A Tribute To Oliver Kite

[@TheMrboots]

Absolutely priceless!!

[@dinx556]

Virtually a lost world now. I was lucky to know the late Bernard Aldridge who was the riverkeeper for the Broadlands Estate during the late 197'0's. He taught me river lore, including water weed cutting with a scythe, skills I practised and then passed on to others when I became the head river keeper of a fishery on the Dorset Stour. This way of life, though modified in some ways, still goes on for those lucky enough to be keepers or fishermen with rods upon the rivers Itchen and Test. Long may it be so.

[@Ukmongoose3]

No technology, just life.

[@louisehaycock]

Absolutely fabulous documentary thank you

[@davemedlyn071]

Many thanks for sharing these old and very interesting films. They are from another time and remind me of my youth. Bravo.

[@joegarry8983]

What a wonderful tribute to a great man and what a wonderful time to have lived in, thank you so much, will watch it over and over again.

[@chrissharratt4615]

These films were so well made

[@drewsimpson5967]

Thank you, what a great film! Ive only recently became aware of Oliver Kite through Fallons Angler magazine. Very glad I've became acquainted.

[@HedleyBarker]

Try to get hold of a copy of his book "Nymph Fishing in Practice" it's a great read.

[@rossbartholomew9372]

A great film of times gone past……

[@sidpheasant7585]

Although I was born in the 60s, I was from the north, so had zero knowledge of "Kite's Country" or any of this background. Since Ollie witnessed the Bomb being detonated in Oz, one wonders if the illness while in the Army and then the early death... Anyway, some years later under my real name I won one of the Oliver Kite Memorial Prizes, without knowing the above back-story at all. And digging for info was not so easy back in the early '80s (unike today when a matter of moments). Came across this now having been sent something about Jack Hargreaves via KZbin. I was a naturalist from age 5, I guess, and our pioneering family holidays to Spain late 60s and France made me just like the young Gerald Durrell, disappearing into the countryside with jars and a butterfly net. Now, my parents would be arrested for neglect! I was one of the last of the "Victorian naturalists" I guess. I won the Prize in memory of Ollie in the context of studying biology at Uni. Ollie would have got me a bit, I hope, and I'm grateful to him. But just a couple of years ago, I realised that my parents had had me baptised on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (of course they did not realise it, and neither did I until just recently, after I had already been Born Again in Jesus, through the Holy Spirit). My interest was seeded in me at baptism, and I'm immeasurably grateful to the Holy Spirit for that and for so much else. It was He who kept me safe as I wandered through lanes and woods and fields alone at still-tender ages. The programme above notes how animals would sort-of appear for Ollie, and this happens to me too, now. They are signs through nature from the Holy Spirit (who also does Scripture, culture and Rapture - which is neat enough). Above we see culture and nature.

[@jamiejudd8018]

Well said sir

[@sidpheasant7585]

@@jamiejudd8018 Very kind of you. I LOVED my University study because I yearned to understand how the Earth works. Surprisingly, understanding better scientifically did NOT take away the AWE at what we have all around us. I came upon the Gaia Hypothesis from Lovelock (hopefully still with us as I write - surely a wonderful genius, but with ideas irreconcilable with the Selfish Genes of Dawkins, whom I also loved back in the day). But I realised I needed God (another idea irreconcilable with Dawkins!!!) if it was all going to add up. Sure the laws of cosmology, physics, chemistry and nature work and are wondrous in themselves (as science actually shows!!) But something more is needed to make it add up. I have myself experienced the Holy Spirit acting beyond nature and beyond science. He can do that and He showed and shows me mercy, love, truth, healing, resilience, kindness and inspiration as He does so. What's not to like? I am suitably grateful - and humbled - and have learned to live easily with the above fact about the Earth and the universe...

[@zianniculae6700]

💙❤️💚🌹

[@kid--presentable]

The way our countries used to be

[@AlfUckhamHall]

Another angler taken too soon.