Bygones is an Anglia Television documentary series exploring East Anglian history and traditional rural crafts first aired in 1967.[1] The series, and in particular the regular Bygones Specials featured many interviews with people who used to do traditional work now lost to history (such as using a horse-drawn plough or threshing) and investigation and preservation of surviving East Anglian culture.[2]

Bygones was presented by Dick Joice from 1967 until his retirement in 1987 when the film historian John Huntley took over.[3] It was made by the Norwich-based television company Anglia for the ITV network. The series was discontinued in 1989, but briefly brought back by Anglia TV in 2007 following an overwhelming vote from viewers on a programme they wanted reinstated.[4]

It features mystery objects where the audience are asked to write in and guess what the implement's original function was. Dick Joice's collection of objects which featured in Bygones[5] has been on display at Holkham Hall, Norfolk since 1979, in what was once the stables.[6]

Some of the most memorable editions of Bygones are documentaries directed by Geoffrey Weaver. "The Harvest" authentically re-created a harvest field around the turn of the 20th century, while "Gone For a Burton" followed the seasonal trip of East Anglian agricultural workers to work in the Burton upon Trent maltings after the hay and grain harvests.[7]

Bygones has a distinctive theme tune played on a player piano (not a barrel organ), and for its 2007 revival was presented by Eddie Anderson, the former assistant of the original presenter Dick Joice,[8] and Wendy Hurrell.[9] Antique dealer Alan Smith often presents a section as well.

References

  1. ↑ Dick Joice - Author - Bygones: The Harvest, Bygones: The Horsemen, Bygones: Gone to Burton
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 March 2007. Retrieved 16 November 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "TVARK | Anglia Television | Programmes". Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 16 November 2008.
  4. ↑ "Royal Television Society - RTS in your area". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 16 November 2008.
  5. ↑ "Bygones". Archived from the original on 13 February 2009. Retrieved 16 November 2008.
  6. ↑ "Holkham Hall and Bygones Museum".
  7. ↑ Review: A Man Between Three Rivers, ImageDissectors.com, retrieved 6 June 2010
  8. ↑ "Episodes broadcast in 2007". Archived from the original on 8 April 2008. Retrieved 16 November 2008.
  9. ↑ "Bygones (ITV Anglia) - TV Programmes - Digital Spy Forums". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 9 December 2007. Retrieved 16 November 2008.
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