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Vintage Thames Angling Hotels
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 9:58 am
by Cane
Re: Vintage Thames Angling Hotels
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 10:20 am
by Pallenpool
Lovely stuff.
Re: Vintage Thames Angling Hotels
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 10:39 am
by StefanDuma
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.
Re: Vintage Thames Angling Hotels
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 4:04 pm
by AllRounder
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.
Me too - I stayed there with an Angling friend and our wives as part of my 50th birthday celebrations.
Fabulous menu and service. The bad news was I picked up the tab. Ouch!
Re: Vintage Thames Angling Hotels
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 5:04 pm
by Michael
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.
Re: Vintage Thames Angling Hotels
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 5:08 pm
by Santiago
Salters are still a going business, running passenger boats from Reading.
Re: Vintage Thames Angling Hotels
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 5:41 pm
by Olly
Good the Runnymede NT - they do day tickets.
Plus the Hotel on expenses was very nice for lunch!
Re: Vintage Thames Angling Hotels
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 6:34 pm
by Cane
I obviously move in the wrong circles!
My thanks to Michael for explaining why my telegrams remain unanswered
Re: Vintage Thames Angling Hotels
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 6:51 pm
by Troydog
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....
Re: Vintage Thames Angling Hotels
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 7:23 pm
by StefanDuma
Troydog wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2020 6:51 pm
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....
Three Men in a Boat, FWK Wallis's favourite book.
These advertisements are from 1914.
