[Diggers350] Jack Hargreaves Preserved On Film The Extinguished Country Crafts We Will All Need To Survive Economic Collapse

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Jack Hargreaves Preserved On Film The 
Extinguished Country Crafts We Will All Need To Survive Economic Collapse

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Jack Hargreaves Preserved On Film Extinguished 
Country Crafts We Will All Need To Survive The Economic Collapse
We will need his country crafts long into the 
future, so who really was the man with a pipe in 
the shed who refused to read from a script, Jack Hargreaves?

<https://www.southwestfarmer.co.uk/news/1010441.really-jack-hargreaves/>https://www.southwestfarmer.co.uk/news/1010441.really-jack-hargreaves/ 
<https://www.southwestfarmer.co.uk/news/1010441.really-jack-hargreaves/>8th 
November 2006

The long running television series ‘Out of Town’ 
made Jack Hargreaves a broadcasting legend. With 
his unique trademarks of battered hat, pipe, 
whiskers and an old Barbour jacket he cast off, 
virtually single-handed, the notion that a 
television presenter had to wear a bow tie and a morning suit.
Emacs!

He was the first man to be filmed catching a fish 
on television in the late 1950s in the programme 
Gone Fishing and went on to expand the format to 
all matters rural in the programme’s eventual 
replacement, Out of Town, which started as a 
fifteen minute local broadcast in the Southern 
Region but grew eventually to be a truly national 
phenomenon as it was taken up by all the regional 
franchises in the 1960s and ’70s. The programme 
was honoured in the 1970s when the National Film 
archive chose to preserve two episodes for 
posterity, saying that ‘when they finally cover 
Britain with concrete, they will have something 
to remind them of what it was all about.’ 
Rewriting the rule book The programme was an 
innovation in broadcasting as Jack Hargreaves 
rewrote the rule book and made the programmes 
with a simple team of two people; himself and 
cameraman Stan Bréhaut, a man described by Jack 
as ‘the finest outdoor cameraman in England.’ 
Sadly Stan died in 2005 but the 1000 Out of Town 
programmes he filmed remain as a tribute to his 
unique abilities. A producer was allocated to the 
project in the early days but he realised he was 
just getting in the way of a perfect team so the 
two were simply left to get on with it. This 
created a true feeling of intimacy where each 
viewer was inevitably left with the feeling that 
Jack was doing the programme solely for his benefit.

The programme’s real heyday was in the 1970s when 
it was a true family viewing requirement spanning 
across the generations as Jack, with the 
assistance of experts such as Ollie Kite, showed 
us the techniques and traditions of everything 
from field sports to dying crafts. It is a 
testament to the quality of these programmes that 
the DVDs of the series are still proving great 
sellers with a new generation of fans being 
introduced to the legend as video gives way to a 
digital format. Somehow Jack’s shed seems 
timeless, its probable contents making us all 
feel like the proverbial kid in the sweetshop.

The programme ran for twenty two years, ending in 
1982 but was revived by Channel Four as The Old 
Country for a further three series which could 
still attract one and a quarter million viewers 
each week in spite of competition from an 
entertainment industry obsessed with Star Wars and big budget special effects.

So what made Jack Hargreaves special?

He never boasted that he was the world’s greatest 
angler or the finest shot. He did, however, pride 
himself on being a true all rounder. As he fished 
he could furnish you with tales of the rodent 
scurrying down the bank on the other side of the 
river or tell you about the life cycle of the 
swallow overhead. His knowledge was complete, as 
was his appreciation of rural life. It is this 
unique and far reaching understanding which 
always made him the perfect raconteur rather than a didactic teacher.

But who was Jack Hargreaves the man?

He certainly did not appear ready formed as the 
man we all welcomed in to our homes each week. In 
fact the development of Jack Hargreaves the man 
is certainly a tale at least equal to the story of the Out of Town Programme.

John Herbert Hargreaves, the second of three 
sons, was born in London in 1914. At the time his 
father was described on the birth certificate as 
a commercial traveller although he eventually 
bought his former employer to become a wool 
manufacturer in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Although 
financially well off, Jack’s childhood was not 
always happy and it was as a last resort that he 
was sent to spend time on the farm of a family 
friend. Suddenly he had found his own vocation as 
he was introduced to the responsibilities and 
privileges of farm life by Victor Pargeter of Burston Hill Farm.

Jack went on to study veterinary science in the 
1930s but had to curtail his studies due to his 
father’s bankruptcy, the result of a downturn in 
the wool industry and fierce competition. Between 
this sudden change in fortunes and his eventual 
fame as a broadcaster his CV took him on a 
veritable roller coaster of jobs. These included 
writing copy for Spratt’s Dog Biscuits, designing 
the tableaux for the stationary naked women at 
the Windmill Theatre, producing up to eighty 
hours of popular programmes each week for 
independent radio, running a PR campaign for the 
Tory Party in the 1950s, running the PR 
department at the NFU and working as a director 
of programmes at Southern Television. And that’s 
not to mention his role in the eventual 
popularity of the song Lily Marlene during the 
Second World War, his role in changing the format 
of children’s TV programmes forever with the 
wonderful and innovative How and making yachts 
affordable for people who earned rather less than movie stars.

The fascinating and often surprising life of Jack 
Hargreaves is detailed in a new book, Jack 
Hargreaves – A Portrait, by journalist and author 
Paul Peacock who has spent the last year and a 
half talking extensively to members of the family 
and friends. The result is a wonderful insight 
into one man’s innovation and resilience and how 
these qualities enabled him to become the 
character we all recall so fondly. The book is 
published by Farming Books and Videos Ltd. and is 
available from the 27th June 2006 priced £20.00. 
All nine DVDs are also available from the same 
source, each one comprising of three complete 
episodes from the 1970s. To learn more please 
visit 
<http://www.farmingbooksandvideos.com/>www.farmingbooksandvideos.com 
or telephone on 01772 652693.



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