Rediscovered these today whilst searching for a needle to repair my folding stool.
Confirmation that they were needle makers before makers of hooks.
Milwards
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- Shropshire Lad
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Re: Milwards
They did some quality fishing gear too, the needle museum in Redditch is worth a visit when we have got rid of the pestilence.
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Re: Milwards
Very nearly snap ..........
My Mum told me she was given them new by her family when she left home to train as a nurse in about 1950. Apparently, moving from Wallasey to Southport was equivalent to a trip to the moon.
Mum gave them to me when I left home for college in 1980. Wallasey to Lancaster didn’t seem so bad! I’m still using them!
Phil
My Mum told me she was given them new by her family when she left home to train as a nurse in about 1950. Apparently, moving from Wallasey to Southport was equivalent to a trip to the moon.
Mum gave them to me when I left home for college in 1980. Wallasey to Lancaster didn’t seem so bad! I’m still using them!
Phil
From "... the wilds of the Wirral, whose wayward people both God and good men have quite given up on ...".
- Silfield
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Re: Milwards
Snap-ish.
I could only hazard a guess to their age but they belonged to my grandmother and are still as sharp as a new pin.(or should that be needle!)
I could only hazard a guess to their age but they belonged to my grandmother and are still as sharp as a new pin.(or should that be needle!)
“There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.”
Washington Irving
Washington Irving
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Re: Milwards
Brilliant! Keep them coming.