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| Name: | Sid stoat |
| E-mail address: | stoats@btinternet.co.uk |
| Comments: | Jack was worthy |
| Name: | Michael |
| E-mail address: | michael@cox.net |
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| Name: | duncan stacey |
| E-mail address: | duncan.stacey@icap.com |
| Comments: | Simple Jack is god |
| Name: | Steve |
| E-mail address: | southstander@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Have just returned to angling after a break of 30 years to teach my 4-year old about the joys of fishing -If I can impart a fraction of the enjoyment I got as a boy watching jack to my little 'un I will consider it a job well done.
I found the site after a wiki search when having a nostalgic moment. Sad to see he passed away so many years ago, but I guess even the best are not immortal except in our memories. A great man fondly remembered. Great site BTW. |
| Name: | derrick pilkington |
| E-mail address: | derrick.pilkington@ntlworld.com |
| Comments: | saw aclip of jack on tv found site great to see him in action never tired to see old grand masters at work
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| Name: | tom |
| E-mail address: | igarbett@csu.edu.au |
| Comments: | NIce site. Glad it exists. I have seen that the out of town series (on youtube -clips) is out on DVD too these days.
As an ex pat I look back fondly to the time this great bloke was on Telly. He always stood out to me- a REAL bloke-never knew him but he seemed totally genuine to me. He is to me something to aspire to, so I echo your sentiments there, I already have the pipe and white hair now, catching up to him. Keep the site going. He should be remebered. Thanks of this sincere effort.. |
| Name: | Paul Hook |
| E-mail address: | hookie61@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Out of Town was shown on a Thursday afternoon in our area, I would wait for the bell to "bail out" of school at 3:45, and run like a greyhound all the way home. I would arrive panting and sweaty, with about 2 minutes to spare. I always wanted to be a gamekeeper when I was young, drove my carrers teacher nuts! I ended up as a Joiner, and moved to America. I still have a postcard sent to me after an enquiry about Yerro, it is one of my most treasured posessions. I miss Britain, the States are very bland compared to the richly coloured tapestry that Jack showed me over the years. They didn't call it GREAT BRITAIN for nothing, we are a lucky bunch us Brits, we have a history that is present in all that we do. A truly gifted people. |
| Name: | Nick Robinson |
| E-mail address: | nicholas.robinson5@btopenworld.com |
| Comments: | He was the best , and there will never be another like him |
| Name: | Bobbi White |
| E-mail address: | Bobbi@dmec.fsnet.co.uk |
| Comments: | It's good to see that Jack Hargreaves and Out of Town are still so well remembered. What a lovely man! When I was going through a bad time in life I wrote to tell him how much I appreciated his programme as I was living in a town at the time, and he sent me a lovely letter and a Shell book about the countryside, which he said he hoped 'would make it up to me a bit for being stuck in town'.
It's sad that the TV companies are no longer expected to produce local programmes - so they don't. |
| Name: | robert harford |
| E-mail address: | bigchap@fsmail.net |
| Comments: | Every single episode was full of useful information and tips that myself and my brothers would try out the next day. We never missed an episode. |
| Name: | robert harford |
| E-mail address: | bigchap@fsmail.net |
| Comments: | Every single episode was full of useful information and tips that myself and my brothers would try out the next day. We never missed an episode. |
| Name: | Pete Lewis |
| E-mail address: | pete.lewis@siemens.com |
| Comments: | I have many fond memories of Jack, I used to run into him occasionally when fishing Wimborne river as a kid, he was always happy to stop and chat, he also came to my school and gave a talk.
I remember watching his final show, where he cracked a beer at the end of it and drank a toast A treasure now lost but never forgotten |
| Name: | Steve Lofthouse |
| E-mail address: | steve@stevelofthouse.com |
| Comments: | I am amazed! A chance comment in the street from a neighbour who had found the dvd's for sale, and here I am on a site where messages are still being posted in 2009! I have a smile on my face and a tear in my eye. Like everyone here, Jack has had a lasting influence on my life. The smile on my face is because I have 'found him again' and can start collecting what's available. The tear is because he's past away and I kind of hoped he may live forever...In truth, maybe he does, as there's a bit of him in all of us on this site. Today's a happy day because I've found an old friend again, cheers Jack and Thanks! Steve |
| Name: | andy driscoll |
| E-mail address: | andrew@driscoll28.wanadoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | yes jack was a true icon on the subject of all rural persuits i learned many things as a boy on how to behave and respect the country sports we all know and love.for me the knack of gaining your attention in a gentle and interesting manner will never be equaled. a man we need so much today so we can enjoy the things we do and have done.when i walk the fields and woods i will think of you.
god bless.. |
| Name: | chrisA |
| E-mail address: | jacksback@ccadams.org |
| Comments: | Great site!
"Old Country" theme tune is here: http://home24.inet.tele.dk/ccadams/guitar/Recuerdos-de-la-Alhambra.mp3 |
| Name: | Doug Woods |
| E-mail address: | dougwoods@hotmail.co.uk |
| Comments: | What a wonderfull site, thankyou for letting me spend a couple of hours looking back into my past.
A true legend of a past era Sundays were never the same when Out of Town wasn't on. Has anyone managed to obtain the series on DVD? Doug |
| Name: | michael alty |
| E-mail address: | themightymalty@yahoo.co.uk |
| Name: | Ian Akers |
| E-mail address: | ian@ajsr5.demon.co.uk |
| Comments: | Saw a link on Wiki looking up "Out Of town" for the title music..I also remember watching as a kid with my dad. Informative, and relaxing. A most interesting man. I also remember Bunty and the others on How! too...all such a long time ago..
Nice site, I'll look around a bit more when I've not been up from 08:00-04:00... |
| Name: | Stanley Baker |
| E-mail address: | edwardb@ntlworld.com |
| Comments: | My most enduring memory of Jack was how he brought back countryside activities in Cambridgeshire when I was sent to Little Downham during WW2. I was 7years old at the time.
I married when I was 21yrs old living in London, and could not wait to get back to the countryside I had come to love, now at 76yrs.old I still remember Jack on our first black and white TV, in 1953, it was unmissable regular viewing, I even managed to spot the odd item Jack used to tease us with to guess it's use or name, great fun. I am sure if the whole series was rerun the viewing public would embrace eagerly, it would be so much more refreshing than the rubbish we are bombarded with today. What a gracious and caring man was the great Jack Hargreaves. Sadly Missed. |
| Name: | Simon |
| E-mail address: | therixons@gmail.com |
| Comments: | I've been a fan and ocassional collector of Jack for the last few years, as I have fond memories of him from my childhood. I've found that Jack's principles are so relevant today, that if he were to revisit us, I'm sure it would be like 'groundhog day' for him.
Jack held so much knowledge, that the only way to bring it back would be to recover all his old films and subject them to modern recovery techniques in order to publish them as they were meant to be. Sadly, I'm not sure this is possible. |
| Name: | Simon |
| E-mail address: | therixons@gmail.com |
| Comments: | I've been a fan and ocassional collector of Jack for the last few years, as I have fond memories of him from my childhood. I've found that Jack's principles are so relevant today, that if he were to revisit us, I'm sure it would be like 'groundhog day' for him.
Jack held so much knowledge, that the only way to bring it back would be to recover all his old films and subject them to modern recovery techniques in order to publish them as they were meant to be. Sadly, I'm not sure this is possible. |
| Name: | Peter McGarry |
| E-mail address: | peter_mcgarry1@msn.com |
| Comments: | Like everyone else on here, Jack's shows were a part of my growing up that I look back on with great warmth. For myself, and I expect for many others, the shows reflected on a slower, more innocent and comparatively uncomplicated way of life, that has been replaced with a "Must Have" genetically modified society. It's was a way of life that I wish we could return to in so many ways. Where everyone knew their neighbours, even those 12 miles away and where dogs were for working, not carried in designer handbags by vacuous so-called "celebrities". |
| Name: | Peter McGarry |
| E-mail address: | peter_mcgarry1@msn.com |
| Comments: | Like everyone else on here, Jack's shows were a part of my growing up that I look back on with great warmth. For myself, and I expect for many others, the shows reflected on a slower, more innocent and comparatively uncomplicated way of life, that has been replaced with a "Must Have" genetically modified society. It's was a way of life that I wish we could return to in so many ways. Where everyone knew their neighbours, even those 12 miles away and where dogs were for working, not carried in designer handbags by vacuous so-called "celebrities". |
| Name: | ken macgrath |
| E-mail address: | kenmacgrath48@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | I always enjoyed jack's programme. He had a great simple way for most things that he did. And where can I buy his dvds. |
| Name: | ken macgrath |
| E-mail address: | kenmacgrath48@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | I always enjoyed jack's programme. He had a great simple way for most things that he did. And where can I buy his dvds. |
| Name: | Maurice Thomas |
| E-mail address: | maurice@atlantic-csp.com |
| Comments: | I would like to know how to obtain DVDs on Country Boy & Old Country |
| Name: | Ian Davies |
| E-mail address: | xmtd29@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | Jack was(is)a wonderfully inspirational character,who's narative on all country matters, and life in general, was not only truely knowledgable and inspirational, but was a tonic to listen to - like his aromatic pipe-smoke, he has left his fragrance on all who were lucky to grow up with him. He represented the father and grandfather that I never had, and instilled in me a lifelong love of rustic country life and country sports.
God Bless you Jack. |
| Name: | alan keep |
| E-mail address: | alankeep@msn.com |
| Comments: | watched as a boy and his influence is with me as each year passes, fond memories of an legendry character |
| Name: | Tony Jones |
| E-mail address: | hawk63tj@aol.com |
| Comments: | Jack will always be remember for the way he described things in that soothing and calm voice. A true gent who understood and loved the countryside. |
| Name: | Richard Neville |
| E-mail address: | dickienev@hotmail.co.uk |
| Comments: | Lived in 'Limmo' (Lymington) when Jack lived in Lower Pennington (just down the road!) & remember playing tennis there @ 'P' courts with Jack's step/daughter/s (?? ~ long time ago now!)......
Revered ALL Jack stood for....such lovely progs. & as such are sadly missed. There was nothing 'brash' about Jack, was there? SO unlike SO many of today's ersatz copies of his style.....BRING back 'a Jack'......IF ONLY! RIP~~~~~~You were a TRUE star Jack. xxx |
| Name: | dave |
| E-mail address: | UserD7743@aol.com |
| Comments: | have been watching the dvd's with a friend, have to ration myself to ine dvd per week and stretch the pleasure out. as a kid i watched an episode where jack explained the origin of the british breakfast of bacon and eggs, sadly this is not on the dvd's and i presume lost. does anyone else remember this episode? excellent site, wonderful memories. |
| Name: | Andrew Woodhead |
| E-mail address: | andrew.woodhead3@ntlworld.com |
| Comments: | I used to watch Out Of Town as a child and remember Jack smoking his pipe and telling us all about rural ways and country life, he was like everyones favourite uncle. Read "Out of Town A Life Relived on television" a wonderful book, a book I never tire of and pick up reglarly when life gets a bit hectic. Unfortunatly it's about a time we will never see again in this country...more's the pity...God bless the Old Man. |
| Name: | Andris Erglis |
| E-mail address: | erglisdeerstalking@googlemail.com |
| Comments: | Great Tv series wish it could be repeated for the younger generation so that they can see what the country side is really about.Johnny Kingdom is good but still not a patch on Jack. |
| Name: | colin gardner |
| E-mail address: | caroline@shangrala.fsworld.co.uk |
| Comments: | one hell of a man |
| Name: | David Wyn Lewis |
| E-mail address: | lewis776@lewis776.wanadoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | I remember watching 'Out of Town' on a Sunday evening. I wish these programmes were still on. What a wonderfull era to have lived in.
Thank you Jack |
| Name: | ian stewart |
| E-mail address: | sabruer@hotmail.co.uk |
| Comments: | I have at last found the site i was looking for, what a wonderful site. I am glad that i am not the only person who Jack had moved with his fantastic stories and his calmness in portraying the forgotten days of the farm and country. Having spent a few years in the military and have been able to use some of Jacks methods whilst in the Falklands and other countries really helped me understand the importance passing on old trades and just being happy with what we have. |
| Name: | Nic Sands |
| E-mail address: | nicolas.sands@atkinsglobal.com |
| Comments: | As with many others I found jacks TV programmes fascinating as a young boy, and have kept my love for the countryside till this day.....thanks Jack. |
| Name: | David J.Edwards |
| E-mail address: | daved44@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Thank you for this web page on Jack Hargreaves, I have many happy childhood memories of watching and learning with my father during the "Out of Town" series.
Thank you Jack |
| Name: | terry martinelli |
| E-mail address: | lynda@rosevine.plus.com |
| Comments: | as stated by most admirers of jack hargreaves,he was great at explaining how most old farm instruments and horse harnesses were used.Its a shame there is nobody quite like him around today,except maybe Ray Mears,who is also interesting to watch.Jacks 'out of town' programmes were brilliant and he is sadly missed. |
| Name: | Steve |
| E-mail address: | Wolfie_3@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Thanks Jack |
| Name: | Dave |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=32025851632&ref=mf |
| Comments: | Out Of Town is now on "facebook". |
| Name: | Paul Peacock |
| E-mail address: | paul922@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | He was born in London. As were his brothers, and there he lived most of his early years until he was sent to Pargeters Farm to get him away from his Father who loved hime, but with whom Jack had problems with.
Jack never lived for any length of time iun Yorkshire, and neither did he live on a farm until he was well into his teens. Please don't think this to be a bad thing on Jack's part. He came from the very early days of television, and consequently 'the story' was not the same as 'the reality'. But that doesn't mean the things Jack said and stood for were invalid. Quite the reverse. |
| Name: | Matt. |
| E-mail address: | coniferlodge@tiscali.co.uk |
| Comments: | I knew Jack and shot with him several times. Not quite the out and out countryman he seemed. He loved city life and the bright lights.
Why does his entry in Wikipedia tell us he was born in London? |
| Name: | Paul |
| E-mail address: | Vikinglegends@aol.com |
| Comments: | Can anyone remember what Jack's Dog's name was please ? |
| Name: | Paul Eades |
| E-mail address: | pauleades@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | I don't know whether Steve Hardy the creator of this site has realised it, as I have tried to contact him on several occasions in the past to no avail! Could I suggest that we all blast the Fans Forum with comments just to blitz out the porn messages from off the front screen, as it must be very off putting to newcomers! I think we could win by sheer weight of numbers!
cheers Paul |
| Name: | Simon |
| Comments: | I come here from time to time, as Jack is in my heart. Has anyone else realised that the forum has been hijacked by porn posters??? |
| Name: | Mike Roberts |
| E-mail address: | samhainwales@postmaster.co.uk |
| Homepage URL: | http://www,samhaincymru.co.uk |
| Comments: | Watching the DVDs and reading the books brings back lots of memories and following on from Paul Peacock's excellent biography, how about a 'Jack's Trail' map? It could show all his old haunts and locations around Hampshire/Dorset. I intend to travel down from my home in North Wales and do a 'pilgrimage' to the area one day,place some flowers on Bullbarrow Hill etc, so how about it?
If you like the idea and would like a designer, I can help! Great site to a great man. |
| Name: | brad |
| E-mail address: | fxtat2@hotmail.co.uk |
| Comments: | me and my dad loved jack and never missed out of town.i also thought he was great on how.
much missed tv legend. |
| Name: | mack [wabbiter ] |
| E-mail address: | macknbarb@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | jack hargreaves a wonderful memory from my childhood, if only i'de have paid more attention. |
| Name: | roy seare |
| E-mail address: | roy_seare@hotmail.co.uk |
| Comments: | I have just listern to the theme tune from out of town on classic FM and thought of jack and how l use to love listerning to this very intresting man,great memories |
| Name: | fish |
| E-mail address: | sarah.binning@btinternet.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://http://jacksshed.myfreeforum.org/index.php |
| Comments: | loved jacks programs,they instilled in me a love of the countryside and his shed was the inspiration for my hunting /countryside forum which i named jacks shed! heres a link:
http://jacksshed.myfreeforum.org/index.php |
| Name: | Jose Luis Ramos |
| E-mail address: | jose@mramos9519.eclipse.co.uk |
| Comments: | I been in England since 1964 I was 10 years old
live in west sussex. I allways miss Jack |
| Name: | john webb |
| E-mail address: | john_webb55@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I grew up watching out of town.For me he was everything i wanted to be.I miss those programs as they show an England lost for ever. He was a Great man. My fondest regards to Jack. |
| Name: | adrian clark |
| E-mail address: | g3glo@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I was born in 1965. My father was a fan of Out of Town and I have happy childhood memories of the programme. The Out of Town clip on You Tube is spooky in the feelings it rekindles. I have just read the piece about Jack on Wiki and followed the link to this site. It's fascinating, thank you. |
| Name: | phil robertson |
| E-mail address: | kingcarpphil@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | thank god i am a saddo and did not grow up in mr norris world. |
| Name: | jeff sallis |
| E-mail address: | jeffsallis@sky.com |
| Comments: | i loved the way jack made me feel as though someone had wrapped me up in a warm blanket as i anticipated the start of the programme. A great man,sadly missed, we;ll never see the like of jack again in a world gone mad with political correctness and lack of respect from teenagers who would only benefit from listening to a bit of jacks wily wisdom godbless jack.
from jeff sallis ellesmere port cheshire |
| Name: | Naughty Norris |
| E-mail address: | Norris527@aol.com |
| Comments: | Jack Hargreaves? Isn't that the bloke who sat in his shed and bored the balls off people. You lot want to stop living in the past and move on saddo's. |
| Name: | justin fishfish |
| E-mail address: | sarah.binning@btinternet.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://jacksshed.myfreeforum.org/index.php |
| Comments: | as a child that show instilled a love of all things country,i loved his shed! best i loved it when he would hold up some weird tool that someone had sent in wondering what it did,he allways seemed to know!
i have started collecting the dvd's ive watched them time after time,i once saw the plough horses on the credits of the show at a country fair when i was a child,cant remember their names now though. |
| Name: | helen mary firkins |
| E-mail address: | helen52@supanet.com |
| Comments: | i dont know what made jacks name cross my mind tonight but i thought i'll just have a look on the computor and see what it comes up with.low and behold theres all these sites for him. my school friends and i were horse mad back in the 60's and appeared on many of his programmes, albeit briefly,at the point to points, colt hunting and various horse shows around the new forest. i also met oliver kite, after whom i named my labrador !! ( ollie)
i shall definately be ordering the dvd's for memories of a fine man and a time so much more peaceful tha today |
| Name: | warren rouse |
| E-mail address: | goonerrouse@aol.com |
| Comments: | excellent site, many memories of out of town and jack, surely, the could repeat them again ?, possibly on sky ?.
keep up the good work. |
| Name: | Steve Hamilton |
| E-mail address: | busterbill22@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | A brilliant man, A brilliant programme, A brilliant site.
Thanks for the (wonderful) memories Steve, great site, and keep up the good work. |
| Name: | paul heyburn |
| E-mail address: | xiiipaul@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | This laid back presenter, sat in the box in the corner of the room and made me feel like he was sitting in the fireside chair. I could almost smell the pipe tobacco so real was the comfort and ease that his skills laid upon me the viewer.
I will be forever grateful for the education of real life that Mr Hargreaves gave me during my formative years. Jack you may be gone, but never forgotten....Thank you. |
| Name: | ERIC PACE |
| E-mail address: | eric.pace1@btinternet.co.uk |
| Comments: | I met Jack during the 1973 southern television sea angling championships.Winning through to the final at Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis gave me a long awaited chance to engauge both he and Stanley Brehaut in some extremely interesting conversations.They,and the programmes we enjoyed so much will be sadly missed,especially now that most of them can no longer be recovered.
I finished runner up in the final by the way- it was the year that Graham Rogers from Weymouth caught the 141LB Common Skate to win. |
| Name: | Luchi |
| E-mail address: | luci1234@hotmail.co.uk |
| Comments: | Hello,
I'm only 15(16 in Dec) and likewise I absolutely love Jack Hargreaves. I shoot, fish,ferret and love anything to do with agriculutre or equine. I really wish there was another like Jack but no one could match him. I'm getting the out of town box set for christmas, can't wait. I think you're doing Jack good, Luchi |
| Name: | Andrew Hough |
| E-mail address: | mehbint@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I grew-up in the country, and i always remember watching jack on tv, and it was one of the very few programs i loved to see on the box, he was in my opinion one of the greatest presenters ever to be on british television. |
| Name: | Ian Marchant |
| E-mail address: | ian16marchant@tiscali.co.uk |
| Comments: | Just got the Out Of Town series on dvd for my birthday,watched the lot in three evenings (what a JACK fest!!)brought back so many memories of my youth,loved Sunday mornings but didn,t it always go too quickly.Still fishing and enjoying the countryside Jack,even making a few walking sticks now in me shed!!Love the website,it,s great to see so many like minded people about,reading this has restored my faith!!JACK was and still is a national treasure,God bless mate. |
| Name: | Andy Smith |
| Comments: | G'day, Like many I grew-up watching Jack on TV Fishing, shooting and talking about the things he knew about. I remember seeing him on Herne Bay beach after a Skate fishing trip. I seriously doubt I could have had a better role model. I've just ordered the Boxed Set of 'Out of Town' from Amazon, and I can't wait for it to arrive. I hope they find more fottage... I'd love to watch it again.
Andy |
| Name: | David Robinson |
| E-mail address: | pheasantpluckerson@hotmail.co.uk |
| Comments: | He was ultimatly the cause of my many years of enjoying working dog's, fishing and shooting. Sadly Missed,Never to be replaced, a forgoten by many Legend |
| Name: | carole smith |
| E-mail address: | kaz8437@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | I have just been told about this site, think it`s great, well done, most entertaining, THANK YOU. Carole. |
| Name: | philip robertson |
| E-mail address: | pauline@paulinerobertson.wanadoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | Hi did any one see jack on HOW on E4 + 1 tv last week?. |
| Name: | paul |
| E-mail address: | p_draddy@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I to remember sundays watching jack,although i was only a small boy with no money etc i still used to dream of the things he showed us each week.I know he can never be replaced but i would like to think Bill oddie is the nearest to the great man now.Bills passion for nature should be a example to use all(even if your not keen on some of his lame jokes!) |
| Name: | Paul Eades |
| E-mail address: | pauleades@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | Ray was probably a fan too!! The lad certainly knows his stuff and I'm sure Jack would approve! |
| Name: | james mcneill |
| E-mail address: | mcneill17@talktalk.net |
| Comments: | I would like to see jack and ray mears make a programe |
| Name: | james mcneill |
| E-mail address: | mcneill17@talktalk.net |
| Comments: | Bet he would teach ray mears a thing or too |
| Name: | james mcneill |
| E-mail address: | mcneill17@talktalk.net |
| Name: | Tony Reido |
| E-mail address: | treid@herald-review.com |
| Comments: | You can't go home again. But it's nice to look back, and remember. |
| Name: | Ian Mayes |
| E-mail address: | moggymayes@aol.com |
| Comments: | A true legend. Always with a calm gentle manner, always with a fascinating insight into the old ways and the countryside, always with a delivery that seemed to be aimed so personally, I will always remember Jack Hargreaves in Out of Town and the things he showed us all. Today, with all the technological advances, gadgets, and the rat race, don't we all wish we could just return to a time when life ran at a much slower pace; where the simple things in life were more relevant. Jack took us there, and showed us wonderful people, ways, and things. As Jack said, 'The only way to save the countryside, is to show people exactly what happens in it.' God bless Jack for giving us all that insight. |
| Name: | Steve Ashdown |
| Name: | les blakebrough |
| E-mail address: | blakebrough1@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | What a gent he helped me out of london i fish have shot and much more |
| Name: | Glenn from Romford |
| E-mail address: | glenn.a.anderson@ntlworld.com |
| Comments: | As a young boy growing up in London in the late 60's Jack's prog. was my only the escape into the countryside,I am a keen angler to this day because of him. |
| Name: | Nicholas Foreman |
| E-mail address: | nickforeman@hotmail.co.uk |
| Comments: | He was one of the great broadcasters on Southern TV, an excellent era of television. |
| Name: | Michael James Keegan |
| E-mail address: | michaelkeegan66@hotmail.com |
| Name: | Russell |
| E-mail address: | russellrhino@ntlworld.com |
| Comments: | Watching out of town with my father early on sunday mornings, finding out things about my dad i didnt know,as he agreed with Jack on his "country ways".
Wonderful when the world was a better place. Memories |
| Name: | Michael James Keegan |
| E-mail address: | michaelkeegan66@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | My children and grandchildren know of Jack Hargreaves and what he represents.
We will not see his like again and should be indebted to him for the legacy he has left behind for future generations. |
| Name: | andy .beasley |
| E-mail address: | beasleyandy@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | hi all, watched when i was a kid,now hunt and fish.
also part time in france and live near a man called john coleburn done fly fishing and shooting with jack on the TV |
| Name: | RAT |
| E-mail address: | rat@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | The highlight of the week was waiting to see if Jack was going to talk about fishing. |
| Name: | Paul Peacock |
| E-mail address: | paul922@btinternet |
| Comments: | George
I have emailed you - please would you have a look. |
| Name: | george egan |
| E-mail address: | george.egan2@lycos.co.uk |
| Comments: | My name is george egan. I was the director of nearly all of Jack's programmes at Southern Television. These included Gone Fishing, Out of Town, Farm in the South, Country Boy and How. Like many of you I have only just discovered this site, and have marvelled at the remarkable and continuing interest in Jack. You have all inspired me to feel that I could contribute in some way, and I going to start contacting publishers hoping that one of them would let me provide them with a biography on Jack. It would provide a unique insight into the creation of about 1500 television programmes featuring a genius that I felt privileged to work with, Jack Hargreaves. I could probably start with the very first programme he and I discussed, when he described how he would do a strip tease in reverse. (By the way, we never made that programme.) In the book I would certainly devote a lot of space answering some of the hundreds of questions you have all been asking. Wish me luck with the book. George Egan. |
| Name: | gazuka de propshaft |
| E-mail address: | brandon177@bttinternetto.com |
| Comments: | wot a geezer !!! a big part of my tv watching youth .i learned a lot of tips from jack an now put them in to good practice while out poaching or hen teasing and better still while pike strinning on long hot drunken summer morns with berty my pet wild boar ......ohhhh the fun iv had , and only arrested 3 times ..... |
| Name: | Phil Coles |
| E-mail address: | phil_coles@btopenworld.com |
| Comments: | Just found your site. What a delight to see that Jack brought so much joy and knowledge to so many others. The great man of wisdom is sorely missed. I'm waiting in the hope that more of his programmes will be put out on DVD. |
| Name: | prof paul Medhurst |
| E-mail address: | paul.medhurst'chello.at |
| Comments: |
The Out of Town series should be compulsory viewing for every British schoolchild. Few have any idea of what old England, the countryside and rural life were about. |
| Name: | N Jefferies |
| E-mail address: | justspamm@ntlworld.com |
| Comments: | I loved Out of Town and found this site whilst looking at Jack Facts on the Internet. An invention that I feel Jack would have loved. Sadly missed, and just the thought of him takes me back to simpler childhood times at home with my family.
Thanks for the site... and thanks Jack for giving me such an enquiring mind :) |
| Name: | philip robertson |
| E-mail address: | pauline@paulinerobertson.wanadoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | Hi does any one know if they made a xmas edition of out of town.Hope every one on this site is ok and a happy xmas to you all and a happy new year.
phil robertson. |
| Name: | Mike Hopwood |
| E-mail address: | m_hopwood@environment-agency.gov.uk |
| Comments: | It's good to see Jack's work being appreciated in 21st Century cyberspace. It would be great to get a collection of fans old VHS recordings of the shows collated and preserved.
Long Live Out Of Town!! |
| Name: | dave carmody |
| E-mail address: | ddcarmody@oceanfree.net |
| Comments: | very fond and peaceful memories of out of town
as a young man in dublin. i spent long summers with my uncle john in the weavers house in the ulster folk museum,a man ,like jack, who has great reverence for the simpler way. |
| Name: | lynn gallagher |
| E-mail address: | lynnsaoirse@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | Hi Steve only just discovered your site .Thank you so much for putting it up.Jack Hargreaves instilled a great love of the countryside in me .I learnt a lot from him .He had a way of speaking as if he was talking only to you.He was the Grandfather i never had .I cried when looking at your site.He was a real gentleman of the old school .I often think of Jack .He was so interesting My dearest wish was to meet him .I remember one programme when he had a smithfield collie on and he refered to gypsys as the dear sirs.My life is so much richer for having watched those programmes .Rest In Peace Jack you are sorely missed . |
| Name: | Andy Williams |
| E-mail address: | a-neil.williams@unilever.com |
| Comments: | I noticed in a picture that jack held his rod in his left hand and he wore his watch on the left as well,just to satisfy my curiosity was jack lefthanded (as i am myself) |
| Name: | Paul Peacock |
| E-mail address: | paul922@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | Jack did some early TV shows on moddeling but neither he nor any member of his family owned a model shop. Moreover, although he had plans to open a nationwide chain of outward bound centres which concentated on hunting shooting and fishing, and would have included a chain of fishing tackle shops too, this idea never got off the ground because of finance.
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| Name: | stephen elderfield |
| E-mail address: | selderfield@eircom.net |
| Comments: | Jack Hargeaves,Without doubt instilled a love for all things country within me at an early age.Out of town & country boy have never been equelled.I grew up in Slough where I used to buy all my fishing tackle from hargreaves of upton lee.I also bought models from a hargreavs model shop at what we as kids called the closed in market.would love to know if there was any connection? |
| Name: | Paul King |
| E-mail address: | king28950@aol.com |
| Comments: | I was delighted to find Out of Town on DVD and I am working my way through them - I've got to No.9 and it is the sort of programme that we are sorely lacking these days but so non-PC that it has to be very unlikely. They were wonderful then and wonderful now - so much knowledge of old and fast disappearing country crafts and explanations of old sayings that have passed into the language.
The other series in the same class was Kite's Country, also filmed I believe by Stan Brehaut |
| Name: | Stephen Lang |
| E-mail address: | stevel7taz@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | I am just about to buy my first DVD'S on Jack Hargreaves, what a joy this should be. I have waited years for the programme to come back on TV, but it seems it never will, anyway maybe at last I will get to see the great man with his laid back manner and vast knowledge of country ways, what a treat |
| Name: | Stephen Lang |
| E-mail address: | stevel7taz@hotmail.co.uk |
| Comments: | I am just about to buy my first DVD'S on Jack Hargreaves, what a joy this should be. I have waited years for the programme to come back on TV, but it seems it never will, anyway maybe at last I will get to see the great man with his laid back manner and vast knowledge of country ways, what a treat. |
| Name: | simon rusbridge |
| E-mail address: | simonrusbridge@Yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | Great site, brings a tear to my eye as I think of the evenings I sat with my now departed grandfather watching Out Of Town. My granfather used to plough with horses, so used to explain a lot of the equipment and implements that Jack had on the show. Shame that way of idyllic life has gone for ever |
| Name: | Paul McGuinness |
| E-mail address: | pmcguinness@diploma.com.au |
| Comments: | I was delghted to find such a great web site with so many like minded people singing Jacks praises as a little boy living in the inner city Liverpool Jack was my saviour taking me out into the countryside showing me first hand the country life I became to love
I now live in Australia and will be getting as many dvds of Jacks I can find to relive those fond childhood memories just for the record my favorite series was Country Boy and just in case you dont know the boy in the show was Jack Wilde of Artfull Dodger fame in the movie OLIVER I hated Jack Wilde as I and thousands of other boys trapped in the inner citys around the u.k wanted to be the Country Boy but Jacks way of talikng was unique I felt like he was talking just to me as I am sure everybody else did what a man a legend to me anyway |
| Name: | Hamish Beard |
| E-mail address: | hbeard@xtra.co.nz |
| Comments: | Fantastic to find a site devoted to someone I refer to a real country gentleman. When living in the UK, in my teenage years, I really loved watching Out of Town , I think during Sunday lunch. What an inspirational man. I live in NZ now and thinking of Jack and his programmes does make me a bit homesick! He inspired me to go out with rod and gun, which I am now doing with my 11 year old son. Many happy memories about jack, and happy times in the 70's.
Hamish. |
| Name: | Patrick |
| E-mail address: | pgmg@haven21.freeserve.co.uk |
| Comments: | Reading some of the comments on your site brings a lump to my throat.Jack was a lovely man and I only wish I could have met him I have bought some of his books and also the DVD's. I also have some recorded progs from the TV which was very lucky on my part.For information the original music from the early progs was taken from a film starring Max Bygraves who also sung the song(spring starts to spring and cuckoo starts to sing etc).Thanks for the site its a pleasure to read the comments. |
| Name: | Paddy |
| Comments: | I have lovely memories of Jack and the programme, great website maybe you could put on a piece of the title music in mp3 format. |
| Name: | Ivor Mason |
| E-mail address: | ivor.mason@kcl.ac.uk |
| Comments: | Jack Hargreaves was a central part of my teenage years. His Out of Town/Old Country shows were then broadcast on Sunday lunchtimes. At that time, my mother and I were each trying to cope with the sudden death of my father. We always watched the TV series over our Sunday lunch and, undoubtedly, our joint delight in the content and delivery and also its gentle style and manner, gave us both somewhere to escape to together in difficult times. We both love Jack and his memory to this day. |
| Name: | Greg |
| E-mail address: | howard@shayde.fslife.co.uk |
| Comments: | Having recently purchased the DVD releases of Out Of Town (I do hope they'll release the rest)I must make the observation that this was definately the sort of show that's sorely missing these days. Along with Weir's Way, this type of show that explained things in such an enjoyable fashion takes me right back to when I grew up.
Good stuff, and presenters of Jack Hargreaves type are unbfortunately a thing of the past. A great shame. |
| Name: | Simon Baddeley |
| E-mail address: | s.j.baddeley@bham.ac.uk |
| Comments: | I have just come re-read few lines from my step-father's book Fishing for A Year and realised how early he'd found his voice: 'It is one of the most excellent provisions of Nature that chub are to be angled for on hot summer afternoons ... When the grass is high and full of hum and rustle, when the comfrey blooms along the edge of the water and the air shivers in the heat, the chub lie just under the surface in slacks and corners and eddies all along the bank. You will see them and you will think they have not seen you.' He made it look so easy! |
| Name: | Paul Dorey |
| E-mail address: | prs.dorey@tiscali.co.uk |
| Comments: | Does anyone remember the original theme song to 'Out of Town'? It went like this: 'Spring starts to spring the cuckoo starts to sing and mother nature wears her newest gown.......'i always imagined it was Jack singing.
I would like to get hold of a recording of this; any ideas anybody? |
| Name: | Alastair Mackay |
| E-mail address: | asmbt25@yahoo.co.uk |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.finaghyprimaryschool.co.uk |
| Comments: | Been looking for the 'out of town' theme tune for a long time. Finally found it!
It's on John Williams' 'The Ultimate Guitar Collection just released, August 2006 and the track is: Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Tarrega. Brings back such fond memories. I was only 8 or 9 years old when I started watching Out of Town. Even then, recognised the sense of peace and 'being at one' with nature. We are all the better for capturing that spirit in our own lives. Lovely to find so many others being similarily inspired by Jack. Well done on the lovely website. A fitting tribute Alastair Mackay, Belfast, NI |
| Name: | Pat |
| E-mail address: | reganclan@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.dryflyfisher.fishermen.co.uk/ |
| Comments: | Yes, Fred J Taylor was another angling idol of lads interested in the countryside. I used to adore his books on angling - they were so straight forwards and easy to understand. |
| Name: | philip robertson |
| E-mail address: | pauline@paulinerobertson.wanadoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | Hi all just read about jack in a book by f.j.taylor called reflections of a countryman.He talks about jack with great fondness and tells a great story about him.
phil robertson. |
| Name: | Mark Foreman |
| E-mail address: | chevyguys5@telus.net |
| Comments: | Who wouldn't remember Jacks lilting, calming voice as he kept me enthralled as a young un. Whatever happened to programming like that. You were the best Jack, and you gave me a love for the outdoors that has never subsided. |
| Name: | Pat |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.dryflyfisher.fishermen.co.uk/ |
| Comments: | Although I dwell at the other end of the country Jack inspired me as a kid to natural pursuits and most especially 'fly fishing & Fly tying'.
He was a wonderful country gentleman in every sense of the word. |
| Name: | Andy Williams |
| E-mail address: | a-neil.williams@unilever.com |
| Comments: | I have just started reading Jack Hargreaves a portrait by Paul Peacock and was interested to read that Jack used to work for the company i work at now (Unilever).A very interesting book and well worth buying |
| Name: | andy williams |
| E-mail address: | a-neil.williams@unilever.com |
| Comments: | I have just started reading J |
| Name: | Paul Dorey |
| E-mail address: | prs.dorey@tiscali.co.uk |
| Comments: | I am reading jack's book Out Of Town A life Relived on Television, 1987. I was bought two of the recently released DVD's of selected episodes of Out of Town and they take be back to the 60's. when the show was in monochrome. I remember the acompanying tune 'Spring starts to spring, the cuckoo starts to sing...'. I loved the programme and respected jack enormouusly. The fly tying and fishing; thre Rover 2000 estate with the gun. dogs...etc.
Good times gone, but relived by me now reading the book. Paul Dorey |
| Name: | Ruth Tott |
| E-mail address: | info@farmingbooksandvideos.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.farmingbooksandvideos.com |
| Comments: | Jack Hargreaves A Portrait is now out and available from local bookshops including Coch y Baandy Books, The New Forest Museum, Countryman's Weekly as well as Farming Books and Videos Ltd. (www.farmingbooksandvideos.com) |
| Name: | jay neill |
| E-mail address: | jayneill@fsmail.net |
| Comments: | Friends, I have only just recently remembered now with great fondness & warmth the late great Jack Hargreaves and especially 'Out of Town' and 'HOW'. He was obviously a great man and a strong influence on many people of all generations. I live in Northen Ireland and the counrtyside has always had a stronger pull on me than any city or large surburban town life. I live by the sea near open fields and I love getting away from it all & I long for the forgotten, bygone age of the simpler life & also when TV broadcasting had programmes like the above & I'm 'only' 35. There was just something about his manner and how he spoke. He was like a wise grandfather with a great tale to tell about an obscure tool, or an object to describe each time we saw him. Things will never be quite be the same, and oh well, fond memories are great!
Long may his memory last, he is well remembered this day. |
| Name: | jay neill |
| Comments: | I have only just recently remembered now with great fondness & warmth the late great Jack Hargreaves and especially Out of Town and HOW. He was obviously a great man and a strong influence on many people of all generations. I live in Northen Ireland and the counrtyside has always had a stronger pull on me than any city or large surburban town life. I live by the sea near open fields and love getting away from it all & long for the forgotten bygone age of the simpler life & also when TV boradcasting had programmes like the above & im 'only' 35. their was just something about his manner and how he spoke. He was like a wise grandfather with a great story to tell about an obscure tool, or object to describe each time we saw him. Things will never the same, ah well fond memories are great!
Long may his memory last, he is well remembered this day. |
| Name: | Iain Hobbs |
| E-mail address: | i.a.hobbs@canterbury.ac.uk |
| Comments: | Jack converted an old Post Office parcel handcart into a Pony Cart. You see it on many of the "Out of Town" end credits with the pony refusing to cross a stream. Does anybody know what happened to it? |
| Name: | Paul S |
| E-mail address: | paul881@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | I too searched for Jack's name after seeing the Jonathan Ross show last night. I worked in a busy hi-tech industry but each week when OOT was on, all of us in the estimating dept would rush home to watch Jack and his unique way of presenting a now sadly distant way of life.
A much missed broadcaster and a great man. Well done for keeping his memory going on this web-site. |
| Name: | Paul |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.clocktowerweb.co.uk/blog/ |
| Comments: | Lovely site, just heard mention of Jack on the Jonathan Ross TV show. Used to watch Out Of Town, remember him, the opening titles and his calm manner - but never remembered the name of the show or Jack's name until tonight.
Well done on putting together a detailed and interesting site. |
| Name: | Iain Hobbs |
| E-mail address: | i.a.hobbs@canterbury.ac.uk |
| Comments: | Jack's long time friend Ollie KIte lived in a cottage in the New Forest, not far from me. I remember they used to meet at a farm midway between their homes because of the distance inbetween.
He will be greatly missed by all who grew up with him. |
| Name: | Ruth Tott |
| E-mail address: | info@farmingbooksandvideos.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.farmingbooksandvideos.com |
| Comments: | Jack Hargreaves - A Portrait is at the printers now and we are expecting it in stock 24th June. Our thanks to all those who have been so generous with their time and to Paul Peacock, of course, who spent so many hours/days/weeks working on it. |
| Name: | roger jj colson |
| E-mail address: | vickycolson@btopenworld.com |
| Comments: | thanks for the insperation jack |
| Name: | Anthony Smith |
| Comments: | It makes me misty eyed just thinking about the absorbing,gentle approach of Jack in his Out of Town Series.
I must admit that he scared me a little during the How! years as he wasn't as immediately fun as Fred and Bunty. I think, age wise, I must have only seen the abridged channel 4 versions of Out of Town but they were still a major influence on my life. They illustrated the facts about country life and still make me aware of how little I know about all things bucolic. |
| Name: | Bill Frankham |
| E-mail address: | william@frankhams.co.uk |
| Comments: | Nice work.
I also have his books and all the new (Republished) CDs. bill. |
| Name: | philip robertson |
| E-mail address: | pauline@paulinerobertson.wanadoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | Hi just thought i had to say i love steve hardy story about the spinning rod.I sure jack would have been pleased to see his old spinning rod in action. |
| Name: | willie mccutcheon |
| E-mail address: | williemccutcheon@hotmail.co.uk |
| Comments: | very good web site with lots of info on jack keep up the good work,
willie |
| Name: | Dermot Hatter |
| E-mail address: | dermot.hatter@ntlworld.com |
| Comments: | I have just purchased a copy of 'Out of Town' on DVD, and being a child of the 50's it has brought back so many happy memories of my childhood watching the TV series.
It is such a shame that a man like Jack is no longer with us, to teach the children of this generation how we should appreciate and look after our dwindling country side. |
| Name: | Pete Littler |
| E-mail address: | peter-j@22plovers.fsbusiness.co.uk |
| Comments: | Jack Hargreaves...A Portrait
Advance Orders for Jacks Biography are now being taken by Farming Books & Videos **** Out June 2006***** Through his weekly television series, Out of Town, Jack Hargreaves presented a way of life that was rapidly disappearing. But the well known face in front of the camera had a fascinating past which included working for advertising agencies in London. His heart, though, lay very much in the country and its that for which he is now so well known and loved. Hardback with jacket cover. 272 pages inc 16 pages of photogarphs. Advance orders being taken now (We will not process any payment until the book is published and due for release). |
| Name: | Rick Brock |
| E-mail address: | rickandlex@bucks1942.fsnet.co.uk |
| Comments: | Mr Hargreaves was a sheer joy to watch and listen to in my younger days ( i am 63 ) and the only thing I can think of to say about him is I and countless others miss him and i can think of no greater accolade to give him.God bless. |
| Name: | philip robertson |
| E-mail address: | pauline@paulinerobertson.wanadoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | Hi can any one tell me who the guy was who presented the first early out of town with jack.I think he died after the first series. |
| Name: | Hamish McCracken |
| E-mail address: | mccrackenhamish@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Many thanks for putting this site together Steve,
Jack was and remains an inspiration to many. Very glad to see, possibly as a result of the comments posted on your site, that DVD's of Out of Town are now available. Keep up the good work! Regards, Hamish McCracken |
| Name: | Alan Boniface |
| E-mail address: | alanbface@aol.com |
| Comments: | I'm still wondering if anyone knows the name of the theme tune to Gone Fishing....played on a claranet or an oboe..please email me or post it on this site if you do...It's good to see how many others share my appreciation and admiration for Jack.... |
| Name: | Simon Baddeley |
| E-mail address: | s.j.baddeley@bham.ac.uk |
| Comments: | Even though he was my stepfather I am learning things about him from other's who knew him and from Paul's research which is wonderful and intriguing. If you have any comments on the open source Wikipedia entry here do please add your views and experiences:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hargreaves I'm having lunch with Paul and his wife Diana tomorrow - Sunday 25th March. |
| Name: | sue case |
| E-mail address: | sue@zbend.co.uk |
| Comments: | This is a great website.
Thanks for bringing back great memories of a fantastic man. I am busy buying all the videos and look forward to the new biography.Does anyone remember which episode featured a old thatched cottage in the forest? Thanks |
| Name: | Richard Hyland |
| E-mail address: | HghIRch@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://books.dreambook.com/stevhardy/jacksback.sign.html |
| Comments: | To my great disappointment I never met JAck but to me he was a real genuine COUNTRYMAN, Boy o Boy did he know his stuff.He just had a gift,the like that we,I am afraid will never see repeated again.
Those Out Of Town programmes in those days were truly unique in every way,there was nothing false about this man,you just knew that if JAck said it was done this way or that then you knew it had been well tried and tested either by him or one of his many friends or colleagues. I am coming up to 55 now and have a son of 8+ I am now doing my best to teach him correctly all the ways of the countryside,we follow Hounds on foot,shoot fish track camp,I try to make sure he is in tune with his surroundings, and the one thing I ask of him,is to respect everything and everbody. I should like to think JAck is watching over us and proud of what he would see. GOD BLESS YER JACK. RICHARD ANDREW AND JAN MARCH 24 2006 22:15pm |
| Name: | Richard Hyland |
| E-mail address: | HghIRch@aol.com |
| Comments: |
Never ever met this kind generous noble entertaining man,but boy,did he know his stuff.He just had a gift,the like that we I am afraid will never see repeated again.Those Out Of Town episodes in those days were truly unique in every way,there was nothing false about this man you just knew that if Jack said it was done this way or that then you knew it was well tried and tested either by him or one of his many friends.I am coming up to 55 now and have a son of 8+ I am now doing my best to teach him all the ways of the countryside,we hunt shoot fish track,I try to make sure he is in tune with everything around him,and the one thing I ask him,is to respect everything and everybody.I should like to think Jack is watching over us and proud of what he would see. God Bless Yer JACK. RICHARD ANDREW AND JAN MARCH 24 FRI 2006 21:12pm |
| Name: | George Weeks |
| E-mail address: | george@sheephayes.co.uk |
| Comments: | JAck was always my fathers favourite broadcaster so imagine my delight when visiting my village pub in Okeford Fitzpaine shortly after moving in, to find the great man sitting there with cider in hand. You say on the site that he lived at the end of his life in Blandford - not so !
He lived in Belchalwell, which is a hamlet between Okeford Fitzpaine and Ibberton !! Jack was a regular in the Royal Oak and the Crown Ibberton, right up until his passing |
| Name: | Andrew Wilkie |
| E-mail address: | wwilkieandy@aol.com |
| Comments: | Great site, as I'm a certified townie Jack, god bless his soul, was a gateway to the countryside and its traditions and crafts.
John Williams title music to Out of Town still brings thoughts rushing to my head of Jack and his program. Thanks Steve Andrew Wilkie |
| Name: | Luke Jones |
| Comments: | I think this site is an honour to Jacks country life and to the people who shoot,fish,ride and hunt. |
| Name: | phil robertson |
| E-mail address: | pauline@paulinerobertson.wanadoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | Hi paul great news about the book who will publish it.Still waiting to hear if any one knows what pipe tobbacco that jack used may be you know. |
| Name: | Paul Peacock |
| E-mail address: | paul.peacock4@ntlworld.com |
| Comments: | Hi Dave - yes I am just finishing the last chapters now. It will be finished in writing terms by the end of next week and it will be available around June.
Meanwhile there are going to be some Jack dedicated articles in the Countrymans Weekls from April onwards. |
| Name: | David Harris |
| E-mail address: | davidj.harris1959@btopenworld.com |
| Comments: | Great to know that there are others who loved Jack and considered him a friend who visited who visited their home through the T.V. and not just another run of the mill presenter. I understand a book is being written about him, when will it be available? |
| Name: | Alan Boniface |
| E-mail address: | alanbface@aol.com |
| Comments: | Hi...Does anyone know the name of the theme tune music to Gone Fishing.....I'm sure it was played by a claranet or an oboe.... |
| Name: | Brian Imber |
| E-mail address: | brian,imber.@ntlworld.com |
| Comments: | I grew up watching Southern television, a unique and very special television station that was sadly taken away from me when I was 13 years old. Out Of Town was one of the programmes at the heart of this broadcaster and I still have vivid memories of watching Jack sitting in his shed talking about country life. I wrote to Southern when I learnt the francise had been lost and as I was very interested in television their public relations man (Simon Theobalds) invited me to visit the Southampton studios. For me this was a dream come true and a great privilege. I remember the day well, although Southern still occupied the building TVS had invaded with a Number 73 set in studio one and Coast to Coast set in studio 2 but for me it was the smaller studio 3 where I found Southern's spiritual home. I walked in to the Day by Day set but was told this was the studio where Jack's shed lived and was also the home of Worzel Gummidge. At the time I could not believe this small room crammed with three full size studio cameras could behold so much. On new years eve I remember watching the Blue Southern star turn black spinning off into space to join the many stars in the sky. Southern was a star as was Jack and all its other Southern characters. Look up in to the night sky and you will still see Southern Television, the brightest star of all. |