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

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

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

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.

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.

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 😊

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.

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 🙂

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

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

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.❤

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.

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.

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.

No potholes, no traffic, no tourists, clean, well maintained, oh to go back to these days!

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 💔

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.

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.

Jack understood our countryside well, unlike Countryfile today.

Evidence of a birthright stolen. Actually not stolen. Sold off by those to whom it was given for safekeeping. And then the crime denied, the victim accused of racism.

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.

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.

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.

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. 👍

Innocent times. Sadly never to be repeated.

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.

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!

We were never asked,,.. keep England English,,.

Jack would be shell shocked to discover smoking his pipe today in public would represent all kinds complaints!

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!

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.

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

How did we go from this to broken Britain ?

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.

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.

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

That’s tonight’s bedtime watching sorted 👍

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.

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

Happy days when england was english

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. 🙂

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

What wonderful times, never to be seen again.

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

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

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

I grew up in Hampshire. I left to move to Cape Town in 2011. 10 years later I returned and didn’t recognise my childhood home. So many cars. The constant noise pollution. I didn’t recognise so many places with all the new housing. Regardless of all the incendiary politics - this video moves me deeply as it shows that those simple things my ancestors took for granted are slipping away into a past we will never be able to bring back and what has replaced them doesn’t seem to offer much for future generations. The British are like a frog in a pot and the waters getting warmer and warmer.

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!

very interesting, but not quite what i was expecting from a pub crawl, & slightly disappointed not seeing Jack and his entourage getting pissed

This should be prescribed on the NHS .

Lovely And not an immigrant in sight, the good old days. God bless you jack

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!

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.

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

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.

Absolutely wonderful, Jack is still missed but I bet he wouldn't like things today....

Brilliant beautiful and simplistic these are the good old times 👌

Draught Cider, good Bread, good Cheese, and Jack Hargreaves to have a chin wag with, what more could you want.

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.

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.

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.

A fantastic record of country life from a time long past, beautifully presented by a first rate communicator, and now preserved for future generations to learn from. Thank you Jack, and thank you Dave Knowles for allowing us to enjoy these programmes once more. They are timeless and just as relevant today as they were when first broadcast.

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

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

Used to love this program as a kid growing up in England. As a city child it was probably my first look at life outside in a rural setting.

wonderful memories i loved watching Jack

I loved watching these programmes as a child, I'm in my 50s now and still enjoying them on here 😊

These films are very valuable.

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

Such a relaxing programme used to watch this when I was young boy 👍

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

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

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

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

Lovely chap god rest you hope yourfly fishing upstairs x

I absolutely love these Jack Hargreaves videos. I live nearby. Doing this pub crawl is on my list. I don’t have a horse and cart so I might need to borrow a bike.

Jack would be horrified by the changes in the countryside full second homes loss of services like busses plus pub closures housing developments with no services lunatics driving round like they were on the Monte Carlo rally. Jack had the best of times. I revisited a part of outer Preston last year where I used to go fishing right in the countryside as a lad and it was now a mass housing estate half the size of Preston itself not blade of grass to be seen.

Watched the whole program and he never once had a coughing fit. And his mate who sneezes wasn't on either. Arse!

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.

Memories. Memories. Lovely programme

Jack at his best as always . Beautiful countryside.

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

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

The Royal Oak in Okeford Fitzpaine, then The Crown in Ibberton (now called The Ibberton) and finally the Hambro Arms in Milton Abbas. I think that would be an excellent days cycle ride. Sadly the tearoom (Bakers Folly, Ibberton) is no more, but I'm sure you could take your own cream tea if you really wanted to. Edit: Thanks all for the correction about The Crown!

The man would turn in his grave if he could see the shit hole it has become now. And what modern man has become. A poor excuse

Best thing I have watched on you tube.

Thank you for taking me back in time for a short while.....dreamy & much needed viewing these days, when we have an England which has changed unbelievably.

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

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.

one of the best historic andinteresting tv programs ever made.rip jack