sussex. I thought it was boring at the time but now that I am in my 50s I appreciate its subtle beauty and the fact that it hasn't seen many upgrades, thanks to much of it being protected land. National Park, greenbelt etc. It was historically seen as rather an eccentric county and its unofficial motto, "We wunt be druv," expressed a stubbornness that I would like to think is not merely a thing of the past. In its darkest days, Sussex was a stronghold of the British Union of [bundle-of-sticks]-ists but also a hotbed of rebellion and sedition in its juicier moments. The Lewes Bonfire Night celebrations are a sight to behold. Sussex is perhaps not the most obvious place to visit but under the surface there is a lot of fascinating history.
I too grew up in Sussex and now in my 50s I also look back with the fondest of memories. Despite not living there for 40 years, it still feels like my spiritual home. I experienced my first Lewis fire torch procession when I was 7. I had never seen grown-ups be so anarchic. It was amazing. If I remember correctly, they burned an effigy of the Pope that night! I wanted to leave a comment because your comment stirred up memories of flaming torches.
@@Froobyone Great memories eh! I was a St John Ambulance cadet in the 80s. We always manned the Crowborough bonfire which was crazy. Not as crazy as Lewes but not far off. Happy days. If anyone here remembers a spotty youth looking on while your burns were treated by a real first aider, that was probably me.
@@robscovell5951 Man I did Crowborough with Hailsham bonfire and my god that fire I remember it almost melting my skin off. Was like 2012 ish
@@TheBanana93 I know right! Back in the 80s I remember all kinds of stuff thrown on, like old beds, chairs, everything.
I took part in the Battle Bonfire in 1975 - it was complete, brilliant organised madness. A regular attendee of THE bonfire too during the 80’s - Lewes.
A Hastings boy myself and worked in Sussex all my life, East and West. A great county to grow up in.
I don’t live in the UK now.
Some fond memories in this video though. Thanks.
My grandfather, Tony Turner, restored Nutley Windmill back in the 60's, his direct descendant (and my own) also had a pivotal role in 1874 in the windmills history. Tony was a founding member of the presevation society that also restored Bridge Cottage. I spent a lot of time around Ashdown forest, pooh sticks bridge, friends clump, and nutley windmill as a child and have a lot of happy memories of the area.
@isometricfallacy That would have been his direct ancestor. YOU are a descendent.
It wasn't until recently that my family learned about our ancestors owning the mill. Unfortunately, according to records, it changed hands due to forfeiting on non-payment.
You need to go through Plumpton Green where Trumpton was based on, Chigley is Chailey and Camberwick Green is Wivelsfield Green with the fire station bought in from Barcombe Village.
Well I never knew that and I’ve lived in East/West Sussex for decades.
Hugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb.
i was 56 years old when i realised there was three towns not just two..
@@Eric_Hunt194 Those aren't the names used in Dumpton (look it up)
Also the Dr in his red 'rolls royce' or whatever it was was based on my old Doctor, Dr Tombleson who had a Yellow Rolls Royce and that woman with all the dogs was also based on a local lady, as was the postman etc, the windmill was in Chailey, it was actually opposite Chailey Secondary School where I went as a teenager and the train line was in Plumpton Green.
Lots more about Plumpton, our King Charles now wife's family lives there, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin did too for example.
Well done negotiating the pot holes at Heron's Ghyll on the A26.
Herons Gaza*
Conan Doyle was a doctor and hoped profoundly that he would not be remembered only as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Read a short biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this man's life and achievements beggar belief.
But Crowborough... surprised he didn't die of boredom.
@@ianb9729 Ha! Thank you.
Don't forget Conan Doyle believed in fairies at the bottom of a garden.
@@Romartus And Spiritualism. Bloke was a nutter.
Jon not dicking about in this episode.
Another fantastic episode Jon.
i heard van Hoogstraten once say he intended the mansion to be his
mausoleum and that upon his death was planning to be placed inside it and then have the whole building sealed up, leaving nothing to his family or children
Allegedly he evicted his own mother from one of his properties because someone offered to pay him a higher rent. Wot a Gent!
I think the mausoleum is the building by the lake rather than the monstrosity
@@MrGreatplum he himself said it was to be the whole thing
@@markauckland666that’s correct! I’ve been in there it’s only got one bedroom
@@sasquatch2732 he also didnt want his children to have any of his money or gain anything from the house itself..
Building a palace is a pretty classy thing for a crimeboss to do. The scaffolding will also make his inevitable fight with Spiderman more interesting.
Love the humour in these videos.
I'm happy now got my Sunday fix of Auto Shenanigans. Thanks for keeping my smiling. Keep up the good work 😄
Nicholas Van Whatsisface?
He's got more aliases than Klaus Barbie....
The master butcher of Leigh on sea
Just about to take the stage……
Top man
Another well done piece of local info, great job! Thank you.
Hoogstraten - good excuse to listen to Sheriff Fatman by Carter USM
6ft 6 and 100 tons, undisputed king of the slums
More aliases than Klaus Barbie, allegedly...
His latest apparently being Nicholas Adolf von Hessen. Says everything you need to know about the man.
@@lemongrapesfilmshe’s only about 5ft 6 😂
@@lemongrapesfilms9
Your levels of sarcasm are truly refreshing my friend….😂
A future series idea.... "Every Disused Little Chief Site".
Kind of like those "Every Disused Train Station" that other do.
As an ex trucker and long time LC customer, I'd watch that. At a very quick count up, I reckon I used maybe 150!
I'm also a member of the OK diner discount for having used all of them. Admittedly there are only four, but ..... 😂
@@alecoldroyd6213My experience of using the one on the A38 near Burton was not OK. Been past it many a time when I lived there but only got round to using it recently. Feel I might have just got it on an off day as it looks like it should be better than it was. Then again, I had not long visited another American diner styled services off J15 of the M1 which set a very high bar. Well worth a visit if you're in the area.
Always used to laugh at Lower Dicker and Upper Dicker on my way to Knockhatch when I was a kid.
You’d love Cockfield in County Durham and Cockermouth in Cumbria.
However the French have a place called Brest and they don’t think it’s funny. WT……..
If you replaced the kn with a c in knockhatch you'd have yourself a very suggesting area.
Have you ever been to ScabbyBarbara ?
@@griswald7156 nope
I spent many happy nights at the Travelodge at Boship roundabout, with my "no sleeper cab" truck in the spacious carpark.
It was ideal. Pull up, Little Chef curry for tea, sleep, Olympic Breakfast, on the road again.
Once it became Starbucks the site lost a lot of its appeal.
Btw John you missed out on a gem just around the corner. The Hellingly Asylum Railway... Look it up!!!
Most windmills in England were for grinding corn, most in Holland were for pumping water
Holland, Holland. Wooohoooo! stroopwafels!!!
I absolutely love the change of direction for the channel. The videos are even more interesting and engaging and they are as entertaining as always. I was genuinely perplexed when you ran out of roads ( never thought it would happen ) as to what you were going to do next. This is brilliant !! Keep up the wonderful work.
Hold it, hold it! Blazing Saddles??? Great video as ever, by the way.
I thought "hold up Blazing Saddles" I remember first telling my kids about it. " The sheriff is a ni*****"
You missed Pooh bridge in Hartfield. Thats where Christopher Robin played Pooh sticks.
I think the current one is maybe the 3rd iteration, if I remember right
Ooh, a button specifically for that - go on then....
Fact for you about Hamilton Palace, there is a mausoleum right under the main entrance where Nickolas will be placed when he dies.
If
So that all his former tenants will know where to piss.
@@stamfordly6463 Don’t think he has any, any house within 1 mile of that palace, he purchased them all and kicked everyone out, those hours have also been abandoned ever since. He even put metal over the roof of an old couple he didn’t want to leave so they had no choice but to leave, the sound of rain on that roof would have been horrible.
@@TheExplorerReturns I mean his tenants from when he was a slumlord.
@@stamfordly6463he rented a house to an old lady near the dyke road tavern in Brighton. He wanted her out but she (quite rightly) refused and he sent a builder in and they took out the staircase!!!
I grew up in Crowborough from the age of 9 after leaving South London near Brixton and It's a lovely place Great golf course which when it snows is awesome as it has a massive hill to slide down on a plastic sheet great fun and did you know that Sir David Jason from only fools and horse lives in Crowborough. Also Crowborough has a massive WW2 Army base there which now is home to Army Navy and AIR CADETS Big shout out to 1414 SQUADRON as i was in back in the 80s
Yep, I can confirm that my grandparents also thought Crowborough was indeed a nice place to retire... so much so that they did precisely that, and lived happily in a house called Longview until the mid 1960's. Some of my very happiest early memories were made there. So thanks for a video that, this week, was full of unexpected nostalgia.
I grew up in Crowborough, in a house called Longview in Goldsmith Avenue. My parents brought the house in 1966, if it's the same house they must have brought it from your grandparents.
Crowborough is a dump. people throthing at the mouth
Any further west and we'll be an expecting a collaboration episode with Paul Whitewick. 😆
The Whitewicks did a video in this area, including around the Hoogstraten monstrosity...
Auto Shenans would run rings about the boy.
@@MckIdyll Paul is actually a decent historian, unlike Jon, who clearly doesn't give much of a shit about anything.
There's also a Horney Common on the A22 just north of Uckfield.
Crowborough golf course is a very popular location after dark coming into autumn for seasonal mushrooms, so much so, in the '90s, they started having security patrolling.
Crowborough train station is actually in Jarvis Brook, although now the town has grown to encompass "Jarviland", there used to be some big scuffles between Uckfield and Crowborough youth over the years, you were fine if you said you were from Jarvis Brook or outlying villages if visiting Uckfield or say you were from Ridgewood (now encompassed by Uckfield), or outlying villages if visiting Crowborough.
When travelling across Ashdown Forrest, somehow, you missed the nuclear bunker at Kingstanding (the staggard crossroads you've have crossed on your way to Nutley), the site is currently used by Sussex Police for various purposes and inside is quite amazing. from the outside, it doesn't look much and only 1 of the 4 radio masts remain.
There was an old cattle market on what is now the Waitrose car park in Uckfield. There used to be an abattoir behind what is currently "Frills All Round" (next to The Station pub), livestock would disembark cattle trucks on a siding where the new station carpark now is and be walked across the road, however, very few would have been walked round to the market site.
The old station had a gasworks alongside it, with a gasometer on top of the hill above, this meant the station had gas lighting, which remained in place until well after the gasworks closed (between 1960-63), I believe the electric lights were only installed towards the end of the '70s. Despite the old station building and goods yard now being under the new/larger station car park, the platforms, main track, buffers (from when the line to Lewes closed) and lam posts are still in place and can be found with some exploration, probably easier to gain access from the Western end of the old station, via the industrial estate.
Bridge Cottage was still a residential house as late as the 1970s
Uckfield was the last confirmed sighting of the infamous Lord Lucan.
Queen Elizabeth ll and Prince Philip were a regular visitors to Uckfield House (long since gone) and then later Horsted Place, where she would often stay with Lord Rupert Nevill and his wife, who were not only childhood friends with the Queen, but he was also later treasurer and private secretary to Prince Philip, Duke of Edingborough until his death in 1982. They would regularly attend Sunday service at Holy Cross and Little Horsted churches respectively, along with the regular congregation.
Just outside Uckfield, is the hamlet of Piltdown, famous for the discovery of the "Piltdown Man", which was allegedly a missing link between ape and man, however, it was later confirmed to be a hoax. The main perpetrator, was Charles Dawson, a lawyer, who was part of what is now one of the biggest solicitors in Uckfield.
The scaffolding still surrounding Hamilton Palace, along with some plant inside the basement of the building and other equipment, was written off by their various owners, after NVH refused to pay their rental, then refused the companies permission onto his land to retrieve their property, even after taking him to court to recover their property or recoup their losses. Allegedly, he still owes a considerable sum of money to builders, rental companies and building supplies companies, despite much being written off as they couldn't retrieve it, even going through the courts.
NVH was in a battle with East Sussex County Council to either close the footpaths on his land, or have them diverted from his land, which he lost, but as far as I'm still aware, doesn't stop his security intimidating people using them when they're not obstructed.
There are/were a couple of cottages on the Eastbourne Road (old A26) opposite HP, which is still his property, the residents requested repairs to the roofs, but he thought the "common riff raff" were living too close to HP, so he did repair the roofs ... with corrugated iron sheets. inevitably, the residents eventually moved out. I can't remember the details, but he wanted planning permission to knock the cottages down and rebuild something else that side of the road, but was denied, mysteriously, no long after, they caught fire and at least partially collapsed.
You missed the big well known landmark on the A26 just past East Hoathly ... The Thatched Garage, The Man For Land Rovers. Originally up in East Hoathly village itself, but then known simply as "The Land Rover Man", he had to change the name when BMW bought the Rover Group and chased after any independent garage that used any of the brand names, without licence or permission, which obviously affected numerous small specialist garages.
Just up the road from Hailsham (towards Horam/Heathfield), is the site of the annual Festival of Transport.
A valiant attempt there to spell Edingbur... Eddinborgh... that place up in Scotland!
Though a station siding with direct delivery of live beasts to a gas-powered abbatoir with BUFs around seems right dodgy.
Well that explains why my Dad always talks about how much of a great time they had doing mushrooms growing up(1970s/80s), they probably picked them around there lol. Fairly certain theres also a ROC monitoring post near the golf course too.
@@robrattray6948 Most likely lol. I believe there may be a ROC monitoring site in the area, also the Army Cadets base on the right of the A26as you head South out of Crowborough.
Thx! Interesting comments 🤗
Yet another awesome vid mate. I wait for everyone as you always give me a little chuckle. Love what you do as you do too by the look of it. Keep it up. Little Dicker lol.
Excellent, Jon! Van Hogstraten is a well known scoundrel and all round Richard Cranium in this part of the world…
I see you moving through East Sussex - doing West Sussex and Surrey next?
4:09 “back in the day…hardly anyone lived in (East) Sussex”.
Until the 20th century, Sussex was very sparsely populated away from the coastal plain and a small number of other places, like Horsham. North of the South Downs was largely covered by the Weald, mostly woodland that made Sussex a peripheral and (dare I say) backward county. The building of the railways opened up the interior a bit, but it wasn’t really until the motor car that infrastructure inland improved and populations increased.
Bloody hell, you survived Hailsham!
The house in Uckfield next to the river was heavily flooded and the little chef you said about on the dicker was not on the corner. It was further towards Uckfield on the opposite side of A22. And I’ve spent 90% of my life in Crowborough and I now live here
There was one at the corner where he was standing as well. There was 2 on the Dicker, which TBF was a bit strange.
5:56 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 this really caught me off guard lol
Brilliant as usual, especially liked the Artists Bridge, what an imaginative idea?
You mean to say that you have never needed to hire a medieval building?😮. Remarkable!
Another fine episode John of many places I have visited. You stopped short of the trek to Pooh Bridge, I was expecting a bit of Pooh Sticks. An episode that was riddled with innuendo and interesting factoids. You are becoming the Michael Portillo of the road world my friend and long may your content flourish.
If only you'd gone another half mile or so off the A22 (where the furniture shop was), down towards the Dicker! Had you done so, you'd have come across one of the very best cafés / shops in the county. The Village Shop and Café, as it is known offers fantastic food, a wonderful welcome and, if you should ever ask for mayonnaise on a Saturday, a hearty rendition of the beginning of the Banana Boat Song . . . 'May, ay, ay, ay, ay, o . . .' I think you missed a trick not finding this little jewel. Next time you're in the area, give it a go!
Shhh,…. Don’t tell everyone
Another great video. Thanks. When you visit the Cleckhuddersfax area of Yorkshire (a.k.a. West Yorkshire) make sure you check out the village of Upper Butts, which is close to the village of Tong... also near the village of Shelf... 😂
Isn't Nether Thong in that neck of the woods too?
I'm the other side of the border - closest we've got to a spectacular name is Clitheroe.
As an HGV driver I’ve delivered my load a few times to swallow business park in Lower Dicker.
Wordsmith.
Why you lidl... 😂
You, sir, won the internet on Sunday.
Uckfield used to have a lovely Victorian (albeit disused) railway station. The line to Lewes was terminated at Uckfield due to flooding nearer Lewes sometime in the late 60s (not Beeching as many think). Ever since, there has been a campaign to reopen the line. The station itself was flooded in a storm in the 2000s and was sadly knocked down.
I can't see it ever being reopened, they'd have to demolish some houses, or reroute the line if they tried now. Shame though.
@@Rick--A-F yes...couldnt put it back along the old alignment at lewes. But there were all sorts of convoluted options to join up with the london line (along an old freight spur) and even a plan to bore a tunnel through the hill to join up with the Brighton line near Moulscombe. As far as Im aware, the campaign is still going
I saw a couple decades ago a snidey suggestion that perhaps certain business opponents reside in the concrete foundations of Kray Towers.
I used to live in a bedsit owned by N.V.H. Instead of evicting everyone from the properties he had all of the doors removed on the buildings, including those which people working for him used.
He is monster the sooner the turd is the ground the better, just look at criminal record.
I remember travelling to Lower Dicker in the 80's, where there was a company that produced quality pine furniture by the name of Goldpine. I used to collect a lorry load, and then head off to the nearby transport cafe, before heading back to Portsmouth to offload at the Pine Furniture Centre in North End, Portsmouth. Happy days.
Fascinating and entertaining as usual John, thankyou.
I grew up in Lower Dicker 😂 the Starbucks was a pig farm and show ground for steam engines once a year. Only excitement to be had 🙃
"Dodgy as f**k" seems like an understatement 🤣
Rory Graham (Rag and Bone man) comes from Uckfield and the Bus from Tunbridge Wells used to stop there for a while on the way to Brighton.
Old Little Thieves and Grumpy Eaters should always be included for retro-indigestion.
Nice cameo by Jon's mum right at the end of his piece to camera.
The art is . . timing your 'patter' . . to fit with . . . what you now see rapidly approaching : )
The most eventful thing that happens in Uckfield every so often is the river flooding and drowning the industrial state and all the low lying shops on the flood plain. (who'd have thought it)
The last major one was in October 2000 and if you search on YT you can find entertaining clips of the RNLI operating 15 miles inland on a flooded high street that's about 6 foot deep in dirty water.
Also - it was the last place that Lord Lucan was last seen when on the run.
I remember Van Hoogstraten from back in the day. He was portrayed by the press as a complete and utter twat, so I’m glad to hear his little house never got finished. As I recall, he wanted his body interred in a mausoleum within the house, and tried to close public rights of way across ‘his’ land. I’m glad the house has never been finished, but it will remain an eyesore for decades, such will be Van Hoogstraten’s legacy.
In 2009, he changed his name to Nicholas Adolf von Hessen. What a nice guy!
My mate lived in one of Mr Van Hoogstraten's flats. He didn't have a bad word to say about him.
Nutley Village used to have a large pub there on the main road called The Shelley Arms which is now Flats shame as every weekend there was live bands like Dumpy Rusty Nuts and back in 1990 a small band played there called NIRVANA and i met Kurt Cobain and got very drunk with him until the early morning hours as i was good friends with the Landlord and had many a lock in.
I use to visit Crowborough every summer where my nan lived. Great little town.
My wife lived at Coopers Green through her school days and worked at the cinema when it was a cinema! Great work as always John!
i went to school near _East_ Hoathly, it was built in the 1930s as a private home & in the style of something much older. I was fascinated that the coach houses & the generator room were still there though sadly without the original contents as they had become 3 of the 5 classrooms as well as teacher's accomodation.
I remember programs about Hoogstraten and that 'house' on TV. He was repulsive and was filmed wilfully blocking footpaths across his land and calling his neighbours peasants. Always wondered what became of the property and I'm quite surprised to realise he is still alive.
The house in Uckfield next to the river was heavily flooded in 2000. and the little chef you said about on the dicker was also a happy eater was further towards Uckfield on the opposite side of A22
The Camp at Crowborough and the training area was used to train the actors for HBO Band of Brothers.
when you were standing outside Metamorphosis, the sign saying The Dicker was on the opposite side of the main road,
As a member of the ATC (Air Training Corps) in the early 70's,
I spent a lot of weekends in Crowborough, the Army/MOD had a training camp near there we used for weekends to do outward bounds training. Map reading, orienteering etc, there was also a rifle range and an assault course . As you didn't mention it, I must assume that its no longer there! Shame..
Glad you survived the potholes of the A26 going down to Uckfield. Many haven’t!
Saab has new suspension thanks to UpNDown garage and various suppliers !
I grew up in Crowborough and I was at school in Upper Dicker. So your journey just recreated the route I took to school every day in the early 1990s.
Have I mentioned how satisfying dry sarcasm is when it's rooted in earnest enthusiasm and plucky optimism?
Another good video as usual and I loved Christopher Robin stories as kid, still love them as the kid inside us never grows up. 40 years old on the outside, 10 years old on the inside.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and A.A.Milne - a very cultured episode
🎶 Moving up on second bass behind Nicholas Van What's his face 🎶
Thank you. It's only made fwicking more exciting and awesome because of you. Keep going sir.
A massive and huge congratulations on your channel success John , It has been a mega Journey with you !
If you end up doing the Uckfield to Haywards Heath route, there's Sheffield Park, both a national trust place and next to it the station of the same name for the terminating station for the bluebell railway!
Entertaining as always. Does anyone else enjoy listening to the screaming guitar until the last 4 notes , that sound like "OK, f**k off"?
Yay! Another chance to press "the button specifically for that"!!
My Sunday morning's ritual is now completed. Thanks John.
The little chef was about a mile back towards uckfield by the turning for gun hill. You also missed an amazing taproom 3 minutes off the a22 at the gun brewery.
There was also one at the corner where he was standing. 2 within a mile was a bit strange TBF.
Noone:
Absolutely noone:
The Picture House: *cuts the screen in half*
You spent a good deal of time ucking around in this video.
Cotchford Farm was where Brian Jones drowned in 1969
Brought back memories.
This is the best video I've ever seen about anything
Devastated you didn't mention that the River Cuckmere runs through the Dicker, and not far from the Bull River. Whoever was in charge of naming things in that area had a lot of fun
That building wasn’t the Little Chef. The little chef was up the road. It’s a van garage now
Alan Wicker and Clive James would be proud of you
That was frickin hilarious, thank you dude. See you in the next one. 😂
Ah my old neck of the woods! Grew up next to Uckfield, glad you pointed out the picture house. It's great! Also glad you kept pointing out that there's sod all in East Sussex. It's why I left the place! Another great video, cheers Jon!
First, thanks for making Sundays great..
Chers for another great video Jon, The Mill was featured in Led Zep’s Song Remains The Same concert film.
Auto Shenanigans briefly segueing into Dad-Joke Shenanigans on Father's Day. How apt. ;-)
I used to live on the edge of ashdown forest, there's a former ww2 bunker transmitter site that became a government cold war bunker, and it's now a police training ground. It was sometimes possible to get a tour.
The anciently deserted East Sussex reminds me of /'Ouses 'Ouses 'Ouses/ by The Imagined Village.
Well, you’ve covered a lot of places where I spent my wild youth on my motorbike with a load of other mates…. Great and entertaining as always.
Drove by that only yesterday. from the road - minus maybe a few scaffold alterations - it literally appears unchanged from 20 years ago.
The cut away from bridge cottage at 5:22 ish was *sublime*
My dad was in Crowborough for his National Service training.
This particular episode was wicked sweet awesome Jon. Especially with the stop in Upper D1cker.
Just down the road from the Nutley Windmill is a huge car graveyard, surprised you missed it