Re: Essex Tackle shop
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:06 pm
London not Essex, but untouched for twenty years until three weeks ago!
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Has it open as a tackle shop again I used to go in there in the 80s . Ron his name was you ask for a pint of maggots and got half a pint .The Tuesday Swim wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:06 pm
London not Essex, but untouched for twenty years until three weeks ago!
That is a pity it had a carp in a case . Do you know what it has become . There are no tackle shops in my area anymore I have to go to dagenham or roman road bow or Kentish town .
There is more to this story and more information comes in all the time, the cased fish I know about but didn't know it was a carp, we may have traced its whereabouts though.Fisherman1947 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2017 4:49 pmThat is a pity it had a carp in a case . Do you know what it has become . There are no tackle shops in my area anymore I have to go to dagenham or roman road bow or Kentish town .
It was, Leigh. Originally Ken Stubbs Tackle & Guns, taken over in the early-mid 1970s by Mike Norris who ran it up to the end of the 80s. It went through a succession of owners after him and eventually became pretty much a carp only sort of place. It was still a tackle shop up until about ten years ago but closed down when the last owner moved to France. A niece of a friend of mine took it over and turned it into a sandwich shop but it didn't work out. I'm not sure what's there now.
Good to see the new owners have kept the shop nameThe Tuesday Swim wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:06 pm
London not Essex, but untouched for twenty years until three weeks ago!