Having just watched robbie coltraine finish his b road driving extravaganza and his imploring of the good people of these isles to explore these oft quiet roads for themselves, can i please ask that you dont, as i like them for myself ,quiet ,serene and off the beaten track,please please fellow motorists keep to the motorways
............................................ i thank yee
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I also enjoyed this show but got quite a shock as to exactly how big Robbie is, and I don't just mean height! He must be very choosy about what cars that he can, quite literally, fit behind the wheel!
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"got quite a shock as to exactly how big Robbie is"
Bet you thought he wore body stuffing for the Hagrid part!
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Entertaining as Mr Coltrane is, there seems to be a glut of celebrity goes on tour / climbs mountain/ meets locals programmes.
Many B roads (in may area) these days are as busy and the same size as 3 and 4 digit suffix A roads. I suspect some of the road classifications are so old now, they are now not really indicative of the importance of the many roads anymore.
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Beautiful old Jag tho' - what is it? Mk11 Coupe?
Billy
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I would like to have seen a bit more of 'proper' B-road action. A bit more emphasis on the road itself - maybe some historical footage of it, or links to Roman/Celtic original bridleways, i.e. what made the route a road - so a bit more Nicholas Crane than Mayors-in-Chairs & Pie-Eating Tours.
Still I suppose the ITV audience it's aimed at with that time-slot would only tolerate so much anorak orientated material.
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good point mr woodbines about more of the b road anecdotes,unfortunately a lot of the people that could give you this information are now dead.
If you look on a modern map all the old stuff is taken off,a friend of mine is a keen metal detecter fan and he only uses maps at least 30 years old as these still show old information now vanished (eg victorian tips)
If you want to find out about b roads etc do as i do go down your hospice shop and trawl the books section you will find usually lots of travel books from the 70"s backwards showing things like standing stones strange churches or even the old road before a new one was built,these are the books you need to explore the b roads and the unclassified ones but please dont tell anyone else
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I agree, road classifications are often misleading.
Recently been to South Wales. Many B roads there should be called alleyways not roads :)
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Some quite interesting things about how your village/area has changed can be found on the olde "tythe-maps" (1843 ish). Try a "google". Some of the now B-roads were actually the "only" roads in them days, and then they were cart-tracks. Still like around here actually!!
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Beautiful old Jag tho' - what is it? Mk11 Coupe?
Hardly a coupe with a rag top but yes its a mk11 could be 3.4 or 3.8 a proper car.
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a friend of mine is a keen metal detecter fan and he only uses maps at least 30 years old as these still show old information now vanished (eg victorian tips)
Indeed Bell boy. It surprises me that OS don't provide more access to this historical map information (although I wouldn't expect them to put everything on their current map series for clarity's sake) Maybe a new niche for OS to exploit here?
I'm lucky enough to have a 1920's linen-backed 1-inch Popular Edition OS of my county (..and a bit) these things give - even from that relatively recent time - a tremendous local historical perspective. Routes of older (now re-routed, bypassed etc) roads show changing demographics, forests (esp. conifer plantations) seem to come & go. Areas where now, large infrastructure developments are shown, reveal previous use & geographical features.
Apart from this, the maps themselves have a fantastic hand drawn quality, with proper gaps in the map where folds occur (you can see the linen webbing at the map fold junctions!) , and there's always some new detail to discover on those cold winter nights...
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Jaguar MK 11 ?? No its not.
I've only seen the trailers for B road as I've been watching House on Channel 5 .
Its either an XK 140 or XK 150.
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Correct a mk11 xk 140 or 150 version as opposed to the mk1 which had a smaller grill and enclosed rear wheels.
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As it would appear, We are ALL correct!!
tinyurl.com/2xjhbt
Billy
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I was just about to post the link when Billy beat me to it.
I see no mention in there of a MK 11 or a Mk 1 version of the XK140.
Andy may well be correct but when he mentions the motor that Robbie is driving is definitely a Jag MK 11 , I am sure most people including myself think of the classic Inspector Morse Jag.
Try Googling for Jaguar XK 140 Mk 11 and you will get either an XK140 or MK 11 but not both in the same link.
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