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Postie when did Wolseley move to Drews Lane? I went for a job interview there in the 1960s and around here its still called the Wolseley although it is LDV now.
 
The picture is c 1910, I've just looked in my 1962 Kellys and it shows Morris Motors Ltd and also the Wolesley Athletic and Social Club as being in Drews Lane. :-\
 
Jennyann,
Here are some pictures of large Muskie caught on St. Lawrence river.

The location is Prescot Ontario and the bridge is to New York State and on down to Lake Champlain.

Regards.
 
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Thanks Rupert...that is a great specimen of a Muskie. Good to see that prize fish are still being put on display. As I mentioned you used to see many fish displayed in glass cases but I expect that this is not so popular now except in Natural History Museums.
Nice photos...thanks again
 
My dad came from Summer Lane but when he and mom married they were housed by the Council in Acocks Green. Dad was a keen fisherman and used to fish anywhere between Bewdley,Hatcam and Earlswood. That was weekends, during the week-day evenings after work he would take me to the local park where there was a large pool. This park was encompassed by Pool Farm Road, Shirley Rd Oakurst Rd and Gospel lane. It contained a variety of coarse fish including perch roach chubb and pike. One evening when I was but a very young schoolboy I hooked a big-un. Dad said I had got the bottom but it turned out to be a Bream. I cant remember if it was 6 or 7lb 14 ounces. It was in the Argus at the weekend and the bream was stuffed and mounted. I think it then went on show in The British Legion in Botterville Rd Acocks Green.
 
My first experience of fishing was in Salford park with the crudest of tackle you have ever seen. Hadn't got a clue until some helpful angler helped me and my mom bought me some propper tackle [still one of the cheapest split cane rods you could get get. Caught a fair sized roach on my first go and of course from then I was hooked. Caught my biggest ever perch in the reser. My husband is a mad keen angler and used to fish with Stan and Greg cole. He picked up a lot of tips from them. He's still at it and baliffed a stretch of the severn for three years. Were both still at it at our age.
 
You none fishermen/women out there must think were mad when you see this photograph of my husband many many years ago. He had to break the ice to fish a contest. Even I think he must have been slightly bonkus. I've put it on while he's not looking. TTFN.. Jean.
 
This is what it's all about. What better way to spend a summers day. This is the Harbour waters which he looked after for three years. Bye. Jean.
 
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This a photo of the Ansells Brewery Aston Cross angling team at Burton. My husband and brother are on it. Some years ago I guess. Jean.
 
Love the "Breaking the Ice" one. Takes me back to when as a lad I caught my first Tench. I was fishing at the Pretty Pigs, Amington with my 2 uncles. It was below freezing and a tench was the last thing on my mind!
On a more modern note, I was fishing an old estate lake down here in Oxfordshire a few days ago and wasn't getting any bites so fed this family with groundbait and maggots. They came right up to my feet eventually. However, early on there were 6 ducklings and by the time I packed up there were only 5. Ahh.
 
David, tench are my favourit fish. We had a tame one in our pond that used to come up and suck sausage meat off your finger. I buried him when he died. Softy. Lloyd that is brilliant can't wait for him to come back. He's been gone sometime. The may have sent him for an x ray?. Jean.
 
The BAA was for many years the largest angling club in the country so there's got to be a few of us here who went maggot dangling as kids. Anyone remember fishing in Salford Park or the canal? Trips to Ward End and Pype Hayes parks were a regular treat but of course, there was never any point in fishing in the 'Terrible Tame'. I used to get my tackle and bait from a shop in the Lichfield Road, just up from the Domestic. I cant remember the name but I always remember the pike skull they had in the front of the window. Anyone know the name of the show?
Pittaways comes to mind. Max
 
Thanks Lloyd. I can't imagine him fishing in those conditions now. His excuse is it is either too hot too cold too windy nowadays. I think he's lost interest in fishing as he would go in all weathers and get up half way through the night and come back just before dark the next day. I used to take a hot drink and sandwiches for him. He still fishes the pools but prefers the river. Only saying today that he will try to get his enthusiasm back next year. Jean.
 
Hi
My Grandfarther was Bill Dolphin , he was the Water Baliff at Earlswood lakes in the 50's and 60's he patrolled the 3 lakes at Earlswood and very few Anglers got away without paying for their days fishing licence. I was the lanky youth in those days who bailed out and organised the Punts hire each weekend and sold worms and Maggots that I used to get from Astwood Bank maggotry on my Vincent Black Shadow... really happy days ...
 
Lofty Pete used to fish there with his brothers and a couple of mates. You were correct in saying no one got away without paying. He also canoed with the Aston Boys club. Jean.
 
On the Tench front, I saw hundreds of them in a canal at Tiverton one day. The canal now has been dredged but back then it was overgrown and divided by weeds and in one small section was this writhing mass just under the water. What the story was I don't know...maybe little rain and low level of oxygen. That stretch of canal is open now and there are barges for rides.
On the fishing front I was an enthusiast for years from a young lad and my father taught me, but...now, I won't fish anymore. I don't know it does not seem right anymore. If you are catching something for a meal...well ok but just to pull a living creature out of the only element where it can live...by it's lip...just for pleasure and only to throw it back. It's not right for me. Imagine sitting down to your dinner and suddenly being hoisted up to the ceiling by a hook through the lip or jiblet. I still have several sets of rods but they will never be used again.
 
Here's a pic I posted before but can't remember the thread! It's one of my ancestors (according to Ancestry he is the "paternal grandfather of husband of my aunt"!) who was a member of the fishing club at The Royal Britannia Pub, Park Lane, Aston. The group represent the fishing, kennel and air gun groups. From my ancestor's age I think it was taken early in the 1900s.

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My husband Barry Reeves lived on Lichfield Road Aston until 1967 and was a member of the BAA - he said the fishing tackle shops were Olly Bayliss and Bert Pittaway - the Vine public house on Lichfield Road the angling club was called the Truthful Arms
 
Fishing Trips

Dennis Bonner, worked at Benton and Stone, 1946-49 and again 1952-54. It sat on Aston Brook Street-through-Bracebridge Street. I have a brillient photo of the chaps from Benton and Stone, outside the factory, preparing for one of their fishing trips..........bus and all (Millers, the headlamp factory can be seen in the background).........stories to go with it......although some not printable! :oops:
Did anyone work there? Or go on the fishing trips? Dennis particularly recalls Harry and Jimmy Underhill, who lived on Parliment Street, and worked in Maintainance at the time.I will get the photo to the site asap.
Hello SuBee. My dad used to work at benton & stones in the 60's. Not sure what his job was though. All I can remember was, when he came home, he wore white overalls. Me & my two brother went there for a christmas party. My dad's name was Arthur.
 
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