Waltham Abbey tackle shop
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 7:15 am
To anybody that might be looking in....
Some 50 or so years ago I fished as a lad on some of the back water's around Waltham Abbey and when I could get a few pence together got a day ticket for the River Lea or the Lea Relief channel.
We used to pester the tackle shop owner (if I remember rightly his name was Peter?) Apparently he ran the tackle shop with his brother although myself or any of my mates at the time never did see anyone else in the shop other than Peter ?
The shop was down past the church a door or two away from the convenience store where we used to go for our supplies when on a weekend of angling just up from the small river where we used to look over the bridge and watch the large chub basking in the summer sun. We never did figure out how to catch them....
I bought my first new reel in this shop, an Intrepid Extra, which being 50 years old is still taken out for a spin on the odd occasion.
Anyway sorry to go on, and I have Googled this on several occasions but to no avail (although I'm not the best Google question asker) and my question is taa daaaa....- did anybody use, or can anyone remember the name of the old Waltham Abbey tackle shop?
It's been bugging me for a while, I would say well over 10 years.
And don't forget, where ever you are and whatever you are doing in these strangest of times please do not "cough, fart, sneeze or scratch in the company of others".
I thank you all John M.
Some 50 or so years ago I fished as a lad on some of the back water's around Waltham Abbey and when I could get a few pence together got a day ticket for the River Lea or the Lea Relief channel.
We used to pester the tackle shop owner (if I remember rightly his name was Peter?) Apparently he ran the tackle shop with his brother although myself or any of my mates at the time never did see anyone else in the shop other than Peter ?
The shop was down past the church a door or two away from the convenience store where we used to go for our supplies when on a weekend of angling just up from the small river where we used to look over the bridge and watch the large chub basking in the summer sun. We never did figure out how to catch them....
I bought my first new reel in this shop, an Intrepid Extra, which being 50 years old is still taken out for a spin on the odd occasion.
Anyway sorry to go on, and I have Googled this on several occasions but to no avail (although I'm not the best Google question asker) and my question is taa daaaa....- did anybody use, or can anyone remember the name of the old Waltham Abbey tackle shop?
It's been bugging me for a while, I would say well over 10 years.
And don't forget, where ever you are and whatever you are doing in these strangest of times please do not "cough, fart, sneeze or scratch in the company of others".
I thank you all John M.