Re: wonder if Jack ever met up?
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 1:21 pm
Simon is a member of this forum.Olly wrote:Just been looking at a site by Simon Baddeley - Jack Hargreaves step-son.
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Simon is a member of this forum.Olly wrote:Just been looking at a site by Simon Baddeley - Jack Hargreaves step-son.
This is a lovely lake now Shaun. As I write from my office, it is just a couple of hundred yards away. I was the bailiff for a few years and the lake has matured into a little slice of paradise.Shaun Harrison wrote:Rackley Hill, better known later for its catfish. http://www.lbac.co.uk/Stathamender wrote: The venue was the 'Sand Spit' pitch at 'a private lake in Bedfordshire' - anyone have any idea where that might have been?
copied from their site...
Open May 1st - March 15th
Rackley Hills lake is situated on the outskirts of Leighton Buzzard, close to the by pass. Entry is via the access road to Grundfos Pumps. The lake is an old sand quarry, disused for many years it has matured into an attractive lake. Despite the surrounding factory units anglers can feel as if they are in a countryside setting.
The lake varies in depth from two feet to twelve feet. There is a small amount of weed growth in the margins and little elsewhere. The lake is well known for its catfish stocks which currently reach 56lb. There are numerous fish in the 30 and 40lb range. The lake also contains a good head of carp, some of which have been caught to 33lb. Recently the lake was stocked with fast growing Simmonds mirror carp at 4lb-5lb. Last year some of these fish were caught at 15lb-17lb which indicates an impressive growth rate.
There are large stocks of roach and bream in the lake. Pike are present but do not grow to any great size. Anglers may park along one side of the lake and walk a short distance to their swim. Do not park close to the Grundfos Pumps gates and block them!! Anglers wishing to night fish must apply for a place on a night syndicate. Members must leave the water in the evening at the time stated in the club membership booklet. Three rods may be used on this water. There are no bait bans or tackle limits. We do suggest that anglers fishing for catfish use at least 15lb line and appropriate rods. Rackley Hills lake is owned by Leighton Buzzard Angling Club. The lake is open from May 1st to March 15th.
Mark wrote:Simon is a member of this forum.Olly wrote:Just been looking at a site by Simon Baddeley - Jack Hargreaves step-son.
Was this his blog, Democracy Street, at http://democracystreet.blogspot.fr/? Or was it this page http://www.outoftown-dvd.co.uk/jack-hargreaves/ on the site which sells the Out of Town DVDs and belongs to something called the Delta Leisure Group which acquired the rights to them a few years back?Just been looking at a site by Simon Baddeley - Jack Hargreaves step-son.
This seems to me to go to the heart of one of the themes we've been discussing here and explains the contradiction between an accomplished public relations man and presenter with over 30 years experience, described by a colleague as 'the best spieler I ever knew' and someone who could strike the young Nobby as having failings as a professional presenter that were obvious even to a child.He’d focused ..... on what was happening in and to the countryside and, to his surprise he would say later, made it into a best-selling TV series – Out of Town. I was bemused that this savagely witty sometimes scathing cosmopolitan parent, manager and organisational politician had, on the box, become a gentle voiced avuncular bloke in a shed, his beard and hair whitening over the years. He made it look easy.
It took me a few decades to grasp how far it wasn’t; how meticulously crafted was his writing, and why the person who spoke on the tele’ about the changing countryside on Friday evenings remarked to an interviewer in the 1980s “I didn’t sleep on Thursday night for twenty years”.
Nobby wrote:Thanks for passing these details on for those of us who don't do Facebook gentlemen.
More 'lost' episodes in the future eh? Marvellous!
I think it's true that Jack might not be the old 'country codger' some thought him to be from his television programmes. He was a senior member of Southern Television's board of directors, not a cattleman or a market trader. He sat on the Nugent Commission deciding on the post-War future on no longer required military installations. As a country boy he'd have had little to give to such organisations. As an intelligent and educated man interested and experienced in country matters he did.
I also think, on further consideration, that what I and others might have taken for losing the thread of his 'conversations' with us might have more to do with sheer nerves on a live TV programme than with a bad memory.........
Whatever the truth of the man his work is as mesmerising today as it was 40 years ago and I am so glad to hear there might be more on the digital way.
I'm still searching all the DVDs for this supposed 'smaller' landing net to make his catches look bigger.....so far it is decidedly absent