I thought these might be of interest to time travelling anglers! These advertisements are from 1914.
I’ve yet to receive a reply to my telegram to the Angler’s rest hotel though!
Vintage Thames Angling Hotels
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Vintage Thames Angling Hotels
In the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings!
Mrs Wigg's philosophy
Mrs Wigg's philosophy
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Lovely stuff.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Heraclitus
www.thepiscatorialraconteurs.co.uk
Heraclitus
www.thepiscatorialraconteurs.co.uk
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I have stayed at the Complete Angler a couple of times but I never played in the Billiards room or used the smoking rooms. It was a very nice restaurant but I was not paying. I did want to fish but we were entertaining clients prior to the racing.
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Me too - I stayed there with an Angling friend and our wives as part of my 50th birthday celebrations.StefanDuma wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2020 10:39 am I have stayed at the Complete Angler a couple of times but I never played in the Billiards room or used the smoking rooms. It was a very nice restaurant but I was not paying. I did want to fish but we were entertaining clients prior to the racing.
Fabulous menu and service. The bad news was I picked up the tab. Ouch!
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I've fished the Bell Weir on numerous occasions. The Anglers Rest hotel was demolished, and the Runnymede Hotel rebuilt on the site in 1973.
My Father, Grandfather and myself fished the weir, when it was the Anglers Rest.
My Father, Grandfather and myself fished the weir, when it was the Anglers Rest.
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Salters are still a going business, running passenger boats from Reading.
"....he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy"
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Good the Runnymede NT - they do day tickets.
Plus the Hotel on expenses was very nice for lunch!
Plus the Hotel on expenses was very nice for lunch!
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I obviously move in the wrong circles!
My thanks to Michael for explaining why my telegrams remain unanswered
My thanks to Michael for explaining why my telegrams remain unanswered
In the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings!
Mrs Wigg's philosophy
Mrs Wigg's philosophy
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Thank you Cane. It remains an ambition of mine to stay in a Thames hotel, somewhere on the Three Men in a Boat route, and fish the river. Nothing serious you understand, but just to have done it would be fun....
Trouble is, the fish just don't read the books......
John Harding
John Harding
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Three Men in a Boat, FWK Wallis's favourite book.