Jack Hargreaves Goes on a Pub Crawl for his last TV programme.

In the last programmes that Jack ever made for television he takes us on a pub crawl through what was his favourite county of England, Thomas Hardy's Wessex.
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About: "Old Country": I produced 60 "Old Country" programmes made over a period of three years for Channel 4. This programme originally called Pub Crawl was broadcast on Channel 4 in 1985.
Title Music: "Recuerdos de la Alhambra’" played on acoustic guitar by Jonathon Coudrille
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[@jmaudsley6544]

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.

[@thetruthbetold3853]

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….

[@jekylthorn8969]

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.

[@OhYeah32]

So true

[@geordie1032]

Just beautiful. R.I.P. Jack, you are sadly missed

[@BigDaveW6799]

He passed in 1994

[@JohnDoe-px4ko]

As are those bygone days

[@martinmullen71]

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.

[@patkearney9320]

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.

[@galwayvintagecollection3401]

Never a truer word said. 😅

[@peterchessell28]

No mobile phones no internet a wonderful time miss it like mad.

[@stepheng8779]

How have you just watched this? Doh!

[@Brokout]

@@stepheng8779Don’t hate the player, hate the game

[@johnnyhall7065]

​@@stepheng8779Dumb comment!

[@Paul_1971]

A more simpler & civilised age..

[@alfching2499]

And No Millennials Peter

[@rallyeraidr7841]

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.

[@diggis21]

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.❤

[@jimosullivan1389]

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.

[@rogersmith8339]

Or maybe 98%?

[@rogersmith8339]

@@Lamya65 Sadly, looking at the Tik Tok and Twitter generation I think you must be one of the lucky ones.

[@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker]

Think you maybe right.

[@kenthomson9562]

That 5% is heading in the wrong direction as the new generations are coming through.

[@13thcentury]

Ah, you mean a londonder who makes up complete crap about the countryside they never grew up in? Peak boomer

[@user-ft9qt8lg2c]

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.

[@jennywren8937]

Jack understood our countryside well, unlike Countryfile today.

[@Fightladsnet]

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.

[@norbertnedsworth7172]

Don't despair about your age mate. I'm sure you could be handy mending a fuse, when you're lights have gone!😉

[@janecaryer-gent4821]

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

[@michaeltreadwell777]

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 🙂

[@guitarselectric]

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 😊

[@caryknapton7233]

Indeed they have...live very close by.

[@xusiaxod6255]

If he saw the state of the UK today he would be mortified.

[@JayJamsSpams]

Perhaps you shouldn't put words in his mouth.

[@squarewoodworking7992]

So sad that I remember this and 50 years forward , change has send us backwards to a world that Jack would not recognise 😢

[@nicholaskemp2246]

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.

[@dickieb2233]

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.

[@leonardharverson8660]

That’s tonight’s bedtime watching sorted 👍

[@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker]

Pleasant dreams….

[@Lutonbodyhome]

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.

[@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker]

Thank you so much for the update as people often ask what has become of some of the places Jack visited on his programmes.

[@martinstilwell5653]

Back when TV was good and life was much much better ,

[@nevillemason6791]

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.)

[@joepineapples7774]

Just what the doctor ordered for a rainy Monday morning in 'modern' England (lifted me up).

[@dogsbody49]

Dear old Jack. A lovely gentle programme that probably could't be made now as there are no vacuous celebrities all having a go at one another.

[@harryaarrestad583]

This should be prescribed on the NHS .

[@classicraceruk1337]

I agree, they are a sheer pleasure.

[@mattwillis9173]

Along with The Detectorsists

[@mattwillis9173]

DETECTORiSTS

[@crazycressy7986]

​@@mattwillis9173I be one of them lol

[@martinhall60]

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. 👍

[@davidcoverdale722]

These programmes are fantastic - but quite sad in that they show a time that will never again be enjoyed.

[@blinx2735]

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!

[@london19657]

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!

[@rmorgan7]

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!

[@paulm.7422]

Jack lived it all ... and you don't need notes or a teleprompter for that.

[@-DC-]

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.

[@thesolitarycyclist9005]

I do hope that's not the last Old Country we're going to see!

[@spotsterjon74cu]

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!

[@adecirkett5351]

Where was/is the Crown, can find the other two. Just realised have been on holiday there or at least nearby.

[@spotsterjon74cu]

@@adecirkett5351 The Crown was at Iberton, which is under Bullbarrow hill, that was the pub I was most likely to see him in.

[@ddnsconsulting]

​@@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.

[@markthundercliffe3725]

Innocent times. Sadly never to be repeated.

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

growing up in the Southern TV region as a kid in the 1970s, this theme music instantly reminds me of Sunday roasts dinners

[@PriaboniaMusic]

Likewise, the music gets me every time! Thanks Dave for resurrecting these.

[@juankerr]

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.

[@gary2646]

Thank you so much for listing the itinerary - i was wondering where all of the places were

[@plainflavour]

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.

[@stewartduncan7711]

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.

[@nrw34260]

What wonderful times, never to be seen again.

[@tymphuket7243]

The England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿I loved as youth,gone for Eva destroyed by pollies.

[@DamianMoody]

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.

[@andyroo777uk]

Greatest presenter ever

[@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker]

Thank you Andy.

[@davidlloyd3116]

England is very beautiful - I’m proud to have been lucky enough to have been born here.

[@dickieb2233]

You have a wonderful English name too. Long live the English.

[@duckman5642]

Well said 👍

[@peterjohnson896]

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.

[@gerryheynes5082]

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

[@robertmills6118]

Used to watch Jack way back when I was a child what a great knowledgeable man he was

[@williebourke9962]

A minefield of information,He knows the history of his neighbourhood x the flora and fauna X the pubs .A brilliant series.

[@MeTheRob]

I don't think you mean minefield 😀

[@gbentley8176]

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.

[@paulm.7422]

Oh ... Bunty James. How is she?

[@piratecove3323]

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.

[@user-jc3td1ph9e]

Lovely series, with an easy relaxed and informative delivery. Pity about some of the negative comments from idiots......

[@PaulStratford-vn8ed]

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 💔

[@Les-OZZYTHEOSCAR]

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

[@horsenuts1831]

As a child of the 1970s who grew up in rural Oxfordshire, there were still echoes of this type of life hanging on. I cannot decide for certain whether progress is a good or bad thing (almost certainly good, but we did lose something).

[@MeTheRob]

I'm a bit older than you. Uncles and aunts on my mother's side were from Duxford, Hinton Waldrist, Longworth, Standlake and so on. I remember my Aunt Norah getting mains water and electricity in the 1950s.

[@robedmundsvid]

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. 🙂

[@galdessa1]

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.

[@n.j.r.fisher4257]

Thank you for providing the info missing from the programme!! But can you identify the tea house??

[@charlesfulcrum3170]

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.

[@charlesfulcrum3170]

@@n.j.r.fisher4257Bakers Folly on Bulbarrow Hill. Now closed.

[@russelltaylor7779]

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.

[@Ryback1992]

We have lost so much.

[@JayJamsSpams]

Apart from all the cars on the roads, the countryside isn't that much different today.

[@colinharbinson8284]

@@JayJamsSpams really?? the countryside i grew up in is unrecognisable, most is under tarmac and concrete.

[@kennethwjjones]

All that knowledge without using Google. How times have changed. RIP Jack.

[@dandare1001]

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.

[@leedobson]

Jack forgot more information than all of us will ever know....it feels like England died with him

[@paulodare8309]

This green and pleasant land. Thanks Dave. First class.

[@oldwobble916]

Tried to find the pubs on Google Earth: Starting point Jack Hargreaves house in Belchalwell The Royal Oak in Okeford Fitzpane The Crown in Winterborne Stickland Hambro Arms in Milton Abbas Tea House - probably Bakers Folly, now Westhill Camping GPS 50.8661°N 2.2964°W

[@adecirkett5351]

Not sure about the Crown looks very different.

[@TheSeventhSeal]

@@adecirkett5351 It's the same. They used a long shot to execuate the curve in the road coming from the south (clearly done to get a nice "country" shot as the lane the other way is quite straight.

[@JC-hu1wd]

Crown is in Ibberton now the ibberton according to posts above

[@andrewclack4881]

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.

[@djrudog1158]

What does that mean....agents were very different

[@gaycha6589]

@@djrudog1158which bit was confusing for you?

[@djrudog1158]

@@gaycha6589 your anvery confused person.....a simple life...

[@lionelmarytravels6003]

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.

[@robertmeadows7508]

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!

[@michaelcripwell1724]

It’s heartbreaking.

[@noelsalisbury7448]

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.

[@frankmlchaelglasscock6539]

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

[@skdinterceptor2828]

Absolutely beautiful. Peaceful and easy pace of life.

[@cliffordbuttle4529]

Even a bit of global warming there for the fruit cakes 😂😂😂😂😂

[@tinkhefferon9934]

Brilliant, the good old days the one and only Jack Hargreaves

[@TyroneDaviesWELSHMAN]

God bless.. No one like him and there never will be again.. What a legend.

[@DannyTP1888]

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.

[@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker]

Yes spending time with Jack was full of stories. Far too many for me to remember.

[@Les-OZZYTHEOSCAR]

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

[@PeterPaul175]

These films are very valuable.

[@baronoflivonia.3512]

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.

[@JimiHendrix998]

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.

[@maxroofer]

I would go back to those times tomorrow they seemed more trustworthy safe and people did have more respect 3 cheers for jack 👍

[@oldbritishmetal]

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.

[@robtaylor6233]

God bless you Jack may you rest easy in your elm box 👍

[@user-bs3fh7xn2s]

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.

[@PSUK]

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.

[@davidp4456]

What was he like off camera. Did he ever get pissed and be cheeky to the bar maids?

[@mpersad]

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.

[@KRm627]

I remember watching Jack the very first time round - loved his programs. R.I.P Jack - like the rest of our beautiful country.

[@StevenKeery]

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.

[@CaptainValian]

Great memories of watching Jack and trying to work out what the mystery object was before the end of the show.

[@chiefmarshal1910]

As a young teen I used to love watching Jack on Southern Television

[@yvonneyoungs4890]

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

[@JimNicholls]

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!

[@geoffharris9396]

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.

[@ianmangham4570]

Isn't it pathetic, the country has been flushed down the toilet 😮 breaks my English heart 🇬🇧 🫀

[@jmad8163]

The UK is a dead county. A total cesspit thanks to the boomers generation.

[@charlesfulcrum3170]

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

[@paulm.7422]

Jack's ashes were scattered on Bulbarrow Hill.

[@JC-hu1wd]

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

[@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker]

Thank you Charles it is good to know that the pubs are still there.

[@barrymcguinness2087]

Looks as close to paradise as you can get anywhere times gone forever sadly a different world and not for the better.

[@thesocialmediascientistmbe]

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.

[@N1611n]

Loved watching Jack Hargreaves programmes when I were a young boy growing up in London.

[@JackLoreForrest]

I must have watched this video over a 1000 times and still enjoy listening to jack talking causally about the slow pace of country way of life.

[@twobob8585]

Its funny, Jack speaks of 'modernity'. Its a word I only came understand a few years ago and now utterly reject. He understood the damage being caused nearly 40 years ago.

[@charliemanson4808]

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.

[@matt01506]

Absolutely beautiful, unfortunately this wonderful film makes my heartbreak for the utter destruction of our green and pleasant land , heritage and culture.

[@alexnelson9512]

*Don't get me going about loss of culture and heritage and traditions. Social engineering (yes, it really does exist) has broken not only England, but the whole of Western Europe. Everything is occurring according to a plan.*

[@harriethare4019]

Now a 3rd world 💩hole. Innit bro.

[@marknewman9622]

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!

[@carolinejayes157]

His wisdom ,country code ,and love of life ,i will never forget...!

[@comfibold]

Sublime perfection.

[@turbosnail159]

Brilliant beautiful and simplistic these are the good old times 👌

[@chrisstewart7420]

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

[@grahamjordan1040]

Life was much calmer then I do so miss it 😔

[@flachi32]

I might try that pub crawl on my bicycle to see how it has changed. Also a better vantage point than driving and you can travel at same pace as the horse and cart.

[@brianrenate]

Thank you for posting these videos! It's just a shame that so many people in the comments are projecting their own extreme views onto Jack who was a natural educator.

[@gavinstrachan1373]

Totally agree 💯

[@darcysmoke]

i was a kid grew up with Jack, how amazing we had no idea how life was to degrade!

[@neilrobson3064]

People kept voting for things like Brexit and the Tory Party - egged on by unelected billionaires like Rupert Murdoch. Ever been had?

[@oldbones4941]

Wish it was still like this, Jack was brilliant, got me into fishing and country life, my dad always did say one day we will be back to the horse and cart.

[@petethefeet1461]

wonderful memories i loved watching Jack

[@davidfisher9026]

Wish he'd taken us into the pub.