As much as I enjoy your humour Jon, I am glad to see you paid due respect to the 1914-1918 small disagreement.

"But Sadly not hemal" "& Hippos like your mum" 😐🤣 ohhh that was wicked sweet awesome 🤣

I love how you go from a beautiful and poignant moment to a your mum joke without missing a beat - pure class!

If anyone is interested in aircraft and wants to find out more about Dehavilland, the excellent dehavilland aircraft museum is a few miles down the road next to the M25 at Salisbury Hall near London Colney which was the companies original R&D site. They have a KZfaq account too.

04:51 "this was a time when jet-engined aircraft were really starting to take off so a proper runway was needed." 😂

"your mum" jokes. Now that is wicked, sweet, awesome 😅😅😅

I like how Jon can go from 9:15 comment on WWI survivability rates to 10:18 Mum jokes! Quality documentary making :D

The structure behind the trees is a Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range Station (VOR). Its a type of short-range radio navigation system for aircraft, enabling aircraft with a receiving unit to determine its position and stay on course by receiving radio signals transmitted by a network of fixed ground radio beacons. EDIT - After some replies to this comment I decided to dig deeper and actually I found out that this was labelled on old maps as a VDF or VHF Direction Finder. Its a ground based radio aid that consists of a directional antenna system and a VHF radio receiver, tuned to the operating frequency of an air traffic services unit. Thus, when a transmission is received from an aircraft, the VDF provides the direction that transmission came from. Whilst very similar to VOR, the VDF requires an operator on a voice channel to pass the information to the aviator. In effect, VOR is a more sophisticated VDF. Physically they both consist of multiple directional antennas mounted in a radial pattern around a central brick and/or concrete box style structure, and are commonly mistaken for each other.

9:18 Jon I appreciate your pause for thought we cannot let the buggers get away with it Remembrance is all important

4:40 When De Havilland left this building, it was used by the University of Hertfordshire Art and Design department from '94-onwards - I studied Industrial Design there, and we got to sit at the original De Havilland drawing boards in our class area. There were still some old design drawings left behind in old filing cabinets - it was very inspirational to study Design there. Hi to our tutor, Mike Goatman.

I live in Hertfordshire and recognise all the places. I could think of far worse places than Hemel and yes I agree with you Jon, St Albans is a traffic nightmare .

The almost apologetic look after the jet engine gag was sublime sir!

4:20 that excellent series on motorways, was indead excellent.

For me Hatfield is notable for the road sign on the A1(M) leaving London - 'Hatfield and the North' - which meant 1970s holidays in places like Scarborough. It's also the name of a very charming 1970s Canterbury scene jazz-influenced rock band, whose music I enjoy very much.

You went to St Albans and didn't visit Norman Stanley Fletcher's temporary accommodation 😮

Anyone else wave at John at the start of the video as he waves hello...? Just me? Fair enough...

The dressed up flees are the best bit in the Tring museum.

'Tring' always makes me think of a bicycle bell. I have successfully avoided Hatfield for many years. Last time I went there, the De Havilland company buildings were still there, and there was a De Havilland Mosquito as a gate guardian. On the day of the Buncefield explosion, I was at work at Ipswich docks. I was getting ready to go home after a nightshift, and, at about 6 am, there was a crack, and something rattled the windows of the gatehouse I was in. A few moments later, I got a phonecall from the dock radar control, which was about a mile away from me, and was asked if anyone was letting off fireworks, as something had rattled their windows. Nobody was letting anything off locally, but about 90 miles away, all hell had broken loose. Somewhere, there is an ancient logbook with my note about the odd noise in it. Tidy video as always, Jon and a lot of fun. Nice one. 👍👍👍

As a Hatfield resident I must say you were very generous with describing how much of a dump this place is

Couple of days after Buncefield failed to destroy the surroundings I was driving back from Watford up the A1 and the whole sky had a very leaden smoky feel to it, all the way back to my gaff in north Herts. It was very bizarre, but not as bizarre as McD’s running out of burger buns because they had a warehouse next to the site. One of my old co-workers also had a computer room next to the site and his pics of the place once he was allowed back in are something else. Excellent your mum joke too, proper chortle at that.

oh its the shenanigan's guy we like him

Hi John, I have not been having a good week. Work shit, sick child, unwell me.. But you hippo comment just made my day.. Thank you so very much for that. You are one of my best seen channels. Thank you for lifting me.

Hatfield is, perhaps, well known for 2 things... 3:32 .... That and the large rail crash in 2000

Never change your sense of humor Jon

John, you should of gone to Hatfield House, which is where Queen Elizabeth the first was staying when she became Queen. There's an oak tree where she was sitting under when she was told she was Queen. I used to work farming this land a few years ago, and although the oak tree is still there and open to the public it is not the original tree, the remainder of which is still growing in a secluded part of the estate which is not open to the public, even I who worked there wasn't allowed anywhere near it. All the fields on this estate had names like "druids bottom" and the like apart from one, which was called "search lights" This massive field (not open to the public) was where they tested a new invention in the first slight disagreement called the tank. Next to the field are dug western front trenches to test these beasts, which are now overgrown with huge trees. I felt privileged to be able to explore them. All part of the Lord "Bob's your uncle" (although that's another story) Salisbury estate. And yes, I did meet him and his son and they were both pompous arses.

I will always - ALWAYS - watch all the way through the wavy pull back at the end titles until the licks at the end of the music. It's compelling.

Please visit the de havilland museum. The volunteers are so incredibly helpful and passionate! Really is worth it.

Hatfield - stay to the east of the station and all is fine. There's even a famous house that should be mentioned in any guidebook worth its salt 😉

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

"It destroyed a lot of stuff but sadly not Hemel" 😂😂😂 Classic.

Fun fact about the old Hatfield Aerodrome: Some scenes from Band of Brothers (you know, that film which documented a small part of the second disagreement) where filmed there. Saw many changes to that area during my time there, especially during 2001 onwards when it became more commercialized (Ocado warehouses etc). WItnessed the old hanger being converted into the David Lloyd gym (or whatever it is now).

I live 20 miles from Hemel and that explosion woke me up!

I have pressed the button specifically for that.

IIRC, the explosive mist around buncefield was ignited by some automatic electic timing equipment which caused a spark. The rest, as they say, was nearly all history. Thanks Jon.

You're very brave walking through the subway in Hatfield.

Autoshenanigans videos never get dull - in fact they get better and better. Cheers Jon.

Could have diverted off the A4251 between Berkhamsted and Tring and popped to the village of Aldbury, gorgeous little village with a central duck pond and featured in the Avengers with Diana Rigg many times, fab video as always Jon, thank you 🙏

Interesting fact, my Uncle worked for the De Havilland Aircraft Company. All that exists of them now, is a museum in St Albans.

I’m amazed that how you are covering the East of England that you already doing. I have been to Hertfordshire and it’s a nice county with lots of places to visit.

I still remember the flames and smoke from buncefield, I live 6 miles and still could clearly see the fire 😮

The pause after the take off 😂😂👊 love this man’s sarcasm and really interesting stuff

Best “your mum” gag ever. So subtle.

We flew back from Amsterdam and the pilot told us to look out to the left so we could see the fire. We were actually on a temporary flight path diverting aircraft further east than normal.

Notifications working giving me some quality viewing whilst on the throne.

Berko Castle is where the Norman Conquest basically ended. Everyone knows about the Battle of Hastings where it started, but Berko is where it ended, and we've been French ever since.

Well done for properly pronouncing Stevenage (by including the sigh at the start) Never figured out how to spell that correctly. Something like hhhhhhh...stevenage

I know this might not mean much but this is my favourite thing to watch, not even just on youtube .. just in general! Im a total interchange junkie, which is how i found you.. I find them fascinating, even tho i dont drive.. I spend hours recreating them in Cities Skylines.. and im just obsessed with the info on this channel and ya hosting skills are amazing, informative and hilarious! Takes the edge of how nerdy I am when i find nerds that are super cool like you! Thank you!

hatfeild is famous for queen Elizibeth the 1st, and hatfeild house, as well as the aircraft inferstructure, and back in the day, when there was an epilog before the tv shut down for the night, a vicar from st etheriedle church, used to give a sermon, and bill sykes used to drink in the 8 bells pub,

I grew up in Hemel Hempstead but managed to escape about a decade before it exploded. I'd been wishing for it to do that my whole childhood. I'm surprised that Cow Roast, the oddly named hamlet between Berko and Tring didn't get a mention, even if just in passing.

Very nice viewing, nice little bit of entertainment for 11 minutes or so...........like ya mum!! Cheers Jon, great as always.

Hemel Hempstead used to be the centre of operations of the Kodak company.

Haha, I do love your presentation. Having to work in those areas frequently I totally agree with you, they have been ruined beyond hope by ‘modernisation’. And The road junctions in some places are just bonkers… That area has given me a unique experience, I.e. being glad to make it back on to the M25 in one piece!

Sunday's would be Sunday's without a video from Jon, keep up the great work Jon :D

Whilst talking Hatfield, the area around the old airfield was used in a scene from 'Saving Private Ryan', remember seeing it from a distance

I love how you call the world wars, ' the ______ small disagreement'. ☮

Hi Jon, "hippos like my mum" well my dad is a walrus what that make me🤣🤣Hatfield that an original name, was there a field and some left there hat there and some said lets build a town there and said ware not ware that's taken were no that's taken. as always a great video and full respect for 1914-18 small disagreement. catch you soon take care

The DeHavilland plant was the site of one of the more unique episodes of the second small disagreement. A once and future career criminal named Eddie Chapman was working as a double agent for MI5, and he had been tasked by the Germans with blowing up that factory. Apparently, they found Mosquitoes very annoying and wanted to stop their production. With the help of a magician named Jasper Maskelyne, they dressed up the building to look from the air or from a distance like it had been heavily damaged. The Germans were sufficiently impressed with Chapman’s “sabotage” that they awarded him the Iron Cross. By the way, before this, Maskelyne had a hand into tricking Erwin Rommel into expecting an attack from the wrong direction at the Second Battle of El Alamein.

Wow didn’t realise Bunnsfield was 19 years ago. I was bringing my eldest daughter back from Uni in Manchester the day that happened. We were on the M11 but you could see the black smoke plume even when we got home to Sevenoaks area. Usual scaremongers stories then followed by the Press about no fuel etc. can’t say I noticed a problem. Still it made a story.

Oh no, I missed you! I’m in Tring next weekend

Berkhamstead is also home to the British Film Institute’s archives

I'm going to Hemel on Tuesday. I look forward to my trips there in much the same way as I enjoy being hoofed in the knackers 😂

Was that hippo joke a reference to The Mary Whitehouse Experience? It might just be me in my old age fug but that is immediately where my mind went! Another cracking video.

Sunday is complete when you see Jon waving goodbye. Wicked sweet awesome.

Another wicked sweet tour of Planes Trains & Autos around Englandshire with John. Thanks M8. Take care & stay safe.

im from hatfield originally when British aerospace closed down. and before the land was used for development. they used it to film band of brothers i remember watching as a little boy the planes flying around and the pyro technics going off there is also a bunker in what is now the police station i had fun with friends exploring the old hangars before they all got demolished and the remaing one turned into a gym good times

I thought I was sarcastic….then I found you channel….

I was woken up by the Buncefield explosion (I was living in St Albans), although I didn't realise the significance at the time. A few hours later when I was outside in St Albans we decided to go back inside as the thick black smoke was worrying.

We felt the explosion down in Harrow, and Kodak and Epsom had offices destroyed, along with many other businesses.

Berkhamsted was called Great Berkhamsted because there's another Berkhamsted (called Little Berkhamsted), a village on the other side of the county near Hertford. I used to live in Little B as it's is known locally; a nice place, though naturally often confused with its bigger namesake.

In the aerial view of Hatfield, the large building with a tower is the fire station. Look straight left and there is a parade of shops. The shop with the red name is Ladbrokes.

Tring is one of my favourite places to pop out to (being about 20 mins drive away) - the Natural History Museum really is worth a visit, and is incredible value at being priced at Free. I'd also recommend the most excellent Culture Bakery on the high street, along with a fantastic restaurant called Crockers. If you enjoy being outside, the College Lake nature reserve is most lovely.

I used to love just over the border in Buckinghamshire, and visited Tring and Berko on my bike as a teenager regularly. Good to see them again.

Oh hell yeah, now we're in my neck of the woods

@4:54 very good! Love it 🥰

The nutter was short of a Zebra for his coach and also needed a Horse to lead the Zebras which are not suited to domestication so he painted stripes on a horse. Within the Museum you will find a case with two dressed fleas, really worth a look. Cheers

Jeez, the "hippos like your mum" comment made me spit my drink out 🤣

At 5:50 that's the remains of a counterpoise topped shelter for a CVOR (Conventional VHF Omnidirectional Range) or, more likely, a HRDF (High Resolution Direction Finder). I install and maintain; ILS, DME, NDB, VOR, DF and other aircraft navigation aids/beacons, if you'd like any more info. Sweet video as always, thanks very much for your hard work!

Thanks Jon for the thoughts on that first small 1914-1918 disagreement. On the day this video was released an over one hundred year old desire was completed in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador with the repatriation from France and internment of an unknown Newfoundlander at the local War Memorial. During the times of those two small disagreements Newfoundland was a separate country, in 1949 Canada joined Newfoundland. In a consession to Canada, in Newfoundland and Labrador the morning of July 1st is Memorial Day while in the afternoon it is Canada Day.

Before it got built on the Hatfield runway was used by various film companies. You could often see squadrens of spitfire planes lined up ready for takeoff. The were made of plywood and about 3 inches wide to get the side angle shots.

Thanks John. Always full of information with the right amount of humor. Keep it up please.

Lets get this Sunday Started

Great video Jon as always. But you missed a very important historical building at Hatfield, The factory building with its attached control tower seen at 5:03 with the BOAC comet parked outside. This still exists and is now a leisure centre with the tower still attached just off Mosquito Way. N51 45.900 W0 14.675 The object in the field is a VDF (VHF Direction Finding) this fed to an instrument in the control tower that displayed what direction a radio transmission was from. The controller could then tell the pilot what direction they were from the airfield.

Bro is ruthless against hemel man, its not that bad

Other castles to miss Berko isn't it, it's the castle that William the conquer was crowned King of England it's awesome

Berko mentioned 💪

Tring Brewery - Side Pocket, a nice pint 👍🏻

I did 5yrs penance in Hatfield uni 92-97. To alleviate the problem me and my housemates would drive the back roads to Hertford via Wild Hill, Essendon & Bayfordbury. Our ‘landlord’ Steve, studying for a Construction degree (his dad bought him a cheapo end-of-terrace house: 93 Garden Avenue, Hatfield) got caught out by the second of the two 90 deg bends in Essendon going North on a wet day, took out some bloke’s fence and narrowly missed writing his mums Golf off. A lesson for the kids of today: when driving too fast for your own skills, always wait until you’ve unwound the steering wheel from full lock to straight ahead *before* burying the throttle in 2nd gear, that way you won’t under steer off the road in heavy rain and narrowly miss a very heavy and thick fence post…

Another fine video by Mr Shenanigans 👍

love your humour as good as always .🤣

Very interesting episode this week. I heard the fuel explosion (Sunday morning around 8am)* from Surbiton** and thought a plane had crashed on the other side of the A3. *06:01 UTC on Sunday, 11 December 2005 per Wikipedia. I knew it was Sunday morning. Bloody thing woke me up. 🙂 **42 Km / 26 miles away.

You create some damn fine work John.

4:51 "...and this is a time when jet-engined aircraft were really starting to take off." 😂

Jon turned into Michael portillo so gradually i didnt even notice😂 Now im waiting for the funky coloured suits to appear

Entertaining as ever John. Your style of narration really makes me laugh. 😊

Thanks

The bus shelter looking thing this was part of the VOR system. Basically can be used a type of RADAR that planes can use to home in on the runway, if you fly a crappy Cessa with the luxury of equipment to receive VOR! Not to be confused with ILS that has much finer settings to help with the glideslope. More confusingly a VHF beacon can be used at the runway end to determine horizontal guidance (Yaw/Pitch/Roll). As a rule the receiver is always (not exclusively) in the middle of the aircraft. Also not to be confused with Vectoring.

What a great place, Duncefield

I spent 5 years at uni in Hatfield, not exactly a rip-roaring place to live but the old town has some nice pubs 😊

"Hippos like your mom" Don't ever change,Jon!

Another great video, thank you very much.