BBC4 tonight 8:30pm
includes "tortuous fell running" as quoted in the paper
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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.
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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 Mirror :eek: looked 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 :).
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 :D. 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)
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 :D
Oh I thought it was great nostalgia, with the 3P, pot holing with Blue Peter, Hannah Hauxwell and the Settle&Carlisle railwayQuote:
Originally Posted by biara
Hannah Hauxwell is certainly a blast from the past.
I quite enjoyed it. As leeds rhino said it was great nostalgia, I can remember as a kid going through Horton seeing notices up on telegraph poles advertising the three peaks fell race, sponsored by the daily mirror. How times change. Also remember my mum reading the Hannah Hauxwell books if I remember correctly.
There's currently a great programme on BBC4 about Yorkshire Dales
Loads of great characters and some old film of the 3 peaks race I recognised Harry Walker it was won by John Calvert not sure of the year.
Great programme.
Loved the old woman, reminded me a lot of my mother's relatives.
Those cavers were insane.
Looked a bit of a windy day for the 3P's.
That was HANNAH HAUXWELL a real character
1976. He won in 1977 as well. He ran for Blackburn as, interestingly, did Harry Walker who won in 1978 and 1979 (and 1981).Quote:
Originally Posted by Insider
Harry (a past Champion) presented some of the prizes at the FRA "Do" last week.
Harry's son David won in 2003. A very popular win.
Great programme. Just watched it on t'aye-player.
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Got the repeat on record for later tonight sounds like a cracker
Didn't they keep intercutting (if that's a word) between the 3 peaks and some film of Burnsall? The whole programme was good, but as it was essentially a patchwork of un-related film you weren't always sure of what was being shown.
The pile of stones with the Union Flag on certainly looked like Arncliffe, near Burnsall.
Programme on BBC4 a couple of days ago includes some film of the 3 Peaks race, looks like the 1970s. The winner was called John Calvert I think. Its now on I Player.
Sorry, missed that thread. Reading it now and I see it was 1976 or 77, if it was 76 I was there - not racing but walking around the route on race day, it made quite am impression on me at the time.
Just watched it on iplayer. Would it be too embarrassing to admit that seeing Hannah at the end brought a tear to my eye :o What a fantastic lady, shows how pampered most of us are and how a lack of money doesn't mean a lack of happiness.
Makes me prouds to live in the Dales. What a fantastic place to live....not that I didn't know that anyway, nice to be reminded sometimes though! :thumbup:
No it wouldn't be!Quote:
Originally Posted by Flopsy
However, it's usually the "Daddy, My Daddy!!" scene in the (original) 'The Railway Children' film that gets me welling up:o
True, a world apartQuote:
Originally Posted by Flopsy
She's still around, as this thread on 'Secret Leeds' (a superb 'forum') shows
http://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Mes...?ThreadID=2743
Repeated on BBC4 in 10 mins.
There's only footie on the other side?
Have just watched it on Iplayer.
Really good - could have watched it for hours.
Bit worried to find out that the 3Ps is the 'most tortuous fell race known to man'.
Artistic license I think (either that or I'm a much better fell runner then I thought)Quote:
Originally Posted by Macali
Ah, but which man? Certainly not one who knows anything about fell races.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macali
On May 1st I will start to describe it thus.