No advert breaks every five minutes with recaps to tell you what you watched five minutes ago. No zoomy camera cuts, no stock music, just 25 minutes of beauty, history and vital information about our way of life. Thank you for this.
I never get tired of these programs, l used to love watching out of town on a Sunday morning hoping there will be a bit on fishing from the age of 10 as I remember.
When you see what England was a few decades ago and what we have now it’s not sad it’s outrageous that such a kind way of life is gone. In Ireland we seen this problem, and knew it would wash up on are land someday. The Irish people are a different animal than other European people. Are leaders sell our culture for euros but the folk own the villages the towns the cities and are Celts blood is real important to us. Come live with us but don’t come if you wish to take the piss for the people have learned from the cousins in England what awaits if we don’t keep our country Irish. We ask for nothing just the right to control our own kind our own land.
I am a Lifelong fan of all things Jack Hargreaves. Shortly after getting married we moved to Cann near Shaftesbury, and on my first jaunt into town who should drive past in a Blue Suzuki but the man himself. I truly felt that we were in the Country and have always treasured the sighting of a Hargreaves in its natural element.
He used to be very friendly with Mrs Mitchell from high steppers livery yard in Sturminster Newton. I’m not sure 100%, but I think he used to keep some of his horses there in the 90s….
My grandfather loved the programmes Jack Hargreaves presented. After each programme he'd then explain more about what had been shown on the programme. A wonderful time to have lived in. Even though I'm only 64 I miss those old times. The horses, slow pace of life, wonderful times. When I was 10/11 I used to help the local milkman deliver milk at weekends and during school holidays. This was done with a horse & cart (the horse's name was James. I'll always remember than!). Great memories.
Jack taught me everything I needed to know about angling/horses/lurchers/ferreting and rabbiting, etc. He was a real country, Gent. There's never been anyone like him since. RIP mate. You're missed even decades after your passing.
It is often the case that those who love the country aren't from the country. David Attenborough, for example, lives in London and Jack was born there too.
Ah yes, nostalgia isn't what it used to be. (Do you not remember rampant inflation and power cuts due to strike action? Holidays abroad where the holiday and spending money hadn't to exceed £50 because the economy was so bad.)
Fantastic ! What a GEM we lost when Jack passed away. They say 'When an old man dies, it's like a Library burning down', well that sums Jack up completely ! R.I.P. Jack. Thanks for sharing his videos. Take care 🙂
2:46 View from Knoll Farm towards Sturminster Common and Broad Oak 3:14 Okeford Common 3:29 View towards Win Green 3:51 Roome Farm 4:06 Okeford Fitzpaine 4:07 Lower street, Netherway Farmhouse 4:28 The Royal Oak - Lower Street, Okeford Fitzpaine 5:05 Higher Street 5:26 Turning for Okeford Hill 5:35 St Aldhelm’s Church, Belchalwell 6:59 Garlands Lane looking towards Belchalwell Street 7:28 Ibberton Village Hall 7:40 The Crown (currently The Ibberton) - Church Lane, Ibberton 9:05 Woolland 11:21 The Manor House, Droop 11:29 Manor Farm, Droop 11:50 St Mary’s and St James’s Church, Droop 11:58 Droop Cottage, Thickthorn Lane 12:21 Bungalow on Marsh lane 12:25 Marsh lane looking towards the back of Bulbarrow 13:05 Hatherly Farmhouse 14:00 looking towards Dorset Gap 15:02 View from Ansty Cross towards Aller and Melcombe Bingham 15:17 Probably Hilton Bottom 15:38 Hilton 16:04 Thomas’s Hill Plantation 17:14 Milton Abbey 18:04 Pidgeon House Plantation 18:28 Milton Abbas 19:01 The Hambro Arms - The Street, Milton Abbas 20:42 View from Woolland Hill (Bulbarrow) 21:44 Baker’s Folly 22:45 View towards Ibberton The route is about 18 miles starting from the pub in Okeford, going via Ibberton and Droop to Ansty Cross around Bulbarrow Hill. Milton Abbas is out on a phallanx, so the route is there and back through Hilton. On returning to Ansty, Cuckoo Lane goes to the top of Bulbarrow, and then it's back down Ibberton Hill to Baker’s Folly.
@@Peace11.11 Baker's Folly is on the Ibberton Hill road, but they don't do cream teas anymore; you'd have to park in the Forestry Commission car park behind it to get a similar view
I live in a small Somerset village close to the Bristol Channel. Watching this and all of the other incredibly precious films made by this great man shows me just how times have brutally changed. Our village and many others are rat-runs for cars with the narrow streets crammed with parked cars from the new shoe box homes being thrown up everywhere. I cycle my Somerset lanes as much as I can and there are still a few places left where dear old Jack would still feel at home but they are dwindling fast. Men like him with his vast knowledge are the backbone of country life. I truly miss him, his soft voice and the explanation of a life gone by. Thank you Jack.
I wonder if those villages have now all been populated with Chelsea tractor owners and all the locals homes have become second or holiday homes. Unfortunately money talks and our traditions are lost forever. Great series of programmes Jack made, totally unique, social history now, many thanks 😊
i'm British and I'm 60 years old. This was on telly when I was 13. That aside, the photography was great. The horses heads shadows in the lane... The camera man had an eye for beauty. A dreamlike quality. I don't believe I've ever seen this, Thank you very much.. p.s. We didn't see much of the pubs!
At my mother’s cremation back in May. I had the music played, as a tribute to Out of Town which was her favourite tv programme, encapsulating all the things she loved, being a Moonraker born and bred.
Well done, it’s so nostalgic isn’t it 👍😢. We had the music for the same reason for my Dad’s funeral service two years ago. He would have been 96 today, 16th August, so I’ve especially enjoyed being taken back to Out of Town this morning. All the best, Gerry
glad i was born in1967 had to go hop picking when i was 12 used to cry getting up at 5am in a wet field ..would not have changed it for the world looking back whats happened to this country now utter disgrace ,,,SHAME ON ALL YOU POLITICIANS 💔
I too was born in 1966,and at the age of 10 years old was helping out on a farm stacking hay bails in summer, and potato picking in bitterly cold conditions on the back of a spud picking machine, finger dropping of with cold,o my god such simple times back then compared to today's shocking state of affairs,I was so lucky to have grown up in the seventies and eighties, life was so much free,er and so uncomplicated, back in the days when your words and integrity meant something, and we had so much more respect for each other, I miss those days and thank my lucky stars I grew up in such great times,watching old Jack Hargreaves, reminded me of my childhood, my grandad was a notorious pocher,and my dad touat me country skills like long netting, and ferreting with purse nets ,he touat me how to nit purse nets and long nets,how to prep and gut rabbits and gut fish and skin eal,s how to set rabbit snares on a rabbit run ,truly great days,not killing, unesarly, or for pleasure,,but for food ,as times were hard in the seventies and we needed to put food on the table,my dad is now 89, and going strong ,,im now 58,,and I'm so proud of my dad for teaching me thease life skills and I look around me today and all this is gone,so called progress,,lol ,,we are going backwards, not forwards,, this shower of shit ,our excuse for a government,,ide like to make a WICKER MAN ,,AND SEND ,,HEIR STARMER TO HIS MAKER
Shame on people who voted for the politicians? You get the government you deserve. The real reason things have become so dire in the UK is overcrowding. Too much pressure on countryside, conflicting needs, inadequate infrastructure.
I have watched many of Jack's videos and have been amazed at how he used to explain things on his programmes clearly just by speaking and with a few home-made props, without fancy graphics, hysteria or fake drama. What a pleasant change from present day programmes!
Hello from the East Riding of Yorkshire. Jack was a wonderful human being, a man of the land. If there where more people like him our country would be a far better and safer place to be. I never got the chance to meet Jack, which is a shame but I shall never forget him and his wonderful programmes. I am 68 now and i love our green and pleasant land, I sometimes wish I had been born in Jack's time. I would have seen a better Britain despite world wars and hardships. I truly believe that people had more respect towards each other. Thank you for a wonderful program. 👍
What a wonderful film thank you David for giving everyone the chance to see what a wonderful country England once was. Its definitely declined since this was made.
My Gran kept a country pub from 1947 to 1980. She always had great chunks of bread and cheese on the tables. My mother said that it stopped the men going home for their dinner as many had come in straight from work. A couple of pints and some bread and cheese and they'd stay till closing. Good business woman my Gran lol.
Jack saved the very best til last, I have had a beer or two in all of those pubs I have chatted to the man himself in one of them,on few occasions. I haven’t been round much of the route on a horse and cart, all though I did travel part of it in the same way. I have ridden it many times on a motorbike, which arguably is as good. Thank you so much Dave for sharing these videos, they are now a valuable historical document of a time not so long ago. In the time since this was filmed the area has changed again, as Jack predicted!
@@spotsterjon74cu I suspect that would have been his local. I believe Jack's ashes were spread on Bulbarrow, as requested by him. Lovely film and memories.
As a teenager I used to do the stickin up in the skittle alley at the Oak. Was paid about 50p and a plate of chips iirc. Nice to see the street I grew up in on here, we were living there at the time this was filmed. Some journey that btw! It was a school friend's family that ran the tea house at bakers folly, not there as a tea house now.
My cousin Bunty worked with Jack on the How panel and I met him on a few occasions. Watched all his TV and it is quite painful to view this video. He always supported our local show and his knowledge especially of fishing was immense. A lovely man. God Bless the legacy he left for the future.
This is one of the loveliest videos of the English countryside I've come across. I would also add that at about 14 minutes the merging of the trotting and the music was quite an effect.
I live in Dorset and work as a bin man and regularly visit this area on my rounds- still extremely beautiful, especially very early mornings when no-one else is around. The tea shop isn't there anymore but still a good spot to have lunch.
Thanks to you Dave for showing these old films based on Jack Hargreaves. I must have seen most of them when they were originally broadcast, but that hasn't spoiled my enjoyment of every one. R.I.P Jack. Sadly missed.
I was born in Shaftesbury in the late 50's and had a great aunt who lived in Child Okeford. My grandfathers family lived just a few miles north of here around Fontmell Magna and Shaftesbury. Jack lived at Belchawell and the pubs can be found at Okeford Fitzpaine, Ibberton and Milton Abbas. The whole area is so peaceful and absolutely beautiful. This film brought back a lot of memories. 🙂
This is a world I would gladly go back to in an instant! The world we live in today knows very little of the countryside and the skills involved in maintaining farm land and woodland. I am grateful that when I was young the countryside was on my doorstep. My grandmother, when we visited could open her French doors straight out onto open farm land. I bet if you stopped 100 people in the towns now and asked them to identify trees for instance, most could only name 5. The fields I played still showed the old ridge and furrow in places from medieval farming methods.
I was born in 1963 and grew up in Southern TV land! Jack's wonderful programmes were hugely influential on me. I'm so very pleased that his work, thanks to Dave Knowles, has been brought to established fans and a new audience. Bless you Jack, and thank you Dave.
It's good that we can get that knowledge more easily, now. I loved this series when I was a boy. It's nice to see some of the beauty and traditions of my country. I miss a lot of things, and am glad that some things are gone. Things were never perfect and they still aren't. There'll always be a compromise.
I now find myself at 65 living from London in Dorset One day I vow to visit Jack's old house I still avidly watch all the episodes especially the fishing oned because Jack is like an encyclopaedia of countryside knowledge God bless you Jack your legacy lives on !
I live in Dorset and remember watching as a child of around 7 or 8. I'm 51 now and the change I've seen over the years is huge. All the horse fields that were, and so much of the farmland is all filled with housing. I feel sad for my memories of the past. I know you can't live in the past but life was so much simpler then
Beautiful Countryside. Great Show this was, and 85 seems like yesterday. Men like Jack & Fred Dibnah brought this past to us on their Television shows, and I am grateful to see these again, but said because that past is long gone now. I hope our Anglo-Saxon heritage stays alive.
Oliver Kite was an inspiration to young anglers. I began by harvesting, then copying trout flies, tying them that evening then testing them the next day on the water.
I used to go to those pubs back in the 60s. Royal Oak in Okeford Fitzpaine, The Crown in Winterborne Stickland, Hambro Arms in Milton Abbas. The country lanes are still the same.
Small correction. The 2nd pub is the Crown at Ibberton. Sadly, it changed its name about 10 years ago and is now called The Ibberton. More of a dining pub these days.
I live in Okeford Fitzpaine, the location of the 1st pub - The Royal Oak. All the pubs are still there and operating. The Ibberton (previously The Crown) in Ibberton and The Hambro Arms in Milton Abbas. Sadly the Tea room on Bulbarrow hill is no more. It’s now a private residence. I have to agree the views from Bulbarrow are magnificent
I live in Huddersfield. Jack was from near Holmfirth I believe so quite near. I reported a 60ft tree I thought had Ash die back however turns out its an elm and very few left round these parts. I wondered what villages they were. Thanks
Good old days When hotels were for holidays. When you got ill doctors would even home visit When you got toothache dentist would see you same day. When a crime occurred the police would attend. It wasn't perfect but it was a damn site better than nowadays.❤
What an enjoyable episode. Such beauty mixed with a feeling of loss for the old ways of England. Thanks for publishing Dave. These videos mean a lot to me.
I'm from Dorset and watching this reminds me of everything we have lost . Many fields and hedgerows now covered in concrete. If Jack was around now he would weep. He certainly wouldn't attempt to ride on that cart today through villages without putting himself in harms way.
I knew many great Elms as a young boy in 1950s ! Owls & Jackdaws found a home within their hollow branches & trunks! I recall seeing great nails protruding from some trees so as to form hand/ footholds to gain access to these birds nests ! Later years I motored along lanes flanked by much younger Elm trees whose canopies were so dense that even on brightest Summer day was quite cool & darkish ! I never thought such trees could vanish!
Mature elms were struck by a virus that took out about a dreadful 95% since the 1960's . Spread via a woodboring beetle brought over in ships from North America as Timber - the ' Dutch Elm Disease ' virus was as bad as 'Bubonic Plague' was to people in the Middle Ages.
I’m old and lucky enough to remember these from the first time around,Jack had a profound effect on me at the time and even more so now, I think he would be very disappointed in the loss of many of these skill and the change,not for the better of the English countryside 😢
I think he would be far more horrified not by the lack of skills, but the mass swathes of the English countryside being concreted over,by thousands of brand new housing estates being built to accommodate the endless amounts of immigrants.
It is great that in 2024, thirty years after his death, Mr Hargreaves Out Of Town is being repeated on Talking Pictures (Freeview Channel 82) on Sunday afternoons, repeated on Mondays at 6.30 p.m. Most of the episodes being shown are from 1980/1981 and the film editor is Dave Knowles on most of the episodes. It must have been a very rewarding programme to work on - nothing like it now.
This reminds me of staying with my grandmother, when I was a child in the 1960s, and she lived in Somerset. The sound and sights of the summer and the friendliness of the people. I know it is now a cliche, but no-one locked doors - the houses in the village were all open and everyone knew everyone. Fresh eggs and milk and my grandmother making the butter and bread for breakfast - with the butter formed by wooden mould, complete with a thistle pattern on top of the block of butter. It really is a lost world, a lost England - now present only in my memory - or seeing the occasional video like this. It was such a happy childhood and such a great place to spend the summer. I'm not sure many realise what has been lost.
I can remember watching his programs in my younger days. I never watched much TV as a child, but I still remember him with a fondness. Life was so much simpler in those days, we were no angels and still got a clout from the local Bobby when caught. Thanks Jack.
The programmes were more of a history lesson, not a cry for the past. Jack never moaned about the present day although I doubt he would agree on many things. Great series!
What a wonderful video as well as a wonderful man too. I remember watching these with my Dad who's long gone. I'm now 78 and as others have said, it brings back so many memories of days long gone. Life was so much slower and people were happier too. Thank you for this video. I shall work my way through these and one of them is going to go on my Christmas wish list.
Watched Jack as pre- pubescent early teen. Finally, after 56 years, I retired to the countr( hard work) but wouldn't have it any other way. Thanks to Britain's greatest ever broadcaster and to Mark for the post
I grew up in the country .....this man was such a mine of information, to a kid loving his life. All that countryside I played in, is now housing estates. 😎☯️🌱 Rest in peace Jack and thank you mate.
That's how it goes; it's sad to lose the countryside, but people need somewhere to live. There's a farm near where I live that is soon going to become a new housing estate. Mum and dad used to take us for walks around it - and blackberrying in the autumn in the woods that are part of it - when we moved here in 1964. I was four years old then, and will be sixty five next month, and it looks the same as when I was a child. I still go for walks there (and blackberrying!) and I'll be very sad when it's gone. But I also recognise that if some of that countryside hadn't been built on in 1963 to create the housing estate we moved to I would never have seen it.
I don't think I could even begin to explain to anyone younger than me just just how much of a country icon Jack was, he was the first program my dad ever video'd on the New VHS recorder and everyone in our village was home and in front of the TV when he was on. ½ hour later us young ones where out talking about it and looking for straight growth to mark up for walking sticks, making traps as he'd shown us...I don't know about those in towns and cities but village life even then was still very sedate.
I used to watch this lovely man with my dad when I was young. I still love to see any of the programs. They bring wonderful memories and I Lear so much still
After the first pub when Jack describes how nature naturally fixes itself during his ride through the trees and then seconds after how the sound of the horses hooves find a relaxing, therapeutic rytymn, this is a perfect example of order from Chaos, a theory whereby how life always manages to find a way to fix itself in the middle of disorder. Very interesting and evident when you live amongst nature and witness this every day.
I remember watching Jack in a children's programme called, 'HOW' explaining how things worked in that calm melodic voice of his. It was nice watching this, it brought back memories.
Greetings from South of France, where I've been walking some Camino routes. Just prior to that I walked the Cotswold Way then almost all the Peddars Way. Camping out. Just to record that the English countryside is beautiful, flourishing, more biodiversity than here in Occitane where birds are few and crops many. Jack, we owe you a debt of gratitude. THANK you
I absolutely love these Jack Hargreaves videos. I live nearby. Doing this pub crawl is on my list. I don’t have a horse and cart so I might need to borrow a bike.
The very great Jack Hargreaves, there was never anyone like him, he was a Godsend, he helped to educate and show many people who lived in cities, towns and places that people had no or very little contact with the farming, fishing country life. I only got to watch Jack a few times on a battered rented small black and white TV in my rented room back in time. Jacked helped to brighten up people's lives. Jack is now enjoying eternal peace in Heaven. As the people say in my town, Thanks A Million Jack
No advert breaks every five minutes with recaps to tell you what you watched five minutes ago. No zoomy camera cuts, no stock music, just 25 minutes of beauty, history and vital information about our way of life. Thank you for this.
So true
No mobile phones no internet a wonderful time miss it like mad.
How have you just watched this? Doh!
@@stepheng8779Don’t hate the player, hate the game
@@stepheng8779Dumb comment!
A more simpler & civilised age..
And No Millennials Peter
Just beautiful. R.I.P. Jack, you are sadly missed
He passed in 1994
As are those bygone days
I never get tired of these programs, l used to love watching out of town on a Sunday morning hoping there will be a bit on fishing from the age of 10 as I remember.
When you see what England was a few decades ago and what we have now it’s not sad it’s outrageous that such a kind way of life is gone. In Ireland we seen this problem, and knew it would wash up on are land someday. The Irish people are a different animal than other European people. Are leaders sell our culture for euros but the folk own the villages the towns the cities and are Celts blood is real important to us. Come live with us but don’t come if you wish to take the piss for the people have learned from the cousins in England what awaits if we don’t keep our country Irish. We ask for nothing just the right to control our own kind our own land.
Never a truer word said.
😅
I am a Lifelong fan of all things Jack Hargreaves. Shortly after getting married we moved to Cann near Shaftesbury, and on my first jaunt into town who should drive past in a Blue Suzuki but the man himself. I truly felt that we were in the Country and have always treasured the sighting of a Hargreaves in its natural element.
He used to be very friendly with Mrs Mitchell from high steppers livery yard in Sturminster Newton. I’m not sure 100%, but I think he used to keep some of his horses there in the 90s….
Jack understood our countryside well, unlike Countryfile today.
A wonderful sign-off with Jack traveling down the lanes he loved so much; and us along as guests. R.I.P. Jack, you are sorely missed.
My grandfather loved the programmes Jack Hargreaves presented. After each programme he'd then explain more about what had been shown on the programme. A wonderful time to have lived in. Even though I'm only 64 I miss those old times. The horses, slow pace of life, wonderful times. When I was 10/11 I used to help the local milkman deliver milk at weekends and during school holidays. This was done with a horse & cart (the horse's name was James. I'll always remember than!). Great memories.
Don't despair about your age mate. I'm sure you could be handy mending a fuse, when you're lights have gone!😉
The black dog following the cart was my beautiful Bramble . We lived on the farm in Ibberton. . Thank you I could see him again x
Jack taught me everything I needed to know about angling/horses/lurchers/ferreting and rabbiting, etc. He was a real country, Gent. There's never been anyone like him since. RIP mate. You're missed even decades after your passing.
It is often the case that those who love the country aren't from the country. David Attenborough, for example, lives in London and Jack was born there too.
Back when TV was good and life was much much better ,
Ah yes, nostalgia isn't what it used to be. (Do you not remember rampant inflation and power cuts due to strike action? Holidays abroad where the holiday and spending money hadn't to exceed £50 because the economy was so bad.)
What a wonderful film.
What a beautiful county Dorset must be...still?
Jack Hargreaves is so sadly missed.
His like will never be seen again.
If he saw the state of the UK today he would be mortified.
Perhaps you shouldn't put words in his mouth.
Every man needs a uncle or father or grandfather like jack. He would be a better man than 95 per cent of the so called men these days.
Or maybe 98%?
@@Puppy-chino Sadly, looking at the Tik Tok and Twitter generation I think you must be one of the lucky ones.
Think you maybe right.
That 5% is heading in the wrong direction as the new generations are coming through.
Ah, you mean a londonder who makes up complete crap about the countryside they never grew up in?
Peak boomer
Fantastic ! What a GEM we lost when Jack passed away. They say 'When an old man dies, it's like a Library burning down', well that sums Jack up completely ! R.I.P. Jack. Thanks for sharing his videos. Take care 🙂
2:46 View from Knoll Farm towards Sturminster Common and Broad Oak
3:14 Okeford Common
3:29 View towards Win Green
3:51 Roome Farm
4:06 Okeford Fitzpaine
4:07 Lower street, Netherway Farmhouse
4:28 The Royal Oak - Lower Street, Okeford Fitzpaine
5:05 Higher Street
5:26 Turning for Okeford Hill
5:35 St Aldhelm’s Church, Belchalwell
6:59 Garlands Lane looking towards Belchalwell Street
7:28 Ibberton Village Hall
7:40 The Crown (currently The Ibberton) - Church Lane, Ibberton
9:05 Woolland
11:21 The Manor House, Droop
11:29 Manor Farm, Droop
11:50 St Mary’s and St James’s Church, Droop
11:58 Droop Cottage, Thickthorn Lane
12:21 Bungalow on Marsh lane
12:25 Marsh lane looking towards the back of Bulbarrow
13:05 Hatherly Farmhouse
14:00 looking towards Dorset Gap
15:02 View from Ansty Cross towards Aller and Melcombe Bingham
15:17 Probably Hilton Bottom
15:38 Hilton
16:04 Thomas’s Hill Plantation
17:14 Milton Abbey
18:04 Pidgeon House Plantation
18:28 Milton Abbas
19:01 The Hambro Arms - The Street, Milton Abbas
20:42 View from Woolland Hill (Bulbarrow)
21:44 Baker’s Folly
22:45 View towards Ibberton
The route is about 18 miles starting from the pub in Okeford, going via Ibberton and Droop to Ansty Cross around Bulbarrow Hill. Milton Abbas is out on a phallanx, so the route is there and back through Hilton. On returning to Ansty, Cuckoo Lane goes to the top of Bulbarrow, and then it's back down Ibberton Hill to Baker’s Folly.
Thank you so much for listing the itinerary - i was wondering where all of the places were
@@Peace11.11 Baker's Folly is on the Ibberton Hill road, but they don't do cream teas anymore; you'd have to park in the Forestry Commission car park behind it to get a similar view
Thank you
That’s tonight’s bedtime watching sorted 👍
Pleasant dreams….
So sad that I remember this and 50 years forward , change has send us backwards to a world that Jack would not recognise 😢
These programmes are fantastic - but quite sad in that they show a time that will never again be enjoyed.
Just what the doctor ordered for a rainy Monday morning in 'modern' England (lifted me up).
I live in a small Somerset village close to the Bristol Channel. Watching this and all of the other incredibly precious films made by this great man shows me just how times have brutally changed.
Our village and many others are rat-runs for cars with the narrow streets crammed with parked cars from the new shoe box homes being thrown up everywhere.
I cycle my Somerset lanes as much as I can and there are still a few places left where dear old Jack would still feel at home but they are dwindling fast.
Men like him with his vast knowledge are the backbone of country life. I truly miss him, his soft voice and the explanation of a life gone by.
Thank you Jack.
I wonder if those villages have now all been populated with Chelsea tractor owners and all the locals homes have become second or holiday homes. Unfortunately money talks and our traditions are lost forever. Great series of programmes Jack made, totally unique, social history now, many thanks 😊
Indeed they have...live very close by.
Just did this exact pub crawl with my dad to honour jack, even stopped by at belchawell church and passed by his home. Long live jack!
i'm British and I'm 60 years old. This was on telly when I was 13. That aside, the photography was great. The horses heads shadows in the lane... The camera man had an eye for beauty. A dreamlike quality.
I don't believe I've ever seen this, Thank you very much.. p.s. We didn't see much of the pubs!
This should be prescribed on the NHS .
I agree, they are a sheer pleasure.
Along with The Detectorsists
DETECTORiSTS
@@mattwillis9173I be one of them lol
England is very beautiful - I’m proud to have been lucky enough to have been born here.
You have a wonderful English name too. Long live the English.
Well said 👍
At my mother’s cremation back in May. I had the music played, as a tribute to Out of Town which was her favourite tv programme, encapsulating all the things she loved, being a Moonraker born and bred.
Well done, it’s so nostalgic isn’t it 👍😢. We had the music for the same reason for my Dad’s funeral service two years ago. He would have been 96 today, 16th August, so I’ve especially enjoyed being taken back to Out of Town this morning. All the best, Gerry
growing up in the Southern TV region as a kid in the 1970s, this theme music instantly reminds me of Sunday roasts dinners
Likewise, the music gets me every time! Thanks Dave for resurrecting these.
Greatest presenter ever
Thank you Andy.
I do hope that's not the last Old Country we're going to see!
glad i was born in1967 had to go hop picking when i was 12 used to cry getting up at 5am in a wet field ..would not have changed it for the world looking back whats happened to this country now utter disgrace ,,,SHAME ON ALL YOU POLITICIANS 💔
That's why Sunak has no problem in destroying this country, because he has no love for it or memory of what it once was, like we do
I too was born in 1966,and at the age of 10 years old was helping out on a farm stacking hay bails in summer, and potato picking in bitterly cold conditions on the back of a spud picking machine, finger dropping of with cold,o my god such simple times back then compared to today's shocking state of affairs,I was so lucky to have grown up in the seventies and eighties, life was so much free,er and so uncomplicated, back in the days when your words and integrity meant something, and we had so much more respect for each other, I miss those days and thank my lucky stars I grew up in such great times,watching old Jack Hargreaves, reminded me of my childhood, my grandad was a notorious pocher,and my dad touat me country skills like long netting, and ferreting with purse nets ,he touat me how to nit purse nets and long nets,how to prep and gut rabbits and gut fish and skin eal,s how to set rabbit snares on a rabbit run ,truly great days,not killing, unesarly, or for pleasure,,but for food ,as times were hard in the seventies and we needed to put food on the table,my dad is now 89, and going strong ,,im now 58,,and I'm so proud of my dad for teaching me thease life skills and I look around me today and all this is gone,so called progress,,lol ,,we are going backwards, not forwards,, this shower of shit ,our excuse for a government,,ide like to make a WICKER MAN ,,AND SEND ,,HEIR STARMER TO HIS MAKER
Shame on people who voted for the politicians? You get the government you deserve. The real reason things have become so dire in the UK is overcrowding. Too much pressure on countryside, conflicting needs, inadequate infrastructure.
Innocent times. Sadly never to be repeated.
I have watched many of Jack's videos and have been amazed at how he used to explain things on his programmes clearly just by speaking and with a few home-made props, without fancy graphics, hysteria or fake drama. What a pleasant change from present day programmes!
Jack lived it all ... and you don't need notes or a teleprompter for that.
Hello from the East Riding of Yorkshire. Jack was a wonderful human being, a man of the land. If there where more people like him our country would be a far better and safer place to be. I never got the chance to meet Jack, which is a shame but I shall never forget him and his wonderful programmes. I am 68 now and i love our green and pleasant land, I sometimes wish I had been born in Jack's time. I would have seen a better Britain despite world wars and hardships. I truly believe that people had more respect towards each other. Thank you for a wonderful program. 👍
What a wonderful film thank you David for giving everyone the chance to see what a wonderful country England once was. Its definitely declined since this was made.
My Gran kept a country pub from 1947 to 1980. She always had great chunks of bread and cheese on the tables. My mother said that it stopped the men going home for their dinner as many had come in straight from work. A couple of pints and some bread and cheese and they'd stay till closing. Good business woman my Gran lol.
Jack saved the very best til last, I have had a beer or two in all of those pubs I have chatted to the man himself in one of them,on few occasions. I haven’t been round much of the route on a horse and cart, all though I did travel part of it in the same way. I have ridden it many times on a motorbike, which arguably is as good. Thank you so much Dave for sharing these videos, they are now a valuable historical document of a time not so long ago. In the time since this was filmed the area has changed again, as Jack predicted!
Where was/is the Crown, can find the other two. Just realised have been on holiday there or at least nearby.
@@adecirkett5351 The Crown was at Iberton, which is under Bullbarrow hill, that was the pub I was most likely to see him in.
@@spotsterjon74cu I suspect that would have been his local. I believe Jack's ashes were spread on Bulbarrow, as requested by him. Lovely film and memories.
Ah remember those days when the people you met in the street actually understood what language you spoke. God bless England it was a beautiful place.
What does that mean....agents were very different
@@djrudog1158which bit was confusing for you?
@@gaycha6589 your anvery confused person.....a simple life...
We have lost so much.
Apart from all the cars on the roads, the countryside isn't that much different today.
@@JayJamsSpams really?? the countryside i grew up in is unrecognisable, most is under tarmac and concrete.
As a teenager I used to do the stickin up in the skittle alley at the Oak. Was paid about 50p and a plate of chips iirc.
Nice to see the street I grew up in on here, we were living there at the time this was filmed. Some journey that btw! It was a school friend's family that ran the tea house at bakers folly, not there as a tea house now.
Thank you so much for the update as people often ask what has become of some of the places Jack visited on his programmes.
My cousin Bunty worked with Jack on the How panel and I met him on a few occasions. Watched all his TV and it is quite painful to view this video. He always supported our local show and his knowledge especially of fishing was immense. A lovely man. God Bless the legacy he left for the future.
Oh ... Bunty James. How is she?
A minefield of information,He knows the history of his neighbourhood x the flora and fauna X the pubs .A brilliant series.
I don't think you mean minefield 😀
This is one of the loveliest videos of the English countryside I've come across. I would also add that at about 14 minutes the merging of the trotting and the music was quite an effect.
What wonderful times, never to be seen again.
I live in Dorset and work as a bin man and regularly visit this area on my rounds- still extremely beautiful, especially very early mornings when no-one else is around. The tea shop isn't there anymore but still a good spot to have lunch.
Thanks to you Dave for showing these old films based on Jack Hargreaves. I must have seen most of them when they were originally broadcast, but that hasn't spoiled my enjoyment of every one. R.I.P Jack. Sadly missed.
I was born in Shaftesbury in the late 50's and had a great aunt who lived in Child Okeford. My grandfathers family lived just a few miles north of here around Fontmell Magna and Shaftesbury.
Jack lived at Belchawell and the pubs can be found at Okeford Fitzpaine, Ibberton and Milton Abbas. The whole area is so peaceful and absolutely beautiful. This film brought back a lot of memories. 🙂
This is a world I would gladly go back to in an instant! The world we live in today knows very little of the countryside and the skills involved in maintaining farm land and woodland. I am grateful that when I was young the countryside was on my doorstep. My grandmother, when we visited could open her French doors straight out onto open farm land. I bet if you stopped 100 people in the towns now and asked them to identify trees for instance, most could only name 5. The fields I played still showed the old ridge and furrow in places from medieval farming methods.
I was born in 1963 and grew up in Southern TV land! Jack's wonderful programmes were hugely influential on me. I'm so very pleased that his work, thanks to Dave Knowles, has been brought to established fans and a new audience. Bless you Jack, and thank you Dave.
Used to watch Jack way back when I was a child what a great knowledgeable man he was
As a young teen I used to love watching Jack on Southern Television
All that knowledge without using Google. How times have changed. RIP Jack.
It's good that we can get that knowledge more easily, now. I loved this series when I was a boy. It's nice to see some of the beauty and traditions of my country. I miss a lot of things, and am glad that some things are gone.
Things were never perfect and they still aren't.
There'll always be a compromise.
I now find myself at 65 living from London in Dorset
One day I vow to visit Jack's old house I still avidly watch all the episodes especially the fishing oned because Jack is like an encyclopaedia of countryside knowledge
God bless you Jack your legacy lives on !
I wish there was TV like this today.
I live in Dorset and remember watching as a child of around 7 or 8. I'm 51 now and the change I've seen over the years is huge. All the horse fields that were, and so much of the farmland is all filled with housing. I feel sad for my memories of the past. I know you can't live in the past but life was so much simpler then
God bless.. No one like him and there never will be again.. What a legend.
Beautiful Countryside. Great Show this was, and 85 seems like yesterday. Men like Jack & Fred Dibnah brought this past to us on their Television shows, and I am grateful to see these again, but said because that past is long gone now. I hope our Anglo-Saxon heritage stays alive.
Oliver Kite was an inspiration to young anglers. I began by harvesting, then copying trout flies, tying them that evening then testing them the next day on the water.
I used to go to those pubs back in the 60s. Royal Oak in Okeford Fitzpaine,
The Crown in Winterborne Stickland, Hambro Arms in Milton Abbas. The country lanes are still the same.
Thank you for providing the info missing from the programme!! But can you identify the tea house??
Small correction. The 2nd pub is the Crown at Ibberton. Sadly, it changed its name about 10 years ago and is now called The Ibberton. More of a dining pub these days.
@@n.j.r.fisher4257Bakers Folly on Bulbarrow Hill. Now closed.
I live in Okeford Fitzpaine, the location of the 1st pub - The Royal Oak. All the pubs are still there and operating. The Ibberton (previously The Crown) in Ibberton and The Hambro Arms in Milton Abbas. Sadly the Tea room on Bulbarrow hill is no more. It’s now a private residence. I have to agree the views from Bulbarrow are magnificent
Jack's ashes were scattered on Bulbarrow Hill.
I live in Huddersfield. Jack was from near Holmfirth I believe so quite near. I reported a 60ft tree I thought had Ash die back however turns out its an elm and very few left round these parts. I wondered what villages they were. Thanks
Thank you Charles it is good to know that the pubs are still there.
This green and pleasant land. Thanks Dave. First class.
Thank you Dave for this wonderfully perfect Sunday evening video. What I wouldn't give to be on that wagon and enjoy that day with Jack.
Yes spending time with Jack was full of stories. Far too many for me to remember.
Good old days
When hotels were for holidays.
When you got ill doctors would even home visit
When you got toothache dentist would see you same day.
When a crime occurred the police would attend.
It wasn't perfect but it was a damn site better than nowadays.❤
I’m a Child Okeford boy, well, 64 year old chap! Jack often seen in the Oak and sometimes the Baker Arms in our village.
What was he like off camera. Did he ever get pissed and be cheeky to the bar maids?
What an enjoyable episode. Such beauty mixed with a feeling of loss for the old ways of England. Thanks for publishing Dave. These videos mean a lot to me.
What a beautiful way to spend a day. Simple pleasure at a human pace.
Old Country was a marvellous programme.
Just dreaming now but true so sad in the 50s and 60s when I was growing up it was a good time but now it's so sad
I'm from Dorset and watching this reminds me of everything we have lost . Many fields and hedgerows now covered in concrete. If Jack was around now he would weep. He certainly wouldn't attempt to ride on that cart today through villages without putting himself in harms way.
Isn't it pathetic, the country has been flushed down the toilet 😮 breaks my English heart 🇬🇧 🫀
The UK is a dead county. A total cesspit thanks to the boomers generation.
I knew many great Elms as a young boy in 1950s ! Owls & Jackdaws found a home within their hollow branches & trunks! I recall seeing great nails protruding from some trees so as to form hand/ footholds to gain access to these birds nests ! Later years I motored along lanes flanked by much younger Elm trees whose canopies were so dense that even on brightest Summer day was quite cool & darkish ! I never thought such trees could vanish!
It’s heartbreaking.
Mature elms were struck by a virus that took out about a dreadful 95% since the 1960's . Spread via a woodboring beetle brought over in ships from North America as Timber - the ' Dutch Elm Disease ' virus was as bad as 'Bubonic Plague' was to people in the Middle Ages.
Absolutely beautiful. Peaceful and easy pace of life.
Even a bit of global warming there for the fruit cakes 😂😂😂😂😂
I’m old and lucky enough to remember these from the first time around,Jack had a profound effect on me at the time and even more so now, I think he would be very disappointed in the loss of many of these skill and the change,not for the better of the English countryside 😢
I think he would be far more horrified not by the lack of skills, but the mass swathes of the English countryside being concreted over,by thousands of brand new housing estates being built to accommodate the endless amounts of immigrants.
@Coldnewton Amen 🙏
It is great that in 2024, thirty years after his death, Mr Hargreaves Out Of Town is being repeated on Talking Pictures (Freeview Channel 82) on Sunday afternoons, repeated on Mondays at 6.30 p.m. Most of the episodes being shown are from 1980/1981 and the film editor is Dave Knowles on most of the episodes. It must have been a very rewarding programme to work on - nothing like it now.
These films are very valuable.
Wish he'd taken us into the pub.
Jack forgot more information than all of us will ever know....it feels like England died with him
Loved watching Jack Hargreaves programmes when I were a young boy growing up in London.
His wisdom ,country code ,and love of life ,i will never forget...!
This reminds me of staying with my grandmother, when I was a child in the 1960s, and she lived in Somerset. The sound and sights of the summer and the friendliness of the people. I know it is now a cliche, but no-one locked doors - the houses in the village were all open and everyone knew everyone. Fresh eggs and milk and my grandmother making the butter and bread for breakfast - with the butter formed by wooden mould, complete with a thistle pattern on top of the block of butter. It really is a lost world, a lost England - now present only in my memory - or seeing the occasional video like this. It was such a happy childhood and such a great place to spend the summer. I'm not sure many realise what has been lost.
I can remember watching his programs in my younger days. I never watched much TV as a child, but I still remember him with a fondness. Life was so much simpler in those days, we were no angels and still got a clout from the local Bobby when caught. Thanks Jack.
Jack was a great man.
Is... He will live forever in these films.
What a lovely ending to the series, Dave. Beautifully done as always, and what a pity there's nothing like it any more. Thank you!
Great memories of watching Jack and trying to work out what the mystery object was before the end of the show.
i was a kid grew up with Jack, how amazing we had no idea how life was to degrade!
People kept voting for things like Brexit and the Tory Party - egged on by unelected billionaires like Rupert Murdoch. Ever been had?
I remember watching Jack the very first time round - loved his programs. R.I.P Jack - like the rest of our beautiful country.
The programmes were more of a history lesson, not a cry for the past. Jack never moaned about the present day although I doubt he would agree on many things. Great series!
What a wonderful video as well as a wonderful man too. I remember watching these with my Dad who's long gone. I'm now 78 and as others have said, it brings back so many memories of days long gone. Life was so much slower and people were happier too. Thank you for this video. I shall work my way through these and one of them is going to go on my Christmas wish list.
Watched Jack as pre- pubescent early teen. Finally, after 56 years, I retired to the countr( hard work) but wouldn't have it any other way. Thanks to Britain's greatest ever broadcaster and to Mark for the post
I grew up in the country .....this man was such a mine of information, to a kid loving his life. All that countryside I played in, is now housing estates.
😎☯️🌱
Rest in peace Jack and thank you mate.
That's how it goes; it's sad to lose the countryside, but people need somewhere to live. There's a farm near where I live that is soon going to become a new housing estate. Mum and dad used to take us for walks around it - and blackberrying in the autumn in the woods that are part of it - when we moved here in 1964. I was four years old then, and will be sixty five next month, and it looks the same as when I was a child. I still go for walks there (and blackberrying!) and I'll be very sad when it's gone. But I also recognise that if some of that countryside hadn't been built on in 1963 to create the housing estate we moved to I would never have seen it.
I don't think I could even begin to explain to anyone younger than me just just how much of a country icon Jack was, he was the first program my dad ever video'd on the New VHS recorder and everyone in our village was home and in front of the TV when he was on.
½ hour later us young ones where out talking about it and looking for straight growth to mark up for walking sticks, making traps as he'd shown us...I don't know about those in towns and cities but village life even then was still very sedate.
I miss nice, honest, informative programmes like these. Nostalgia at its best. Thank you.
I used to watch this lovely man with my dad when I was young. I still love to see any of the programs. They bring wonderful memories and I Lear so much still
This man is the first to ever teach me anything when I was young he's a true hero ❤🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
He certainly is
The England🏴I loved as youth,gone for Eva destroyed by pollies.
Pollies happen to be humans humans have changed their behaviour modern technology
Progress we live longer healthier lives.
After the first pub when Jack describes how nature naturally fixes itself during his ride through the trees and then seconds after how the sound of the horses hooves find a relaxing, therapeutic rytymn, this is a perfect example of order from Chaos, a theory whereby how life always manages to find a way to fix itself in the middle of disorder.
Very interesting and evident when you live amongst nature and witness this every day.
No potholes, no traffic, no tourists, clean, well maintained, oh to go back to these days!
and riddled with English people.
@@SimonLloydGuitarAhhhh not them, the horror! 😱
I remember watching Jack in a children's programme called, 'HOW' explaining how things worked in that calm melodic voice of his. It was nice watching this, it brought back memories.
Life was much calmer then I do so miss it 😔
The Quintessential English Country Gentleman, RIP Jack 🙏🏻 Thanks for sharing David 🙌🏻
My pleasure I am so pleased you enjoyed the programme.
Greetings from South of France, where I've been walking some Camino routes. Just prior to that I walked the Cotswold Way then almost all the Peddars Way. Camping out. Just to record that the English countryside is beautiful, flourishing, more biodiversity than here in Occitane where birds are few and crops many. Jack, we owe you a debt of gratitude. THANK you
I absolutely love these Jack Hargreaves videos. I live nearby. Doing this pub crawl is on my list. I don’t have a horse and cart so I might need to borrow a bike.
Looks as close to paradise as you can get anywhere times gone forever sadly a different world and not for the better.
The very great Jack Hargreaves, there was never anyone like him, he was a Godsend, he helped to educate and show many people who lived in cities, towns and places that people had no or very little contact with the farming, fishing country life. I only got to watch Jack a few times on a battered rented small black and white TV in my rented room back in time. Jacked helped to brighten up people's lives. Jack is now enjoying eternal peace in Heaven. As the people say in my town, Thanks A Million Jack