Bygones
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Bygones is a popular television series on ITV exploring East Anglian history and traditional rural crafts, first aired in 1967.[1] There are interviews with people who used to do traditional work now lost to history (such as using a horse-drawn plow or threshing) and investigation and preservation of surviving East Anglian culture.
It features mystery objects where the audience are asked to write in and guess what the implement's original function was, and is presented by Eddie Anderson, the former assistant of the original presenter Dick Joice, and Wendy Hurrell. Antique dealer Alan Smith often presents a section as well.
Bygones has a memorable theme tune played on accordion and was brought back by ITV after 20 years following an overwhelming vote from viewers on a program they wanted reinstated. The new series originally aired on Thursdays at 7.30 but this has changed to 5.20[2] on Sundays.
