Part of the reason old viaducts were blown up is because British Rail would still have to maintain them despite no trains ever running over them again. Councils were asked if they wanted these structures but the cost of maintaining them was astronomical, so a stick or of dynamite. Problem solved.

Really enjoyed that. Worked at the brickworks for nearly 8 years. I was supposed to work in the offices that became the college 😂 before everything closed.

Progress is incredibly parasitic when it comes to things like this. That old building is now lost to history like so many other things.

Use to run along a small part of the old track doing cross country runs when I use to go to abbey school elstow

Another cracking video! Loving the vintage Tesco peanuts…who was the person who ate them & are they still alive today? Where were they going & what shop were they bought from? Nobody will ever know, the answers are buried forever in the past.

There doesn’t seem to be any potholes like now

I'd love to see you do Gloucestershire, or Gloucester specifically if you're ever in this part of the country. Gloucester Docks and Alney Island may be of particular interest to you considering ghost railways and the Over Bridge designed by Thomas Telford and there's still plenty of evidence of both the former road that used to cross it and of the railway that used to run goods around the island, I may also mention there's a neglected swing bridge that once carried locomotives before being pedestrianised then abandoned at some point due to the Gloucestershire College and the nearby main road being constructed with no access to said bridge. Sorry for the essay.

another great video !!

If you fancy another one of these ... in Oxfordshire we used to have a route going from Eaton to Bablockhythe via a ferry ... the ferry was lost in a storm back in the 80s and never came back (you can find its carcass still wrecked downstream behind Farmoor Reservoir) ... the road from Eaton down to the river is still there but has almost no purpose and is being reclaimed by the land. There is still a pub which was there because of the ferry at Bablockhythe but it now mainly serves a static caravan park.

bet you don't find any pot holes on them olds roads haha

I'd hazard a guess that the wheel trim is from a Mk1 Fiat Panda.

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Loving your videos man :) if you keep this up you'll go somewhere!

Lol I stumbled upon this brilliant video at 2:00 am & Very interesting indeed, those roads have old stories to tell . Thanks 😉🇬🇧 Subbed 💯👍🏼

Great video. The silver thing is a number plate light, the wheel trim looks like it's off a late 80's Rover 214/216

Another great video, mate. I was wincing at the 6ft stinging nettles, that's dedication 👏

Love your videos, keep up the good work. I lookout for lost roads now thanks to you 😊

After you have finished traipsing through the brambles (waist high) (I wouldn’t do it, you must get scratched to pieces!!) and trying to navigate these old roads/pathways - picking up old bottles and all manner of stuff - on the way home, go and get fish and chips, that will round the day off nicely. (If you eat fish!!) A good day’s work. 😊

Great video as always! Rest in peace my dearest "Little Chef" I enjoyed many a burger in that place. Also rip Brook house, terrible shame.

Autoshananagans will love you.

Brilliant!

I used to live in Marston Moretaine opposite the pub you went into. Not surprised to say, nothing seems to have changed. Don't miss that place one bit lol. Thanks for the video.

Old a1 by pboro, old a47 by pboro

Just stumbled across your video's and have been binge watching👍, you missed another ghost road in Brampton just a few mins walk from where you were, heading westbound on the A141 heading towards Brampton hut interchange taking the exit slip at the junction locally know as Brampton racecourse (still shows incorrectly as Junction 22 from the old A14 days on Google maps) there is a few hundred meters of old road running parallel to the current slip road easily accessible by foot, believe it was the old slip road but unsure exactly..

You must see the former A14 eastbound Haughley Bends in Suffolk which is now a footpath. Then there is the A12 at Copdock which, although not technically a 'ghost road', it is a shadow of its former self as a full dual carriageway no longer part of the A12. Another great one is the former A2 dual carriageway in Kent, a section of which is fully retained as the carpark to the cyclopark outside Gravesend!

I love your thought process lol I am not alone lol love the videos, I’m from the same area and often find old pictures from 40 50s and 60s and go to the exact area and do a comparison lol odd as I know lol but I love it

Hi mate, great video. Being from luton, ive walked these areas many times, but didn't know much of what you told in the video, so thank you. Look forward to more

You should make some ghost railway videos.

In my 74 years I never thought I'd come across someone as fascinated by sections of old roads, realignments, rotting bridges, cats eyes and disintegrating tarmac as I am. As to old crisp packets and touching trees, again, I thought I was alone in this. On a more serious note, you are recording important transport history that may well be lost sooner then we think. It is heartbreaking to see the destruction caused by needless overdevelopment, heedless of local history and rural beauty.

Love your vids, interesting and funny. Doing some metal detecting alongside these ghost roads would be fab 👍

Very cool! I especially liked the old item findings. Even disposable items, I think it's quite cool to come across an older one, they hold the history of everyday life before. There have been quite a few old buildings being demolished recently :( it's all about money. It really pains me when it happens, you simply can't bring a historical building back when its value is in its time, not materials. Really sad.

Another great video, thanks 👻🛣️

Enjoyed the video, I have to say, sadly some of them roads you found are in better condition to the ones we are all driving on! Look forward to the next video 🙂

Well god damnnn I thought until today I was the only one that gets really excited about ghost roads!! Theres a little stretch of one just before sutton bridge a17

A young man that’s an historian for my youth😂 Well done

Always amazes me how quickly nature reclaims these roads! Cracking video as always. Good luck on hunt for more beer/milk bottles! (Filled or emptied)

B W & Co bottle commonly used to transport Stud Semen from field to laboratory

If you see this brick dust. I came across an extremely long disused lay-by out in Oxfordshire a few years back ( on the A361 between Letchlade and Highworth ) what struck me was it’s length compared to modern lay-bys. It must have been 1/4 of a mile and looked very similar to your overgrown ghost roads, but with many bushes with edible things growing on them. I also stumbled upon a couple more once I got an eye for what to look for. The overgrownness between the road and the lay-by was deep with all sorts of findings too, as you really did pull off of the road to get into the old fashioned lay-bys.

Often I wish that our road system could be simple and easy like it was in say the 1950's. I hate places with multiples lanes and confusing road systems.

Won’t be any cars in 50 years lmao that’s if you all let the arshole gov n there overlords get there way you will have nothing and you will be happy or else ✌️

The hub cap was from a Vauxhall Carlton

There's a junction on the A1M near York that used to be crazy and dangerous. It's been not so much replaced as obliterated by its replacement, a full fledged motorway junction named Bramham Crossroads. It's hard to pick out any trace of the original now, and it leaves a scar where i want to go look at the old junction and understand just what it was i was driving on back in the nineties. It's like an earworm that you can't resolve so won't leave you alone. Old routes are still there, seared into the memories of folks who lived in the area before the changes

Keep em coming

100% effort for 100% content and a well deserved 3 second pint (Hic.!). Dont think ive ever heard the term "cats eye innerds" before. 😂😂👍🏻👍🏻

I am form Bedford and I did not know there was roads in Bedford I lived here for 14yrs

brilliant stuff you are keeping history fresh ,thank you for your service 🙏

I used to live in Somerset and quite a lot of the regular lanes looked like that. They’d start off okay and evolve into a grassy track with tarmac channels and just when you thought it’s going to end in a field the road would widen up again.

It’s a shame, there were 2 classic ghost roads in Bedford. One was the old Sandy Road out of Bedford near Priory Business Park, sadly I think they built a Whistl logistics center over it a few years back, but I walked it a few times. It was only short but was part of the main road out of Bedford before the bypass was built and connected to the Willington Road that passes Bedford Town FC. The second was the road near the Interchange Park that was closed off, again when the bypass was built. It’s now been repurposed as the main entrance into the Interchange retail park when the new large Next shop opened creating a one way system if you like in and out of the retail park. I remember when it led to a large roundabout where you could head to Milton Keynes before the bypass was built. Not something useful for you, but thought it might be interesting if you remember it.