Christchurch Tackle Company

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So they were originally in Redditch too!

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Yes Nobby. Moved following the purchase by Grice and Young.
Interesting to see how much wider a selection of tackle they supplied. I'd only seen a couple of rods and Bob Brookes' float previously.
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Just spotted on John Andrews Site "Arcadia"

http://www.andrewsofarcadia.com/home.php?id=3

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Another Woodfields tackle item. Surprising they're so little known yet had a decent choice of tackle.
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I think Grice and Young may have bought-out or absorbed Woodfield when they moved to Christchurch. Their factory in Somerton was called the Agila Works...the Agila being a Woodfield reel:

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Incidentally, I'm pretty sure that factory was near where the drive through McDonalds I always use when fishing the Avon is now!.........in what was apparently called Penton High Street, though what 'Penton' was isn't clear......


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Nobby,

If you look at the advert I included in my original post regarding Woodfields, the photo of their factory is the same one as the photo for Grice & Young in your post, the have just cut off the information underneath the photo.

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So it is....I guess they bought them out then...or at least the Christchurch arm.


Bottom right of the PDF...Christchurch Engineering Ltd. Liquidated 1980
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/iss ... 0/data.pdf

I wonder if that's Grice and Young??


Some of the images here lead me to believe that Grice and Young made the Agila reel too.....the 'engraving' ( actually cast in) is so like their other reels.

http://whiteaddersflyfishingmuseum.weeb ... young.html

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Not sure when but Grice And Young reels were made by Cresselle Ltd. Freshwater Isle Of Wight.

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Interesting....a late offering I'd say...looks like those awful self-tapping screws in the two-screw centreboss.

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