- Out of Town – Tide Mill / Ice fishing in Kent.
- A Week to Remember. BBC2. Feb 1997
- One Foot in the Past. BBC. 6 Aug 1997
- Time Team Live. C4. 23-25 Aug 1997
Out of Town. Another one of the 1986 Contender video editions as seen on tape 169.
In this one Jack Hargreaves describes how a tide mill works with the use of chalk, some small boxes and a sheet of plywood balanced on a Black & Decker Workmate. We then go to some footage of Jack visiting such a mill at Eling in Hampshire.
These programmes reused location films shot for the original Out of Town programmes between 1969 and 1981. Included in this one is an aerial sequence over the Solent and up Southampton Water to Eling creak … quite ambitious by Southern Television standards.
Next A Week To Remember.
Two 10 minute compilations of Pathé newsreels from forty years previously .i.e. the last week of February 1957. A period that I found worth recording for reasons that need not concern you. Genome
Continuing the history theme with One Foot in the Past. An edition from the fifth series looking at England’s history and heritage. Introduced by Kirsty Wark.
I have the full programme which comprised:
- ‘Manchester Pub’
Old Wellington Tudor pub in Manchester moving 200 yards. - ‘Heritage Heroes’
Dorothy Smith, Shop Assistant. Ightham Mote, Kent. - ‘Monumentalism’
Alexander Stoddart argues for a return to the heroic and triumphal. - ‘Ruin of the Week’
The old museum, Ipswich - ‘Bosham’
Avengers star Patrick Macnee returns to his secret sixties hideaway in sleepy
Bosham by the sea.
Being a big fan of The Avengers (as will probably become evident in due course) as well as an occasional visitor to ‘sleepy’ Bosham, it was this last item that caused me to record and keep the programme. Genome.
Finally Time Team Live, the first ever…
broadcast over the August bank holiday 1997 from the site of a Roman occupation at Turkdean, Gloucestershire. It features the usual team plus Bill Oddie at the finds table.
Another BBC tape (they must have been on offer).
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