🎬British Pathé – A look at the three lighthouse keepers on the Needles lighthouse off the Isle of Wight. Needles lighthouse. Three lighthouse keepers keep watch. Solent, off Isle of Wight. Various shots as the boat with one relief lighthouse keeper and more food arrives at the Needles. L/S of the keeper who is going home, he waves from the top of the lighthouse. M/S as new keeper climbs the steps to the lantern and unscrews the bulb to polish it, another is cleaning the glass outside. M/S as one walks out with a mat and sits down. M/S of another writing a letter home. M/S man stitching mat. The other one rolls up his letter and puts it in a bottle. M/S as he throws it out to sea where it may drift home.

🎬Jack Hargreaves and Stan Bréhaut came over to the New Forest on 26th December 1979 to follow the annual Point To Point race across the Forest. The meeting place for the race was near the High Corner Inn and the finish a few miles away at Stoney Cross. Stan visited the New Forest earlier in the year to film the opening shots.

This sequence has been restored and upscaled for NFG Media Archive, so can now be viewed in high definition for the first time.

The surviving Out Of Town episodes can be purchased on DVD and Blu-Ray from:
https://new.networkonair.com/further-.... The recently discovered 'Lost Episodes' are also now available to buy.

Our thanks to Gudrun Fowler and Mike Womersley at Northam TV Centre for their help and advice.

🎬Roger Finn explores a remote part of Hampshire to see the wildlife and discover its unusual neighbor.

For Roger, this is an exclusive visit to what is probably the south's best protected wildlife habitat. Thousands of people see it from afar every day, but very few are allowed into the saltmarshes at Fawley Power Station.

Alison Jones, Fawley’s Community Affairs Manager, said: “We have worked incredibly hard over the years to not only protect our environment but to actively help it flourish. The saltmarsh and the reservoir are wonderful examples of how this care and effort has paid off. To be asked to feature in Finn’s Country was a great opportunity for us to share this work with the wider public.”

A BBC South Today Feature

🎬British Pathé – Three times a year the wild ponies are rounded up. Some go for sale, some are set free, and some injured ponies are cared for, or humanely put down. The sequences show the ponies in the wild - the chase by the four 'Agisters' and their teams. The Agisters each look after a quarter of the forest including the ponies, who are owned by 'Commoners' Horsemen are seen galloping across open land rounding up the ponies. The ponies are herded into pens in a woodland clearing. A man cuts hair from a pony's tail. The story ends with the ponies trotting off having been set free

🎬 Children of the New Forest is a 6 x 30 minute full cast drama series (based on the book) made by Child's Play Productions for BBC. It was first broadcast in 1998.

During the 17th Century English Civil War, four children of a dead Cavalier are rescued and hidden by a forester. Based on the book by Frederick Marryat in 1847.

The series was filmed in Dorney in Buckinghamshire. Mapledurham Estate in Oxfordshire and The New Forest.

Tom Wisdom as Edward Beverley
Joanna Kirkland as Alice Beverley
Danny Worters as Humphrey Beverley
Emily Ruck-Keene as Edith Beverley
Craig Kelly as Reverend Abel Corbould
Garry Cooper as Oswald Partridge
Ralph Ineson as William Hammond
Wolf Christian as Brother Robert
John Blakey as Brother John
Kelly Reilly as Patience Heatherstone
Richard Hope as Heatherstone
Malcolm Storry as Jabob Armitage

A Child's Play Productions for BBC (1998)

🎬Roger Finn goes in search of Dragonflies in the New Forest. Doug Overton guides Roger through the delicate world of dragonfly spotting. Over half of the UK's forty dragonfly species can be found in the New Forest.

Identified Species:
Damselfly
Hairy dragonfly
Golden-ringed dragonfly
Broad-bodied chaser
Large red damselfly
Southern damselfly

A BBC South Today Feature

Find out more here:
https://newforestdragonflies.com/