Potholesville

In a Bedfordshire town, locals are resorting to desperate measures as a road continues to collapse and the council refuse to get involved. Meanwhile, I get radicalised by Ron Swanson.

Last year I wrote about Old Bridge Way, the pothole-riddled road at the centre of a bizarre ownership dispute, or rather lack-of-ownership dispute as various companies, the council and even the actual King of England battle to avoid responsibility for fixing it. Since then the road has continued to deteriorate, reaching the point where access to Shefford’s main supermarket was almost severed. Residents are up in arms, and are resorting to increasingly radical measures to bring attention to the issue.

When I set out the film the story I didn’t expect that I, too, would become radicalised; that Nick Offerman, in the form of the legendary Ron Swanson, would be responsible for me carrying out an act of civic extremism one cold Sunday morning. Watch the short film below, and please like and subscribe to my YouTube channel.

I’m still deep in the book mines for the next several months (full announcement coming in due course…) but in the meantime I’ll be releasing occasional videos and posts off the back of the research, probably once a month or so. Please do go and subscribe to the YouTube channel as well, I’ve found it incredibly rewarding making these films and I’m planning to post them more regularly once the book is out of the way. Normal Substack service will resume in the summer.