The Pattern of Britain - Fenlands (1945) [Digitally Enhanced] 

Wonderful. Our ancestors were good people.

A glorious piece of film. Many thanks for posting.😀

Just as I remember it. Accent was right on too. Lovely to watch. Thanks.

Ken Annakin went on to directing some big Hollywood movies. Impressive career.

My Dad left Guyhirn in1945/46 he was knocking down municipal Air raid shelters for Derek Crouch , in lard 46 he had got to Southend on sea and married my Ma in Feb1947,they had 5 children , he never really lost his accent to the day he died and he always missed the fens and would have moved back without a second thought.

Brilliant watch. What a great story. Just goes to show the work that was put into draining it all and to keep it drained.

The main farm owner's accent is very similar to that of many farmers of my parent's generation in the district we farmed in Canterbury, New Zealand. The rich soil is well worth the effort of extensive drainage, but looked like back-breaking work to maintain back then. Wonderful film.

I must say the farmer narrator’s accent has been partially imported to Australia

Another wonderful look at fen life. People were so hardy then. Look at that couple who, when they’d finished their day job went home to farm heir own 5 acre plot! My grandparents and great grandparents were like this. In fact, my Great Great Grandfather walked from Hillington to London with just the clothes on his back to work at Smithfield market. He ended up with his own grocers shop in West Ham which was still in existence until it was destroyed by bombs in WWII. It was never rebuilt and even today there is a small park area where it and the houses around it once stood.

Absolutely brilliant thank you

Another great view. Thank you for posting.

Nice work on the digital enhancements.

Quite the best I've seen....Was the farmer Arthur Rickwood?

The gentleman lying down hunting with the boat gun is one of the coolest thing I've ever seen.

If you took this footage, and watched it without context, anyone could think it was Holland. My grandparents came from Netherlands (Zuid Holland), and I have hundreds of years of ancestry from there. I honestly didn't know that Britain had a section of land so similar to Holland.

I see Rick woods house I delivered papers to them. Thought carrots the main thing. But then they lived in Chatteris

Bernard Miles ?