I love how you didn't even skip a beat when that lad walked in front of the camera and carried on as if nothing ever happened.

Amazing how he trained those Geese to flyby at just the right time!

John evens manages to get a pair of geese to do an underpass in his closing monologue. What a legend!!!

Maybe the Grammar School in Market Harborough was on stilts for the Higher Education? lol :p

The politest photobombing youngster ever. Kudos to Jon for not flinching. Such an interesting and entertaining episode. 👏👏👍😀

Love the trained geese!!

Anyone else get all warm and fuzzy inside ready for this?… then while the advert is playing already hitting the button specifically for that 😅

You know you’ve hit the big time when KZfaq stuffs a 40 second non skip advert before the main event.

The joke about Great Glen gave me a giggle. It does have a really nice cafe though.

“Oh sorry” 😂

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

The 'weird' jelly in a pork pie is exactly that - gelatine that separates out from the meat as it is cooked. And i think it's the best bit...😋

“Thor missiles those things get everywhere “ 😂😂😂 classic.

Some honking good timing there from the geese.

Wow! You're a master of your craft! That geese fly by .. perfection! No idea how you did it but to make them quack right uder the arches to get a beautiful echo effect was a cherry at the top!! Of a already fat cake 😂😂😂

the jelly's the best bit!!

Monster. That jellied fat is the key, the meat and pastry is merely the delivery system of that goodness.

The old grammar school is designed in that due to a brief period we had a loophole in a tax law. Basically, you were charged depending on the buildings footprint. So many buildings were constructed that were wide at the top to reduce the land footprint, likely the exactly same here having only to pay for the small square and the columns.

Yay you featured the viaduct. After it lost listed status someone wanted to knock it down to reclaim the bricks. Luckily it didnt happen.

Highlights include a bit of Woolarding, "Nothing", "Oops sorry" and the geese of course. The rest was pretty good too.

On the subject of pork pies, I went through 50+ years of my life only ever having eaten pork pies cold, then I found myself working for a company with offices in Bromborough, Wirral. Now, some companies have a tradition of cakes for notable events, at the company where I worked we got *hot* pork pies, yes you read right, hot jeffing pork pies!!! The look of disgust must have been evident on my face, I was practically forced fed hot pork pies, and much to my surprise I actually enjoyed it!!! Sadly I haven't had a hot pork pies since leaving the company, not even when I worked for a company that makes pork pies (Samworth Brothers)! Anyway , that's my pork pies tale told, back to Jon in the studio for more tales of the road.

Only last week I was at Foxton Locks as I was up in Leicestershire for a mini holiday. All around that area is my old stomping ground and we played there as kids. We would often jump the locks much to mother's displeasure and more so as I can't swim! One thing worth noting is that Leicestershire is quite sparse, mainly farmlands, private estates (You often see red or white painted wooden field gates denoting private estates) and posh hunting grounds. The only interesting thing about Great Glen is that it was the home of Willy Thorne the snooker player and Engelbert Humperdink's family still owns houses in Kibworth Beauchamp and Houghton on the Hill. Abbey Lane Pumping Station is a staple of kids outings and we would often go there and play around the place. When I was a kid that was mainly wasteland and old factories. Shame you missed out on the Jewry Wall Roman remains and King Richard III who just happened to buried under a parking space that I used when I worked for the council. It even had a "R" on it that might have been a clue! Just past Red Hill Flyover was the Grade 2 listed "Mushroom" Mobil petrol station with it's classic mushroom canopies which are soon to be Grade 1 listed by all accounts. As for the Ye Olde pork pie shoppe.... You fell for the classic mistake. Ye is an old English version of the word "The", Olde is just "old" as is shoppe (archaic) that is an old spelling of "Shop". Oh forget the Twyford viaduct, if you want a man sized viaduct go over to Harringworth/Welland Viaduct! Leciestershire is still an underestimated country for countryside and the city is full of history.

Can’t believe you were literally with in sight of the last standing “Pegasus” petrol station, which I think is listed . . . Red Hill Petrol Station. Unless you’ve covered if before and I can’t remember! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hill_filling_station

Those geese at the end😂

When I crave a great big slice of jelly filled normality I just have to watch John doing his thing and everything feels better.

A Melton Mowbray Pork Pie has less gelatin than a bog standard one as made from raw pork not cured pork (bacon) that shrinks less when cooked as a lower moisture content than cured. The gelatin is added after cooking to prevent the filling from rattling around inside the pastry.

The jelly stuff is the best part of a Pork Pie.

I got married in the Abbey Pumping Station, followed by a Routemaster trip to the Great Central Railway at Loughborough where Mrs Boulder and I had our reception in a private train that made two return trips back to Leicester North....

I grew up in Leicester and moved to Market Harborough, it's great to see your take on the area. By the Clock Tower they built the horrendous Haymarket Centre in the early 70s, demolishing some lovely old buildings. The Haymarket was grim and dark (and still is), a 'hang on tight to your bag' kind of place.

Sunday ain't Sunday without a video from John... Thanks dude ✌️

Bournemouth Square, now pedestrianised, used to be a roundabout. I was a bus driver when it was first done - as a 'temporary measure' - in 1990!!

The direct route from Market Harborough to Melton Mowbray, mainly the B6047, is a lovely country drive in its own right. 🙂

Love the geese! Best video bomb ever!

Fun fact: the *Melton Mowbray* pork pie has Geographical Protection, meaning it must be made to a specific recipe/style and within a specific (albeit seemingly arbitrary) area around the town.

While at Red Hill Circle you had the opportunity to visit a 1960's style Grade II listed petrol station!

How many takes did you need to get the geese flyby timed to such perfection? A level of dedication seldom seen on youtube. Cheers, Jon.

Grinning at Jon photo-bombed by honking geese! The short biography was interesting.

Leicester is a fun city to visit, highly underrated

I come form Leicester! I now live on the coast because i found out nobody will stop you from moving! That clock tower was a favourite place to meet friends on a Saturday morning. Although my friend Simon lipped off some kids in McDonalds and had his front teeth chipped on a kerb stone. So that was fun! lol That weird jelly is called Aspic jelly. And yes it's wrong! lol

My Dad used to tell me that the huge pet food factory was built next to a pork pie factory supposedly to use the waste pork products not required in pies. A conveyor belt connected the two buildings - sometimes it went one way, sometimes the other.

❤Despite your signature and frankly wonderful “damning with feint praise” style, you made Leicester sound rather inviting. I shall make pilgrimage. I will also forgive you your pork pie heresy, for as luck would have it, I had one in the fridge to which I could pay homage (eat) to nullify your dangerous jelly heretical nonsense. 😂 I used to work as a CAD Draughtsman in Soham (yes that Soham) and it had Fuller’s bakery next door. On occasions, I would buy a pie, still warm from the oven, with the jelly still not quite set. I would eat it all and was found on one occasion fast asleep face down on my keyboard in one of my signature food comas! Go well Jon! PS. Did you queue those geese? Bloody perfect 😂

I see John has gone all big time splashing cash for 2 Geese in his outro

The jelly in a pork pie is an essential part of it

I appreciate all the details on the maps that you've added in your more recent videos. It always makes it easier to follow along the route when I can see how you got from place A to place B. Top work!

perfect timing, just made my lunch :)

It's a shame the Camp Hill Flyover here in Brum is no longer with us - you'd have had fun. It was a terrifying tin bridge over a junction.

My dad was a policeman and used to do point duty at the clock tower. He said it was a 5 man point, so the timing was crucial. The tram drivers used to try and converge were the policemen were, making them stand ideways! Buses replaced trams, with the drivers in a separate cabin at the front of the bus. The first West Indian bus drivers were hard to spot in the dark, much to their glee and delight.

Great shot with the 2 Geese flying past you through the viaduct

Another perfetct moment when two geese fly though the same arch as you happen to be filmining under, they had many arches to choose from but no they where trained to go under the one Jon was under.. Thanks for the hard work and videography

Great photobombs from both people and animals XD

That jelly ruined every Christmas until I was nine and thus deemed old enough to tell my mum to pack it in!

Great finish with the Canadian Geese display team.

Great Glen is where Englebert Humperdink lives. Such great claims to fame. Redhill roundabout was so named after the execution that took place there and the Clock Tower, if you were to lift it up, is the junction of two of Leicester's main sewage pipes.

"I've got a couple of detours to make" makes the heart sing.

Oooh I love an inclined plane.

The geese honking echo was perfect timing. And you didn't skip a beat during their flypast. Consummate professional.

The grammar school on stilts was a security measure to ensure pupils didn't escape ;)

Yay, missed you in Melton Jon lol, moved here after living in leicester most of my life about 20 years ago, I know every area you visited on this one very well, happy days mate

I remember the roundabout at the clock tower and also the Haymarket and the Leicester Market was being built.

Jon got goosed 😮😂

John, the word for the jelly around the outside, of the pork inside a pie is Aspic, It's just gelatin, used in thickening of soups, or of flavouring of said soups, I'm 70yrs old I remember my mother draining the juices, from the Sunday roast, into a bowl, that was covered with muslin cloth, and kept in our pantry, b4 we could afford a fridge, And then the Fat on top of the bowl, was spread on bread, with a sprinkle of salt, for a bread, and dripping, sandwich, Yum Yum

More awesome content and I'd like to thank Jon specifically for that. 👍

fun fact I lived in Leicester from 1998' to 2001' to become a esteemed holder of a 2.1 honours degree a media studies at the ex polytechnic DeMontfort Uni, I almost didn't graduate do the fact of spending. most of my weekends at Junction 21, off my head listening to electronic beat music. However this wasn't the motorway junction but the legendary nightclub of the same name, which like most from that era is long gone..

Marvellous. I know that route extremely well. Learned to drive in Leicester many, many years ago. A fine place.

Love the geese flying through the railway bridge arch Jon. Sometimes nature provides a nice little tada moment.

We stayed in Market Harborough a couple of years ago. Nice little town. Good bakeries. Entirely ruined by the church bells that ring through the night. Be warmed!

As a former resident of Hinckley, some years ago a few mates and I had a tradition where we would have a day in Melton on the last Tuesday before Christmas, mainly for a bit of a daytime pub crawl. But we'd always come back stocked up with pies for the festive season. Therefore at 9:17 I nearly choked on my (not Melton Mowbray) Australian Pork Pie when I saw that the old Dickinson & Morris shop appeared to be a building site. I was slightly relieved when I realised that there was a big sign on the outside of the hoarding stating "Pop-Up Shop this way" and guessed this was only temporary. Phew! I will be back one day!

I'd guess I was 8 or 9 when Daddy decided we'd go on our 2nd Canal Holiday which included doing Foxton Flight twice, going down was okay but going back up wasn't so much fun. The following year we hired a Motorhome and travelled around Europe. That was more exciting.

Duck(no geese)bloody lucky it wasn't a Spitfire 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The jelly's the best bit!!!

Those geese flying through the viaduct at the end was perfect. Surprised you didn't say anything about it!

Great vid, thank you for openly expressing my thoughts on the pork pie, meat and pastry good, weird jelly stuff not good.

Given what the ducks achieved as they flew through the arch, wasn't that an opportunity to shout something and listen to the reverb? You've done that before........... As for not liking pork pie jessy, I mean jelly, share it with the wildlife. They love a bit of aspic.

Love the Nobles - when I was also much younger, I took a trip up to Brum to the NEC for the motor show, it was an eventful trip as the Austin Mini snapped two headbolts at 60mph on the A34 past Oxford. I got that fixed and carried on. However, on restarting the engine overheated and water pissed out from somewhere.. a split that was only visible when the water was hot and pressurised. I was on the petrol station outside the NEC figuring out how to cut the header pipe to the radiator without leaving it too short so I could get home and this chap pulls up to fuel up a Noble, wanders over to see what was going on, and asks me what was wrong, pays for his fuel, bobs out and asks me if I need a lift anywhere. I looked longingly at his car and sadly declined saying I needed to get my Min fixed and get her home and I wasn't going to leave her behind - I got an approving nod and a good luck. Turns out it was the MD of Noble at the time :) Nice bloke.

John: I've mentioned motorways and airfields to you before (Moreton Valence, Burtonwood, as examples). You should do a series on that. When the M69 at Leicester was being built they were looking for hardcore; they tried to dig up the main runway at what was Leicester East and failed miserably. I'll tell you the reason if you do a series on WWII airfields & Motorways.

Gutted! Jon was filming less than 50 meters from my flat in leicester city center.

Yes, the jelly is wrong. Amazing work getting those geese to do a flythrough for the outro.

What's great about Great Glen? Only that your 'pin' at 2:56 is basically on Englebert Humperdinck's house!!! And if you ever do 'bonkers car parks', the Lee Circle one - centre screen at 0:19 - caused MUCH confusion as it is basically a double-helix, with two entrances and no connections from the red zone to the blue zone parking...

9:47 - I reckon the gelatine is the best part of the pork pie.

That weird jelly stuff that they put in between is the best bit.

Back in the era of the Tudors rent was paid for by the amount of land you built upon, so by building on stilts they only got charged by the government for the Square metre of land the stilts stood on, as opposed to the entire building. meaning had it not been on stilts it would have costed a lot more to pay for each month. there is another building just like this in a small town called Ledbury. I sure hope you see this @AutoShenanigans! and i hope it helps :D

The jelly in the pork pie is made from boiling down pig's trotters. I like it (with a bit of salt), but my wife doesn't - so I get hers too. Mmmm yummy. Also, loved the outro fly-past.

Melton Mowbray - my birthplace. Thanks for covering the Twyford Viaduct on the GN & LNW Joint. It badly needs some TLC and may eventually receive it in the form of a wrecking ball.

before 40 seconds were up, a bird flew out of your hat ! Is there nothing you can't do Jon? 🤣🤣🤣

This is the earliest I've watched one of your videos, You've gained a Subscriber and I like your videos so I hit the button specifically for that.

Five minutes into my first ever driving lesson I had to get around the clock tower roundabout at 5pm, nearly took out a Rolls if memory serves. Bloody horrible junction.

Excellent enjoyed watching this one. I am loving this series.

The space center is indeed just a museum, however just the other side of the Abbey pumping station (visible on your drone footage) is a facility that actually does make space instruments and satellites for the UKSA and ESA (it has an ESA satellite hanging inside the entrance which is pretty cool) as part of Leicester University

This video really touches my heart. I've lived in Leicester all my life and John has shown us all some of the best highlights and trivia of the county. Great video!

Being too late for a pork pie in Melton, you should have gone back to the south of Leicester, on the ring road to see the delights of the Pork Pie roundabout.

6:12 😂😂😂 priceless 😂 museum about space

Looks like the 5 Points inthe film, Gangs of New York

As the RAF couldn't do John a fly past mother nature had to step in...

Thanks

That noble m12 had thw engine from the mondeo with 2 turbos making around 450bhp

Great video John, amazing as always,you keeped your cool at the bloke walking in front of camera 😂👌👍

These videos just get better and better

I'm With you on pork pies! Love them but have to get the nasty jelly out first.

Oh come on John, the Jelly is the best bit of the pie

Jelly is the best bit! 😆