Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Jake Thackray in Swaledale


This documentary from 1971 finds Jake Thackray exploring Swaledale from Keld and Muker down to Richmond.

Its slight awkwardness, broken leg and all, is surely part of its charm and a reminder of the days when not everyone could provide a soundbite on demand.

The schoolchildren, says a comment on YouTube, are from Muker primary school, which closed a few years later.

1 comment:

  1. Why has that chap 'John' got a fox on the end of a chain? JT says 'It's a fox' and then the subject is dropped. Weird. And looks cruel.

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