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VOLUME 2 Oliver Kite’s Fawley (1968, Colour, 28 mins)

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A naturalist’s view of the wildlife within Fawley Oil Refinery in the 1960s

 

Oliver Kite was a well-known naturalist and chalk stream fisherman who presented his own wildlife television on Southern Television during the 1960s. 

 

His soft tones and great knowledge of natural history gave him the title of the ‘television voice of nature’.

 

Oliver Kite’s Fawley is a personal look at the wildlife through the four seasons at Fawley Refinery on the west bank of Southampton Water. 

 

Within the boundary of the refinery, Kite discovers a great diversity of living things including ponies, adders, a hunting fox and even the refinery’s own flock of sheep. 

 

Contrary to expectation, this industrial setting is revealed to be a wildlife and plant sanctuary.

 

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New Forest Films now on DVD

For the first time ever, some rarely seen New Forest films have been put onto DVD and are available from the New Forest Centre. 

They retail at £8 and can be ordered here.


Sponsored by ExxonMobil, these are the first three volumes of what we hope will become a longer series of local history film releases:

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