The Traditional Fisherman's Forum

Anyone a customer of the original shop? - before the move to Woodford.

My parents buying a float rod for me for Christmas from Ray. My cough was so bad I couldnt visit the relations but could get up to shiver and sneeze at the Eagle

Rays finance sale arrangement " on the book" . Ray looked you up and down and wrote it in a book

The overpowering scent of a real fishing tackle shop with serve yourself groundbait bin

Rays stunning looking daughter from Woodford - way back then sat in her pram

The ""special " rods in rack at the back- too good to touch

A great source of advice and stories from the saturday gathering-they all looked 80 to me then but were probably 40 less

Aitch will be along in a moment and talk about the daughter…am I right Aitch?

I couldn't possibly comment... I worked for Ray briefly when he moved his shop down to Woodford Green
Lovely bloke...

Aitch wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 9:25 pm I couldn't possibly comment... I worked for Ray briefly when he moved his shop down to Woodford Green
Lovely bloke...

Your silence tells all

Was the move to the new Woodford shop 1970?

Think it was after.... so long ago now... think it may have been 73/74 ish... possibly even later, I think they moved from one side of the M11 to the other, down to Woodford green

I think the old shop went when changes to the North Circular road meant it had to be demolished. I remember buying a glass rod blank and 42” net mesh from the old shop, 1973?
Used the new shop quite regularly after moving to Chigwell in1984. The baby in the pram had certainly ‘grown up!’ over the years.