An interesting thing about Raunds it that it's in a meteorological hot (or sometimes cold) spot. It has the record for the most hottest days of the year spread over the last 100 years and the third most coldest days of the year spread over the last 100 years in England.
Missed this stunning episode. Full of the best trivia around, went past Rounds a few weeks ago. This ties up the, How does "Old Piss Hands" know about the Bozeat pronunciation debacle. Cheers
Lived in Raunds in the 1980s. I crossed that crossing many times on my way to school. It was know as the smallest even then. All the best to those who left Windmill school and started the 1st year manor school in 1986. George Harrison, Carl Burton and Phillip Neal etc etc
Well done Jon :-) you must be the only and I mean ONLY person on TH-cam to visit Raunds about a motoring related show and made not a single reference to the only reason the Internet knew about Raunds until you made this film..... I mean the road...... you know the one..... you don't!? I mean I could be risking my dump account getting a ban so I will speel it phonetically.... tango Indian tango tango Yankee hotel Oscar Lane..... In fact as a early fan and one that ironicly watched nearly ALL your fascinating and genuinely entertaining content yet somehow relied solely on TH-cam analytics to view your videos as I hadn't subscribed until now! :-D now rectified! :-D lol but maybe do a series on the rude and interesting street names??
hehe... I use "that" road all the time so I don't even notice it's funny name any more. It's funny when sat nav says it though. Don't forget Bell End in Wollaston.
@@AutoShenanigans yeah I get the feeling geographically and also from your accent and formality of spoken word you are from my old stomping grounds in cobblerville :-)
Enjoying the oddities :) one for you to check out is 'Hangmans Hill' in Epping, it gives the illusion that you roll backwards up a hill, very strange illusion.
there are zebra crossings which connect the pavement with bus stop (crossing the bicycle lane) on Park Lane in Liverpool. I wonder if these count as they are surely shorter than the one in Raunds
Is Bird Cage Walk in Hanley the narrowest street to have double yellow lines painted down both sides? I doubt most normal sized cars could even fit down it
Live in Raunds….? I’m nearby in Stanwick and wonder why they haven’t widened the road at this constricted location. A council planner told me they didn’t want the traffic to go any faster at this location!
I think one not too far away from me is smaller, although it tapers a bit so I think although the narrower end is narrower, the wider end is definitely wider if that makes any sense. It's the zebra crossing by the Church in Billericay High Street, Essex. Similar 1 way narrow lane zebra crossing.
Counting the bricks its around 35 bricks wide, and the standardized width of bricks is 102.5mm, bringing the width to 3.588m at that narrow part. The Raunds one as he said was just under 3.5m. Then again this is just speculation and could do with someone measuring it physically.
Do the 2 part crossings count? Cause I can think of a place in wembley( or close to wembley) with 2.8m width restriction bollards and a zebra crossing, broken with an island with those bobbly paving stones in the middle
There was a tiny section of dual carriageway but it was removed a couple of years ago. I say removed, lines painted to turn it into single carriageway.
The one outside Ortongate in Peterborough is so small it only has 2 white stripes. Also the one on Cowgate Peterborough is pretty small. Come measure them mate!
There are no longer any companies manufacturing boots in Raunds. There is a distribution centre for Dr Martens here but that's not really the same thing. Solovair and Dr Marten manufacturing is in Wollaston.
Raunds - never been in it. Maccie Ds is the closest I've been. On the other hand, Irthlingborough..........Higham Ferrers.......Rushden..........shoeless dormitory towns with distribution centres galore...... oh wait, that's nearly everywhere now isn't it?
You do indeed mark some of them with lights. Usually, they are 2 combined overhead overhead flashing lights, alternating on off. Some crossings have alternating light signals on a sign at each end of the crossing. Sometimes these are pedestrian controlled, sometimes they are always on.
@@AutoShenanigans there's a short road in harlech too I believe that's steep.. I love all unknown interesting road sites, as a trucker it's amazing what I must pass and drive over each day without knowing.
The orange thing on the black and white stick? That's a Belisha beacon to help pedestrians find the crossing and improve safety at night. First installed under Minister for Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha, not sure why they didn't become known as Hore beacons but I suppose that information is lost to history now.
@@bobblebardsley I know what a belisha beacon is. I'm talking about one of them being attached or built in to the streetlight lol. Just looks funny with there being only one. And yeah Hore is one of the poorest aged names lol I feel sorry for her.
How weird... A Toober from Raunds? Me too... although my channel is fairly new and only 2K subs. @silver fox hot takes This tiny town is turning into the Hollywood of TH-cam!
I live next to a town which has a pretty small zebra crossing. It is called Raunds. I always thought it was irrelevant, but after watching this video, i found out nothing. It is still pretty irrelevant
Well done in showing up the brainless stupidity of road planners in the councils across England. Unneeded traffic lights are the worst offenders. How often have you wasted time at a red light when it is perfectly PERFECTLY safe to proceed?
An interesting thing about Raunds it that it's in a meteorological hot (or sometimes cold) spot. It has the record for the most hottest days of the year spread over the last 100 years and the third most coldest days of the year spread over the last 100 years in England.
I can attest to that, Raunds is the British tropics. It's also a great town to live in.
Oh they named those striped horses after those pedestrian crossing.
Lots of birds and animals are named after road features: pelican, toucan, puffin, pegasus, roundabout bird, contraflow lizard etc.
Belisha Beacon. That's what those orange thingies are called.
@ 1:41,after 3 skip backs, 2 failed pause attempts.... I saw it!! Pelican too, comedic genius. Bravo!!!
This looks like another excellent series Jon, looking forward to the next episode.
thanks for sticking with us mate :D
Love the 'out takes'...... Shows such a genuine side to this channel
Now do the longest continuous zebra crossing in the UK
Missed this stunning episode. Full of the best trivia around, went past Rounds a few weeks ago.
This ties up the, How does "Old Piss Hands" know about the Bozeat pronunciation debacle.
Cheers
Bozeat is my "trump" card for whoever wants to complain about the pronunciation of place names.
Your views on Northamptonshire are spot on! Lived all over in the last 25 years
Just seen this and yes I have heard of Raunds as I live a couple of miles from Raunds. Didn’t realise you are from there.
Lived in Raunds in the 1980s. I crossed that crossing many times on my way to school. It was know as the smallest even then.
All the best to those who left Windmill school and started the 1st year manor school in 1986.
George Harrison, Carl Burton and Phillip Neal etc etc
It's still the 1980s in Raunds...
I literally live near it and I also walked to school using it
"Raunds" and "oddities" definitely go together. Although I grew up in Rushden and in no position to talk...
Hi Jon, You now got an avid canadian subscriber/viewer ... Me !
Love your work, absolutely adore your humor, keep it up.
welcome along and thanks for being here!
Well done Jon :-) you must be the only and I mean ONLY person on TH-cam to visit Raunds about a motoring related show and made not a single reference to the only reason the Internet knew about Raunds until you made this film..... I mean the road...... you know the one..... you don't!? I mean I could be risking my dump account getting a ban so I will speel it phonetically.... tango Indian tango tango Yankee hotel Oscar Lane.....
In fact as a early fan and one that ironicly watched nearly ALL your fascinating and genuinely entertaining content yet somehow relied solely on TH-cam analytics to view your videos as I hadn't subscribed until now! :-D now rectified! :-D lol but maybe do a series on the rude and interesting street names??
hehe... I use "that" road all the time so I don't even notice it's funny name any more. It's funny when sat nav says it though. Don't forget Bell End in Wollaston.
@@AutoShenanigans yeah I get the feeling geographically and also from your accent and formality of spoken word you are from my old stomping grounds in cobblerville :-)
Did you buy your tape measure from Everyday Essentials?
Enjoying the oddities :) one for you to check out is 'Hangmans Hill' in Epping, it gives the illusion that you roll backwards up a hill, very strange illusion.
I know it well... I can't say I ever experienced the illusion, I was probably doing it wrong :D
Another great video Jon. Keep them coming mate
Thanks for watching mate!
I think you should check the one on Hill Street in Kirkcaldy. It might be a challenger. And, it was previously a pelican crossing!
Looking on Google maps that one has 4 white stripes, so presumably it's wider than this one
Just watched this one Jon. Brilliant 👏
Zebra crossing off Market Square in Oldmeldrum Aberdeenshire must be close. Also 3 stripes.
there are zebra crossings which connect the pavement with bus stop (crossing the bicycle lane) on Park Lane in Liverpool. I wonder if these count as they are surely shorter than the one in Raunds
Go measure it and I want the results on my desk tomorrow at 8.00.
Is Bird Cage Walk in Hanley the narrowest street to have double yellow lines painted down both sides? I doubt most normal sized cars could even fit down it
Live in Raunds….? I’m nearby in Stanwick and wonder why they haven’t widened the road at this constricted location. A council planner told me they didn’t want the traffic to go any faster at this location!
If they keep the speed bumps in, there's no way one could go faster, you'd lose your subframe on those mountains!
You crack me up. Hilarious!
cheers mate
Raunds is only just down the road from me, never knew there was a famous zebra crossing there!
'Karen in her (range rover) evouqe carnt be trusted'
And to be fair neither can I. Time to swap out zebra crossing for pelican crossings.
fabulous wicked awesome 🎉🎉
that last outtake i swear i could see him wanting to finish the sentence with "the loudest fucking crossing in the world"
I think one not too far away from me is smaller, although it tapers a bit so I think although the narrower end is narrower, the wider end is definitely wider if that makes any sense. It's the zebra crossing by the Church in Billericay High Street, Essex. Similar 1 way narrow lane zebra crossing.
Counting the bricks its around 35 bricks wide, and the standardized width of bricks is 102.5mm, bringing the width to 3.588m at that narrow part. The Raunds one as he said was just under 3.5m. Then again this is just speculation and could do with someone measuring it physically.
These always make me chuckle 😂
Cheers, appreciate you watching!
Do zebra crossings on cycle lanes count?
To many cyclists, probably not. ;-)
Do the 2 part crossings count? Cause I can think of a place in wembley( or close to wembley) with 2.8m width restriction bollards and a zebra crossing, broken with an island with those bobbly paving stones in the middle
nice video
If you count zebra crossings with an island Newark has one with a mere 2 white stripes.
I read somewhere that the shortest dual carriageway in the UK is the A6 at Sharnbrook. No idea if that's true or not.
There was a tiny section of dual carriageway but it was removed a couple of years ago. I say removed, lines painted to turn it into single carriageway.
@@AutoShenanigans It's still a dual carriageway, traffic separated by a central reservation. So annoying now it's only 1 lane each way.
I thought it was the A483 dual carriageway at J1 for some reason on signs it shows J1 to 7.
The one outside Ortongate in Peterborough is so small it only has 2 white stripes. Also the one on Cowgate Peterborough is pretty small. Come measure them mate!
Local to me so I might just do that...
Just to correct you.
You said the boot factories have all gone. Not true, Solovair still manufacture boots there, as do Dr Martens.
There are no longer any companies manufacturing boots in Raunds. There is a distribution centre for Dr Martens here but that's not really the same thing. Solovair and Dr Marten manufacturing is in Wollaston.
Oddities, sounds right up my street 👍🤣
Perfect as there's more to come :D
Great stuff Jon
3:45 Mk4 Astra Saloon. Getting rare now
Thankfully.
A B B E Y R O A D
Raunds - never been in it. Maccie Ds is the closest I've been. On the other hand, Irthlingborough..........Higham Ferrers.......Rushden..........shoeless dormitory towns with distribution centres galore...... oh wait, that's nearly everywhere now isn't it?
Love the content.
Thanks for watching!
@@AutoShenanigans no sir, thank you for the effort. I can tell the incredible amount of work and effort that goes into these videos.❤
@@darshitcumdeepgupta6998 Thanks a lot, I certainly try! :D
Gotta do the smallest pelican/puffin crossing now.
My town!
In the USA we call these cross walks. The Markings are not a lot different. We don't mark them with lights though.
You do indeed mark some of them with lights. Usually, they are 2 combined overhead overhead flashing lights, alternating on off. Some crossings have alternating light signals on a sign at each end of the crossing. Sometimes these are pedestrian controlled, sometimes they are always on.
Ronnie hotdogs on board kid 👍👍 why not do the steepest mountain pass? I've done hard Knott in Cumbria it was great
There seems to be some debate as to which the steepest is... hard knott is a contender and awesome to drive!
@@AutoShenanigans there's a short road in harlech too I believe that's steep.. I love all unknown interesting road sites, as a trucker it's amazing what I must pass and drive over each day without knowing.
@@AutoShenanigans the a303 highway to the sun documentary was good although piss boring..
@@ronniehotdogs2007 If you thought that was boring, check out the attempt at 1000 miles on the M25 vid :D
@@AutoShenanigans lol, the m25.. the anus around the areshole of London. Not sure on that one 😂
I'd say that's a pretty large zebra crossing, maybe above average even
I love how they put a little lamppost next to it too lol
The orange thing on the black and white stick? That's a Belisha beacon to help pedestrians find the crossing and improve safety at night. First installed under Minister for Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha, not sure why they didn't become known as Hore beacons but I suppose that information is lost to history now.
@@bobblebardsley I know what a belisha beacon is. I'm talking about one of them being attached or built in to the streetlight lol. Just looks funny with there being only one. And yeah Hore is one of the poorest aged names lol I feel sorry for her.
@@nathanw9770 Oh yeah! I never even noticed the top part of the lamppost, looks like it grew straight through the beacon 😅
@@bobblebardsley It really does lol. I've seen ones like that before but usually they're on both sides on a wider crossing so they look less goofy.
I lived in Raunds in 1999
I think all of our crossings are named after animals ☝️☺️🪧
There are no Zebra Crossings on the moon
How do you know
I'm a motoring oddity.
My favourite oddity ever. x
How weird... A Toober from Raunds?
Me too... although my channel is fairly new and only 2K subs.
@silver fox hot takes
This tiny town is turning into the Hollywood of TH-cam!
word up! See you at Asda!
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They're a constant menace if you ask me :D
Wonder if I'm the only viewer in South Africa?????
Very possible, welcome along!
I live next to a town which has a pretty small zebra crossing. It is called Raunds. I always thought it was irrelevant, but after watching this video, i found out nothing. It is still pretty irrelevant
3.5m or just inder 11½ foot. You're welcome
That's just over 1 တာ (ta), 41,338 barleycorn, 13,779,527 thou, 19,842,507 twip. You're welcome.
What's that in decifathoms?
Well done in showing up the brainless stupidity of road planners in the councils across England. Unneeded traffic lights are the worst offenders. How often have you wasted time at a red light when it is perfectly PERFECTLY safe to proceed?