Your dedication to referring to it as “The Small Disagreement of 1939-1945” is one of my favorite things about this channel. Never change, Jon. 😂

loving my mum getting mentioned in guide books as ever

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

“Gratuitous Railway Content” That would be a great name for a second channel.

Thank you for acknowledging the absurd juxtaposition of nuclear power stations and eroding coastlines.

I love the way you sound so sarcastic all the time, the frequent moments of actual sarcasm almost slip by unnoticed. Keep it up.

5:24 - Auto Shenanigans - covering the railway bits Geoff Marshall and Jago Hazard don't get to

I must admit my favourite KZfaq channels are those with completely boring content made extremely interesting. You are the best at it.

Over 50 years ago my family had a caravan holiday at Leiston - we learned that the correct pronunciation is Lay-stun. We swam in the sea on the beach just a few hundred yards from Sizewell A nuclear power station. We were really glowing after our day on the beach!

A couple of other interesting things on the route. At Blythburgh the ghost dog, Black Shuck, was said to have entered the church and left scorch marks on the door, which are still there. The dog was also featured in a song by the Darkness, who of course hailed from Lowestoft. Near RAF Woodbridge is the sister base, RAF Bentwaters, where there's a cold war museum housed in a bunker. It's officially been out of use since the USAF moved out but aircraft were sometimes allowed to use it. I actually landed a C172 there.

We're surprisingly knowledgeable about this area. Never been. Soon as Kessingland was mentioned, my mum said "I have [heard of it]. There's a caravan park there". She was right. Soon as I saw the church I thought "That's the one that's about to fall into the sea." I'm liking suddenly being knowledgeable about something for once.

Hi Jon. Glad you refrained from being sarcastic this week. 😂

Hello fellow Jon, I used to live in Saxmundham. You summed it up perfectly, by mentioning its existence and little else.

There's a combination of words I've never heard put together before this channel: "Exciting Great British Road Journey."

Leiston pronounced 'Lay-stun', and for more railway things there's the old Leiston Works Railway and Long Shop Museum which is a rather good place to visit. And as for the concerns about the new Sizewell C reactor falling into the sea; yes the locals share those concerns. In fact the area N of Sizewell B where Sizewell C is due to be built is believed by local historians to be a dried up river bed. Geotechnical surveys of the area have revealed the ground to be less solid than previously thought, needing to go much deeper to reach the bedrock than with Sizewell B or A. Furthermore, the beaches in Suffolk are known to shift north up the coast over time, so there's a good chance the dunes at Sizewell will disappear in the next century; just take a look at the Kessingland sea wall which was built to stop erosion but is now protected by 200m of dunes.

It was always amusing to see people shuffling back from the platform at Ipswich as the flask trains went through. Like it would make a blind bit of difference.

Thanks Jon, your videos are the highlight of my Sundays!

Brilliant, as usual. It's not just your acerbic commentary and humour, the information you tell is wonderful and the set-up shots and drone footage are also fantastic. Fab all round.

1:37 he's pissed down his left leg again

Love a good old mum joke 😂😂

Yay! My house in the background of a video on KZfaq 😅 More importantly I'm glad you didn't get caught up in the recent Orwell Bridge closure!

A little off the A12 is Southwold. A very picturesque little town , home of many celebrities, Adnams brewery and a lovely pier with some rather interesting amusements inside. Worth a look.

I'm surprised you didn't pop into Woodbridge town; quite a pleasant little tourist town with a nice riverside walk. Just outside on a road called Sandy Lane (between Woodbridge and Martlesham, which may have been the old horse and cart route before they decided they needed a proper road) is a barn where four young lads from my school (which was off the A1214 in Kesgrave, now a posh hotel) started a fire in October 1989 and caused £250K of damage. Sadly I don't know which farm the barn was on. There was another big fire in a barn along the same road in 2003 which actually made the newspapers but the local paper archives from 1989 aren't online.

If you're starting in Lowestoft, there's a couple of decent things to visit there. There's the David Silva Honda Collection, which is a bunch of classic Honda motorbikes, and there's the Transport Museum just outside of Lowestoft where you can ride all sorts of old-timey public transport machines.

Ah my home town of Ipswich! It’s nice to see it get some publicity! Great video 👍🏻

I've driven the Magnox Scammell FLM718C that used to transport the nuclear waste to that rail yard!

Thanks for the stop over at RAF Woodbridge! My Dad used to fly F4s out of there in the 70s.

If you're in the area, there are some amazing historic sights, such as the Doom Painting in Wenhaston Church, covered up for around 350 years by whitewash before its accidental discovery, the round tower church at Bramfield, and the lost city of Dunwich (now a tiny village with a museum, a good pub and a chippie)

Excellent as always - the wide runways at Woodbridge mimic/replicate the massively wide "first-bit-of-dry-land" emergency landing ground in Kent at Manston. As you say, if the radio set was shot up, having a "don't call us, just get on the deck" seems a good arrangement for what Terry Wogan used to describe as the "last great unpleasantness". Great video - as always.

6:38 there's a little bit of abandoned road to the right of the screen at this time, where the original A12 was replaced with dual carriageway. Some of the original road was made into the northbound entry slip at this point. The abandoned road is set back from the road, with privacy afforded by a hedge, and makes a great venue for losing one's virginity in the back of a Mk 1 Fiat Punto (with squeaky suspension for added comedy value) 🎉😂 (it was a 1.1 "Fire" engine, 55s trim, red, three door, no power steering, rusty wings, broken stereo. 144k miles which is impressive. purple and grey interior. Fitted with slightly wider wheels and tyres from the 1.2 version. N677 CBA. Oh, and the girl's name was Lucy. )

During that ‘small disagreement’ you mentioned Jon, my grandfather owned a haulage firm and they were requisitioned along with many others to build the airfield. I might have mis-remembered this next bit but I seem to recall my father being at the airfield when it went into lockdown and suddenly from the woods many gliders were hauled out for D-day. He wasn’t allowed to leave the airfield until the next day when the gliders by this time were already in Normandy.

The “your mother” bomb made me properly LOL.

That was really interesting. Thanks for the tour and cheers from Missouri, USA

As a Felixstowe local (since 1987, before that I was born and bred in Wales) you missed a couple of interesting details. The A12 used to go straight through the runway at Martlesham (now the BT Research Centre). In WW2 it was quite common for the police to stop traffic whilst the various fighter aircraft were departing and arriving to intercept inbound aircraft over the North Sea. Also, Ancient House has carvings denoting the 4 Continents of the world, since America was yet to be discovered and Antarctica was just too cold to be worth noting. Thanks for visiting, hopefully my adopted home town of Felixstowe will appear in another episode?

Eastern most point in the UK and closer to the Netherlands than London. Only you would come up with that factoid! Love it.

These new videos of travelling along original road routes are interesting. So much to see along the way such as inns where horse drawn carriage travellers had to stay overnight, etc. Gives an insight as to how slow travel was when reliant on short range horses, and how things might become if everyone is forced into short range battery cars!

8.00 The name is pronounced Martle-sham Heath.😀

Nice Harvester in Lowestoft

can’t believe the Yoxford ´Yoxman’ didn’t get a mention

Glad you are also having a look at airfields along the way - great!

love the jazz interludes / filler john, nice

The Eastern Coach Works range of bus and coach bodies was made in Lowestoft.

Great as usual. You could call this channel 'A Trip Down Memory Lane', as it involves both travel and history. Just love the very British way of putting things. Such a welcome break to the unfortunate Americanisation of everything. PS, we are definitely British, both haling from the West Midlands.

1:23 That's a power stance and a half

John, with this great British road trips series, you’ve really struck a chord. The roads you’ve covered thus far are all so familiar to me. Keep up the good work 👍

A second point at Sizewell halt is that it is no longer used for sending used fuel to Sellafield, It was only used for sending used fuel from (the now currently being decommissioned) Sizewell A power station, as all the fuel has left site, the line is idle, as Sizewell B's fuel cannot be reprocessed at Sellafield and is kept in dry storage until a way of reprocessing can be found.

Hi, Leiston is pronounced LAYston and on the railway note you missed the Leiston Works Railway. If you had let us know you were coming to Leiston I'd have offered you a cuppa.

Lovely beach at Kessingland. Used to have a few holidays there in the 1970s.

I grew up in a little village on the A12 just north of Wickham Market. The railway was only half a mile from my house, and sometimes late at night you could hear the nuclear waste trains going down the line.

Are you calling my mother a ho? I bet she would have found that hilarious. Great video though and a window into a place in the UK ive never been.

Sometimes I speed up the video, because....well I can...but having just found this channels, I actually slowed this one down! I didn't want to miss an ounce of that sumptuous sarcasm. Excellent. Subscribed.

Lowestoft is ace. You should have visited Orford Ness. Some fantastic military history there.

6:30 don't forget the Fukushima Daiichi Accident in japan back in 2011

Gratuitous railway content, you've given me a sleeper in my pants! 😂👍👊

I told my family we were taking a trip to the Far East. They were disappointed to find out it was Ness Point 😂

Lowestoft is a decent place to visit especially in the summer. What about Felixstowe where the A14 ends and starts which was once the A45. The A12 between Ipswich and Lowestoft is due to be upgraded to dual carriage and with a new bypass to be built to avoid several villages.

LOL. Literally, informative and funny.

I met and married the current Mrs Wells in Lowestoft and we lived in Wrentham. Wonderful chippy as I remember. The Orwell bridge was built, on the massive scale that it is, in order to permit container shipping traffic up to Ipswich. Felixstowe sort made it an expensive white elephant…but quite beautiful. 😂

Thanks for the insightful information about the runway at Woodbridge, I found that fascinating! Thanks for taking us along with you, safe journeys Jon.

thanks Jon for another brilliant video, nearly choked on my lunch at the ancient ho joke, your wit and sarcasm are spot on as usual , keep up the good work

In this new series, this is my favourite episode so far!

*me pointing at the calendar every time Jon asks if I've had a good week... on a Sunday*

09:05 Classy as always!

“See Chernobyl for reference”…great line. The animal “pounds” you referred to are quite common across the country and are often known as “folds” or reference the animals commonly put there hence “Sheepfolds” etc

Auto shenanigans has become an important part of my Sundays, very interesting and enjoyable, thank you, 👍👊.

Oooh - tidal flow!

Loved the video Jon. What an eclectic mix of topics. Really appreciate the loco shenanigans and the aero shenanigans and especially the humour. 😂

I can't even tell you how much my partner who loves this channel is that you went ANYWHERE near Southwold, where he hails from.

I love the fact that you pronounced "Leiston" every way except the way the locals say it - "Layston". I'm sure that was on purpose.

Worth visiting is Sutton Hoo (that's "Hoo") Viking Museum ( _about_ the Vikings, not owned or run by them) with unearthed long-boat and its amazing bling.

I was born in Ipswich. Only spent the first year of my life there, so don't remember anything, but have been back to Ipswich a couple of times. It's not such a bad place. Really. If you go along the south bank of the Orwell you come to Pin Mill which is very picturesque. The Butt and Oyster is a great pub.

Oh man, you are the best KZfaq find of the last year for me. I sometimes cry laughing while always totally loving the content. Superb.

Love the very English "Yo Mumma" joke 👏

Used to have our summer holidays near Saxmundham from the mid 60s to early 80s. Swimming at the beach next to Sizewell was interesting as every so often you would get a spell of warm water come in which had come from the nuclear reactor 😱, so far no after effects 😂

I really enjoyed this. I am sure a lot of research has gone on beforehand.

the Orwell bridge outro was rather nice

Really enjoying the variety of interesting stuff that's included in this series while keeping it road based.

Always enjoyable, thanks Jon!

Thanks Jon! Another excellent video, as always! Can't wait to show the chaps at work tomorrow

Absolutely loving this series

Pleasing

1:28 I giggled like a teenager at this next bit about the bridge

Brilliant Jon thank you

Another great video Jon

I love this series. keep it up

Awesome

Excellent, thanks...

I love your description of how councils spend more time talking than they often spend actually doing.

Ooooh that layby gives me an idea for a new series….. “Welcome…. to Britain’s Abandoned Roads….”

Thank you so much for the video❤

You're right. The A12 feels like it goes on and on and on and on forever. I have had birthdays and funerals on that that road. I think there is a gibbet somewhere along that road just in case you can't handle the boredom.

very intresting. Well done and thanks

Awesome Video

Awesome video, loveing this series

Brilliant 😅 One of your best!! 👍

The small roads and Byways in Suffolk are a real treat, We stayed near Sutton Hoo a couple of years ago and had an excellent time. Kessingland is a real eye opener when you stand on the beach and notice how much higher the North Sea is than the land. This is a great series. Cheers

Great 👌

Love the metal gear solid alarm sound! Flashbacks!

Just off the A12 between Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft is burnt into my brain from 80s tv advertising

Another great video