The Traditional Fisherman's Forum

Tench Dreamer wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:26 am What a fantastic story. I've always enjoyed BB writings and art.

Saw the last episode on TV of Brendon Chase in 1981( 14 years old then), and at that time that was it. You would have to pray that out the beyond on TV land a series of repeats would be shown. I bought the paperback in Smiths and I think it may have been the proper book I read and there have been hundreds since. It was in this story that BB describes watching Tench in the Blind pool.And that set me off too..hence my name on here

At that time time I picked up all his wildfowling books...My Dad and uncles were wildfowlers. BB wrote a column every week in the Shooting times .

But back to the original story ..what a kind and nice thing to do going back and showing thanks

Fredline wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 1:08 pm

Tench Dreamer wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:26 am What a fantastic story. I've always enjoyed BB writings and art.

Saw the last episode on TV of Brendon Chase in 1981( 14 years old then), and at that time that was it. You would have to pray that out the beyond on TV land a series of repeats would be shown. I bought the paperback in Smiths and I think it may have been the proper book I read and there have been hundreds since. It was in this story that BB describes watching Tench in the Blind pool.And that set me off too..hence my name on here

At that time time I picked up all his wildfowling books...My Dad and uncles were wildfowlers. BB wrote a column every week in the Shooting times .

But back to the original story ..what a kind and nice thing to do going back and showing thanks

Brendon Chase HD.
https://vimeo.com/603176092

Chris R wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 7:59 pm.
He was so prolific, writing across quite a few genre: children’s books, travel,shooting, wildlife & conservation, fishing and novels such as Manka the Sky Gypsy, Wild Lone and Lepus the Brown Hare. I was lucky in discovering BB as a child, but books like Down the Bright Stream and The Little Grey Men must surely appeal to anglers of all ages.

Chris R wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:38 am I first came across BB’s writing when I was about six years old - in the form of the Bill Badger series of children’s books. My wife has a first edition Monty Woodpigs Caravan, unfortunately slightly chewed by one of her dachshunds. Anyway back to 1962. I consumed all the BB books in the children’s section of Market Harborough library and on a visit to my grandparents house l came across a BB book in their book case; it was Letters From Compton Deverell. Being only six l had assumed that BB was a children’s author, so it came as a real surprise to find that he wrote ‘grown up’ books as well. I asked if I could borrow it - I still have the copy now nearly sixty years later.

Jumping forward a couple of decades to 1982. I wanted to say thank you to BB for all his wonderful writing and beautiful scraperboard drawings that gave so much pleasure. l’d picked up that he was fond of port, so l bought a bottle of the best port I could find and just before Christmas called in at the Round House in Sudborough to drop it off. It was mid afternoon and he was putting his car away in his garage.

“Mr. Watkins Pitchford?” I enquired. He looked at me suspiciously and I explained that I had collected most of his books and wanted to thank him for his writing that helped define me and many other people. I handed him the bottle. He was very courteous and thanked me profusely. We got to talking about wildfowling and he described his experience of fowling in The Wash in the 1930’s. He told me about how the marsh had been changed by reclamation work. He wanted to illustrate the shape of the old sea wall at Shep Whites at Holbeach and as we were leaning against my old mk..3 Cortina that was in need of a good wash, he drew a map of the sea wall then and the sea wall now in the grime on the car roof. I didn’t wash my car for months…..