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What a fantastic video. How things have changed! The water vole replaced by the wretched mink. The variety of nature in a healthy chalk stream…..intensive farming methods have long since introduced a monoculture landscape. And the knowledge of what to pick as salad, wow! Great video!

Great memories of me and my dad watching this wonderful history passer onner (if thats a word). This man along with Fred Dibnah should be shown to younguns nowadays.

This channel posts great content. I want dave to post more often. Do you ?

Times of my youth. Remember Oli Kite’s writings. And film. Lovely to see again!

I remember going out punting on the Cam in the late 80 with my father and my uncle who worked with the national trust and marveling at the rapid change in my normally placid and stoic uncle when he spotted a pair of mink. He tried to spearfish them with the punt pole.

A marvellous nostalgic video that brings tears to my eyes. to think the way we have gone.we will never see the likes of this again.the damage we have done to nature is incomprehension. the villages have been ruined by horrible housing developments cars etc. I can only say that I was glad that not been grown in this time. such a pity children will never see this world

How lovely, thank you Dave. I was given a recipe for Elderflower Champagne by a then elderly Wiltshire dwelling lady in the early 1980's, it was it given to her as a young girl, it has never failed me and now is over 100 years old, I would like to share it here. 7 Elderflower heads, 1 gallon of water, 1 1/2 lb sugar, 2 lemons. Cut up the lemons, add the sugar and flowers, boil the water and pour over, stir until sugar dissolves. Cover with a cloth, strain and bottle after a day or two. Leave for 6 days and check for fizzing, if none leave for longer, it can take up to 2 weeks...refrigerate when ready and enjoy. Not an exact science but this can fizz very quickly so do keep checking, I've had it blow the bottom out of glass Grolsch bottles!!

Priceless! Thank you, Mr Knowles :)

just the job thank you

As a retired countryside ranger this was lovley to see this more so hearing the cuckoo. Since 1959 it is the first summer I've never heard one .they are around in places like wicken fen but alas derbyshire no more

That old pan,that would last a lifetime. Buitifull days ,long past. But you can still do this.we have some wonderful waters.

A world of enchantment- long gone. As a kid I would watch Oliver Kite and I can recall discussing his sudden demise with other boys at school. Jack Hargreaves had delivered the very sad news in his Out of Town programme. I seem to recall he died while fishing so he died as he lived which is appropriate but 40 odd years too soon. His car appears to have been a Ford Zodiac Abbott Estate ideal for someone with active countryside pursuits.

That was lovely. Thank you Mr Knowles

Great nostalgic video.. Interrupted by an advert with a 'lady' talking about her free Lovehoney 'toy'. The world has certainly changed but not for the better.

'Sorry to pull you over sir, have you been drinking?' 😆

another fantastic video that made me feel young again....are there any episodes of a fishing program called Angling Today hosted by a guy called Terry Thomas who had his assistant Chris Tarrant of the Millionaire show...

Thank you for making me feel old (again)😭

Although progress is a good thing, it is such a shame that it has all literally gone to shit now in the race for more profit for doing as little as possible.

Bucolic, warming, charming! Did you check out them hobnailed boots? Fantastic!

And the word Tilt is still used today in modern haulage.

Kites Imperial, superb dry fly.

Wonderful memories

Thanks for putting this and all the other films on here , there Awesome , I remember that world

Been told to look this guy up loads of times and never get round to it. Brilliant. Makes me feel ashamed for looking into weedkiller for lily pads. Best get some waders

I haven’t seen one butterfly this year. A shocking collapse in insect fauna.

What rights do you have to these films?

A truly excellent film. I can remember this being done on the river Wensum In Norfolk, the weed would wrap itself around the piers of the bridge and was full of crayfish. This would have been in the early sixties. 👍👍

Thanks Dave for this show , iv seen clips of kites country before but not full shows . Hopefully you have more to upload as I thought most of the shows were lost . Thanks jim

Thanks Dave, I haven"t see this one before!

This is a very romantic view of Travellers!

Brilliant mate.

That was a great video Dave - thanks for sharing it. Any idea what happened to the Country Boy tapes, as it was the series that first introduced me to Jack Hargreaves.

A time when the pace if life was so much more civilized, bloody hard work, no doubt, but easier to be content with your lot

A wonderful video, Dave, thank you for that. But oh how it points to the great benefit we have now in this time of 4K video in glorious colour, so that we can appreciate in full detail the wonders of the countryside. I prefer the old days (as an 83-year-old former Sussex man), but wouldn't want to go back to the black and white days of film!

Thanks for this one 🙂🇬🇧

This man has a Welsh accent, no?

i miss water voles, they were great company when you were fishing

Fantastic!

Thanks for posting this truly beautiful video Dave, brought back many memories of the sixties and my teenage life! Who was the young lad that Jack and I think Oliver introduced onto tv back then?

Brings back memories, I was at school summer camp at Stubbington in 68 when he died in June, I had met him with my brothers the year before up by Nursling Mill, great man he had time for people Thanks for Posting, Dave

I sadly watch this world I grew up in and know it’s gone forever

Day's gone by, never to return. 😢

A completely different pace of life. Thank you for uploading.

We have, sadly, lost so much beauty in the world. The English countryside I grew up in has all but vanished. Lost forever under housing “estates” and industrial “parks”. Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful footage.

Genius of a man gone far too early heart attack in the end I believe

BRILLIANT. Look how easily he caught that Trout ! 🙂

Myself and a growing amount of people refer to the public highways

brilliant, absolutely brilliant 👍

Wonderful - my grandfather (may he rest in peace) was a farmer and a true countryman, always said to me "you were born in the wrong time lad" he knew me so well.

Thanks for this little Gem Dave, what a masterpiece in simple country wisdom.