The Poacher. "The Other Side Of The Hedge" An Original 1987 Tv Documentary {obviously,not HD).

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  • A snapshot in time. A 1987 Tv Documentary, about the still thriving art of poaching in Norfolk, much to the irritation of the game keeper. This wonderful old film first aired 36 years ago on channel four.
    Due to its age this is obviously not High Definition, it is what it is quality wise but, its a cracking little documentary all the same.

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  • @pinkfoothunter1
    @pinkfoothunter1 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    This was filmed around where I live, I grew up around all those old bois, and still see some of those that are still alive now, "Jakey" David Jacobs isn't here any more, he was a top drawer keeper, Percy is still alive and I see him from time to time, proper old country characters, always had a smile on their face and a funny tale to tell, watching this brought back some memories👍

    • @bidenhasdementia8657
      @bidenhasdementia8657 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      And to think their grandchildren will be replaced in their own homeland

    • @pauldavies9489
      @pauldavies9489 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember this , brilliant back in its day….. and now, is the main gent ( The Poacher ) still with us ?

    • @killintime8431
      @killintime8431 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Really well I was actually in this film at 18:50 that’s me years ago I really in joyed making this thanks for watching

    • @waynesmith4612
      @waynesmith4612 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@killintime8431 At 18.50, really? This was filmed in the early 1980s though, you must be well over 100 years old by now ole lad.

    • @killintime8431
      @killintime8431 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@waynesmith4612 ya I’m getting up there but this really brings back memories

  • @adamdavidson2858
    @adamdavidson2858 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Completely forgot about this film until it popped up I must of watched this a dozen times years ago so many happy memories watching it again thank you

  • @paulmurray750
    @paulmurray750 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    My Dad told me tales of digging his ferrets out of burrows in the 50s in Donegal, now I just go to Tesco. Them were the days.

  • @tiernanwearen8096
    @tiernanwearen8096 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "No matter how much you feed him, he will keep looking at the forest."
    Old Russian proverb

  • @JPLamoureuxsTravels
    @JPLamoureuxsTravels ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Bloody ell, long time since ive seen this! I've had lurchers for 45 years and ferrets too, this is a gem well done for getting it out there again x JP

  • @dvrn86
    @dvrn86 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Had me a hairy lurcher like that and he was the best dog I ever had. Mild mannered, great on the foxes and real gentle picking up rabbits.

    • @teddy1066
      @teddy1066 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Damn good jooks lurchers. Perfect poaching companion and can train em not to bark!

  • @teddy1066
    @teddy1066 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I come from a Romanichal gypsy line that goes back to 18th century Suffolk. My grandfather was a poacher from long old line of poachers, harkin round Hopton and Blo’ Norton way. He’d take one good jook that rarely barked, set out cross the poove into the wesh, and set his snares.
    Keepers and gavvers never got bracelets on him tho they were plenty tight on ye back them days. He’d take mandi along usually to scrump pobbles and ankas and such (ripe and picked out by day) for supper and pudding! Cushti old times them.

    • @K2shadowfax
      @K2shadowfax 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Please explain the meaning of...poove / wesh / pobbles / ankas? TYVM

    • @treaclepie
      @treaclepie หลายเดือนก่อน

      Deportations now.

    • @12clr12
      @12clr12 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The old Gypsy Poachers were in a class by themselves. Not many could hold a candle to them.

  • @mathewburns4477
    @mathewburns4477 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for posting this it brings back happy memories

  • @robdavis1176
    @robdavis1176 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice film. Thanks for sharing with us Scott.

  • @Rexxyann258
    @Rexxyann258 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Back in the good old days a couple of rabbits for the pot some veg from the allotment and a feast was had fast forward to 2023 well what can I say ☹️

  • @albertaboy74
    @albertaboy74 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you Scott. History can be beautiful and ugly at the same time!

  • @psychoskin3797
    @psychoskin3797 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I thought poaching was cooking in water😂👍👀
    Greetings Scotty boy………
    From a sunny Warwick ale house 👍

  • @byronholmes2496
    @byronholmes2496 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I Love your channel because, I love to cook. The sourcing and preserving food (historical) is how we move forward.

  • @jeffward1106
    @jeffward1106 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for the post. I'll watch all of it when I get home from work ☺️

  • @ajadrew
    @ajadrew วันที่ผ่านมา

    This brings back many memories from mid 70's around Hadleigh area in Suffolk, lamping & beating & all the characters. Bubba, Desi Oxford & others in Hadleigh

  • @brianeaton3734
    @brianeaton3734 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love it when you post these old videos….thanks.

  • @tonymiller4630
    @tonymiller4630 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant to watch again watched way back in the day on channel 4 pleased it's onhere

  • @richardlove4287
    @richardlove4287 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’ve been on a few shoots at my friends estates in east Lothian….great fun was had by all.

  • @john-k6k6w
    @john-k6k6w ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Brings Back Memory's

  • @niff7124
    @niff7124 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Spent the late 80s n 90s with my ferrets n lurchers filling mums freezer

    • @ShadowyFigure83
      @ShadowyFigure83 ปีที่แล้ว

      The first time I tried poached rabbit I puked.

    • @ShadowyFigure83
      @ShadowyFigure83 ปีที่แล้ว

      would use it as cat food.

  • @klawockkidd3426
    @klawockkidd3426 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very enjoyable. Thank you for sharing.

  • @neilsoper549
    @neilsoper549 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Brilliant viewing 👍🏻

  • @goosemcduck420
    @goosemcduck420 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    The upper crust deciding the rules. Poach away i say

  • @matthewdickson7838
    @matthewdickson7838 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Superb video ❤

  • @Bigrignohio
    @Bigrignohio ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I grew up in a VERY rural and poor farming community in the 70's (United States). Let's just say while my family never had to go that route I knew of more than one family that would hunt off-season. It was that or go hungry. And in all fairness the local game wardens would look the other way as long as the animals were taken for food.

  • @TheYeti308
    @TheYeti308 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A good game keep has learned their craft from poachers .

  • @carfvallrightsreservedwith6649
    @carfvallrightsreservedwith6649 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Whistling up your birds for feeding reminds me of slopping hogs and hollering "Soowie!" to get them running to the trough.

  • @carfvallrightsreservedwith6649
    @carfvallrightsreservedwith6649 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Only in U.K. will you see a guy tramping through the woods in a suit! 😂

  • @henryloveridge3824
    @henryloveridge3824 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That's good old days mate

  • @billycrotty4102
    @billycrotty4102 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I watched this the other day it's good.
    My mate who I run Lurchers with knew him, the gamekeeper's killed his dog after this and he actually ended up a gamekeeper himself in the end.
    Nothing wrong with a bit of poaching as long as you aren't too greedy no one even notices.

    • @tiernanwearen8096
      @tiernanwearen8096 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes I know the type.
      Knocked around with a few over the years. And I can tell you this. To them
      The crime was too get caught!

  • @jamesnekechuk7830
    @jamesnekechuk7830 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What is the name of the intro song?

  • @garynicholls72
    @garynicholls72 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi Scott I just want to know do you have a video on how to make Savoury Duck or Haslet please as I would be Very interested

  • @mrwright5699
    @mrwright5699 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Everything tastes better when its free 😉

  • @patrickwalsh7719
    @patrickwalsh7719 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very good

  • @waynesmith4612
    @waynesmith4612 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I have watched this hundreds of times, Does anyone know who the poacher was?

  • @carfvallrightsreservedwith6649
    @carfvallrightsreservedwith6649 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is the difference between hunting and "sporting",...... hunting is for eating (which we all MUST do) and who has the right to say you cant eat? SPORTING is for entertainment/ recreation and one can be charged for that.

  • @muwuny
    @muwuny ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Remember what they took from you

    • @dvrn86
      @dvrn86 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Aye you're right pal. The poacher helped many a family living on the breadline.

  • @Baltihunter
    @Baltihunter ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I bet the Romanians have taken poaching up a level here in uk

  • @fenwelder2474
    @fenwelder2474 ปีที่แล้ว

    19:14 I knew Martins brother Dick.
    Lovely bloke.
    Always good to have around.

    • @jurjendeboer4009
      @jurjendeboer4009 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dick Tickler; what a name that is. I'd have that changed right away if that was my name 😁

    • @waynesmith4612
      @waynesmith4612 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jurjendeboer4009 I think he's joking, he has to be.

  • @andywhf8249
    @andywhf8249 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cracking video

  • @maureendrennan9328
    @maureendrennan9328 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I lived rurally and walked every day. I lifted more roadkill birds than you would believe and cooked them up for my dogs and family.....

  • @paulkerridge6001
    @paulkerridge6001 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m in Suffolk. That’s not far from me.

  • @Baltihunter
    @Baltihunter ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Imagine your dog bringing you a couple of tasty rabbits on your walkies. I’ve often thought the city equivalent would be owning an ex drug detecting dog😊

  • @craigdutton6072
    @craigdutton6072 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Poaching down under happens every day 😂

    • @O-beefie
      @O-beefie ปีที่แล้ว +1

      BIN CHICKEN?

    • @peterwebb8732
      @peterwebb8732 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah…. Piggers cutting fences and leaving gates open. Nothing nice and romantic about that. Just bad-actors who can’t be bothered getting permission and end up making things stink for all of us.

  • @MrWillcarr
    @MrWillcarr ปีที่แล้ว

    have you see the moon and the sledgehammer ?

  • @ianjohnson3675
    @ianjohnson3675 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi when is your next butchering video?

  • @carfvallrightsreservedwith6649
    @carfvallrightsreservedwith6649 ปีที่แล้ว

    Have never seen pheasants roosting in the trees here in the States.

  • @maureendrennan9328
    @maureendrennan9328 ปีที่แล้ว

    Don't know why he's shooting as could probably reach and grab them quite easily.

  • @sheilam4964
    @sheilam4964 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why aren't the locals raising chickens or are they not allowed to?

    • @hetrodoxly1203
      @hetrodoxly1203 ปีที่แล้ว

      They do raise chickens but why wouldn't they be allowed?

  • @jonathanmacdonald3322
    @jonathanmacdonald3322 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    20:45 tune anyone?

    • @waynesmith4612
      @waynesmith4612 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes nice isn't it, sadly i don't know either.

  • @bradk8702
    @bradk8702 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sorry mate.
    Video and audio quality so poor, can’t understand it.

    • @TheScottReaproject
      @TheScottReaproject  ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's from 1987 Brad. No HD I'm afraid. The quality is what it is but, it does get better

    • @klawockkidd3426
      @klawockkidd3426 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I turned on the subtitles and listened with earphones. I'm a Texan so the British accent is difficult for me.

    • @muwuny
      @muwuny ปีที่แล้ว +2

      City slicker detected

    • @carfvallrightsreservedwith6649
      @carfvallrightsreservedwith6649 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm half British (mom was from Middlesex), and 1/4 Ledbetter, 1/4 Moses (hillbilly royalty). My Nan spent the last 16 years of her life down the road from us so the accent is pretty easy for me to understand.

    • @pussypostlethwaitsaeronaut8503
      @pussypostlethwaitsaeronaut8503 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@klawockkidd3426 You confuse English with British; these are not synonyms. Britain is not England.
      I'm an Englishwoman, and my friend is a Scotswoman; we are also both British but sound totally different with no similarity in our accents whatsoever. The island of Britain has three countries, and the UK has four. Therefore British accents are English, Welsh, Scottish, and Northern Irish; but they each sound completely different, so to say someone has a 'British accent' is a misnomer and makes no sense. For example, Mr Scott from Star Trek has a 'British accent', so does King Charles. Do they sound the same to you? Which 'British accent' do you think they have? Would the 'British accent' be English, Welsh, Scottish, or Northern Irish?
      Moreover the variation among these accents is huge. Also, is the British person English, Welsh, Scottish, or Northern Irish? Then there are working class regional accents, as well as English Received Pronunciation (standard and upper).
      English = belonging to or relating to England, or its people: Englishwoman, Englishman.
      British = belonging to or relating to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or to its people (English, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish) or its culture.
      Englishwoman = me, because I'm specifically an old English girl from England.
      England = a country within the island of Great Britain; England shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north and is part of the United Kingdom.
      Britain, or Great Britain = large geographical island in the British Isles comprising three small countries: England, Scotland, and Wales. The fuller name 'Great Britain' has been in use since the Middle English period, originally to distinguish the island from Brittany, which was then also called Britain.
      British isles = a geographically named group of islands, including Britain, Ireland (Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland), the Isle of Man, the Hebrides, the Orkney Islands, the Shetland Islands, the Isles of Scilly, and the Channel Islands, lying off the coast of north-western Europe, from which they are separated by the North Sea and the English Channel.
      United Kingdom = sovereign country and kingdom consisting of four smaller countries: England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Full name: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
      Moreover, the Union Flag (or Jack) does not represent England. St George's Cross is the flag that represents England: it's a red cross on a white background.
      The Union Flag (or Jack) is not a symbol or flag of England or Great Britain: it's the flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, being a composite design composed of St George's Cross (England), Saint Andrew's Cross (Scotland), and Saint Patrick's Cross (Ireland, now with Northern Ireland remaining). Wales had been annexed to the Kingdom of England before the Union, and therefore its flag does not form part of the composite design of the Union Flag.
      Hope this is of interest and helps to elucidate the particularities of the United Kingdom.
      ❤xx

  • @ShadowyFigure83
    @ShadowyFigure83 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Poaching for food, man has to eat, he has to eat.
    But things like hare Coursing, purely for sport..nah man.

  • @derktromp1495
    @derktromp1495 ปีที่แล้ว

    💯👍👍

  • @jasonseely3905
    @jasonseely3905 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    proper program dunt make them like that anymore

  • @TonyM540
    @TonyM540 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The dole did away with a lot of poachers

  • @carfvallrightsreservedwith6649
    @carfvallrightsreservedwith6649 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Biblical story where the disciple Paul(?) was starving and God made animals of all sorts fall from the sky and told him to "kill and eat, for nothing I have created is unclean". Did i miss the part where so-called authorities said "but first you must pay us for it"?

    • @peterwebb8732
      @peterwebb8732 ปีที่แล้ว

      Firstly, it was Peter, not Paul.
      Secondly, the animals were lowered to him in a sheet.
      When God lowers animals to you in a sheet, I have zero problem with you killing and eating them. Trespassing on my land and stealing my critters is another matter entirely. The same Bible has plenty to say about not stealing and respecting boundaries.

    • @bwghall1
      @bwghall1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@peterwebb8732 the Rabbit and wild fish belongs to the one that catches said.

    • @peterwebb8732
      @peterwebb8732 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bwghall1 1. No. When the title to land includes the animals on it, they are PROPERTY and taking them without permission is theft. “Thou shalt not steal”.
      2. Trespassing is a crime. One of the Rights that go with ownership, is that of exclusive use.
      There is no right to trespass. There is no right to steal.

  • @carfvallrightsreservedwith6649
    @carfvallrightsreservedwith6649 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why dont you blokes just put them in a box and spring them up for the shooters? You know like trap shooting. About the same damn thing.
    Is it typical that the shooters clean their catch, or does that fall on someone else?

  • @michaellewell5905
    @michaellewell5905 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    £10.00 a bird must be £30.00+ now plus vat not worth poaching pheasant now they ain't worth nothing allot of shoots can't give em away I fill my freezer every season beating even if the go for ferret food I'll always use em

    • @BertramG-oz4nu
      @BertramG-oz4nu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I only poached to put grub on the table and only took what I needed and I'm a east end boy

  • @realest-12
    @realest-12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Better times

  • @36ydna
    @36ydna 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Poachers are thieves, end of argument. Poachers no longer poach to support their families, it's all about money.

    • @BertramG-oz4nu
      @BertramG-oz4nu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah nowadays but when I was kid poaching was to put gub on the kayn a able

    • @12clr12
      @12clr12 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      A few still do it for food.

  • @timhooper1557
    @timhooper1557 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    tight gits only paid the beater £20 in 90's maybe a few beers at lunch! lol
    100% right about a good day out!
    and if a few birds fell into the bag... perk of the job! lol

    • @octagon12011
      @octagon12011 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Blimey. One of the shoots I beat on still only pays £20. And perhaps 1 beer at dinner time and about enough sloe gin to cover the bottom of the glass. (In Bedfordshire, you know who you are).😂

    • @timhooper1557
      @timhooper1557 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@octagon12011 lol 😂

    • @bwxbwx6453
      @bwxbwx6453 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I’ve had it alright 30 quid a bit of lunch and take some birds afterwards not awful

    • @waynesmith4612
      @waynesmith4612 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@octagon12011Still paying just £20 to beaters? Blimey who's shoot is it, Ebenezer Scrooge?

    • @waynesmith4612
      @waynesmith4612 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@bwxbwx6453 That's not to bad.

  • @peterwebb8732
    @peterwebb8732 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nothing more common than criminals inventing excuses for ignoring the rights of others.
    Anybody who wants to criticise landowners should not do so with his mouth full, because it’s modern farming by private landowners that keeps the world fed. It sounds nice and romantic to claim that the land and the game on it should belong to everyone, but the bootwould be on the other foot if I started grazing my sheep in your garden.

    • @tiernanwearen8096
      @tiernanwearen8096 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I understand the sentiment.
      I have been on both sides of the hedge. And from 15 onwards I was working for farmers. But still there's nothing like being on a stubble field hearing the vixen scream wind whistling and moonlight shining with you and your dog.

    • @peterwebb8732
      @peterwebb8732 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@tiernanwearen8096 And I understand the attractions. I have my own dogs, light, fields and arrangements with my neighbours. Point is…. I asked them.
      Our land is our personal space. It is our home. There are many fine places to be, but there is none in the world like mine.

    • @waynesmith4612
      @waynesmith4612 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@peterwebb8732 What would you like, an award?

    • @12clr12
      @12clr12 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      It's modern farming practices that has destroyed the countryside.

    • @peterwebb8732
      @peterwebb8732 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@12clr12 I beg your pardon, but I suggest you not say that with your mouth full. If we had not adopted “modern farming practices”, food production would not have kept pace with population growth, and there would be no wild places left because every possible acre would be devoted to rood production.

  • @Chassealarc
    @Chassealarc ปีที่แล้ว

    All I can say is God Bless America😊

    • @AA-69
      @AA-69 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      REALLY 🤣😂...Good luck with that one 😏

    • @Chassealarc
      @Chassealarc ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I merely meant we in America are blessed because we have public land to hunt. Landowners do not own the animals. You are not aloud to trespass, but we have a lot of opportunity and seasons to harvest a variety of game….so yes, we are in luck

    • @Cookinoutdoors
      @Cookinoutdoors ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Chassealarcnot sure about the god bless America part but you defo have more relaxed fishing and hunting rights although we have free health care 😂

    • @joehowart7364
      @joehowart7364 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank god i live in usa what a shit show it is in uk

    • @hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo
      @hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@joehowart7364 We have dear that can be hunted 12 months of the year with no limit on the amount you take, most people hunt rabbit in season but you can hunt them all year.

  • @joehowart7364
    @joehowart7364 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dont u have public land in the uk for hunting? Thats how we do it in the usa if u dont own land.

    • @YassaviShayiskhunn
      @YassaviShayiskhunn 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      nope, no such thing as public land here. All land is owned by farmers or conservation authorities. We all should have a right to land but sadly thats not the case, we have lost our land to ever expanding farms or authorities buying land to set laws on. Just about the only "public" land we have is to walk on. anything else your breaking the law in some way shape or form. sad.

    • @12clr12
      @12clr12 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Public hunting sucks.

  • @joehowart7364
    @joehowart7364 ปีที่แล้ว

    That isnt hunting that is crazy. Might as well hunt ur chickens

  • @BertramG-oz4nu
    @BertramG-oz4nu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Poaching with a 410 no fucking way . 22 thats the kiddie with a silencer never get heard