Totally compelling TV, thank you very much for posting this. '...that, in my experience, which, with respect, is probably greater than that of Northampton council...'

Back in the day people would say have you been to RUMSEY if you were drunk as Romsey had so many pubs.....I have been here 20 years and i have never heard it called RUMSEY

Thank you for sharing great piece of social history 🙏🇬🇧

Great channel liked and subscribed 👍

Another city lost, RIP my fair England 😢

Kerswell Green near Kempsey my family’s ancestral home. The none of the Australian family have set foot since my great great grandfather’s last visit in 1888

Humanity will eventually kill off all our rivers !!

Wonderful childhood memories of the good times we have left behind. I ❤ Sandwich.

What a fantastic documentary about such a great character.

Interesting to see the Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest! Closed in 1964, hence it's faded look. It was demolished in 1969 and is now Ventnor Botanic Gardens. Lucky last cinematic shot from the air! I think that is the right one.

Many thanks for posting.😊

NOT A LOT OF THIS NOW IS THERE!

My beloved home. Born in middle wallop and spent my youth in this gorgeous area of Hampshire.

A wonderful film, wonderful music, beautifully narrated by Sir John Betjeman , proud to be British. Thank you for sharing

I miss documentaries like this before the invention of the so called celebrity who knows nothing of the subject. I remember watching this series thank you for sharing it was very enjoyable.

Thanks for sharing this :)

This is excellent

What Tony didn’t mention is that some circle-makers have unusual experiences with orbs and other phenomena when making their circles and sometimes, before they make them, they get telepathic suggestions/dreams as to what kind of design to create. I don’t believe they’re all man made.

Always been Romsey to me, posh people tend to call it Rumsey or strangers to Romsey.

Thanks Harvey. Do you know when this was originally broadcast?

Lovely local film. Thank you, Wayne From Romsey 😊

A young king Charles

1:17: That's when the public knew!

I was born in Stourbridge in 1942, when it was still in Worcestershire, I have lived in the USA for over 50 years. I spent my career working for Silicon Valley companies and have seen almost the entire length of the computer, Internat Revolution. However my wife, also from Stourbridge, and I are still VERY CLOSE to our families and visit often. Although I am a devout ATHEIST I LOVE THE CATHEDRAL and make a “Pilgrimage” to it every time I come HOME. What a beautiful sight it is on the banks of the Severn, long may it remain there.

There was just his head and two and 2 bags of sand

Excellent film. Did anybody else notice the name of the narrator? Perfect:)

Ah The Severn Traveller. Had a few trips on that as a kid.

Back when London was still an English city.

The River Test area between Overton and Laverstoke is featured in the 1972 novel _Watership Down_ and its 1978 film adaptation. In the film, Michael Hordern, the narrator of this video, provides the voice of Frith (the sun), which the rabbits see as a deity.

Just imagine what Bernard would have to say after privatisation of water and the wholesale pollution these companies have been allowed to get away with. Corruption has crept into so many aspects of public life.

Don't mess with Britain including chalkstreams

My daughter lived in Romsey for a few years and explored the riverside in this film. Its beautiful and virtually unspoilt to this day. Many new houses have been built around Romsey, but the river from the photographs my daughter took remains much the same as in this film. A lovely part of the world.

what a delightful documentary. His book The Ever Rolling Stream is an excellent read.

What a window in time. Superb.

A wonderful series! So pleased that it has been uploaded - thank you 😊

I love his visits to English towns - he has educated me in how to enjoy a town and in particular how he can get so enthusiastic about a brick wall. I also like his asides, when he gets tetchy of what has gone (or going) on in towns, whether it's the traffic, the ivy covering brickwork, the blackening of oak or the holes left by nails of the previous covering up of exteriors, now exposed again. And he's usually dead right. A complete joy. Thanks for posting.

I love this film

This series is a real gem - thank you Harvey for taking the time to share it 😊

O God revive us again.

Complains about the Mayfly then proceeds to tear up the bottom cutting weed...

Great video. I was a cathedral chorister there and a boarder at the King's School in the 70s. Brings back wonderful memories.

A lovely video ,shame his boss was a nonce

I think it's very difficult comparing one time period with another 1963 is 61 years ago It's very easy to cherry pick either way, saying it was all rosy or saying that it was all patriarchal and oppressive. If change has occurred wasn't it cheered on by a lot of the people now complaining ? Isn't the grass always greener somewhere else ? In the grainy black and white movie reels or in the future rainbow "Equal" society ? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ftCUm8uUl53DomQ.html

Amazing documentary with wonderful eccentric characters that you just don't see anymore ❤

IRA shouldn't be called a army because an army doesn't kill children....the name should be more like I.R.P (p = Pussy's )

In September 1978 I was student on the Gamekeeping, Riverkeeping and Fishery Management course at Sparsholt Agricultural College. The year long course involved four days a week in the classroom and one day out on practical assignment i.e. working on the neighbouring country estates. My first practical assignment was at Broadlands helping Bernard. We did various tasks together and after lunch I accompanied him while he fished the Test, and I landed a fine salmon for him which we then took up to the kitchen of the 'big house' where the cook gave us a tot of whisky. It was a truly memorable day, and not just because I met Bernard, because on my return to college that evening I met a wonderful girl called Louise, who was a fellow Sparsholt student. We were married in 1982 and are coming up to our 43rd wedding anniversary. A few years after meeting Bernard (we kept in touch) I became manager of the Throop Fishery for Viscount Fitharris and there I practiced much of what Bernard taught me and also passed those old country skills on to others. Another great character on the Broadlands Estate at that time was the head gamekeeper, Harry Grass and it is a pity that a similar programme was not made about him. RIP Bernard and thank you.

Wow what a program, even Jack Hargreaves’s would have loved this 🎣

This is great !! Love that he doesn’t have a hard hat on all that height up!!!!!!!😅

Lovely video .I found it really interesting.I used to walk my dog every day in the deer park Lovely memories.Thank you.

Lovely 'Ampshire 'Og. I lived on a farm down the road in Awbridge.