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My great grandfather Sparks from Road, was a talented countryman and apparently could spot a rabbit hiding behind a tuffet of grass out in the countryside while on a walk and very accurately throw a special stick like club ( that I can't remember the proper name for) and kill it instantly. Bringing a rabbit home for dinner quite frequently. He liked to keep bee hives, grow loads of fruit and vegetables, I do wish I had known him, but it's great to hear the stories my mother tells of he's exploits. You don't get many real old fashioned country people like that anymore. I hope to inherit that club someday, does anyone know the name for such a stick?

15:15 that landrover survived at least until December 2002 when its last tax ran out.

Jack Hargreaves, I loved this man growing up and the people I know feel the same. Good days

Oh! Jack used an ABU Cardinal (54?) reel. I’ve got five of those Cardinals (53, 2x54, 55 and a 57) in my den!

Back in the day I used to enjoy Jack Hargreaves and imagined myself fishing for bass from a boat or fly fishing for trout. However, I realised that Hargreaves was completely indifferent to the reality of life for people living in towns and cities. He never acknowledged that access to the countryside is controlled and limited. Most private landowners don't want anything to do with the public unless it's in their financial interest.

Fantastic a great man who could teach the modern environmental gang a lot

Huntaway bit like Heeler Kelpie ??

Who would've thought Kenny Everett a Fisher bloke. Meanwhile jack casually smokin a pipe and still banging em out. Yeah.

Videos like this are invaluable. They're time capsules of life and culture taken away from us!

I have just been watching about Border Force Control Tax and Pension. Couldn't take anymore and Switched to Sanity and Good Old Jack Hargreaves - SANITY.....

I wonder why the farmers are importing Huntaways from NZ instead of using Smithfield Collies again.

Pole fishing is nothing like this nowadays. I used a pole is those days but have up as I found it a cumbersome method.

Thanks for the memories.

Wessex? Are you taking the piss?

I enjoyed watching out of town when I was young ,am now 55 I still enjoy watching it very relaxing.

I wish i could buy a long pole for £400 .😂

I loved this !!!

I am a child on a wet Saturday in the eighties again.

My dad used to love watching this in the 1970s, I used to watch it with him, though it didnt capture my imagination.I watched his last episode from 1985 today (9th July 2024). I really liked it. I'm older, and now appreciate that slower pace of life, and Jack's slow way of talking! Nice memories, the music too.

Thank you for your video, God pay ❤

I have a question that i hope someone can answer. Does anyone remember a fishing programme from the early 70's, introduced by a heavy built man, i think, with a beard. It was that programme that got me into fishing as a small boy.

Thanks Dave, I actually remember This when it first went to Air (I must be going Joe Biden)

I remember one of the old out of town episodes, in which Jack spliced a willow wand onto a piece of hazel to make a fishing rod. I believe that the line was made from horse hair.

Huntaway is fine for driving out but nothing will touch an isds collie for bringing in.

Had to laugh when Jack said the end of the pole would just miss the cabbages, more like the studio floor.

Thank you once again for the very best in broadcasting.

The burning of my favourite marrow-joanna herb is Still taboo 🤪

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We could do with more of these vids showing Britain in its best light

Goodness this theme takes me back 56 years & counting. Apart from the uber eats intro which is ruining !

The Huntaway hasn't replaced the Border Collie in the UK..I don't know anyone who uses them.

I could do with a couple of joints lying alongside me now 😉 Marvellous TV👍

Hi Dave! Having my own perspective on the world tempered with Jack's always does me good. Thanks!

Every film with Jack Hargreaves is pure deceleration in a hectic time. thanks for uploading👍

Fantastic I could listen to Jack all day.

Is that Peter Sutcliffe?

Thank you. Do enjoy these videos.

Dear old Jack - a legend NEVER to see the likes of again. The saying goes - 'When an old man dies, it's like watching a library burn' - how true in the case of Jack. R.I.P. Jack, thanks for everything you taught us.

AHH the good old days of diverse Britain 😅 did you see all the different people. Defund The BBC

I don’t understand the first part of this programme. Why didn’t that bearded chap, (Dave Swallow??), kill and eat all those fish which he caught? Absolutely ridiculous. Is he so rich he doesn’t have to eat the fish he caught?

Dave Swallow, of centrepin reel making fame!

Well, there's a surprise - an episode I hadn't seen before! Thanks for showing that lovely piece of nostalgia Dave. I wonder what reel Jack is using on his rod? I still have my set of Garcia Michell's in perfect order stored!

Curious as to your spelling 'carbon Fibre' the American way ,seeing as it was the English that developed it.

Love these but do wonder if all the ewes were ever reunited with their lambs ?

Huntaways are primarily hunting dogs these days in NZ. Nice to see one in actiom driving the sheep though. They're truly tireless things!

Cool...

24 minutes of gold ❤