BBC4 tonight 8:30pm
includes "tortuous fell running" as quoted in the paper
BBC4 tonight 8:30pm
includes "tortuous fell running" as quoted in the paper
Wonder if there's footage from Burnsall Feast Sports last month ? There were cameras there, apparently filming a Dales programme.
Originally Posted by Man from Del Monte
The Three Peaks is "the most tortuous race known to man and mankind" - or was in the 60s/70s when the excerpt appears to have been filmed!!!
Must have been 76 or 77 since they just showed John Calvert winning.
Well it was sort of okay as a program but could've been much better - surely they've got more footage of the dales than that? Or are they dragging it out over a few weeks?
Anyway some great highlights. The 3 peaks race with sponsorsihip provided by the Daily Mirrorlooked great, although it looks like they were running a shorter course than nowadays, what with what appeared to be the Brackenbottom way up Pen y Ghent and a winning time of 2:43. Loved the bibs with your race number on. It was also nice to briefly see John Noakes and Shep again. And the reference to the Dalesman - I never buy it but always, always flick through it in Smiths
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They also showed a suitably bearded 'mountain man' on the ridge overlooking gordale scar posing in a way that suggested he'd just climbed the north face of the eiger or something - what you don't know is that my younger daughter climbed up Gordale Scar when she was 4. And even then (presumably the late 70's or early 80's) Russel Harty referred to Bolton Abbey as a 'countryfied Blackpool' as the residents of Leeds and Bradford truck in on sunny weekends.
I watched it too & thought it was wonderful, if far too short - it needed 2 hours at least!
There was the lovely clips of the Settle-Carlisle line too, one of which showed 'Mallard' during her 50th Anniversary run (of her gaining her World Speed Record)
Generally to be found plodding along with 'www.ackworthroadrunnersandac.co.uk'
THought it was a bit naff to be honest and got itself confused with the potholing. Peter duncan went in, then john noakes was doing the caving and peter duncan came out, if this was 76,77 then peter duncan wasn't on blue peter then. Sorry to be picky but just a bit disappointing......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...Dales_on_Film/
There it is for anyone interested, the fell running/potholing bit starts about 14 1/2 mins in. The footage does look a tiny bit dated
Oh I thought it was great nostalgia, with the 3P, pot holing with Blue Peter, Hannah Hauxwell and the Settle&Carlisle railway
Hannah Hauxwell is certainly a blast from the past.
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