[TV] John Noakes : cleaning nelson's column

[Wardy's twin]

https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/575144982858536/

Unbelievable.... H&S today wouldn't even let him on the site in case he got pooped on.

 

[MattBackHome]

Magnificent telly. What a great presenter Noakes was.

Before my time but I remember it being repeated a number of times when I was a kid.

 

[marcos3263]

f**k that! I'd have vertigo sat on one of the lions

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Get down, Shep.

The nasty BBC wouldn't let him keep Shep when he stopped recording his programmes, as they said Shep belonged to the corporation, rather than John.

 

[Is it PotG?]

I remember thinking at the time about how sick I felt at the bit at the top where he has to go up and out on a ladder secured by rope.

Well done John.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Incredible, all in the name of children's TV.

Dressed in normal cloths and footwear, no protection and then hangs on a piece of wood with a simple knot in the rope holding him, oh by the way don't loosen it too much. Sod that!

 

[GT49er]

Geez! - I can't even watch that now!

 

[erkan]

Geez! - I can't even watch that now!

Me too. Even glancing at the blurry still of the ladders makes me feel quite unwell.

I really don't understand anyone's comfort with taking potentially fatal risks with height when it could be easily avoided. I guess that's why he was John Noakes and I'm not...

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[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Get down, Shep.

The nasty BBC wouldn't let him keep Shep when he stopped recording his programmes, as they said Shep belonged to the corporation, rather than John.

They did let him keep Shep, but refused to cover the costs of owning Shep as they had when they appeared on Blue Peter. As Noakes couldn't use Shep in any advertising deals he complained to the BBC, the BBC refused to change their stance and Shep went to live with someone else shortly after.

 

[KZNSeagull]

He had to do that climb twice. The first time the sound man was accidentally not recording.

 

[grubbyhands]

Fork dat!

 

[Wardy's twin]

Geez! - I can't even watch that now!

the backs of my legs just started to tighten when he was going yp and then when he reached the overhang .....

 

[GT49er]

Me too. Even glancing at the blurry still of the ladders makes me feel quite unwell.

I really don't understand anyone's comfort with taking potentially fatal risks with height when it could be easily avoided. I guess that's why he was John Noakes and I'm not..

There is a photograph somewhere (I can't find it on t'internet) of Brighton station about 130 years ago. The girders in the roof are being painted, and the painters are up there on ladders tied together end on, with no-one at the bottom to hold the ladder, just passengers milling around it in the middle of the platform! Scary - and I daresay they didn't get paid a fraction of what Noakes got!

 

[zeetha]

Amazing to see the bloke who was with him who was sitting on the Bosuns chair towards the end, without a 'safety' rope like John had shovelling out the guano with one hand whilst holding a cigarette in the other! Theres a lot of rubbish done in the name of health and safety but I think this is definitely one case where bringing it in is justified!

Well done to the cameraman too!

 

[Leegull]

You could not pay me enough money to even attempt that

That is absolutely ****ing nuts!!

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

A good idea to wear a pair of long flairs to climb that ladder.

 

[Baldseagull]

I remember thinking at the time about how sick I felt at the bit at the top where he has to go up and out on a ladder secured by rope.

Well done John.

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Think of the poor bugger who had to climb the unsecured ladder to tie it in with rope.

 

[Stat Brother]

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[nicko31]

He had to do that climb twice. The first time the sound man was accidentally not recording.

Really?

They guy was a legend of 1970's kids telly, like no other. Then came Simon Groom and it all went downhill...

 

[Palacefinder General]

Health and F/ing Safety! Not!! Unreal viewed in 2019. Makes Free Solo look like a stroll up Ditchling Beacon.